Morning journal and courier., 1886-01-06
FORTY-NINTH CONGRESS-.
naroN. Jan 5. 1aa5

1 WAsn NeToN, Jan. 5, 1885. SENATE.-A bill was introduced by Mir | Blair for the erection of monuments to Abra | ham Lincoln and U. s. Grant.
 A resolution by Mr. Frye was agreed tt I asking the Secretary of State for all core l spondence and information in his depart
 ment relating to the extension of certain fish l ing rights and privileges under the treaty oi l Washington.
 A resolution by MT. Hoar was referred te the Committee on Foreign Relations request 1 ing the President to take measures to enlarge and revise our extradition treaties so as tc
 cover cases of embezzlement and other breaches of trust. He spoke of the large number of defaulting bank officers who have escaped to Canada.
 MT. Sherman offered concurrent res olution accepting the statue of President Garfield presented by the State of Ohio. After brief eulogy of General Garfield by MT. Sherman the resolution was agreed to. . MT. Gray gave notice that he would call up MT. Beck's silver resolution tomorrow.
 MT. Beck asked as to it's present parlia- mentary condition. The chair said that it was on the table and the pending motion was to refer it to the Finance Committee.
 MT: Beck disclaimsd any personal attack upon the President or Secre- tary Manning in his silver speech. His remark regarding the Secretarys locking up the surplus would have been quite as well illustrated and perhaps more aptly so had he said that if cyclone had blown down the Treasury building and scattered the sar- plus and the people had picked up the money the street and put it into eircula- tion-that circulation would be more bene- fcial to the people than keeping the money locked up
 MT. Edmunds called up the Utah bill re- ported by him from the Committee on Ju- dietary. The bill having been read Mir.
 
 tion, prohibiting the exercise of suffrage by women in Utah. In making this motion MT. Hoar said he approved the purpose of the bill and the method by which that purpose was sought to be effected with the exception of the disfranchisement of the women of Utah. Woman suffrage existed in the terri tories of Wyoming and Washington and the most careful and thoughtful observers testi- fled to the excellent effect of that class of suffrage in those territories. To deprive such of the women of Utah as were not plural wives of the right which they already had to exercise the suffrage was undertaking to place them in the same category with what the law regarded as criminals and was in vii olation of a sound principle of legislation.
 MT. Edmunds replied that whenever ma jority of the women of the United States or of any State desired to have the suffrage they would have his vote in favor of that de- sire. Whenever our wives, sisters and sweet hearts, he said, came to believe that they could better serve society and themselves by exercising the suffrage and going into the po- litical field, instead of confning themselves to the field in which they were now employ ed, they should have his aid in attaining their object.
 At the suggestion of Mr. Vest the bill was laid aside until to morrow.
 A message was received from the President transmitting the draft of a bill to provide for ba a11 nf 6S 1fv fn ans. It was read and referred
 MT. Wilson, of Iowa, called up the resolu- ton calling upon the Secretary of the Inte rior for copies of the reports made by the directors of the Union Pacific railroad. Speaking in support of his resolution MT. Wilson reviewed the action of the govern ment directors, of whom he had himself been one with view to showing that if the gov ernment had paid attention to the informa- tion and recommendations made by the di- rectors the relation of the government to the roads would to-day be better one. MT. Wilson favored the bill reported from the Judiciary committee of the Senate of the Forty-eighth Congress, because under such a law, if enacted, there would be possibility of government ownership of the entire Pacific system. Not that he hoped that government ownership would be necessary, but with the contingency of government ownership con- fronting them all the companies included in the Pacific system would set themselves about devising means to avoid any impend ing possession of their roads by the govern ment. He thought Congress should not consent, and he for one would not consent to any question that did not embrace the feature of possible re- demption by the government of present para mount liens on the Pacific roads, so that the government could protect itself against the defaults of the companies.
 At the cOOc1usi0n of Mir Wilson's raTnarkS ,he judicial salary bill was, on motion of MT. Hoar, placed before the Senate. Without further action, however, the Senate at 3:35 3. m. went into executive session. At 4:50 he doors were reopened and the Senate ad burned