Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-02-10

WASHINGTON, February 9sh.-In the Sem
ate this morning Edmunds reported favorabIy
the joint resolution providing for abolishine
the fisheries articles in the Washington
treaty.
Perry moved to tske up the post route bill.
Lose-ayes u, noes So
The tariff bill was then taken up.
Bayard's amendment was adopted, so as to
make the mineral water paragraph of the free
list read Mineral va tiers not artificial, to-
gether with the bottles or jugs in which the
same are imported
morrill,, from the Committee on Finance,
reported an amendment reducing the ad vslO-
rem duty on all carpets enumerated in the
wove schedule, except hemp or jute. carpet
ing carpets and carpetirg OF wool, fax or cot
tor, or parts of either. or other material not
otherwise herein specified, from 80 to 30 per
cent. Amendment agreed TO.
On motion of Vance the duty on carpets
and carpeting was omitted from the commit
tees amendment, except thss hemp and jute
Competing was reduced FROM 40 10 10 per cent.
I'D valorem.
Beck moved his pending substitute for the
wool schedule.
Morgan said before the bill should be dis
posed of he would offer an amendment which
would bring the question as between I'D
vslorem and specific duties to direct issue.
Beek'5 substitute was lost
Ia the House Kasson offered a resolution
that during the remainder OF the session it
will be in order shy day after the morning
hour TO move to suspend the rules 20 consider
in the Houss any regular appropriation or
revenue bill which shall then be reported by
a committee or may then be in COMMITTEES Of
the Whole, or which may then be on the
Speakers table, such motion 80 DC decided by
a msjority vote.
The conference report OF the Military
Academy bill WIS submitted and sgreea to.
The House went into Committee Of the
Whole on Il tariff bill.
The pending amendment was one offered
by Haskel, reducing from one and three
teLths to one and two-tenthS cents per 'und
the duty on sheet iron thinner than one and
one-hali inches and not thinner than No. 20
wire guage. Agreed to.
The moment the next clause, imposing
duty of one and fourth Cents per pOund on
cote ties, was reached, half dozen men,
bsrs from the Southern States we're On their
feet claiming recognition.
Mackey was the fortunate man He moved
to reduce ths duty to 80 per cent. ad yaloreD.
Blount said there was not a single item OF
protection for the laborer of the South,
which had to compete against the slave labor
of Brazil and the fellah labor Of Egypt. If
| Congress had any regard for Southern labor,
| in the name of heaven let it alone Ia this
| little item of cotton ties.
| Pending action the committee rose, and the
| House took recess,
| At the evening session The House passed
large number of pension bills, and bills grant
| ing condemned cannon for monumental pur-
/ p, SEE, and adjourned
Tenement Houses and SIiII-Owners.
WAsHIH GroE, February 9sh.-The exam
/ & l. 4 ,r.akV.
| setts, was continued this morning before the
Senate Committee on Education and Labor.
Foster said most of the tenement houses in
che manufacturing cities of Massachusetts
/ were owned by mill-owners, and the lessees
were compelled to furnish so many operatives.
The houses were generally small, ill-ven'ilated
and uncomfortable, and the operatives were
compelled to live in these houses or
be dismissed. The sewerage and sam
in the summer nights the stencil from
the cesspools was nearly overpOwering.
Foster spoke strongly against the employ
nlent of children Of tender years Little
c2sh-boys and girls sre employed in large
numbers In the city stOres, who are not old
enough In many cases to be out from under
the eye of their mothers. They work during
the busy ssason from eight to nine aud ten
hours. The weary look Of these little ones
toward Tue cl'be UI TIE Jay WoE6 10 dusJ
pitiful. The girls employed as shop women
are paid on al average 81 80 per week, ard
out of this they are expected to board
themselves and provide for all the peces-
sites of life, and clothe themselves well.
Society demands that they should be viz
tuous, yet with the mesger stipend received
and tie snares often thrown around them by
| those over them, it is no wonder that many
! II. There are some noble exceptions to the
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employees ore firm in Boston has provided a
| large hall, the co mmercial rent value If which
| is S22, coo per year, in which the employees
can meet In social way, use as a reading
room or giving dancing parties in. Over
year ego tie firm established o
fund, to which each week each en-
| ploye contributed a very small sum.
Last summer they all drew lots, and the lucky
ones went to Europe under the direction of
member of the frm. The condition of the
mill girl is TO be dsplored Away from home
influence ard restraint, thrown often among
the depraved Of both sexes in low tenement
houses. what wonder is it that their morals
are too low? 81 speak sdyisedly." said Mr..
Foster, when l ASSERT that the city of
Lowell, Mass, alone presents a wide field for
philanthropic work. There is more need
shere and a better object than building places
for eentle~omen or donating large sums TO the
Howard University"
sumptuafy Legislation.
WASHINGTON, February 9th.-Congress is
INDUCING in considerable sumpluary legisla-
ton at present, but as it is limited to opium,
nobody but Cinnamon will be disposed to oh
ject. 1t has been decided that they cannot
hereafter be clothed with power to vote, and
thus far very few of them have acquired ciii-
zenship. This evening, on motion Of Senator
Miller o. California. the opium clause in TIE
tariff bill was amended to make the duty on
crude opium 81 per pound, TO apply TO opium
containing mors than niue per cent. of NOR
phia. The importation of opium Containing
less than ten per cent. Of morphia is prohib-
tied SENATOR Miller explains that smoking
opium Is made from crude opium, contsin-
ing less than niue per cent. Of morphia
If it contains more than that it is too costly
for the purpose, and cannot be turned into
smoking opium, except at loss. The 6uty
on smoking opium has been raised from Sc 10
SO pound
Senator Wi1dom, for the Committee on
Foreign Afsirs, Will to-Ho,ro Introduce q
bill to provide for the execution of tho pro-
vision Of Article 2 OF the supplemental COM
mercial treaty OF November 10, 1880 be.
tween the United tates ard China, for the
repression of he opium traffic. 1t prohibits
the importation OF opium into any port of
the Uoited States by Chinese subjects, and
it Is proposed that no package. composed in
whole or in part of opium imported by or
consigned to Chinese subjecf, shall be ad-
mitted to entry and al such is forfeited.
The penalty for such importation of opium is
a fine of $500 or six months imprisonment,
or both. No American citizen shall import
opium into an open port Of China, or trans.
port it from au opsn port to another. ard any
Opium SO transported shall be forfeited.
American citizans offending this nav be ar
I,afor
ished by not more than $500 fine and six
months imprisonment, and the Act shall
take effect July l, 1888.
French Canadians as American Citizens.
WAsHISGToS, February 9.n.-French Ca
nadians are to New England what the Chi
nese are to Calif1rni aud tie Pacific coast
their morals are lower, their necessities fewer,