Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-03-20
CONGRESSIONAL.
A Host of Bills Passed by
the Senate.
STATE RIGHTS OUTLINED.
Fractional Silver Certificates
Agreed to by the House
Tariff Discussion.
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Tariff Discussion.
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WASHINGTON, March 19.-The Chi
nese treaty was laid before the Senate
to-day but was not made public.
A substitute was reported for the
House bill proposing board of arbi-
tration to settle and determine the
controversy of the United States and
Texas in relation to Tom Green county.
The substitute proposes that the At
torney General be authorized to COM
mence and prosecute to final termina-
ton a suit in equity, in the Supreme
Court against the State OF Texas, to
determine the rightful titles to said
territory.
STATE RIGHTS.
The bill introduced by Frye to apply
the laws of several States relating to
distilled and fermented liquors to such
liquors when they have been imported
as well as when manufactured in the
United States, was reported adversely
by Senator George from the Com
mittee on Judiciary. A minority re-
port was also presented. After long
discussion OF the question the majority
came to the following conclusion:
II should not be overlooked
that the province OF State
control over what concerns police
regulations of domestic health, peace
and general good order and well-being
within each State is under the constitu-
ton as secure against intrusion from
federal authority as the regulation of
foreign commerce by the general
Government is from encroachment
upon that province by State authority.
In the opinion Of the Committee it is
best to leave the question as it now is
a Judicial nne, in the highest interests
OF both federal regulations OF commerce
and State control Of its police
authority.
The minority report, signed by SEN
ators Wilson, Ingalls, and Edmunds,
says that it would seem that the leg
islative and judicial departments OF
the government concur in the answer
that the character Of legislation pre-
sented by this bill is within the con-
stitutional power of Congress; that it
does not violate the injunction of the
constitution that all duties, imposts
and excises shall be uniform through
out the United States. Importers of
ardent spi. its, or Of any other article
of foreign production are entitled
to no greater protection under
the constitution than is dealer in
like articles of domestic manufacture.
The one pays an internal revenue tax.
another pays tax levied by the
Custom house, and what Congress
may constitutionally say about one it
may repeat as TO the other.
THE FOLLOWING BILLS
Were reported and placed on the cal
endar: For the erection OF public
buildings at Salem, Oregon, and to
increase the appropriation for public
buildings at Sacramento, Gala. The
House bill, to divide a portion OF the
Sioux reservation in Dakota into
separate reservations, and to secure a
REIMBURSEMENT of the Indian title to
remainder.
Bowen introduced bill to estaL-
lish park in Colorado to be known
as the Royal Arch Park.
The Senate then proceeded to the
consideration of bills on tho calendar
in the regular order.
The bills to reimburse the deposit
tors of the Freedmen's Bank went.
over without action.
The following bills passed: To
amend Article 103 OF the rules and ar
ticles Of war in relation to desertion;
authorizing the appointment of sup
erintendent of Indian schools, and
prescribing his duties; to construct a
railroad to the National cemetery
at Corinth, Miss: to enable
the State OF Colorado to
select indemnity lands and for other
purposes; to settle and adjust the
claim Of any State for expense in
Cured by it in defense OF the United
States during the war of the rebellion
authorizing the appointment of a
delegate to the Fourth International
Congress at st. Petersburg in 1890;
appropriating 100000 for the erec-
ton in Washington of a monument to
the negro soldiers and sailors who
gave their lives for the preservation OF
the Government. Yeas 81, nays 10;
for the relief of certain settlers upon
school lands OF Washington Territory
to establish an additional land district
(the Harvey district) in Oregon; to
amend the act for the admission of
Colorado into the Union; to establish
. public park at Pagosa Springs, Col
orado. a
There were altogether fifty-fve bills
passed, among them two bills pension
ing volunteer female nurses during the
war at $25 a month.
Blair, from the Committee on Civil
Service, reported q bill providing that
whenever persons who were not loyal /
to the United States during the war
shall be appointed to place in the
civil service, those who we're not dis
honorably discharged from The mill
tary or naval service OF the Confeder-
ate States, and who are suffering fro m
or disabilities resulting from |
such service, shall be preferred to |
other persons not known to have been !
loyal to the United States during the
war.
Platt objected to the second reading |
Of the bill, and it went over till to-
morrow.
Teller introduced a bill for the |
admission Of the Territory of Wyom-
ing into tho Union. Referred.
After IN executive session, the
Senate adjourned.
THE HOUSE,
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