Morning journal and courier., 1888-10-03
Fiftieth Congress--First Session.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 2.

SENATE-The resolution offered by Mr. Call on the 27th of September, instructing the committee on epidemic diseases to con- sider and report before the adjournment of this session of Congress additional legislation to prevent the importation of contagious or infectious diseases from foreign countries on the coast and boundaries of the United States was taken up, and after some explain ation of the measure by Mir. Call it was re- ferred to the committee on epidemic diseases. The conference report on the deficiency bill was presented by MT. Hale and explained by him. The larger portion of the disagree ing votes had been arranged by the conferees. There were five matters on which an agree ment had not been reached. One of them was the item to pay the widow Of Chief Justice Waite the balance of the years salary the House oonferees insisting that there was no precedent for it. Another was the item to pay the years salary of an inter- nal revenue official who remained at his post in Floridsy and died there of yellow fever. Another was the proposition to extend the land laws to No Mans Land and the other was the appropriation for the Industrial Christian Home of Utah territory.
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 Mir. Hale proceeded to state the arguments on behalf of this latter item. The associa- tion, he said, was regularly organized, and was composed of many of the leading busi- ness men of Salt Lake City. Its purpose was to relieve, protect and care for the depend- ent women and children seeking to escape from polygamous relations. The scheme had excited the profound hostility of the Mormon church and it's leaders, who saw in it great peril to their institution. Numer- ous difficulties had been encountered, but the work was still going on. Congress, said MT. Hale, had adopted this Industrial Chris tian Home of Utah as it's agency in the good work. The association had gone forward and purchased land and made contracts for the erection of a permanent home. Without the appropriation in the deficiency bill voted by the Senate, but resisted by the House the work would be turned aside and crippled. He admitted that the sum proposed in the deli ciency bill, $S0, 900, was large but the work was great one. He could see in it properly sustained by Congress and properly managed and carried out, more of menace to poly gamy than anything than had occurred in the years that Congress had been endeavor- ing to deal with that great question. The mormon leaders perceived that, and had set themselves early and late against the amend ment. MT. Hale appealed to the Senate to insist on the amendment and not to yield, despite the opposition of the House conferees.
 MT. Cockrell said that the principal ground of difference between the Senate conferees and the House conferees was that the former wished to have the money expended by charitable institution, while the latter in- slsteO that the money snOu1Q De plac6o III the hands of the Secretary of the Treasury. After further discussion the conference re- port was agreed to and the Senate insisted on it's disagreement to the items.
 The conference report on the joint resolu- tion in aid of the sufferers from yellow fever was presented and agreed to after some ex- planatory remarks by MT. Edmunds.
 Mir. Jones offered resolution (which was referred to the committee on foreign rela- tions) requesting the President to negotiate treaties with her Britannia majesty and the republic of Mexico respectively for the ex- clusion of Chinese 1aborers from the North American continent and for the prevention of their entrance into the United States from the territory of either such governments or dependencies thereof. The Senate then ad- journed.