Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1884-01-10
The Senate.

The Senate.
WASHINGTON, N Jan, Ex-senator Plumb
presented petition from 10000 ex-soldiers
for the establishment of soldiers home
Ill Kansas.
Senator Anthony offered resolution in
structIng the committee on foreign rela-
tions to inquire into the expediency of
legislation to ennble the executive depart
ment to protect cur interests against any
governments which prohibited or restrain
ed the importation OF healthful meats from
the United States. L was LAID over until
| tomorrow.
Petitions we're presented by Senator
Slater from the citizens Of Oregon pray
ing that tho lands granted to the Oregon
Central railroad, which have not been
earned, be retaken by the United
States.
! By Senator Logan, praying for the pas
sage Of an sct pensioning ex-prisoners OF
var.
Senator Logan introduced a bill for tie
construction OF a bridge across the Mis-
souri, river by the Chicago, Rock Island 6
Kansas City Railway company.
Senator Morgan offered the following
RESOLUTION, WHICH Ra5 oRESSu
ResoLged, That the attorney general be
instructed to transmit to the senate copies
of reports, with accompanying papers,
made by the different examiners of the de.
partment of justice, concerning the busi-
ness of the courts of the United States in
Alabam', Georgia, Arkansas and Texas,
which reports relate to the abuses by the
officers of the said cour5s and marshals in
said districts. On the charge of collecting
and accounting for fees and other abuses,
referred TO in the repor TT of Brewster Cam
eron, general ag9nt of the department of
justice, made Jan. 5, 1884.
A bill was passed for the payment of six
thousand dollars to the parents of Lient.
Schwatka, Arctic explorer. This claim
arose oug OF the taking from the senior
5chwatka land in 1850 by the govern
ment for military reservation.
A bill authorizing the First National
bank Of Fort Worth, Texas, to increase Its
capital stock was passed.
The senate resumed the consideration Of
the new rules. The first question in Or
der WAS the amendment OF Senator Hale
relating to the appropriation bills, to
strike out the clause permitting a refer
ence of the District of Columbia appro-
Priahons to the senate committee and to
strike out the clause permitting the Dis
trict Of Columbia appropriations to tbs
senate committee of the district. Agreed
10; q yeas, % nays.
Senator Plumb's amendments referring
to the appropriation bills for the different
departments of the government in the first
place to the committees respectfully hav-
iurr oho in hp enDofo of %bana
in those departments were not agreed to.
Further action on this rule was post
poned until after the consideration of the
next reserved rule, which is No. 26. The
proposed rule provides for a committee
on internal Improvements to consist of
nine senators, to whom shall be referred
all subjects relating to the Improvements
of rivers and harbors and also the river
and harbor bill.
Senator Vest moved to strike out this
provision, as the committee of commerce
have always faithfully performed these
duties and are perfectly competent to deal
with the river ond harbor bill. The stand
ing COMMITTEES by this rule would increase
from thirty-four to thirty eight. He
thought that some of the committees could
be dispensed with, and greater activity
would be required by those that remained,
and the country would bs better satisfied
and better served. It looked somewhat as
though the committee were provided in
order to secure secretaries for the SEN
etors.
Senator Coke favored the amendment.
Senator Frye, while disclaiming any re-
fection on the committee on commerce as
at present constituted, thought the COM
mittee made very careless record for the
last twenty years, in proposing no com
promises to the original measures for the
promotion or revival OF our shipping.
Senator Frye said, that intense activity
characterized England in regard to the
shipping of that country, and ENGLAND
gained the victory in tho shipping line
over every other nation of the world, and
while he (Frye) could not help admiring
the steady purpose and manner in which
England hss gone to work
to accomplish it, he was constrained to
say that always and everywhere she works
for money. She fought us nearly fifty
years because We owned slaves. and when
the war came she promised that fhe slave
on the one hand had freedom and on the
other continued slavery. She saw the op,
portunity, and, forgetting her principles,
supplied the South with ammunition of
war and arms of every kind. We captured
763 of her blockade runners, with $685.,
100000 worth of arms and ammunition.
She fitted out her Alabama to prey on
our shipping, and joined Spain and
France on an attack on Mexico, ready
to march on Us if the occasion presented
itself, and if it had not been for Erickson
and his 'cheese box" she probably would
have dismernbered our country. So Eog-
land forgotten ignored all the principles
she held so dear in order to get market for
her ships. She built up great business
and has it yet. Senator Frye animadvert-
ed with some severity upon the system of
compulsory pilotage dues, which he char
acterized IS a great hardship on shipping.
Senator Mcmillan said there was much
difference of opinion in regard to such
dues, and 1t was not clear that they should
be abolished. With regard to the work of
the committee on commerce, he (McMil-
lan) said, during the last cong ress it had
made eighty reports on q great variety of
subj jscts, and the merchant marine had not
been neglected. With regard to the river
and harbor bill, he thought it one of the
most useful and beneficial bills with
which congress has to deal, and the criti-
oisms made on the river and harbor bills
would apply to these bills also. Without
reaching conclusion on the rule, the
senate went into executive session, and