Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-03-03
WASHINGTON.
AND HOUSE OF REPRE-
SENTATIvES.
in China-Zach Mont
gomery-Disabilities Removed
Minor Notes.


United States Senate.
WASHINGTON, March 2d.-Aninng the
petitions presented in the Senate to-day
was one by Hear from the workingmen
employed IN the Government workshops
since the eight-hour law of 1865 was passed.
praying compensation for over time. or the
reference of their claims to some tribunal
that may adjudicate the question whether
they ought TO have such compensation.
Hoar said he favored the request of the
petitioners. He believed the object of the
eight-hour law was to test the soundness of
tie economic law, affirmed by the work
ingInen OF this country.
AT / o'clock The Senate took up the edu-
cationai bill, and Call addressed the Senate
III opposition to Allison's amendment. He
characterized 1t as O reflection on the States
and an abandonment of one of the princi-
pies OF our Government
salisbury opposed the bill, whether with
or without the Allison amendment.
Alter further debate, the Senate ad-
journed.
House OF Representatives
WAsHINeroN, March 2d.-MorrilI OF Kan
sas. from the Committee on Invalid PEN
sions, reported bill extending until July
l, 1888, the time within which applications
for arrears OF pensions may be fled, cx-
tending the provisions of the Arrears Act
10 special pensioners, and providing that in
applications for pensions the persons on
whose account the pension is claimed shall
be presumed prima facie to be sane and
free from disease at the date Of entering
the service. Referred to the Committee of
the Whole.
Belmont, from the Committee on For
eign Affairs, reported the consular and
diplomatic appropriation bill. Referred to
Committee of the Whole.
The Speaker laid before the House the
response OF the Secretary OF the Treasury
TO the Bland resolution, calling for infor-
nation concerning the circulation of stand
ard silver dollars and the policy to be pur-
sued as TO the payment of silver Referred
10 the Committee on Coinage. Weights and
Measures
The morning hour expired, and the
House went into Committee of the Whole
en- the pension appropriation BILL
Pending further discussion the commit.
ee rose, and the House adjourned
a Statement of Congressman Morrow
Explained.
WASHINGTON, March 2d.-In the report
of Mr.. Morrow's- speech before the sub
committee on foreign affairs. in support of
his restriction bill, he is made to say that
there were 6,000 Americans in China. What
he did say was that there were only 600
The latest consular reports at the State
Department, from which Mr. Morrow
quoted, show the exact number to be 621.
In discussing the features of the restriction
measure, it was also noted that the
provision of the Morrow bill limiting the
number of Chinese that can come to the
United States on any one vessel to one 10
every fifty tons CT the registered tonnage of
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effective measure yet desired, and that this
principle had been adopted in British
Columbia, Australia, British India and the
Sandwich Islands. 1t is claimed that this
provision alone would practically end the
emigration of Chinese laborers to the
United States.
Zach Montgomery Scored in the Senate.
WAsuIYGToy, March 2d.-Zach Monteom-
cry, who has been nominated as Assistant
Attorney General for the Interior Depart-
ment, was held up in no yerv enyiable
light in the Senate to-day during the debate
on the Blair educational bill Senator In
gals referred TO the fact that under the
provisions of the bill the money would he
expended under the direction of the Secre-
tary of the Interior, and that the acting law
officer OF that Department, who would
have the construction of the law. was
one Zach Montgomery, who appeared to
hold very peculiar views on the
subject OF popular education. He then
read from Montgomery's book extracts
arraigning the public school system as
pernicious, and commented upon them
in his usual caustic manner Senator Blair
said that if Montgomery entertained the
Opinions attributed to him. he was worse
than the arch fiend himself, and he hoped
that the Senator from Kansas, as one of
QrNy 44ao i
ne was not confirmed to the office 10 which
be had been nominated.
Secretary Whitney and the broadway
Railway Case.
WASHINGTON, March 2d.-Secretarv Whit
ney to-day sent letter to the Chairman of
the Senate committee of the New Yorl,
Legislature investigating the Broadway rail-
way case, in which he explains his connec.
ton with the matter. and saws ii il is in
any respect open to just criticism he is not
aware of it.
Capital Notes.
WASHINGTON. March 2d-A test vote was
taken by the House Committee on Public
Lands to-day on the proposition to repeal
the pre-empiion law. The result was de-
cidediy in favor of reporting the repeating
measure.
The President to-day approved the Acts
tut sbSdDiilIleS OF Alexander L.
Stewart, Of Mississippi, Edward G. w.
Butter, of Missouri, and Thomas l.. Rosser,
of Virginia.
Secretary Whitney to-day telegraphed in
structions to Captain Chester command
ing the Galena, at Key West to deliver TO
the United States Marshal at Key West the
steamer City Of Mexico, seized on suspicion
of being engaged in filibustering expedi-
ton against Honduras together with all
persons, papers and property connected
Herewith.
The House Public Lands Committee to-
day agreed to report favorably Henley's
bill to give California selections OF land in
lieu of mineral lands that fall within the
sixteenth and thirty sixth sections.
The House Committee on Claims to-day
agreed to report the bill favorabIv. grant
ing compensation for over time to Govern
ment employees who worked more than
eight hours. after the passage and before
the enforcement Of the eight-hour law.
The Southern Pacific tax cases were not
decided by the Supreme Court to- day. The
clerk says it is probable that decision
will not be rendered before The last of
March.