The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1886-01-19
pusy Day Among Washing
j ton Lawmakers.
REBATE ON THE FISHERIES
uu7ate Freight and Passenger
10 hes on Railroad and Water
Routes-General Notes
SENATE.

$50 ,none the petitions presented and
s.--sd was one by Coke, from the
IS.s -abonts of Ell Paso, Texas, COM
lI ,'i0ing of smuggling on the Mexican
t pa and urging Congress to take
1 D to put stop to it.
nI u.s. Nv Dolph and Mitchell, memoir
Also ~. =! state Legislature of Oregon,
sls u c-'G Congress to make appropria-
praylHs. he Improvement of the navi-
IONS IONS iO If Columbia River. and the es-
gauo ;ab, NJ of a public park in Oregon.
ta3llsn nnC the reports submitted from
hnGHs wss one by Cullom from
fSa committee appointed 10 lnvestigate
tbe e subject Of the regulation o. iIeign5
and passenger rates on ratIroa G,i anu
anf -outes. With the report Cullom
Tmr aSva q bill for regulating inter
Stofs commerce, which he asked might
pa I,o arefeTred back to the committee, and
W ~ le t5e committee be continued. The
GoaT 1-t' was granted, and a resolution
Ie9uodj' ordering to be printed 5000
p pnois nj the committees report and the
fs5timony taken before 1t.
M Fustis addressed the Senate upon
tbn liver question. He said the Presi-
don't had told US that there was not
o loo silver now in circulation to
c9nse any uneasiness; that the whole
.mouut now coined might, after time,
he absorbed by the people with
mt apprehension, but that it was
a aceaseless stream that threat
ened to overflow" etc. We were
IN understand, then. that this
liver dollar is an honest dollar
when absorbed by the people, but dis
honest WIEN offered to bOndholders.
Were We to have a double standard Of
morality, one for the people and an
other iar the bondholders Would any
dpDa- .ment of government arrogate to
it;pIf arbitrary power to establish
An unjust DISCRIMINATION against coin
ace that had never been fully tested &C
cSr1ing to its true intent and spirit, be-
oaQse our Executive Department mad
in its practice manifested an untrlend-
illness to that policy, and by partlaIIty
and discrimination it had been retarded.
If that department had not discrlmin-
ated in favor of the bondholders as
against the people its representations
as to finance would have been entitled
to more respect.
In conclusion, Eustis said: ''If this
disloyal practice Of incivism by the
executive department in declaring war
against silver coin, which is the coin of
the government, in belittleing its use
fulness, in depreciating its existence
and in inviting others to believe
that it is the deformed offspring
OflegislatiVe embecility, is to continue
then some o. the evils that have teen
predicted may come to pass, but these
evils will not be attributed to any vices
IN our financial system bu5 to the praC-
tee and assertions of the Executive
Department in dishonoring and dis
crediting The coin which it is their duty
to sustain by all the influence and
power Of their official authority.
Ingalls, offered q resolution, directing
thu Secretary of the Treasury to inform
theSeIate what proportion of the $10,-
aJOOO Of United States bonds called for
payment on February 1st, 1886, are held
oy national banks as basis for circu-
!aIlon, and how much cash by such
banks.
Edmunds inquired whether ingalls,
thonght the Senate had any right to
call on the Secretary of the Treasury
Tor any information. Il have seen it
Questioned in the newspapers" Ed
mundS said
ingalls, supposed Edmunds was
hardly serious in asking such i question
upon the resolution offered.
Sdmunds remarked that he was per-
iecty serious. c
Cookrell asked whether the law did
not require the Secretary of the Trea-
sury to call in outstanding bonds in
certain order.
Ingalls, said there was no doubt that
VOckrell's statement was true. ingalls,
merely wished to know what proportion
Of the money now in the Treasury was
70 be paid out on the bonds called for
the LIST of February. lEt
Edmunds thought the resolution a
proper one IN any event. The point
mace by him with what had been re-
sarued perhaps as the sense of humor,
was made in order that the Senate
might be sensible of the fact that the
I SJuoi!G press had largely given out the
ouea tnal Congress had no right to know
""trytnlng that was being done in any
VI me executive departments. He
;tLefely wanted the Senate to vote with
''S eyes thus opened upon the subject.
M @orrll thought the resolution of
s SUI eat Importance to have it go over
;o, tomorrow. 1t went over accord
Nj. Fryer offered a resolution relat,
,as 70 fisheries, the preamble to which
Whereas, The President had recon-
~snqed Congress to provide for com
c 1ssion to settle and ADJUST the fisheries
Whereas, The fisheries question had
in settled for ten years past, under
treaty OF Washington at loss OF
,sCSV0O'OO IN money, and remission OF
"gW'1'OOOot duties on that period, and
>, whereas, That treaty has resulted in
~ ~ increase of 500 vessels and 10 ,OOC
T I;sIhen to the Canadian fishing fleets
Sst s9 corresponding decrease in the
tSol fleets of the United States
the eS It RssoIved, That in the opinion o
5s senate the commission clothed Will
Oro!p; powers referred to, ought not to b.
F'VvEided by Congress.
rstaa; Edmunds SAID it seemed to b
ds,teSu IN the report just laid on tn
OF the Senators, that the Presi