Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1886-01-06

AeNafe.

CONGRESSIONAL
seoafe.
WASHINGTON. Jan. 5.-A resolution
offered by Mitchell, of Oregon, vas
agreed to directing the COMMITTEES on
transportation Routes to INQUIRE into
the alleged grievances by discrimination
and overcharge on freight rates from
the far west; and also a resolution on
tse subject Of the improvement Of tie
Columbia river and the removal of OBJ
stractions to navigation.
resolution offered by Mr.. FRYE was
agreed to calling on the Secretary of
State to transmit to the Senate all cor
respondeuce and information in his de-
partmSHt relating 10 the extension Of
certain fishing rights and privileges IN
der the treaty Of Washington.
resolution, offered by Hoar. was A,
his request referred to the Committee
OR Foreign R-laiions, requesting tire
President 70 take measures for revising
ana ext@ndIB2 onr extradition treaties
20 az 20 cover cases Of epbezzlement
and other breaches of trust. 10 offer
ing hls resolution Mr.. Hear made
special reference TO the Number of de-
f4uitinR bank sfhoers Who tTisd to es-
cape punishment by fight to Canada,
sher nau, taking the hsor. offered a
concurrent resolution accepting a mar.
bic statue OF Ell President Garfield. pre-
sensed to Congress by the state Of OHIO.
and now in position in she statuarv ball
at the Capitol. Governor Ho.dly's let
ter Of presentation was. at Mr.. Sher
mans request. read by the Clerk. Mr..
sherman then delivered brief, earnest
and warm su,ogy Of the late x-Presi
dent Garfield, and moved the adoption
of the resslution by him. The res 1lu-
ton was then adopted.
GRAY gave notice that he would to-
morrow call no Beck's silver resolution
for the purpose of making some re-
marks.
Beck inquired as TO the present par
liamentary condition of the resolution
referred to.
The Chair Mr.. Sherman) replied that
70 WAS on the table. aud that the pend
ing motion was to refer Il to the Com.
mittee on Finance.
Beck referred TO the criticism made
by Morrill, on his speech and inquired
OF Morrill, whether on careful reading
Of the speech he had not been mistaken
Ia bis understanding Of Beck's remarks.
Morrill, replied that be took pleasure
IN saying that he had somewhat mis-
understood Beck's reference to the
President and the Secretary Of the
Treasury.
b ok disclaimed having made any
personal attack on the President or the
Secretary Of the Treasury. His re-
marks regarding the Secretary's taking
up the surplus would. be said, have
been quite as well illustrated and per
hsps more aptly If be nd, If q cyclone
had blown down the Treasury building
and scattered the surplus, and the pss-
pie had picked up the money on the
street and put 1t IN circulation, that cir
cHlation would be more beneficial to
the people than keeping the money
looked up in the Treasury"
The Chair laid b fore the 8 snate
resolution heretofore offered by Harri
son. directing an inquiry into the al
legged practice OF the late pension Off
GERS in taking into account the grant
ing of pensions on considerations other
than the merits of the application.
Upon Harrisen's request the resolution
weHt over for today.
Van Wyok offered a resolution, which
was agreed to. directing the Com mittee
90 Education and Labor to inquire how
many hours labor per day was exscted
Of men and boys in the employ of street
car and other corporations in the Dis
trict of Columbia, and to report whether
such number OF hours we're unreason-
able and Inconsistent with former acts
of Congress, and " 30 what remedy was
necessary ia the premises.
Edmands then called up the Utah
bill reported by him from the Com
mittee on Judiciary.
Hoar moved to strike ont the ST venth
section, prohibits ,he exercise of suf-
frage by women in Utah. Hoar said he
approved the purpose OF the bill and
the method by which that purpose was
sought to be effected, with the excsp
ton Of the Acknowledgement Of the
women of Utah. Woman suffrage ex-
listed in the Territories of Wyoming
and Washington, and most careful and
thoughtful observers testify to the ex-
eellent effect of that suffrage in those
women of Utah who were not plural
wives Of the right which they already
had to exercise suffrage was undertak
ing to place then in the same category
with what the Law regarded as crimi-
mails, AND was in violation Of sound
principles Of legislation.
Edmands replied that whenever
majority of the women of the United
States or Of any State desired to have
suffrage, they would have his Ed
mands') vote in favor of that desire.
Whenever our wives. sisters and sweet
hearts come to believe they could better
serve society and themselves by exercis-
ing suffrage, and going into the political
field, instead of combining themselves TO
the field in which they we're now en-
ployed, they should have his Aid in at
tanning the object. He denied that the
women Of Utah had now. in the sense
of finsl and complete Law, q lawful
right to vote. The laws of Utah were
. used subject to the approval Of Con-
gress. The Law, toe, WAS intended to
relieve Utah women Of the condition Of
slavery in which they were held by'their
hierarchy.
Hoar thought this point not appiica
tile. A similar remark would have been
made by some people twenty years ago
with regard TO women protesting tue
Roman Catholic faith, and debates in
the English Parliament the past fifty
years showed that many Englishmep
asserted that the political movements
of the Irish people we're due 70 their
Submission to the priesthood. The
right 10 vote once conferred vas as
much a vested right as any right Of
property.
Ednun replied that the position in
Utah vas unique. These plural wives
and persons under the influence Of the
hierar chy Of Utah we're under an inda.
eBce entirely different from that which
could be asserted of men and women
protesting the Roman Cathoiis, Episco
paliau. Methodist OF any similar reli
eion. IL came nearer to q state OF serf
dom.
Blair supported Hoar's motion. II
the reasons given by Edmunds for the
Acknowledgement OF the women OF
Utah we're sound. il was equally appli
cable, Blair thought, to the men Of
Utah. and the necessity for its sppiica
ton vas the same. IL the women who
believe in polyesny were 10 be dis
frsnchised, Why not the men who BE-
iieved in it
Vest hopsd she bill would go over one
day, and IL went over accordingly.
A message vas received from the