The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1886-01-14
Interesting Congressional Items.
The House Committees.

in their reasonable expectation that
State with so importanJ seaport as
Charleston should be represented on the
rivers and harbors committee.
Col. Aiken occupies exactly. the same
position as during the last Congress,
chairman of the educational committee
and second place on the agricultural
committee.
Mr.. Dibble is promoted to the chair.
manship of the committee on public
buildings and grounds, and thereby con
trolls the appointment of clerk at six
dollars per day. He is also member Of
the committee on the election of Presi
dent aud Vice President, and as such will
have ample opportunity to help along his
constitutional amendment providing for
Second Vice President.
MIR. Hemphill's appointment on the
committee on coinage, weights and meas
ures was an agreeable surprise to his
colleagues, as well as deserved compli-
ment to q promising AMI popular young
statesman. He is also member of the
committee on the District of Columbia,
and therefore will be expected to devote
about two hours daily to hearing the
grievances of citizens.
Mr.. Dargan is asst igned the fifth place
on the military committee, and hence.
forth ranks as general. If he had been
given an opportunity toimake his own
selection he probably would have chosen
some other committee to serve on, but the
military committee will have control of
two annual appropriation bills, and is
therefore one of the most important COM
mittees in the House. He is also mem
Der of the committee in charge of the
expenditures in the interior department.
Mr.. Tillman is assigned to the sixth
place on the committee of Pacific rail-
ways, and, by the end of the session, may
loom up as an expert on railroad law, as
he will probably have abundant opportu.
mites in tEat direction. He also has a
place on the committee in charge of the
expenditures of the State department.
Mr.. Tillman might have been better
pleased with different assignments, but he
is too good Democrat to kick over the
traces, aud therefore will work we'll in
any harness.
Mr.. Perry, the new member, Jared
particularly we'll. 1t is not often that a
beginner has two committees his first
year Nevertheless he is a member of
the committee on war claims and also II
member of the committee on Territories.
Mr.. Smalls will divide honors with his
colleague on the war claims committee.
The Utah Bill.
The Utah Bill as passed by the Senate
is substantially the same as when report
ed from the committee ON December 81,
and published in the newspapers of De-
cember %. The only change of conse.
quence is the addition of the section
declaring NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. that are
contracted between persons within and
not including the fourth degree of con-
sanguinity.
The main features of the Bill are as
follows: 1t makes the lawful husband
or wife of person accused of bigamy q
competent witness, who may be compell
ed to testify without the consent of the
wife or husband, MS the case may be-.
An attachmen, may be issued
for witness without previous subpoena
when there is reasonable ground to be.
lieye that subpoena would not be effect
i've. Every marriage shall be certified to
in writing by the parties concerned,
including the priest. Women are prohib.
tied from voting in the Territory. All
laws recognizing illegitimate children
are annulled. Territorial laws providing
that prosecutions for adultery can be
commenced only on the complaint of the
husband or wife are annulled. The Ter
ritorial laws creating and continuing the
Mormon Church corporation are annull-
ed, and the President is to appoint (by
and with the advice of the Senate) four
teen trustees to manage the property and
business of the corporation, and the
Attorney General is ordered to institute
proceedings to forfeit and escheat all
property acquired by the corporation in
contravention of United States laws.
The escheated property is to be then sold
and the proceeds devoted to common
school purposes in the Territory, but no
building is to be forfeited that is used
exclusively for worship. All immigra-
tion companies or organizations created
by the Territorial Government are abol.
ished, and the Attorney General is to take
steps to have the emigrating fund of the
company wound up. The existing cleo
ton districts Of Utah are abolished and
new ones that will give the people equal
representation are to be marked out.
Adultery is punishable by Imprisonment
in the penitentiary not exceeding three
years. The Office of district school su
perintendent is declared vacant and the
Court is directed to fill the vacancy.
The bill having been brought to vote
was passed, yeas 3S, nays 7, as follows:
Yeas-Allison, Beck, Berry, Chace,
Cockrell, Coke, Colquitt, Conger, Cullom,
Dawes, Dolph, Edmunds, Eustis, Evarts,
Frye, George, Harris Harrison, Hawley,
Ingalls,, Jackson, Logan, Mcmillan,
Manderson, Maxey, Mitchell Of Pennsyl-
vania, Morrill,, Palmer, Payne, Platt,
Pugh, Sawyer, Sherman, Spooner, Van
Wyck, Walthal, Wilson of Colorado, and
Wilson Of Maryland-3S.
Nays-Dlsir. Call, Gibson, Hampton,
Hoar, Morgan aud Vance,.
Down With the Lotteries.
WASHINGTON, January SIN the
Senate to-day Senator Wilson, of Iowa,
reported favorably from the committee
on postofices and postroads the bill in
troduced by him to prohibit the mailing
of newspapers and other publications
containing lottery advertisements.
The report accompanying the bill says
that several States have acted resolutely
and with marked unanimity in their en-
deavors to suppress the malign presence
of the lottery. Louisiana stands almost
alonein federation of the evil, and even
she has pronounced against it after 1895.
Vermont and Delaware qualify their
prohibition by allowing such lotteries AS
may be authorized by their own laws,
while denouncing those recognized by
the laws of other States, and it seems TO
the committee that this almost unani-
nous movement of the States TO defend
themselves against the demoralizing
effects of lotteries ought to be recognized
and promoted by the Federal Govern
ment. sat all events" the report says,
"the postal system ought not to be de-
graded to the condition of an instrument
ff for the promotion of crime" The re.
port says that it is the purpose of the
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