The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1883-02-27
XLvH. CONGRESS.
SECOND SESSION.
SENATE.

w dSuluS 6Ou, ZO.-UTOVSI pre-
sented the credentials of Dolph, his
successor. as senator from Oregon.
Garland, from the committee on
judiciary, reported bill TO punish
false PRESERVATION of officers and en-
ployees of the United States, by a
fine of not more than $500 or i'm
prisonment not longer than three
years or both in the discretion of
the court. The bill passed.
A resolution was adopted re-
questing the House of Representa-
lives to return the tariff bill in order
that certain clerical errors might be
corrected.
The House bill to prevent the I'M
portation of adulterated or spurious
teas passed.
The committee on education and
labor was authorized to continue its
inquiry into the relations between
labor and capital, ETC., and to print
testimony.
VanWyck called up the resolu-
ton requesting the President to
communicate any information in
his possession touching the alleged
agreement of the ministers of Great
Britain, France and Italy, at Lima,
to make joint effort to bring about
peace between Chilli and Peru and
to inform the Senate whether the
minister of the United States had
been instructed to accept mediation
Of the ministers of European pow
ers in support of the resolution, and
it was adopted without dissent.
| Vest called up his resolution for
the appointment of a committee of
Eve senators to examine into the
condition Of the Yellowstone Ma
tional Park. In the course of his
remarks he read letter received by
him from the secretary of the in
terror, saying: have determined
not to take any action in the matter
of the lease to Hatch & Co., until
Congress shall take action on your
bill; at least not until the close of
the session. If Congress shall take
no action on the subject / shall feel
inclined to execute q lease in
strict accordance with the views
expressed by your committee in
their report made to the Senate at
the request of German" A list of the
directors of the Yellowstone Ma
tional Park Improvement Company
was read.
Among the directors are Rufus
Hatch, Roscoe Conkling, Hugh J
Hastings, William Fullerton, Johr
r. Brady, A. G. Vanderpoel anC
Frederick E. Church, all of New
York.
The morning hour expired while
Y est was speaking, and he proposed
that the unfinished business SHOULD
be set aside in order to dispose O.
his resolution, which he said would
take but little time.
Window said the resolution would
probably take more time than the
senator from Missouri supposed
There were two sides to the ques
ton, and he proposed to demon
strate that the secretary of the int
rior had acted wisely in under
taking to make the lease; that was
the better way Of preserving the
park and that parties making i'm
provements there are acting in &C
cordance with their contract with
the secretary of the interior.
Cameron insisted upon proceeding
with the unfinished business,
The bill to pay Fourth of July
claims was taken up and passed.
Edmunds moved to take up the
Utah bill.
Mitchell moved to proceed to the
consideration of the pension bills OIL
the calendar. Agreed to.
Several bills granting pensions to
individuals was passed. Among
them bills granting pensions of $50
a month to the widows of Rear AID
miral Beaumont and the late Major
General Warren.
, Mitchell moved to take up the
House bill granting an increased
pension to One-armed and one-leg
ged soldiers.
Williams moved to take up the
pleuro-pneumonia bill, a bill, hi
said, in which the people geneI ally
are more interested than in AM
other before the House this session
Ingalls-"And one involving more
monstroUs and untenable PROPOSE
, tions than any other"
Williams motion was lost.
The increase of pensions bills WA
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