The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1886-05-11
IN CONGRESS-.
The Business in Both Houses
on Monday.
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SENATE.

WASHINGTON. Nay 10.-Davies offered
the following resolutions, both of which
zere agreed to without debate:
ResoEued. That the President is re
quested to communicate to the Senate.
Il in his opinion not incompatible with
public interest, any information IN the
possession of government concerning
the SEIZURE of the United States fishing
vessel David J. Adams while engaged in
lawful commerce in one of the ports Of
the Dominion of Canada, and what
measure, If any, has been taken to pro-
sect fishing vessels of the United States
while engaged in lawful commerce In
ports OF the Dominion of Canada.
ResoIUed. That the committee on for
eign relations be instructed to inquire
whether the United States fishing vessel
DaVid J. Adams has been engaged in law
Jul commerce in a port of the Dominion
of Canada, and what measures, If any,
are necessary to protect the persons
snd property of American citizens while
engaged IN lawful commerce in ports Of
The Dominion of Canada, and to report
by bill or otherwise.
Mr.. Van Wyck introduced q bill to
authorize the Union Pacific Railroad
Company to construct branch roads.
Referred.
A resolution was offered by Mr..
Ingalls,, directing the Postmaster-G Gen.
eTal TO report to the Senate all cases of
unadiusted salaries of Postmaster and
late Postmasters in Kansas under the
showing the amount of pay each Post
master would have received If paid upon
the bases Of commissions under the
set of 1854, and the amount of salary
allowed and paid under the act Of
July lst. 1854, also the amount allowed
under the act of March Sd, 1888.
and the period of service for which
such allowances was made. such
statement to exhibit, by comparison,
the amount under the different acts.
also directing the Postmaster-Gen
20 send to the Senate a copy of the syl-
labus Of the Postmaster-General's
opinion of the act of March, 1888.
Mr.. COnger moved to amend by ex-
tending he inquiry to all the States in
stead OF conhnlng it to the State OF
Kansas. The amendment was ac-
cepted, and the resolution, as amended.
vas agreed to.
Thef Interstate commerce bill was
placed before the Senste.
Mr.. Ingalls, proposed amendment
was agreed to; giving to the Commission
The right to report TO the United States
Court, and get its speedy judgment on
complaints whenever companies de-
cline to obey the order Of the Commits
sion.
Mr.. WalthaII entered on an elaborate
argument to show the power of Con-
gress in the premises.
An amendment offered by Mr.. Conger
Tas agreed to, modifying the first sec
ion of the bill. which relates 70 the
sEss of companies to which the bill Is
made applicable. In the case OF COM
non carriers, whose routes are partly
BY railroad and partly by water, when
both are used for a continuous passage
or equipment from one State to another,
Mr.. Conger's amendments limits the
oil 10 such of those companies as are
under common control. 1agement,
or arrangement"
Mr.. Stanford, in the course of his re
marks, made in reply to Mr.. Beck and
70 some questions of Mr.. Van Wyck,
said the hardest competition which the
Pacific Railway had to meet was the
Cape Horn route. Speaking of the bill
as a whole. Mr.. Stanford said, with en-
phasis, that if it passed il meant COM
plete commercial disaster. In reply to
a question by Mr.. Van Wyck as to
which Of the Pacific roads had not, as
stated, controlled the Pacific Mail
Steamship Line. by paying it 4
$1,000, 900 year in order 70 stop com
petition. Mr.. Stamford said the rail-
roads had chartered so many tons in
their ships and paid them some amount
for them, not so much as had been
stated, and filed them with such freight
IS they did not want TO carry on the
roads, but that was done not to stop
competition in the proper sense, but to
preclude ruinous competition. He
would not say that there was any black
mail in it. So far as the railroads were
concerned it was business.
Mr.. Sewell said If the bill became law
with the Camden amendment in it, il
would destroy the railroad system that
Ee had been fifty years in building.
without further action on the bill the
Ssnate adjourned.