The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-01-10
FORTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS.
SENATE.

| SENATE.
| Washington, 9. Petitions pre-
lsented:
| By Slater, from citizens of Ore
tgOn, praying that lands granted tt
the Oregon Central railway, which
had not been earned, be retaken by
the United States.
By Logan, praying for the passage
of an act pensioning eX~ prisoners of
war.
Morgan Offered the following
resolution, which was agreed to:
RESOLVED, That the Attorney General
be instructed to transmit TO the Sens
copies of reports, with accompanying
papers, made by different examiners Of
the Department Of Justice, concerning
the business of courts Of the United
States in Alabama, Georgia, Arkansas
and Texas, which reports relate to abuses
by officers Of said courts, and msrshsls
in said districts in charge of collecting
and accounting for fees. and other
abuses.
! 1t referred to the report of Brew
ster Cameron, general agent of the
Department of Justice, made Jauu-
airy 9Th, 1884.
The bill passed for the payment
of $4,000 to the parents of Lleutenc
ant Shwatka, the Arctic explorer.
The claim arose out of taking the
senior Shwatka's land in 1850 by
the government for q military re-
servation.
The Senate resumed consideration
of the new rules. The first queS-
ton in order was the amendment of
Hale to the rule relating the apDro-
priatiOn bills to strike out the clause
permitting reference to the District
of Columbia appropriations to the
Senate committee district. Agreed
to, 27 yeas, % nays.
Plumb's amendment, referring ap-
preparation bills for different de-
partments of the government in the
first place to the committees re
spectively having charge in the
Senate In the interests of those de-
partments, was not agreed to.
Further action on this rule was
postponed until after consideration
of the next rule, which is No. 26.
The proposed rule provides for a
committee on internal improve.
ments, to consist of nine Sena. ors.
Coke favored the amendment.
Frye, while disclaiming any re-
Election On the committee on CONS
merce as at present constituted,
thought the committee had made a
very cOlOrless record the last tWen-
ty years, in proposing no compre-
hensive or original measures for the
promotion or revival of our ship
ping. He referred to the intense
activity which characterized public
men IN England in regard to the
shipping OF that country. England
had gained victory in the shipping
line over every nation in the world,
and while Frye could not help
admiring the steady purpose and
manner in which Great Britain
had gone to work to accomplish that
end, 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 it promised
slaves on the one hand freedom, on
the other continued slavery. She
saw her opportunity, and forgetting
principle supplied the south with
munitions of war and arms Of every
kind. We captured 763 Of her
blockade runners with S26,0O0,O0O
worth Of arms and ammunition.
She fitted out her Alabamas
preying on our shipping. joined
Spain and France ia the attack on
Mexico, and was ready to march on
us if the occasion presented itself
and if it had not been for Erickson
and his "cheese box" she would
probably have diSmembered our
country. So England forgot or
ignored al the principles she held
SO dear in order TO get a market for
her goods and employ her ships. |
She built Up a great business, and
had it yet. H9 animadverteu with
some severity upon the system of
compulsory pilotage dues, which he
characterized as great hardship On
Mcmillan said there was much
difference of opinion in regard to
such dues, and it was not clear that |
they should be abolished. With
regard to the work of the committee
on commerce, Mcmillan said that |
during the last Congress it made |
eighty reports on great variety of /,
and the merchant marine |
had not been neglected. With re-
gard to the river and harbor bill, he
thought it one Of the most useful |
and beneficial with which Congress
has to deal, and the criticism made |
on the river and harbor bills would |
apply to other bills also.
Without reaching a conclusion on
the rules, the Senate went into ex-
ecutive session and soon adjourned.
HOUSE.