The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1886-01-21
N CONGRESS.
o.....s.,, 70 Convict Labor on
'Pf g9blis Contract Work.
.r,z I'D SILVER COINAGE:
,-.raous Business OF Both
fH' Frrses on wedneSday-''Hsr
TeiegranS
sFNATE

.~..ys, January 20.-On the
he Senate to-day, Hale Of
... s.i'..s % ,ollowing resolution;
ecu That the Secretary of the
- he directed to forward to the
- -.ss.. II papers IN relation to a con-
'' ,,,,s 20 Brainsrd & Co., or to other
49,. e.. the work, or any part of the
a., lifting an additional story on
J" ',- pa,-s Ills, pOstofiice, in 1886
,,.o Al, r,9tests filed by labor leagues
zion thereto. Also copy of
- !. fled by Messrs. Styaub q Co., of
% 8-y, y y. giving information that
D. oa-- ~, of said contract would be per
.le "a nv convict labor, and that con-
90. .oo-i,S1 4 " the contractor who employed
icy ICY - 5aor co1ld not afford TO compete
Tor the work. -,,.4. uo,o
II - ~ was not prepared TO believe.
a al ant further Information, that the
Sacreti-y Of the Treasury would let any
~syt-,sl york to be done on public
S1T;l5.r5. in such way that the work
% T,r Re performed by convict labor.
% 'ualei had received information of
encb character Is made it desirable to
a.Co-. he facts in the case set forth
N h. -e5olution. He did not believe
contrse-5 for public work should be let
4 IN 4mrI0rars of convict labor, when
-5pre p; 10 lack of the ordinary labor
at iae country. He did not believe
rec .sc should be put in competition
nth Nv It labor.
The-e.C.tion was agreed to.
4 -es9l.aln was offered by Mitchell,
rego- for reference to the COM
Mite % foreign relations, and was so
eer-sl calling on the Secretary OF
State 10y copies Of all correspondence
T.veer he United States government
ud d. chinese government since the
pom sa;i0n OF our treaty with China,
|aril- -eierence to the enforcement OF
Tea provisions.
Norm addressed the Senate on the
a5af question. He promised with the
l- .ba. The elaborate speech OF the
4-sto rom Kentucky Beck seemed
be :. brow the burden Of rejoinder
El zrls o. the administration.
-J5ryuoly is willing. nay anxious,
BAD be speaker, to keep as much silver
lc-Nl,aaJl as Can be done. ana keep
20. lie Same time st par with our gold
C1uaE lie OGiy hostility TO silver
,-'so- .-Ju what seems 10 be the fixed
Hoo sEola.a purpose on the part of
advocates to promote such
%. silver coinage g will drive
e5.. 3- The country and leave our
7s'- me and commerce based upon
't. Only. Il reaching this posi-
2 silver m0Rometailism it is
mp be to be blNd to the disastrous
c9n- 9o1oi the circulating medium
Or country shat would at once
ol--- i3- when the moment arrives
W.. . commands premium It will
'r's- ga commodity for sale. not
-ou, small or per cent.
,..'-...- 2a.ng IS productive of uni
- .ai,dlng as > per cent, and no
$50 vantage TO our people could
cd from following the lame
Example Of Indi3, or Mexico,
E1,-----5 silver currency only.
80 Insisted tba5 there was no war
~ ger but that in substance and
-, l'caration OF war had been made
7. a leader OF the Democratic
'ae Senate. From the pleasure
,. H. .Ie senator from Kentucky had
~ ID delivering in the Senate his
'.a TO the President and Seere-
treasury, 1t seemed to Nor
M. 'ae Senator had been found
-7 leluslon that he was still be-
KS Win lett-handed compliments
h94epublican President and Sec
AS iNOrrill's) conviction that
b., -ol VI. coinage Of a large
?. Sdye- would drive all the gold
ne country was based on the
-F-fence of all civilized people,
,', .lior money never failed to ex-
superior, and on the fact that
~ SuEer mines furnished more
-S y5g-hah the annual silver Yield of
-eT debate on silver partic;nated
,oTIelI, Beck, Teller. MePb Prso
15y3rsi 1A ia faYS9Ting Tree coinage,
1-i' 'He senate adjourned.