Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-01-06
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| United States Senate.
| WASHINGTON, January 5th-Precisely at
| noon the Senate was called to order by
| Senator Sherman, the President pro tenn,
| who, after prayer and the reading of the
! journal, laid before the Senate the creden-
| ,ials of John w Daniel the newlv-eleeted
| United States Senator from Virginia, which
We're read and laid on the table also.
communication from General w r. Frank
| lin, President of the National Home for
| Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, notifying the
Senate of the death of General George B.
Mcclellan, with the view of having the
consequent vacancy of the Board of Trus.
| tees filed The communication was re-
ferred to the Committee on Military Affairs
| Mr. Harrison, from the Committee on
Territories, reported favorabiy e bill to
! legaliZe the election of the Ninth Terri
| torial Legislative Assembly of Wyoming.
For this he asked immediate consideration
Mr. Edmunds said he would not obiec; if
| its consideration did not consume much
/ time, but he was anxious to get up the
| Utah bill as soon as possible.
| The bin reported by Mr.. Harrison was
| then read the third time and passed.
| A number of bills and resolutions were
| then introduced and referred.
A resolution offered by Hoar was, at his
| request, referred to the Committee on For
| eign Relations, requesting the President to
| take measures for revising and extending
| our extradition treaties, so IS TO cover cases
of embezzlement and other breaches of
trust In Offering his resolution, Hoar said
| he had special reference to the number of
defaulting bank officers, who tried to es-
| cape punishment by flight to Canada.
Sherman, taking tire floor, offered con-
| current resolution, accepting a marble
statue of ex-President Garfield, presented
| to Congress by the State of Ohio and now
| in position III Statuary Hail nj the Capitol
Governor Hoadly's letter of presentation
| was, at Shermans request, read by the
| Clerk.
| Sherman then delivered a brief, earnest
and warm eulogy of ex-President Garfield,
and moved the adoption OF the resolution
presented by him.
| The resolution was then adopted.
| Gray gave notice that he would to-mor-
row call MP Becks silver resolution, for the
purpose of making some remarks.
Beck inquired as to the present parlia-
mentary condition OF the resolution re-
| ferred to.
The Chair (Sherman) replied that it was
on the table, and that the pending motion
L
Beck referred to the criticism made by
Morrill, i'll his speech, and inquired of Nor
rill whether if, after a careful reading of
) the speech, he had not been mistaken in
| his understanding of Becks remarks.
Morrill, replied that he took pleasure in
saying that he had somewhat misunder-
stood Beck's reference to the President and
Secretary of the Treasury.
Beck disclaimed having made any per-
l. Il. L.. Al.
retary of the Treasury. His remarks re-
garding the Secretary taking up the surplus
would, he said, have been quite as well
illustrated, and perhaps more aptly so, if
he had said cyclone had blown down the
treasury building and scattered the surplus.
and the people had picked up the money
on the street and put it in circulation That
circulation would be more beneficial to the
people than keeping the money locked up
in the treasury.
Edmunds then called up the Utah bill l.
reported by him from the Committee on
Judiciary.
Hoar moved to strike out the seventh
section, prohibiting the exercise of suffrage
by women in Utah. Hoar said he ap-
proved the purpose OF the bill, and the
method by which that purpose was sought
to be effected. with the execution
of the disfranchisement of the women
of Utah. Woman suffrage existed
in the Territories of Wyoming and
| Washington, and most careful and
thoughtful observers testify to the excellent
effect of that suffrage in those Territories
To deprive such of the women of Utah
| who were not plural wives, of the right
| which they already had to exercise suf-
| frage, was an undertaking to place them
in the same category with what the law re-
garded rs criminals, and was in violation
of sound principle or legislation.
Edmunds replied that whenever major
| ity of the women of the United States. or
| of any State, desired to have suffrage. they
would have his tEdmunds') vote in favor
| of that desi:e. Whenever our wives, sisters
| and sweethearts came to believe that they
could better serve society and themselves
| by exercising suffrage and going into the
| political field, instead of confining them
selves to the field in which they were now
| employed, they should have his aid in at
| tanning the object. He denied that the wo-
men of Utah had now, in the sense of
| final and complete law, lawful right to
vote. The laws of Utah were passed sub
| ject to the approval of Congress. The law,
| too, was intended to relieve the Utah wo-
men of the condition of slavery in which
| they were held by their hierarchy.
| Hoar thought this point not applicable
| A similar remark would have been made
| by some people twenty years ago, with re-
gard to women protesting the Roman Cath
Ollie faith, and the debates in the English
Parliament the past fifty years showed that
many Englishmen asserted that the politi-
| cal movements of the Irish people were
due to their submission to their priesthood.
| The right to vote, once conferred, was as
much vested right as the right of prop-
| erty.
| Edmunds replied that the position in
| Utah was unique. These plural wives aud
persons under the influence of the
hierarchy of Utah were under an influence
entirely different from that which could be
asserted of men and women protesting the
| Roman Catholic, Episcopalian. Methodist
or any similarfeligion. 1t came nearer to
a state of serfdom.
| Blair supported Hoar's motion. If the
reason given by Edmunds for the disfran-
! chisement of the women of Utah were
sound, it was equally applicable, Blair
| thought, to the men of Utah, and the ne
/, cessity for its application was the same. If
women, who believe in polygamy, were to
be disfranchised, why not the men who be-
| lieved in it?
Vest hoped the bill would 90 over one
| day, and it went over accordingly.
| The judicial salary bill was, on motion
of Hoar, placed before the Senate
Without further action, however, the
Senate went into executive session, and
when the doors were reopened, adjourned
House of Representatives.
WASHINGTON, January 9th. = Miller of
New York made his appearance in the
House this morning for the first time and
took the oath of Office.
After the reading of the journal the
Hoar Presidential bill and the Senate reso-
luton proposing certain joint rules were
referred TO The appropriate committees.
Contrary to general expectation, the COM
mittees We're not announced after the read
ing of the journal, and the Speaker imme-
diately proceeded to call the States for the
introduction of bills and resolutions. Under
the call, large number Were introduced
and referred
Without conclusion of the call, the House
adjourned.
The number of bills introduced to-day
was 100.
Silver and Gold.
WASHINGTON, January 5th.-Among the
bills introduced in the Senate to-day was
the following, by Senator Morgan: To
substitute silver dollars. in part, in the