The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-12-18
CONGRESSIONAL.
The Proceedings in Both
Houses Yesterday.
WASHINGTON NEWS NOTES.
The Nicaraguan CanaI-G1 eeIy- How
gate-Sugar Men in Session
Juries Not Fixed.
The Senate.

WASHINGTON, December 1.-THE
CiIair laid before the Senate a communi-
cation from the Secretary of the Navy in
! response to the recent resolution of
Vest, which inquired whether any
surveying party had been or was about
to be sent to Nicaragua TO survey
route for the proposed canal. and if it
had been sent, under what authority of
law. The Secretary's reply IS as follows:
NAVY DEPARTMENT,
Sir: Responding TO the resolution of
the Senate, l have the honor to state
that orders have been issued to Civil
Engineer A. @. MenOcal, Civil Engineer
K. Z. Peary and Ensign Washington J.
Chambers, to visit Nicaragua in order
TO make survey of the route for the
proposed Nicaraguan canal. Tie
orders have been issued in the exercise
of the generahpower of this department
under the President to issue such orders
to all officers of the navy as may
be deemed for the public interest The
arrangements which have been made
to contemplate revision of the survey
made on former occasion by Civil
Engineer Menocal, and an investigation
of any change in the route which has
SIS
shortening the canal and diminishing
its cost. The cost OF the arrangement
made and contemplated in addition to
1.-THE pay and mileage of thenaval officers
lis expected to be 81 900, as an outfit, and
about 81 900 a month. during the stay of
the party in Nicaragua.
WILLIAM Z. CHANDLER,
Secretary Navy.
I On Vests motion. the letter was laid
on the table. He said he would call it
up at an early opportunity, with view
! to discussing the proposition advanced
by the Secretary of the Navy, that the
right is vested in any department of
government to order such an expedition
without action by Congress.
Dawes presented petition which was
referred, against the proposed lease OF
! 5000, 600 acres of the Crow reservation
to a syndicate of cattlemen. Dawes said
no information concerning the lease eX-
listed in the Interior Department, and to
quiet the fears of the people of Mon
tana, he would say the lease could not
exist without the sanction of the Secre-
tary of the Interior, and Dawes did not
think the Secretary could possibly sane
ton such lease.
A large number OF remonstranceS
against the ratification of the Spanish
treaty were presented and referred.
Brown, from the committee on rail
roads, reported. favorably. the bill TO
extend the time of building the st.
/ Louis & San Francisco railroad through
Indian lands.
Dawes offered a resolution, which was
agreed to, calling on the Secretary of
the Interior for all information in his
department relating TO the leases OF
Crow Indian lands for grazing purposes
and his action thereon.
Among the bills introduced and re-
ferred was one by Van Wyck, to fix the
rates of transmission of messages by
telegraph west of the Missouri River.
not to exceed the average rates east of
said river to the seabOard.
Morgan, from the conference COM
mittee on the Atlantic q Pacific railroad
land forfeiture bill, submitted report
stating that the committee had been
unable to agree. Ordered printed.
The Senate went into executive ses-
sion. The nomination of McCulloch to be
Secretary of the Treasury was taken up,
and Riddelberger continued his speech
in opposition to his confirmation. After
an hours debate the consideration of
the nomination went over until tO-mOr-
row.
The naval bin was taken up, and,
after debate, the bill passed substan-
tally as it came from the committee.
The Chair laid the Senate interstate
commerce bill before the Senate, and
Slater submitted the proposed amend
ment moved by him embOdying the pro-
visions of the Reagan BILL
Adjourned.