Morning journal and courier., 1888-08-09
Fiftieth Gongress--First Session.
WAszrxareS. Aue.

Fiftieth Gongress--First Session.
 WAsH1xGrex, Aug. 8. sENA1a.-Mr. Stewart Rep;, Nev. ) moved
 that the regular business (bills on the calan- darl be laid aside and the Chinese prehibi-
 tion bill be taken up. Agreed to; yee5 40,
 nays (Ssnators BeI1y, Coke and Jones of Arkansast. The bin WIFI then pessed with-
 out division.
 The bill provides that from and aEter the
 date of the exchange of ratifcatiors of the
 pending treaty between the United States of
 America and his imperial majesty the em-
 peyor of China, sig ned on the 18th day of
 March, 1888, it shall be uclawscl for any
 Chinese person, whether a subject of China
 or of any other power, to enter the United
 States except as in this bill provided.
 Every incoming Chinaman must secure certificate from a Uritsd States official before embarking, end any captain who lands Chi. nannan without such certificate will be held liable to certain penalties. The provisions of
 the act apply to all persons of the Chinese race except certain designated oficials, and the words "Chincse laborsTsn whenever rsed in this act shall be construed to mean both skilled and unskilled laboreIs and Chinese employed in mining.
 THE FIsHEPIEs TREATY.
 The Senate then proceeded to the consider
 ation of the fisheries treaty in open executive session and ws5 addressed by Mr. Evarss in opposition to it's ratification. Tn his opening remarks he spoke of the treaty es being who'll ly incongruous with the just opposition of the two countries and with. the attitude to be maintained between them. As to the rejec- ton ot the treaty leading to umbrsge or col
 lision, or retaliations or WET, he said he had not heard breath above 8 whisper from the United Kingdom or any of it's departments in power and authority that nf Ina kv ha f0r
 umbrage. And the nes--est of anything in the shape of definite statement on the side of this country on that point was the reported reply of the Secretary of State to @ question s1 to what would follow the rejection of the treaty, that then chaos would come again. Referring to the debate on the treaty, he said that on the Democratic side it had been re- dolent with the odor of denationality, not of nationality, and he eskei if 1t is true that our enemies ate in our own household. The most noticeable circumstance in the debate yves, he said, the position of the Dem vision es well as 8 political division. It was that noticeable fact which most attracted the
 attention of the American people and that would most attract the attention of the peo-
 pie of Great Britain. But 1t would not frighten the people of this country and would
 He declared that the system of "wor- rying" wes always brought into play by Canada whenever the United States asserting it's Gshing rights and Canada asserted it's contravention in order to bring the Unite1 States to 8 depaI cure from the fishing interests to the trading and eommer- cial interests and that the United States had thus been worried into the reciprocity ar rangement in 1851. He said that at every stage when the Dominion of Canada had un- dertaken D erforcs the bay -or-headlands doc tr.ne the British government had declined to sustain it. Canada, he eaid, had proceeded on the philosophy of Hudibrss, "not by
 What Ceneda had always been eeter ws9 re- c1iprocity and free ms-ket. He r4diculed the idea of reciprocity between the ilimitable
 market of the United States and the stinted consumption of Canada. At this point, bow ever, on the supge stion of Mir. Frye, that the day wes hot and that the Senator had now
 been speaking over two houI5, Mir. Evarts ceesed speaking and postponed the remain der of his speech until tomorrow. The Sen- ats then adjourned.
 HoUsE.-Mr. Shaw of Maryland, from the committee on accounts, reported the resolu- tion appropriating $5,e00 to meet the ex-
 penses of the committee on manufactures in Investigating the subject of trusts. In resr onse U a question MT. Breckinridge of Arkapses stated that the investigation had not proceeded far enough to enable the com
  of relief. MT. BreckinEidge commented on the imr ro1se1ce of the investigation now in pT os1ess. It shor1d be pu-Jued until the committee wes n ogss-5ion of Knowledge sufficient t) enable it to recommend leg sla-
 tion witch world tear out these t. lsts by the ro ot3 [ Id leave the count. 7 rntrammele7 e7d free.
 NJ. Weaver, of Iowa, said the question
 pro 5entt WI whether the u S3ts were strong CT than the gove1 ,-nent, end he favored the Spz 1ger bi'l e1 bsi-g sweeping end cr>9h- ing in it's prov -siors.
 MT. 2 1de. n, of low. ont,nded that Cons cess ought , eonden,a sl tIcsts sweep ingly, whether they we-o found in srge- in the South or n lumber n the NoI.h. The recolu..on WEI adopted.
 Mr. Springer 5ked for the imme 1ists con sideration of his t. ,st bi'i, but demand for chrsetts, orsratsd q an objection. Mr. T. H. B. Brown, f-om the committee on commerce, rer ol ted a bill to provide for the better protection of Ies and property on
 the high sess and on the lakes. Horse eel ender.
 The Horss then went into committee of
 the whole, M-. Splinger, of Illinois, in the chs;r, on the de6cleney bill. The debate on
 the F F.ench spoliation claim section was re-
 newe l. Me.ns. Thompson, Say tes and Cobb
 argued aga'r7t the liabilities of the government for the payment of the clelkEsf h@seAs 1S Iuss es ID sAHAo oA sAAo depredatiors there we1 a sta,o of war be- tween France and the Ur;tei State }, although it had not been formally dc 3le-ed, and that France wcs not bound to indemnsy the United Stat:s for the seizare of American vo.Ielz Nc 'sIJ Shaw. Of Maryland, and EreckinI. .dge, of Kent 1cky, insisted that the clains were just and honest and should be paid.
 MT. Rug5sll, of Ms -3c ,hrsetts, contended for the validity of the claims and advocated their pay ment He denied that any war ex- isted between the. United States and France. It did not so aprsar in any history or in any State documents. There had been no treaty of peace; but had there been such a treaty a clause would have been provided for an in- demnitv to American sailors who had lost g., ,000, ,000 on the ses5. The United States would not have agreed to any treaty which did not contain such a stipu- lation. The grave of George Washing ton had bean for almost a century visited by patri iots; the remains of Thomas JefferIon had long mingled with the dust of his beloved Virginia, but the promise given to our sailorJ by Washington and Jefferson WEI still unredeeme5, and three generations of men had broken their hearts against the cruel st ones of this Capitol asking for that which it WIT proposed to deny to-day. Pending further debate the committee rose, and at o'clock the House adjourned. MANY SERIOUSLY INJURED. Passenger Car Hurled Down a Thirty Foot Rmban ment-Lfst of the Bn- Rruw