Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1886-01-08

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and boys in the employment G
the street car and other corporation
in the District OF Columbia and to re
port whether such number of hour
labor were unreasonable and incor
sistent with the former acts of con
gress and If so what remedy was nee
essary in the premises.
Sen. Edmunds then called I'D TIA
Utah bill reported by him from tn
committee on Judiciary.
Sen. Hoar moved to strike out tn,
7Gh section, prohibiting the exercis
OF suffrage to women in Utah.
In the discussion that followed Sen
Edmunds said the law was intende,
to relieve Utah women of the condl
ton of slavery in which they wer
held by their Hierarchy.
Sen. Hoa1 thought similar remarl
would have been made by some psopl,
twenty years ago with regard to tn,
women protesting the Roman Catholi,
faith, and debates in the English par
lament showed that many Euglisk
men asserted that the political move
ments of the IRISH people were due tt
their submission to their priesthood
right to vote. Once conferred it wa.
as much vested right as any right Of
property.
Edmunds replied that the position
in Utah was unique. Plural wives
and persons under the influence oi
the hierarchy of Utah were under an
influence entirely different from that
which could be asserted of men and
women protesting the Roman Cath
olic, Episcoealian, Methodist or any
similar religion. II came nearer 10
the state of serfdom.
Sen. Blair supported Sen. Hoar's
motion. If women who believe in it
were to be disfranchised. why not dis
franchise the men who believe IN il ?
Sen. Vest hoped the bill might 60
over one day, and it went over ac-
cordingly.
A message was received from the
president transmitting the draft of a
bill to provide for the allotment of
lands in severalty to Indians. 1t was
read and referred
Sen. Wilson, of Iowa. called up the
resolution heretofore offered by him
calling on the secretar.; of the inter
ior for a copy OF each report made
by the government dlret tors of
the Union Pacific railroad from
the first appointment of such
directors to the present lime.
Senator Wilson reviewed at len, tn
the action of the government directo-s
of whom he had himself been one,
with a view to showing that had the
government paid attention to the in
formation conveyed, and of Tue rec
snmendatienass alaade by the directors,
the relations of the government to
the roads would, to day, be a better
one.
Senator Wilson favored the bill
reported from the jud rciary com mittee
of the senate of the 4Sth congress, be
cause under such a law, if enacted,
there would be a possibility OF gov
ernment ownership of the
entire Pacific system. Not
that he hoped that a government
ownership would be necessary, for he
did not take kindly to measures look
ing to government assumption of
the business that might we'll be under
taken by citizens, but with the con
tingency of government ownership
confronting them all the companies
included in the Pacific system would
set themselves about divisIng meas
urss to avoid any impending possession
of their roads by the government. In
deed every road In the United States
would take a lively interest in pre-
venting a government ownership of
the pacific roads, for their managers
well know that with those roads in
the hands of the government, the
problem of regulating interstate COM
merce would be speedily and perfectly
solved. In Wilson's oplni0n we had
the case in our own hands and should
not consent. He for one would COR
sent to any settlement of the
Pacific railroad question that did
not embrace that feature of posi-
BILE redemption by the government
of the present paramount liens on the
Pacific roads, so that the government
might protect itself against the de-
faults of the companies. Upon the
conclusion of Wilson's remarks the
judicial salary bill was, on motion of
Hoar, placed before the senate. With
out further action, however, the SEN
ate went into executive session and
when the doors reopened adjourned.
BILLS INTRODUCED IN THE SENATE
WASHINGTON, Jan. 5.-Among the
bills introduced IN the senate to-day
were the following:
Sen. Morgan, to substitute silver
dollars in part in the place of the gold
coin and currency in the several re
served funds held in the treasury. 1t
requires the secretary of the treasury
to place to the credit of the reserved
fund the s100, 900, 000 ia gold coin now
beld in the treasury for the redemp
ton of legal tender United States
notes, not to exceed $50, 600, 600 in
standard silver dollars, now in the
treasury. or that shall come into the
treasury in excess of the amount re
quIred for the redemption of
silver certificates Such silver dol
lars shall be SO applied to
said reserved fund from time to time
until the sum thereof shall be $50,
900, 900. As such silver dollars are
so placed in this fund, an equal sum
of gold coin, not to exceed $50, ,000,-
900, shall be Withdrawn from said
reserved fund and covered into the
treasury.
1t also requires the secretary Of
the treasury to place such standard
dollars to the credit of the several
funds held in the treasury for the
redemption of the notes of nationa!
banks that have failed or
are ia the process of liquidation
and the per cent. redemption fund
of national banks TO the extent of one
half of such said several funds as
there shall be at any time held in the
treasury. the secretary of the treas
ury is required from time to time to
withdraw from such said funds and
cover into the treasury an amount of
U. S. legal tender notes or national
bank notes equal to the amount of
silver dollars so deposited by him to
the credit of such fund.
Sen. Vance, to repeal the civil ser
vice reform act.
SEN Manderson, providing that pri
Yates and non commissioned officers
WHO have served thirty years may be
placed upon the retired list, with IS
per cent of their pay at the time of
their retirement, and further provid-
ing that persons who have been hon
orably discharged after 80 years of
service, shall be included in its pro-