The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1885-02-13
Thursdays Doings Among the
Lawmakers.
CATTLE zsD HORSE GROWERS.
Another Terrible Casualty at an In
sane Asylum Eighteen Maniacs
Burned to Death.
The Senate.

current resolution providing for joint
committee of three members of the
House of Representatives and two Sen
ators to notify Grover Cleveland of his
election as President of the United
States from the 4th of March next, and
and to notify Thomas A. Hendricks of
his election as Vice-President, from the
same date.
Onmotion of Garland it was referred
to the committee on privileges and cleo
tions.
Garland said the phraseology of the
resolution needed looking at.
The Senate passed an original joint
resolution, authorizing the President to
return to the government of Great
Britain the steamer sAlert, with the
thanks of the United States.
The resolutions offered yesterday by
ingalls, and Hoar, relating to the cleo
toral count, were on melton of Hoar re-
ferred without comment to the COM
mittee on privilege and elections.
The resolution offered by Sherman
was. agreed to-. authorizing the Presi-
dent of the Senate to appoint a COM
mittee OF three Senators to make
the necessary arrangements for the in
auguration of the President-elect.T
Van Wyck inquired of the chair why
the bill to forfeit the Texas Paeific
land grant had been displaced from it's
position at the head of the special order,
and he said the bill had not been con-
sidered by the Senate, but whether by
a mistake of the clerk or for some other
reason, the bill had, within a few days,
disappeared from the special order.
The chair tEdmunds) said it was ow-
ing to no mistake of a clerk, and the
bill had been placed before the Senate
as a special order in technical form, and
the Senate, by vote, refused to consider
it, and proceeded to consider another
bill. (This was the anti-silver BILL }
That refusal, the chair said, under con-
slant rulings of the presiding officer of
the Senate, sent the bill back to the
general calendar, and it ceased to be a
special order.
Van Wyck asked unanimous consent
that the bill be restored to its place
among the special orders. He doubted
very much whether the Senators, when
they decided to take up the silver bill,
thought they were displacing the Texas
forfeiture bill. The Chair said it was in
order for the Senator at any time after
the morning business to move to pro-
coed to the consideration of any bill on
the calendar.
ingalls, does not think the Senate had
been properly advised as to its inter-
probation of the rule when it displaced
the bill. ingalls, had supposed a bill
once among the special orders remained
there till disposed of. He did not speak
complainingly, but felt satisfied it had
not been the purpose of the Senate to
displace the forfeiture bill.
Van Wyck's request for unanimous
consent was acceded to and the bill was
ordered restored to its place among the
special orders. rr-,.rr--s ~, .
| Vest read letter from a gentleman
residing in Michigan, whom he said, he
did not know, but whose responsibility
had been youched for by q Senator from
Michigan. The letter stated that the
| bill introduced by Senator Palmer,
apparently for the benefit Of bona fide
purchasers of public lands, was not in
reality in their interest, but in the
interest of few persons who, through
collision with government land agents,
had been enabled to buy great tracts OF
public lands at private sale, contrary to
/ law, thus getting for 70 an acre, lands
worth SIS to 800 an acre. With the
letter were newspaper clippings, stating
that Barnhart, Hill and Freeman, OF
Grand Rapids, Case and Mckinney, of
Marquette, and others now in Wash
ington, owned 100000 acres of
those lands. "Whoever heard, !"
Vest asked, "of people. buying 100000
acres of public land without knowing
what they were buying% With no
personal knowledge of the facts Vest
felt warranted in declaring that there
had been stupendous speculation in
public lands on the part Of men who
hoped to come in and pose as innocent
purchasers, on the passage of bill like
that now before the Senate.
Palmer said that. no doubt, speeula-
tors and lumbermen had invested in
that Palmer was seeking to relieve.
The men he wanted to help were the
poor farmers who had put their sweat
and toll into their lands. The, amend
ment of Palmer, now pending to the
bill, would confirm and declare valid
the titles to lands Withdrawn from sale
by reason of railroad grants in price TO
SIPS per acre and purchased in good
faith, without the lands having been
offered at public auction.
Palmer's amendment was agreed to,
yeas %, nays %.
Morgan offered an amendment pro-
viding for the settlements of all questions
of conflicting claims by the Department
of the Interior, and giving bona fide
settlers, under the homestead and pre-
emption laws, preference over the pre-
vious entries made at 81. % an acre. In
the course OF his remarks on the amend
ment, Morgan said that he; did not like
the aspect of the billin the Senate. II
looked to him too much as if some pri
vate enterprise was being carried for
ward.
Dolph said there was no necessity fol
the amendment, as the land Office would
decide the cases according to law, and
if the law gave the homesteader or pre-
| emption claimant a right he would have
it any how.
4 Cockrell inquired how it had come
| about that the officers of the sgovernmen
land department. had utterly ignored
the LAVISH