The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1883-01-13
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Washington, u. - Butterworth,
Ohio from the Pacific Railroad
committee, reported a bill author
izing the Southern Pacific and other
railroads to unite so as to form
continuous line of road between the
Atlantic and Pacific 4 ceans. House
calendar.
Also a bill to COMPEL the pay
ment by the Kansas Pacific, of the
cost of surveying, selecting and con-
veying certain lands granted to it,
and to create a sinking fund for the
Kansas Pacific, Sioux City and
Pacific, and control the branch of
the Union Pacific. Calendar.
The bill to increase the fees Of
star route witnesses coming from
west of the Missouri passed.
The bill to prevent the unlawful
occupation Of public lands was re-
ferred to the committee of the
whole.
Bingham, from the committee on
postoffice, and post roads, reported
favorsbly resolution calling on the
secretary of the interior for inform
alton as to whether land grant
railroads had complied with the
laws of Congress respecting the con-
struction and maintenance Of their
own telegraph lines for the use of
| government and the public
Adopted.
The House resumed consideration
of the shipping bill, the pending
question being on the committee
substitute, as amended for the 18th
section.
Knott Kentucky) moved to strike
out of the substitute all provision
for drawback stating his intention
to be to strike out the subsidy
clause. Knott's motion was lost
l31 to 90. The committee substitute
agreed On this morning was then
agreed to, 1874 to Sc. IL limits the
amounts Of drawback tonnage tax
collected in any year, and provides
for free ships and free material
| Buckner offered an amendment
| to section 20 of the bill prohibiting
! the alienation or voluntary sale and
delivery Of vessels engaged in the
| foreign trade, to citizens of other
countries. or for the purpose Of OBJ
tanning foreign register. within
ten years Of the date of the certif
cate of registry. A lively debate
ensued, during which Robinson, OF
New York, pictured the anxiety
with which the patrolsssimprisoneC
on board British men of wal
| Laughter at Fort Henry, looked
to see if the star-spangled banner
floated in the morning air. 1t wa:
with equal anxiety that the people
to-day looked to see if the star
spangled banner still existed on the
ocean. He did not believe in this
despair of American ingenuity anC
talent. He believed we could build
ships and man them, and both il
building and manning them beat
| the world. Amusement.
| After a long debate, Cox, of New
| York, then moved to recommit the
! bill to the committee on commerce
| with instructions to report back tC
the House without delay, a bill pro
Yiding for the purchase. free admis
sion, and registry of fore gn buill
vessels, and for the admission Of al
material used in the construction
and repair of vessels in all American
yards, to be used in foreign and moi
in coastwise trade. Motion lost
yeas II, nays 131. The bill then
passed.
Kasson, of Iowa, rising TO ques
ton of privilege, had read an ed
itorial in The New York Times com
menting on the controversy be
tween the civil service bill as passed
the Senate and the text as tele
graphed from Washington. KassoI
explained to the Senate, as 1t came
from the Senate without the cross
ing of a set" or the dotting of an 81,
with the same paper AID same Ink
it went back to the Senate without
bearing the work of any person con
nected with the House of Repres6n
tatiYes, except the endorsement
necessary to signify its approval b.
the House. The clause referred t
in the article did not appear in th'
bill, and was struck out III tht
Senate.