Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1886-02-26
AT THE CAPITOL TO-DAY,
TELEPHONE INVESTIGATION.
Substitute Resolutions in the House
A Brief but Lively Debate.
The Urgency Deficiency Bill Reported.


The Urgency Deficiency Bill Reported.
CHINESE QUESTION IN THE SENATE.
The Senate.
Alter Inc transaction ofroutine business Mr..
Mitchell tOregon) obtained the floor to deliver
a speech On the bill recently introduced by him
10 provide for the abrogaton of all treaties per
mlttlng the immigration OF Chinese to the
United States.
.ExEcUTIvE BUSINESS.
AS Mr.. Mitchell was about to proceed. Mr..
Hale said it was so late yesterday when Mr..
George completed his speech on the educational
w D,1, mat The ne Mr Halle had not thought it
S,uerai ION OF the bill named, but now gave
nolce mat to-day, On the completion of Mr.
t Mitcn .s remarks he (Mr HaleJ would move
onaI tne senate proceed TO the consideration of
Mr. Mitchell then addressed the Senate.
,;tespe1aIe cases In medicine and surgery, Mr..
1ochell said. required heroic treatment. When
q ulaugnant cancer was making startling head
way toward the vitals, temporizing and paliia-
yves would have to give way to the knife, and
fice 81 hnm emergency might compel the saeri-
tLe, tne devouring sore would have to be cut
I Wa the body SO was it with the body polite.
III.
menaced by rapidly advancing vice, periling
the best interests and most cherished institu.
lions ad OF our country, the time for temporizing
ha0 passed, and the amenities usually OBJ
served toward foreign powers would have to
give way to such heroic and aggressive meas
nres as were necessary on the principle of sell.
preservation. The maintenance of our ciyiIiza.
ton and the tranquility OF our republic de-
An evil Of the character referred to was mar.
alyZing Inc rights of the laboring classes
among uS-was fastending venomed fangs and
eexuding ieprous virus into the vitals Of our
body polite, casting moral and physical infec-
uon on every side, disturbing the public peace
and endangering Christian civilization The
people of the whole Pacific coast were suffering
from the presence Of large numbers of an un.
clean, non-assimilating and pagan race, I'm.
pending over them, aud gradually extending
To eradicate the scourge heroic treat.
e %sei s woad more be de-
step than had yet been taken would be neces-
sary. The means Of relief could not properly
treaty stipuations with the Chinese govern.
ment; neither could we expect within any rea-
sonabie time to secure relief by negotiation
bill submitted by him (NIr. MitcheiD proposed
that the states and people OF this republic,
through Congress and the executive Tor by two.
thirds OF Congress without the approval OF the
executive), should remove the distractions by
nrst Wlping out OF existence all treaties which
recognize the coming of Chinese to the United
States, and then absolutely prohibiting their
coming except in the case of consular and
diplomatic officials.
AN EXECUTIVE SESSION OPPOSED.
AT the conclusion OF Mr.. Mitchells speech, at
2 p. M, in the Senate MIR. Hale proposed an ex.
ecntive session, but Mr.. Beck opposed it, saying
that MIR. VOORHEES, ,Yas absent, and the demo
Gratis We're nOtready to take up that business
Mr.. Hale wanted considered, (meaning the
chase and Pilisbury nomfnattonso
Mr.. Hale then withdrew his motion, and the
senate resumed consideration Of the educa.
THE EDUCATIONAL BILL.
Mr.. Allison. offered an amendment to the
Blair bill, to require that the money OF the ma
tional fund shall be paid to states where both
white and colored schools are maintained, in
the proportion OF illiteracy that white and col
ored children bear to each other:
MIR. Blair opposed the amendment as tend.
ing to introduce the subject of race distinctions.
House Of Representatives.
THE PAN-ELECTRIC INVESTIGATION.
Mr.. Morrison (Ill.), from the committee on
rules, reported a substitute for the Hanback,
and Pulitzer resolutions directing an inquiry
into the Pan-Electric telephone matter. The
substitute is as follows:
Resolved, That a select committee consisting
of nine members of this House, be appointed
and when so appointed the committee is hereby
directed. at as early a day as possible, to make
government Incurred relative to the reS,s .n nf
the Bell and Pan-Electric telephone companies
to the priority Of patents, said inquiry TO in
have sprung out of the Pan-Electric telephone
company, or for any other purpose, and also to
make full inquiry into the issuance of stock
known as the Pan-Electric telephone stock, or
any stock of any other company, COM
panies or organizations springing out of the
or With eitheS the any
judicial or executive departments of the gov.
eminent OF the United States. to whom, when,
where and for what consideration in money or
influence said stock was delivered; also as to
what opinions, decisions and orders have been
made by any officers connected with the gov
eminent, and by whom and all the circum-
stances connected Herewith and arising there
from.
And the said committee is further authorized
and directed to ascertain and report whether
either of the telephone companies herein men
toned, or their officers, agents and employees,
attempted to influence officials or Official
action by or through the public press. and If so,
when, by whom, and in what manner such in.
erted, and what newspaper or newspapers were
SO used or attempted TO be used by them. The
said committee shall have the right to send for
persons and papers, to administer oaths to sit
during the session Of the House, to employ a
stenographer and incur any and all such
ana me % may be
Investigation, not TO exceed the sum Of 81 ,OOO
which shall be paid out of the contingent fund
chairman and one other member of the COM
mittee, and may report at any time.
Mr.. Morrison Qlis) stated that the report was
the unanimous report OF the committee on
rules, but that he didn't think that the matter
should be adopted at the present time.
MR.. GIBSON OPPOSES THE RESOLUTION AND
\ PITCHES INTO MR.. PULITZER.
Mr.. Gibson CIV. VAL said: 1t is with extreme
reluctance that oppose the resolution coming
from the committee on rules, but feel that
have duty to perform to my constituents and
the country as well as the committee on rules
have, and am unwilling to sat here and see
this body drifting into an investigar
ton that can bring no respect to it.
or confidence to the country or no good to any
human being There has never yet been made
a charge against any person occupying an off,
cial position such as would justify the trial of
this House, refer TO the gentleman from New
York (Mr. Pulitzer)-himself an editor Of
paper, did notsee fit In his official capacity to
attack these gentlemen in an open, honest and
manly way which q Representative should have
done, but undertook TO retreat behind the ire
sponsibIe columns of his newspaper, for the
purpose Of creating scandal, for what motives
am not here to state"
Mr.. Holman Qnd).--I call the gentleman's
attention TO the fact that the gentleman from
New York is not present.
Mr. GfbSOn-The gentleman is not present