Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1884-01-27
WASH NoToN.



WASHINGTON, Jan. D. General Roee.
Grams has presented IL the House a p-
0sion signed b. the principal lumb-i
dealers Of the Pacific coast. opposing
aay reduction in tue duty on lumber
Petitioners state thst If special indus
tries of the east require and receive
protection. the lum er industry has a
right Also - dem and protection. They
say II the duty WAS abolished, compesi
ton In the lumber trade would come
from British Columbia. and would be 10
the hiQhs st degree detrimental to them
freights on lumber, they SAY, from
British Columbi. TO point in Caiifor.
MA are quite As low as from Pogei
Sound. while the differences in freights
from ports IN Aiask. wouid be % large
ly IN favor Of British Columbia 10 bel
a. 10 give the latter monopoly in the
trade, If the dsty is taken of. They
also call attention to the fact that the
lumber trade in British Columbia il
carried on by Chinese coolie labor The
petition. before tein2 presented, was
signed by the entire Congressional dele.
CATION from California.
COurt Martial ordered.
WAsHISGToS, Jan. ga court mar
tiai has been ordered to meet at San An.
tonic on February 4.h for the trial Of
Capt Ain A. 5. keyes of the Tenth Cav.
airy on charges of duplication of pay
accounts.
To be Abolished.
1t is understood that ths Office of As
sistant Surgeon General of the Arms
will be abolished. The Secretary OF
War said that such a move would moi
meet with Executive appreciation.
Ex-speAkev ket1er On ahe stand.
Ex-Speaker kelfer was examined to-
day by the House Committee on Ac-
counts keifer vas asked if he had de-
manded the resignation of Tyson, the
stenographsr If the last Congress. He
replied that some time during the ses-
sion Of the Forty seventh Congress- be
had gwen a position to Tyson, place
worth 5000 annually. at the time that
Gaines. the nephew # the ex Speaker
was filling $1,000 position. keifel
said tagt when he appointed Tyson be
did it with the uuderst ,ndinR that nj
some future time the position would be
vacated and q ines appointed. The
ex-Speaker test fed th Il his demand
for his resignation at the close OF the
last session was Ia accordance with the
understanding betwee the two when
Tyson was appointed.
Tyson reappeared and reiterated his
former testimony that he was compelled
TO resign by the ex-Speaker. He sup
ported his testimony by letters alleged
to have been written by Keifer.
Ex-Representative Robinson, through
whose influence tyson received his
original appointment a. stenO0rapher of
the House, 1t is understood will Do called
az a witness before the committee to
support Eyson's statement.
The Northern Pacific Land Grant.
Robert Harris, ths President Of the
Northern Pacific Railroad Company,
appeared before the Senate Committee
on Public Lands and made an argu-
ment against the forfeiture of any por-
ton OF the Northern Pasiic land grant.
de gave the history of the enterprise
from the beginning. claiming the same
wise considerations for not declaring
the grant forfeited that prevailed in
Congress heretofore should be CON-
tinued 80 long AS the Northern Pacific
Company displayed merry in execut-
ing its work, and until the road Al orig.
lnaliy Chartered WAS completed. Good
ftltn to thousands of persons who have
settled and are now settling on Puget
Sound looking to the completion of the
Cascade Division and direct communi-
cation with the East, should be An un-
answerable reason why Congress should
delay.
Senator Van Wyck asked whether any
arrangement had bsen entered into
with the Central Pacific which prevent
ed competition of rates between San
Francisco and the East.
Harri. Was unable to answer, as he
has been only few days Prssi lent and
vas n IT foily familiar with the details
of affairs.
Delegate Catne Talks.
John G. Game, deieg ate to Congress-
from Utah, has addressed a communal
cation to the general MANAGER of the
Associated Press in regard to the mis-
representations and perversions of fact
made by Governor Murray IN his mes
sage to the Legislature, evidently with
the purpose of deceiving the Eastern
public. The delegate saws he Cover
aor) asks the repeal Of the law making
escheats result to the perpetual emigrat,
ing fund of the oompany. This Law was
repealed eight years ago by the enact
,nent Of Section lib of the Compiled
Laws Of Utah, which read: IF deceased
leave no husband. wife. or kindred, the
est tie escheats to tho Territory for the
support of the common schools" This
il the law now and has been since 1876.
He misrepresents the scope and effect of
the act Incorporating the Mormon
Church, when he says 1t is a law re-
specting the est 4blishment of re-
ligion. 1t did not purpose to
establish any religion but simply
made the Mormon Church body
corporate witA powers rs stated in the
charter. not inconsistent with, or repug-
nant to the cons tuition of the United
States Other churches, including the
Presbyterian, have been incorpora ed in
the Territory, rs ouly 80 muoh of an act
Incorporating the church" as might es-
tab!is :, mAintsin, ana protect our cOun
tenance and practice of pDlyRamy, WAS
disapproved bv Congress-. Tbs COM
pliers Of the Territorial laws in 1876.
failing to find any such provision in II
as that named by CONGRESS included the
entire act in the compilation, bat no
part of it WAS then, or ever has been re-
enacted by the legislature. whose acts
to be valid must he consistent with the
laws Of Congress, else they are null and
void. His statsmeut that this Law vests
the cclesiastio Il courts with authority
which may only be- exercised in the
United States without Civil Courts, il
entirely without foundation in fact
No such powers are by law conferred
upon Ecclesiastical Courts; they only
act as arb,trators aud regulate the fell
lowship of members of the Church, and
that without expense to the parties
His comments on the dover question
give An entirely false idea Of the prop.
ertv rights of women in Utah. The
fact is they are equal with men in theil
legal right and power to acquire, hold
aud transfer real and personal property
The husband has ne control whatever
over tho property Of the wife, and need
not Join with her in deciding it away
Hundreds of women in Utah held titles
20 their homes and other real estate
entirely independent Of their husbands
rrue there is, technically speaking, NJ
right of dover existing in the Territor,
.ut the Law of descent and snccesssioI
there il more liberal % the wife. and II
many instances more than the commot
lag dover right would he. For instance
a Widow intestats /, always entitled fol
| life to the homestead Of her husband
and 10 all personal property which u