Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1882-03-07
CONGRESSIONAL.
SENATE.

anu loI otuer purposes, accompanied
by written report and evidence
taken before the committee. He
said he would ask consideration of
the bill on the 18th inst, if the Or
ders now having precedence were
then disposed of. The bill went to
the calendar.
WASHINGTON, March 6. = The
Speaker announced the unfinished
business to be The consideration of
the consular and diplomatic appro-
priation bill, on the passage of which
the previons question was ordered
on Saturday.
Mr.. Holman, of Indiana, moved to
recommitt the bill, with instructions
to the committee on appropriations
to strike therefrom all in regard to
envoys extraordinary, ministers
plenipotentiary, ministers resident
and secretaries of legation, and to
insert therein provisions for the ap>
pointment of such consuls and other
commercial agents as shall be neces-
sary to promote and encourage the
commerce of the United States, and
protect the interests of the citizens
of the United States in foreign
countries The motion was lost by
a vote of % to II, and the bill was
passed.
Senator Teller reported favorably
House bill to pension Mrs. Garfield,
with an amendment including Mrs
Polk and Mrs. Taylor. The amounts
specified are $4,000 year, from
September 18th, 1881.
Bills were introduced as follows !:
By Senator George-To aid in the
repair and construction Of levees on
the east bank of the Mississippi in
the State Of Mississippi; also, to
revive the grant of lands made to
the State of Mississippi to aid in
the construction of railroad from
Bronden to the Gulf of Mexico
Senator Garland offered resolu>
ton of inquiry, addressed to the
military committee, as to the pros
priety of increasing the 100000 ap-
preparation for the purchase and dis>
tribution of subsistence stores to
aid in the relief of the laboring class
in the district overfowed by the
Mississippi and it's tributaries He
said he had received information
which convinced him that the appro-
priation would be insufficient. The
rising of the water continues, and the
suffering was really beyond estimate
even at this time. Upon kilograms
aud letters he had received, includ-
ing one from the Governor of Ar
| Kansas, he deemed it bis duty to call
attention to the matter. The reso-
luton was adopted.
The Chinese bill was taken up as
unfinished business, AMI Senator
Slater advocated the bill.
Senator George announced that
he emphatlcally endorsed the bill and
amendments of Senators Grover and
Farley. Two Of the reasons govern
ing his vote would be because, with
almost entire unanimity, the people
of the States most affected by the
Oh nese Immigration desired it's pas
sage, and as clear and direct-not
second hand or round about pro-
lection of American laboreTs against
detrauders and the inferior race now
threatening to overwhelm them. Re
plying to what he characterized as
specuiations of hum unitarian philos,
ply, he said be preferred to recur
the charge of inconsistency, rather
than subject the people of the Pacif-
ic States to the continuance of the
the dangers to which they are ex-
posed, although he did not believe
| the bill transcribed the constitution
al principles.
Debate was temporarily suspend
ed, and Senator Allison submitted
the conference report on the imme>
date deficiency bill; which was
adopted. The debate then proceeds
ed, and Senator Brown, against the
bill, argued that twenty years being
practically an inhibition of immi
grafton was violative of the spirit,
if not the letter of the treaty, and an
intimation to China that our first
step in the twenty years suspension
would be followed by ninety-nine
years extension. When Senator
Brown had concluded, Senator
Dawes was awarded the floor, and
the Senate adjourned.