The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1882-03-14

COuUlLlOH on WHICH we COulQ VIII
success was the adoption Of free
| trade.
After an executive session of three
hours, the Senate adjourned.
HOUSE.
Washington, 13.-The Speaker an
nounced a select committee on
weman's suffrage, Camp, White,
SherWin. Stone, Hepburn, Springer,
Vance, Muldron and ShacklefOrd.
The Speaker presented a memorial
from the Utah Assembly, asking
Congress to suspend action upon
Utah affairs until a committee Of
investigation learns the facts and
lays tangible foundation for ra-
tional proceedings. Referred.
Belmont, member of the COM
mittee of foreign affairs, asked
leave to offer resolution calling on
the secretary of state for infOrma-
ton as to what compensation had
been paid or is to be paid by the
state department. to Trescott as en-
voy to the South American govern
ments; also out of what appropria-
ton he has been or is to be paid !;
also by what law he would be ap-
pointed or employed by the state
department at any time since March
4, 1877, and what compensation had
been paid him since that time
Williams of Wisconsin, chairman
of the same committee, objected.
ButterwOrth reported the army
appropriation bill, appropriating
S29, 1893, 1872. Referre to committee
of the whole.
Bills introduced and referred, by
Dunn, to supply rations, etc., for
1.-THE sufferers from the overflow of
the Mississippi River; also for the
repair of the levees; also to author
ize females to enter public lands.
The Senate bill was taken up to
punish polygamy, on which, on the
0th of March, The point OF order
had been made by Converse, of
Ohio, that it must receive its first
consideration in committee of the
whole, as it provided for an appro-
priatiOn. Converse called attention
to the fact that the bill provided f0T
the appointment Of five commits
siOnels at salary OF 50 900 each
and cited precedents in support OF
his point.
Haskell contAnGed that the pre-,
cedents cited we've not applicable
Th-re was not line in The bill
which required an appropriation
from the public treasury or at
tached any liability to govern
ment for payment. These com
missioners it merely proposed
to supercede the election system
in Utah, and territorial laws pre-
videI that every election officer
should be allowed fair compensa
ton. These commissioners, there
fore, would be paid out of the terri
tOrial fund. They would not b.
federal officers in any sense.
Springer asked Haskill ,whe Wa
: to pay these commissioners 2?
Haskell replied, the Legislativ,
Assembly would provide for thei
pay.
Springer.-But there is no Legis
lative Assembly in Utah it i
aDO1SneQ Dy THIS Dill.
Haskill-Then there is no pro
vision for their payment, and the,
cannot look to the United States TO
{ payment until they are adopted a
federal officers.
The Speaker asked if the point o
: order was to the provision in TIN
bill abolishing the Legislative AS
sembly.
Springer-The Legislative AS
sembly has adjourned without day
and there is provision that ther,
shall be no Legislative Assembl.
under the provisions of this bill.
Robinson cOntended that the of
iicers provided for would, accOrdin!
to every expectation of law, be paiC
out Of the me fund and sam,
treasury as the officers whose places
they would I'LL aud whose dutie
they would perform.
Carlisle-Who pays the salarie:
OF the Governor and secretary o
the territory?
Robinson-That has nothing to d,
with it.
Carlisle-Who pays the salaries o
the election officers in the bill?
RobesOn-They are not yet ap
pointed, but when we pass this bill
we, as the Legislature Of that terri
tory, will appoint. and acting as tina
Legislature, Will make their chargr
on the territorial treasury.
Townsend, of Illinois, denied tina
e the democratic side fought thu
anti-pOlygamy bill under cover
He did not know single
Z member who was not ready
! to demonstrate his opposition tt
polygamy. He appealed to his de
J mocratic friends to authorize {;
!. withdrawal Of the order Of the ~en
; tlemen on the other side, wA,ci
would allow full and Ire,
; discussion and an opportunity L
amend the bill. There was SOM