Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1886-03-03
Salt gake armutrat.
TELEGRAPHIC ITEMS.

II is understood that many Democratic
Senators advised the President against
his recent message. a Cabinet crisis is
denied by Whitney.
The Southern Pacific Company has is
sued a freight rate OF 49, cents per
hundred for all classes of freight from
San Francisco to the Missouri River
points and Chicago.
The regular fortnghtly meeting of the
Irish National League was held yesterday.
Michael Davitt presided. The receipts
since the last meeting were announced TO
be 100000. Mr.. Davitt denied that out
RACES were Of frequent occurrence in Ire
land. If any were committed, the League
was not responsible for them. He charged
the enemies OF Home Rule with conspir-
ing to injure the League, and declared
that the so-called outrages were inven-
tions of their malice. He urged that the
record OF evictions be published weekly.
In the House yesterday Mr.. Wise, of
Virginia, on behalf OF the Committee on
Manufactures. lin the morninghour called
up the bill authorizing the President to
appoint Commission OF seven experts
skilled in the investigation, production
structural material to execute tests and
experiments ON iron, steel and other ma
terials used in the construction OF bridges,
buildings and other mechanical strlc
lures, and deduct the usual rules there
from.
The Secretary of the Treasury yester-
day sent to the Speaker of the House an
answer to the Bland resolution calling for
information in regard to the past and flu
ture policy OF the Treasury Department
on the silver question. 1t is q document
of forty pages and containsa vast amount
OF correspondence and statistical informa-
ton. In it the Secretary declares that he
has used his utmost efforts to get silver
into circulation. He has already given
his opinion as to the propriety OF express
ing his views concerning the past and fu-
ture policy OF the department upon the
subject.
The New York Times, which is rapidly
getting rabid on the Chinese question,
says this morning editorally: A peculi-
ar form of meaness now prevails on the
Pacific Coast. The driving off OF peace
able and Industrious Cinnamon from their
homes and their work was INDUCED in
Sunday night at East Portland, Oregon.
This kind of Ku-Kluxism is utterly dis
creditablc to the communities that toler-
ate it, but if it is TO be broken up, it will
have to be done by the National Govern
ment, which has very distinct duties in
the premises. If the matter is taken
hold Of with vigor and determination, it
must certainly be possible to enforce the
penalties in a way that will result in the
breaking up of the infamous business.
Yesterday the President sent message
to the Senate on the Chinese question.
He says the condition Of the Chinese in
the Western States and Territories is far
from being satisfactory. All the power
of the Government should be exerted to
maintain the amplest good faith towards
China in the treatment Of these men,
and the infexible sternness OF the law in
bringing the.wrong-doers to justice should
be insisted upon. Every effort has been
made by the Government to prevent out
breaks, and the President says he is pre-
pared to give earnest consideration to any
further remedial measures within the
wisdom of Congress may desire.