Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-12-05
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DOMESTIC NEWS.
Second Session of the Forty-eighth Con
gress.
SENATE.

WASHINGTON, DecelnDer 4tn-blIlS were
introduced and referred as follows;
By Notwithstanding pension to Gen
eral Grant.
Cameron of Pennsylvania, submitted the
following, which he desired TO lie over and
be printed:
WHEREAS The shipping trade in American
vessels is depressed, and the export trade in
American produce is languishing for want of q
market that might be reached If the shipping
trade was IN the hands of citizens of the United
States: therefore.
ReSolred That the Committee on Finance be-
and is hereby directed to inquire whether it
would be expedient TO expend the surplus reve-
nue. of the United states, or any portion thereof
for the purpose OF reviving the shipping and
export trade, by allowing a rebate from the
tariff duties on foreign goods imported in ships
built ana owned in the United States and by
also allowing Il premium on American grown
products and articles of American manufacture
| exported in American vessels, and report by
| bill or otherwise.
Cameron will call up the resolution at
| an early day.
Hill submitted the following:
| Resotped, That in the existing depressed CON
dition of the industrial interests of the country
| and in the presence of the great fall which has
taken place and is still in progress in the wages
of labor and the prices of the products of farms,
| the workshops and the mines, the recommends
| tions Of the President and Secretary of the
| Treasury that the coinage of silver dollars and
the issue of silver certificates be prohibited are
| calculated to create alarm, and thereby aggra-
| vate the difficulties of the situation, and 10 the
end that the public mind may be quieted by the
| assurance that if the total volume of the cur
rency is not to be enlarged in correspondence
with the increasing population and exchanges
of the country, II shall not, at least. be reduced
by suspending the coinage of silver dollars, the
Senate declares its opinion to be that no valid
reason exists at the present time for imposing
any additional restrictions upon either the coin
age of silver dollars or the issue of silver certi
Gates.
The resolution was laid over, and Hill
will call it up the first opportunity.
The bill providing for national regulation
of interstate commerce was made the
special order for Thursday next
After an executive session, the Senate
adjourned until Monday.
HOUSE.
WASHINGTON, December 4th. Several
bills were introduced and referred, and the
House resumed the consideration of the
interstate commerce bill.
Robinson of New York has prepared
resolution, which he will offer Monday,
providing for the return to simplicity OF the
inaugural ceremonies as practiced by JEFF
ferson. 1t prohibits the erection Of tri-
umphal arches and the display of bayonets
in Washington ON Inauguration day, and
provides that the Chief Justice shall call
him either On foot or in a plain carriage
drawn by not more than two horses, and
without decorations or livery, to the Capt.
tol, where he shall take the oath and ad-
dress such citizens as may be there to hear
him.
Anderson supported the Reagan substi
tute, contending that it would furnish the
people substantial protection against the
extortion of railroad companies, though he
did not think its provisions stringent
enough. He doubted whether they would
be elfectual in preventing the system of
pooling, which practically placed the pro-
ducers of the country at the mercy of
Gould, Vanderbilt and Huntington. If the
attempts so successfully made heretofore
by railroad capitalists should prevent leg
islation in the States, in this House. or in
the Senate and if they should enter the Su-
preme Court to prevent Just legislation, the
people would damn them. Capital would
be brought face to face, not with the think
ing men of the country, but with a mob.
Capital itself had more at stake in securing
equitable railroad legislation than the
farmers and producers had.
Shively of Indiana, Calkins' successor,
announced his emphatic approval of the
object sought to be attained by the pending
bill and the Reagan substitute, and his
equally emphatic approval of the substi-
tute as compared with the measure reported
by the committee. He doubted the pro-
priety of creating q Commission, and con-
ferring upon it power as great as that exer
cised by the greatest despot on earth, and
he pointed out the danger that would
surely follow concentration of that power
in few men.
Hopkins submitted a constitutional argu
ment upon the power Of Congress TO legs
late upon the subject Of interstate COM
merce, maintaining and affirming his prop
osition, and proceeded to detail the evils
which the measure now pending was de-
signed to correct.
Without further action, the House ad-
journed till Monday.
Confirmed by the Senate.
WASHINGTON, December 4th-The SEN
ate to-day confirmed Frank Hatton as Post
master-Genera.
Nominations by the President to the
Senate.
WASHINGTON, December 4th.-The Presi-
dent has sent in the following nominations
Commissioners for Alaska-to reside at
Sitka-George p Ihris, of Pennsylvania
to reside at Wrangcl-Chester Zelbert, Of
California.
Glascock's Amendment to the Chinese
Restriction Bill.
WASHINGTON, December 4th.-Glascock
introduced in the House to-day bill to
amend the Chinese Restriction Act, passed
at the last session. The bill seeks to
amend the third section of the Act, by pro-
viding that the provisions of that section
shall not apply to Chinese now in the
United States, or who have come here
before the expiration of ninety days after
the passage of the Act or who have con-
tinued their residence; provided such ex-
cepted laborers, when leaving the United
States, if desirous of returning have OBJ
tained the certificate of identification pre-
scribed by the fourth section of the Act, or,
after having left before its passage, have
obtained the certificate prescribed by the
Act of May 6, 1882, which certificate, in
either case, shall be only permissible evi-
dence Of the right of such excepted leborers
to re-enter the United States. 1t further
provides that any merchant of the Chinese
race in the United States, or who may
hereafter reside therein, when leaving,
shall have the right to demand and receive
from the Collector of Customs of the dis
trict within which he may reside, certii-
cate of identification similar to that pre-
scribed by the amended Act of July s. 1884,
for Chinese laborers. 1t is made the duty
of Collectors of Customs to issue certificates
free of charge or cost, upon the application
OF IDlIlCSe UieTCilalllS, anu elleT tHe SAME
upon registry book kept for that purpose,
and such certifcation shall entitle the
merchant to whom it is issued to rc-enter
the United States, and shall be the only
evidence permissible of such right. In the
preamble Glascock says: Various doubts
have arisen whether the language of the
amendatory Act of July 5, 1884, might not
be so construed as to allow excepted labor
ers to re-enter without a certificate of their
having been at the period mentioned in
the Act within the United States.
Cleveland's Intentions.
New YORK December 4th-A Washing
ton special to the Ecenilg Post says: A
prominent Democratic member of Con-
gress, who recently visited Governor Cleve-
land, says the latter said to him =" | intend
TO resign on the 9th of January, and as
Lieutenant Governor Hill will administer
the Executive Office for the next year,
have turned the writing of the message
over to him. After laying down the duties
of Governor | shall listen to whatever my
Democratic friends have to say, and I shall
divide my time between Albany and Buf-
falo until the day arrives to go to Washing
ton. / intend to give due consideration to
the counsel of my own party friends. 1t
may be. when l enter the Presidential
office, that some things may not move as
fast as some Democrats would wish, but