The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1886-05-22
N BOTH HOUSES.
O.oeeadings Among the Law
makers Yesterday.
.r,rH Of MRS. PENDLETON
HanEinE-rhe Edison
st-,ks-The Seizure OF the
schOoners
SENATE

,,-..rs 5ros, May IL Rjddleberger
- isolation providing for per-
~ i.,;.e Al papers relating to the nom
- - NJ Matthews as recorder Of
-. So the District of Columbia.
esee9is .' :, s Millar and others objected
~. rsceDtion of the resolution as
2 ~ executive business, and 1t was de-
80 80 not now in order.
e.S1eS,b endeayOred 10 secure the
~. ~ of dav for consideration of the
~; lL-esoesFing the presumption and tim
~ culture lsws.
Os aiss;octions we're made by several Sen
among them was Sewell, who
sd VI h would object 10 further special
, an M. me Porter bill was taken up
-. VI -i;Tnosed OF, and that he would ask
ne ssaa. e 10 taSe up that bill when the
L.-.,tr1ptcy bill should have been dis
s posed Of.
m the bill providing for closing the
! sEsi1sss OF the court of Alabama
sisins The reports of the majority
and minority of the committee were
-ssd The majority report maintains
.5st the difference in value between
,1in and currency at the time OF the
ssneya syard, and afterward at the
8,sle Of The Geneva award bonds, was
4,nd Is the property of the United States
/ treasury. and should not form any
nart Of the sum out of which judg-
men:s of the court should be paid.
Tbe minority report contends. on the
contrary, that the United States occu-
pied the position of the trustee for the
tsimants and could not sell the bonds
.smsd and credit itself with the
difference between gold and currency
values
When the bill was about to come to a
Toxin the precise form in which it
ans from the House, Mr. George
saitd his understanding of it TO be
ihli It provided for the payment or
sIssiy the amount of money received
By the United States from Great Brit
L giving claimants the benefit of the
. T-snium made on the sale of gold for
ES;nbacks, in which part of the former
s1lsnts were paid. He also under
sg5i the bill to pay all interest which
he United States had agreed to pay
ION the time of the receipt OF the
money in 1873 up to 1877, when the
money was covered into the treasury
Nr. HOar said that the understanding
was exactly correct. or, in other words,
The United States gives nothing and
lOses nothing by this transaction
i pays out money got from
GFeat Britain, and when it invests Ger
An securities and sells them again. il
pays out the money it gets and does not
make speculation of the transaction.
NJ. Beck asked whether we were not
hMpaying people premium on legal
isllT notes of the country.
wilson replied thst We were paying
len the premium realized by the gov
gnment on the sale of coin and bonds
nc paying them interest on the bonds.
other words, this bill placed the
: lted States In the position of an
Enary trustee. and this on behalf of
claimants who were not within the
-lGple of the German award,
u. had said they were salts
e with the act of 1882,
%. Who nov asked. and by this bill
lbtained an additional amount of 1885,
90. Mr. Beck did net think it right TO
pay interest.
Tie Gll was passed as it came from
ne 60use-yeas %, nays Is.
The urgent deficiency bill being re-
ported by Mr.. Allison from the com
aliiee on appropriations, it was passed
Elthout debate.
NJ. Plumb moved that the Senate
lslSt on its amendments to the post
once appropriation bill.
me Senate agreed to the motion an
ne ne chair appointed Messrs. Plumb.
nittee.
On the motion, of Mr.. Dolphs the bill
has passed providing for the forfeiture of
s-son road land grants in Oregon
~, Oh the motion of Mr.. Conger, the
nOuse Dill was passed establishing life
avn stations at Point Adams, Oregon;
me between Point REYES and Point
S-Ao-o' California; one between Point
sS5 ose and Point Labos, California (;
anu one on Lake Ontario, New York,
g ST near the mouth of Niagara River.
~ Sn me motion OF Mr. Blair, the Senate
.neh proceeded to the Consideration of |
- aasofa0ly reported pension bills !
'tandlDg on calendar.
IA nitei the passage OF a number of such |
slils' M Beck suggested that once |
N while, once in ten times |
~ 80, t might be well to have the com
,--'see report the bearings on the case
ioSs Just to show that somebodv h.d |
100 'Do-ea az the case. The exnrsss;on
ye~r 81. third time and passed" gave |
tvc o. aVIe information. We had had
ton. ~ ,s shIee Fetoes and several sugges-
ybs, nat nobody knew ANYTHING about |
seco.s:a.aS being done. He (Mr. Becky /
mo- IN did not know aud he did |
IA 'e''eSe any member of the Senate
.vFetr ,sS quite a lengthy cross fire be-
Een TENT &c senator's on the point. the Senate |
he 5HN o executive session, and when
Yo..S soofs reopened. adjourned until !