Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-04-06
WASHINGTON.
PROCEEDINGS IN THE SENATE
AND HOUSE.
The New Tariff BiI!-Federal Sal
ries-Postmasters Appointed
Minor Notes
United States senate.

SPECIAL BIZ TELEGRAPH TO THE RzooRD-uKToNJ !
United States Senate.
WASHINGTON, April 5th.-Cameron Of |
fered resolution, which was agreed to. ap- |
pointing Sherman Chairman of the For |
eirn Affairs Committee Stanford member |
of Civil Service Committee, and Mitchell of |
Oregon member of the Committee on Adj |
diliOnal Accommodation for Library.
The army bill was then placed before the |
Senate. the pending question being Hales |
motion TO strike out Section 2 which pro- |
yides that hereafter the army shall consist |
OF 30000 enlisted men.
Plumb tool; the floor and continued his |
remarks in opposition to the bill
Upon the conclusion of Plumb's remarks |
Cockrell also took the floor in opposition |
10 the bill. There was, he said, ample |
power 10 protect our institutions without a |
single regular soldier Our liberties did |
not depend on standing army but on the !
patriotism of our citizens We needed no
standing army in this country. Eternal
vigilance Is the price of liberty" A stand
ing army was danger to any republic and
was in direct contrayention of a republican
system Of government.
After au executive session, the Senate
adjourned.
House of Representatives.
WASHINGTON. April 5th.-After the call
OF States for the introduction of bills, the
Speaker announced the unfinished business
to be the motion to suspend the rules and
pass the Mexican pension bill. Agreed to
ayes, 1873; noes, So.
Following is the text of the bill That
the Secretary of the Interior be directed to
place the names of all surviving officers,
soldiers and sailors, who enlisted and
in tpa
p nod during the years 1915, 1916, 1S47 and
ls4s, and were hcnorably discharged, and
their Surviving widows, on the pension roll, |
a. The rate OF IS per month from and after |
the passage OF this Act, during their lives |
that the Secretary of the Interior is directed |
to make such rules and regulations as are
necessary to carry this Act into effect pro- |
ylded. that where it shall appear that a dis |
charge is lost. secondary evidence may be |
permitted and where it shall appear that |
an applicant has received a land warrant |
that i all sufficient evidence of an honor
able discharge. unless the evidence shows !
that he procured it by fraud and provided. |
further, that this Act shall not apply TO |
persons under political disabilities.
Laird of Nebraska moved to suspend the |
rules and pass the bill for the relief of Ger |
tain settlers and purchasers of lands on the |
public domain in the States of Nebraska |
and Kansas. Agreed to. This is similar |
10 the bill previously passed by the Senate I |
Judge Kelley and the New Tariff Bill.
WAsHISGToY. April 5th.-The new tariff |
bill adopted by the Ways and Means Com |
mtttee Is yariouSly commented upon by |
tariii and anti-tariff people. Judge Kelley, |
IN an interview to-day, probably expressed |
the views of all the protectionists as |
to the effects of the bill and the pros
poets OF its passage. He said The bill |
lS IL nd III;
tured. It's purpose is 10 effect a fatal !
break IL The protective system and to pre-
pare the way for the sure overthrow of that
system. The great interests which are
omitted from its provisions, but which
were included in the bill which Morrison
sent to the Cor mi'tee of WAYS and Means.
are as assuredly marked for early extiuc-
ton as are sheep husbandry, wooden man
utactures, salt and lumber, three of which
are placed on the free list and the fourth,
wooden textiles, put under such rates as
they cannot endure and survive
What Is your opinion as to the pros
poets OF the bill passing?n was asked.
The men whose capital and skill are
dependent for profit and wages on the pro-
lection of our industries will not combine |
against their fellows at the cost of their |
own future prospects, and regard the de- |
feat of the bill as assured by this fact"
Protests in Regard to the O'Neiu Labor |
Bill.
WAsHISGToN, April 5th-Protests have
been received here in reference to the |
O'Neill bill for the arbitration of labor |
troubles, saying that the clause limiting the |
expenses of Investigation to 800 is unjust |
as powerful corporations can easily intro |
duce witnesses enough TO eat up this sum |
and then refuse TO abide by the decision. Oh |
the ground that their cases had not been |
nj of nH Hl,A % ~ l.,
in the Senate has been confided to Blair of |
New HAMPSHIRE. 1t is hardly probable |
that II Will pass the Senate without under |
going some important modification.
A Question of Salaries.
WASHINGTON, April 5th-Swinburne of |
New York has a novel bill 20 provide for |
the reduction of the salaries of all Federal |
oificeholdeis which have been increased by |
congressional action since 1860. The bill |
has preamble reciting, as arguments for
the passage of the measure, that the finan-
cial policy of the Government for the past |
nineteen years in reducing the value OF |
money has so reduced the income from |
labor on American farms. i'll mines and |
workshops and the profits derived from |
their productions, as TO render the burdens |
OF taxation oppressive 10 those engaged in |
such pursuits; that Congress has within |
the past twenty-five years passed laws in |
creasllg the salaries OF puOllc OfflclalS out |
Unreasonable proportion to the income now
derived from the labor and enterprise en- |
ployed in productive industries, and that |
the burdens resulting from this increase of |
salaries should not be imposed upon the !
people, unless they are shared by their
representatives. In consequence of these
facts, Swinburne proposes that after their
terms of office expire the salaries of public |
officers whose compensation has been in
creased by congressional action since 1860. |
shall be reduced to the amount paid TO
public officials holding like official posi-
tons during the year 1850.
Capital Notes.
WASHINGTON, April 5th.-At the request
OF Senator Fair, the mail service will be re-
stored from July LIST next to two trips |
week on the route from Cherry Greek to
Aurum, Nevada
The Senate to-day confirmed William I.
Trenholm as Comptroller of the Currency.
The Secretary of the Interior has denied
the application of counsel for rehearing
IN the celebrated Nolan land grant case Of
New Mexico About i75, 600 acres are thus
restored to the public domain.
The following Postmasters were nomi-
mated to-day: Wesley +. Hughes. Fresno,
Cal; James Tyson, Placerville, Cal; John
McCann, Martinez, Cal.
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