Morning journal and courier., 1888-07-21
Fiftieth Congress--First Session.
WASHINGTON. JnlY 20.

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 SENATE.-Mr. Cullom offered a resolution which was agreed to instruoting the post office committee to inquire into the expedi- ency of allowing an article known as the postal tablet or private postal card (the weight not to exceed half an ounce) to pass through the mails at the postage rate of one cent.
 The Senate at 12:S5 o'clock proceeded to executive business.
 &The Senate in executive session confirmed the nomination of Melville W. Fuller as chief justice of the Supreme court of the United States. The vote remains under the injunc- tion or secrecy, but is understood to be as follows, in detail:
 Yeas-Bate, Beck, Berry. Blackburn, BIodgett, 1on e1GTn BS.ler Sssi:, Cameron COeETs Cooke 1er Frye an'e aeorpe ebson bog"' eorman rnnln Gray. Hale, Hampton, Hearst. Jones of .ArEansas,' Pasco. Payne. Pugh, Quay. Ransom. Reagan, Rid, dleberger Tur2ie. Vance. Vest Voorhees, Watthall,
 Nays-Bleir, Bowen, Chandler, Dawes, Dolph, Edmnn5s Eyarts, Hawley. Hoar. Ingalls,, Mander. bridge Teier Wiison5 foaas stewart Stock
 Paired in the affirmative Call. Colquitt. Eustis.
 Paired in the negative ~Aidrich. Allison. Chsce, Hiscock. Morrill,, Piddock. stanford-7.
 Absent and not paired-Spooner.
 After the doors were opened MT. Sherman gave notice that he would ask the Senate to resume the consideration of the fisheries treaty tomorrow.
 MT. Chandler thereupon offered the follow ing resolution, which was laid over:
 appoint all high public officers of the United States being vested in the President and Senate jointly the making preliminary negotiations of treaties, to ap- point without the of the Senate private treaties in behalf of the Unitsd stat9s and that e recent appointment by the President without the L. Putnam es speciel plenipotentia-ies to make and sign the proposed fishery treaty with Great Britain dated February 15, 1885, wes unwe-reatod by the
 MT. Dolph called up the bill to prohibit the coming of Chinese laborers into the United States. MT. Dolph said that con- troversy had arisen between the collector of the port of San Francisco and the courts es to the right of Chinese who departed from the United States after the date of the treaty, and before the act of 1882 tcsk effect, to return to this country without certificates. The collector had decided that they could not, but the courts had decided differently. The courts held that every Chinese laborer re- turning without certificate had right to try his right to land and consequently the business of the courts was much obstructed by habees corpus cases.
 A bill had been passed by the Senate in the Forty ninth Congress in order to cure the defects in the existing law, but it had not been acted upon by the House. At the present session similar bill had been re-
 
 treaty had been negotiated between the United States and China. Many thought that it would have accomplished everything which would be accomplished if the pending treaty was ratified, and would greatly have relieved the courts. It was necessary to have went into operation. This bill contained such legislation. It was intended to carry into effect the provisions of the pending treaty and prevent the abuse of the privileges granted to one class of Chinese to pass through the United States and to prevent the evasion of the treaty by class of Chinese not permit ted to come here. MH. Mitchell said that the object of the bill was to enforce the provisions of the pending treaty. As an act of legisla- tion to enforce those provisions he regarded it as the best possible bill that could be pre- scented. He had no faith in the treaty itself. He never had any faith in it. He believed that it would be failure in so far as it was to be considered as means of prohibiting Chinese immigration. The treaty as it orig- finally came to the Senate and before it was amended was a step backward from the po- sition that the United States occupied under existing treaties and law. As amended the treaty was at least no worse than the existing treaty, but he was unable to bring himself to the conclu- sion that it was any better. The treaty itself was sham and fraud and deception, and it would not meet the expectations of the President, the Secretary of State or of the members of the Senate who gave it their ap- proval. This was the opinion of the leading Journals of the Pacific coast, and he sent to the clerks..desk and had read editorials from California papers denounsing the treaty and criticising the administration which negotiat- ed it. He had no faith in the treaty, but es he regarded the bill as the best which could be presented to carry out it's provisions he would vote for it.
 MT. Morgan could not understand why the gentleman would vote for bill to carry into effect treaty which he said was a sham and fraud. If he (Morgan) believed that treaty was @ sham and fraud he would never give a vote to carry it into effect. He would vote to abrogate such treaty. The gentleman's constituents would know whether he was sincere or whether this was an effort by gath ering up scraps out of newspapers to cest slurs on the gentlemen engaged in negotia tions between this country and foreign country. He deprecated the disposition which appeared here to disparage in the pres ence ot mankind and the whole world the honor, wisdom and integrity of the exeou- tive. He had been in this body under sev- eral Republican administrations and he had yet to hear any Democrat attempt to disparage such an administration, no mat ter how much he differed from it in respect to the foreign policy. He had been here in
 
 ministration of this country to an alarming extent (the moral effect of which we had not escaped), and yet due faith had been given to the honest intention of the reform administration in negotiating treaties. He thought it was best to return to that sense of feeling, and to that sense which gentlemen loved their country affairs, and statesmen who at least loved their own country. He defended the treaty as it had been transmit ted to the Senate, and declared that the amendments had been inconsequential.
 Pending further debate the Senate ad- journed at 5:05 until tomorrow.
 HoUsE.-Mr. Blanchard, of Louisiana, submitted the conference report on the river and harbor bill. Mir. Weaver, of Iowa, de- manded the yeas and nays on agreeing to the report, but the demand was refused. MT. Weaver moved to reconsider the vote by which the House had refused to order the yeas and nays, but this motion was tabled by vote of yeas 174, nays "A. The report was then agreed to, 154 to A.
 The House then went into committee of the whole on the private calendar.
 The conference report on the river and harbor bill was presented. The House ac cepted the report; ayes 154, nays A. The bill as it passed the House first appropriated $19, ,902, 7S3. As agreed upon in conference it aggregates $22, ,277, 116, being 8 net in crease of $2, ,374 1888.
 The entire afternoon was spent Tn the con- sideration of the bill for the relief of Samuel Noble, claim for reimbursement for the loss of SOP bales of cotton. motion to strike out the enacting clause resulted yeas 61, nays 2, but MT. Oates made the point of no quo- rum, the committee rose and the House at 4:30 took recess until 8 o'clock.
 The House at the evening session passed twentyfour private pension bills, aHd at 10:30 adjourned. Stabbed Through the Heart.
 BOSTON, July 20.-Martin Curran, aged twentyeight, of South Boston, was found in an open lot early this morning dead. The police reported him as hard tdrinker and that death probably resulted from spree and exposure. When his body was examined at the morgue it was discovered that he had been stabbed through the heart with an in- strument making a wound two inches long. The nolica inxasticatinG