Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1886-01-06
FORTY-NINTH CONGRESS-.
First Session.
SENATE.
WASHINGTON. Ian. ,

| Mr.. Harrison of the committee on terrific
ries, reported favorably bill to legalize the
/ election of the 9th territorial legislative
assembly of Wyoming. He asked immediate
consideration.
! BY Mr.. Blsir-To give right of trial by
jury to claimants for pensions whose appli-
cations have been rejected bv the secretary
of the interior; also to provide for the cree
tion of monuments to Abraham Lincoln and
L. S. Grant.
The resolution offered by Mr.. Frye was
agreed TO, calling upon the secretary of state,
not Incompatible with public interests. to
transmit to the Senate all correspondence and
information in his department, relating to the
extension of certain fishing rights and priv-
leges under the treaty of Washington.
The resolution offered by Mr. Hoar was, at
his request, referred to the committee on
foreign relations, requesting the President TO
take measures for reviving and extending our
eXtradltion treaties, SO as TO cover cases of
embezzlement and other breaches of trust
In offering his resolution Mr. Hoar made
special reference to the number Of defaulting
bnak officers who tried to escape punishment
by flight to Canada.
Mr.. Sherman offered concurrent resolu-
ton acception the marble statue of President
Garfield, presented TO Congress by the state
OF Ohio.
The concurrent resolution was agreed to-
Mr. Gray gave notice that he would to-
morrow call up Becks silver resolution. for
the purpose of making some remarks on it.
MIR Beck, referring to the criticism made
by Mr.. Morrill, on his (Beck's) recent speech
inquired of Mr.. Morrill, whether, on careful
reading of that speech, he had not been
mistaken in his understanding of Beck's re-
marks.
Mr.. Morrill, replied that he took pleasure
in saying he had somewhat misunderstood
MIR. Becks reference to the president and
secretary of the treasury.
MIR Ednunds called up the Utah bill, re-
ported by him from the committee on the
Judiciary.
MIR. Hoar moved to strike out the 18th
/ section, being the section prohibiting the
exercise of suffrage bv women in Utah In
making the motion Mr.. Hoar said that he
approved of the purpose OF the bill and the
method by which the purpose was sought to
be effected, with the exception of the dis
Reimbursement OF the women of Utah. Woman
suffrage existed in the territories OF Wyoming
and Washington, and the most careful and
! thoughtful observers testified to the excellent
| effect of that class of suffrage in those terri
! torres. To deprive such of the women of
! Utah, as were not plural wives, of the right
which they already had to exercise suffrage,
was undertaking to place them in the same
category with what the law regarded as crm-
inals, and was in violation OF sound principle.
Mr.. Edmunds replied that whenever a ma
Jorlty of the women of the United States, or
any state, desires to have suffrage they would
have his vote in favor of the desire. When
ever our wives, sisters and sweethearts, he
said, came to believe they could better serve
.
frage and going into the political field, in
stead of confinlng themselves to the field in
which they are now employed, they should
have his aid in attaining their object. He
denied that the women of Utah had now in
the sense of the final and complete law a
law full right to vote.
MIR. Blair supported Mr.. Hoar's motion
and asked if women who believe in polygamy
were to De dsfranchised why not the men
who believed in it?
Mr.. Vest hoped the bill might go over
and it went over accordingly.
| message was received from the President
transmitting draft of the bill to provide for
| the allotment of lands in severalty to In
| dians. 1t was read and referred.
Mr., Wilson of Iowa. called up the resolu-
ton heretofore offered by him, calling on the
secretary of the interior for copy of each
|
the Union Pacific railroad from the first ap-
pointment of such directors to the present
time. In support of his resolution Mr.. Will
son reviewed at considerable length the ac
tion Of the government directors of whom he
had himself been one with a view to showing
that had the government paid attention to the
information conveyed and recommendations
made by the directors the relations of the
government to the roads would TODAY be a
better one. Mr.. Wilson favored the bill re-
ported from the judiciary committee of the
Senate of the 4Sth Congress. because under
such law, If enacted, there would be \ pos
sbllitv OF government ownership of the en-
tire Pacific system With those roads in the
hands of the governmt Mt the problem of reg
! ulating interstate commerce would be speed
lily and perfectly solve
On the conclusion of Mr.. Wilson's remark,
the Senate went into executive session an
latter adjourned.