Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1888-01-11
4 Humber Of Bills and Memorials OF.
fered in the Senate.
Mr.. TESTS Deliverance on the Blair
Educational Bill.
War, PestileRce and Famine in the
South Less CalamitOus.
A Report on Party Lines Probable on
Lamar's Confirmation.
Wrangle in the House Over Clerks for
Every Member.

WASHINGTON, January 9.-1n the Senat
te. Say number of bills and memorial
we're offered, among them:
By Mr.. Jones, of Nevada: A concurren
resolution requesting the President to ne
gotiate treaty with China containing I
provision that no Chinese shall enter tn
United States except ambassadors ant
others engaged in the diplomatic service
and merchants engaged in trade between
the United States and foreign countries
Laid on the table.
Mr.. Mitchell offered resolution callins
on the Secretary of State for copies of cor
respondence with the American Minister to
Corea relative to a recent alleged attempt
on the part of the Chinese Government to
dethrone the king and absorb Corea. r..
ferred to the Committee on Foreign Rela.
.ions.
Mr.. Teller, from the Committee on Public
Lands, reported bills granting to the city
Of Colorado Springs, in the State of Colo
RADIO, certain lands for water reservoirs
and granting rights of way through public
lands for irrigation purposes. Placed on
the calendar.
The Senate then took up the resolution
offered by Mr.. Brown on the fourth of
January, for the repeal of the Internal
Revenue laws. Mr.. Brown addressed the
Senate in favor of the resolution, and
moved it's reference to the Committee on
Finance.
Mr. Beck objected and the resolution was
laid on the table.
By Mr.. Sherman: To provide for the in
vestment of certain funds in the treasury.
It directs the Secretary of the Treasury
from time to time to invest not exceeding
80 per cent. of the fund held in the treasury
for the redemption of notes of national
banks ''iailed, "in liquidation" and ire
ducing circulation" by the purchase in
States bearing interest. It further provides
that whenever the money on hand to the
credit OF said fund shall fall below 20 per
cent. of the funds deposited, the Secretary
of the Treasury is directed from time to
time to sell in open market any portion OF
the bonds purchased for said fund that
may be necessary in his opinion to enable
him to pay as presented any notes OF ma
tional anks for the redemption ofwhich the
fund is applied, the purchase being to
retain in the treasury for such redemption
not less than twenty and not to exceed
thirty per cent OF the money d, posted. "A
per cent OF the bonds deposited by it as
after the passage of the act to issue cir
-enlo ting notes to the amount of 100 per
.ehG Of the mar uolnn nf the bonds de-.
By Mr.. FarweII: To authorize the fresl-
dent to appoint Commission which shall
be known as the Lake and Gulf Water
Way Commission, which shall mature and
submit a plan for system for water COM
munication to connect Lake Michigan at
Chicago with the Mississippi by way of the
Illinois and Desplaines Rivers.
By Mr.. Cullom: To pension at the rate
OF 50 per month all surviving officers and
enlisted men who actually served sixty
days in the Northwest in the Blackhawk
Indian or in the South in the Florida
Seminole war. Pensions are also granted
to widows of deceased soldiers OF these
wars. special provision declares that
this act shall not be SO construed as to
grant pension to Jefferson Davis.
By Mr.. Reagan: To amend a bill in
troduced by him to regulate immigra tion
80 that the right OF immigrants to remain
in this country may be challenged at any
time within twelve months after landing.
By Mr.. Bowen; To establish mint at
Denver.
THE BLAIR EDUCATIONAL BILL
was taken up and Mr.. Vest spoke in oppo-
sition. Ii he was called upon, he said. to
frame a title for it, he would call it IAN
act to erect a monument to the memory OF
Alexander Hamilton and to encourage
mendicancy in the Southern States" He
expressed his surprise and regret that
Democratic Senators, who had given their
lives to an eloquent defense OF the strict
construction of the Constitution and
Jeffersonian doctrine that all powers
OF appropriation we're given to Congress
under the express (or necessarily
implied) guarantee of the Constitution were
now found to have surrendered all the
landmarks of their party in the presence OF
that great temptation in the proposed law.
If the dead were permitted to take an in
terest in the affairs of the living, what, he
asked, must be the surprise OF the majestic
spirit of John C. Calhoun when he saw his
former followers, strict constructionists
and State Rights Democrats OF the South,
yelling in both Houses of Congress for the
old flag and an appropriation? In his
Judgment the enactment of the pending bill
would he greater calamity to the South
ern people than war, pestilenee and famine.
At the close of his speech the Senate went
into executive session and soon adjourned.