Sacramento daily record-union., 1888-08-03
TIE CAPITAL.
RIDDLEBERGER AGAIN RIDDLES
THE DEMOCRACY.
Congressman Biggs Coming Home
Cavalry Horses Wanted for
Arizona Duty.
ESPECIAL DrzrArcHEs TO THE REooHD-us1os.
CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS.
The Senate.

WASHINGTON, August 2d-In the Senate
to-day Stewards resolution, offered yester-
day, calling on the Secretary of the Inte-
rior for information as to cancelled desert
land applications was taken up and
adopted.
the agreement made by the Northwestern
Indian Commission with the Ceur d 'Alene
tribe of Indians, in Idaho.
The presiding officer announced the ap-
pointment of the select committee under
Hoar's resolution of commerce and busi-
ness between the United States and Canada,
as follows Senators Hoar, Allison, Hale,
Dolph, Pugh. Eustis and Blodgett.
Beck moved to proceed to the considera-
ton of the bills on the calendar in regular
order.
Sherman moved to proceed to the consid-
Grafton of the fisheries treaty in open exec
utive session. The latter motion was agreed
to-ayes "a, noes % "a strict party vote)-
and the fisheries treaty was taken up, the
question being on Morgan's motion to post
pone its further consideration until Decem-
Der next
Riddleberger arraigned the Administra-
ton and the Democratic party, which
backed it, as a pro English organization,
and proceeded to read extracts from Eng
lish periodicals to prove that the Mills bill
| and the Presidents tariff message were in
the direction of free trade, and that the
Presidential electoral contest was conflict
between free trade and protection, and
| nothing else. He read from speech of S.
s. Cox in the House, speaking of the pro-
tectionists as robbers, rascals and plum
derers," and said he was not surprised at
these sentiments when he read the book
published by the same gentleman MANY
years ago, entitled 6 The Buckeye Abroad"
in which such sentences as these occurred
"Old England God bless her With
tears in my eyes l beseech heavens best
benlson upon heri | remember her only
as the land of noble deeds and generous
hearts ~
81 hope that the Pope will create no Car
| dirals for America"
The ill-success attending the Wiseman
experiment in England will prevent the
Pope from creating any Cardinals in Protest
ant countries"
He (Riddleberger) did not propose to in
troduce religion into the question of poll
tics, but he proposed to show what free
trade Democracy was. He knew that Cox,
in the House of Representatives, had
pleaded the baby act in reference to that
book, and supposed he would plead dotage
in reference to his late utterances Re-
ferring 10 the subject of the treaty, he de-
| clared We will never be national gov
ernment until we have whipped England
| for the third time. Our boasted Monroe
| Doctrine is being annulled and wiped from
| the face of the earth to-day, and we find
gentlemen on the other side of the cham
| Der saying that we must arbitrate or we
must fight ~
Morgan spoke at some length in support
| of the treaty. Commenting on the state
| ment in the majority report that the time
tiafi orit ~
| cised it as a piece of outrageous pre-
sumption" and said the Com mittee on
Foreign Relations had no more right to in
| struct the President to cease negotiations
| than it had to require him to resign his
office. He also spoke of the committees
| appeal to the British Government as
| piece of unaceountable presumption and
of an affectaion of authority and dig
| nifty on the part of the committee in
setting Itself up to advise the British
| Cabinet. The attempt" he said, - to cast
| odium and slur on the President of the
United States, and then to turn round to
the Queen of England and beg her for
| favors, is one of the most humilating at
| titudes that any committee had ever taken.
| 1t is a regular toadyism to the British
| Power. | do not think record of that
| sort was ever made before, and | challenge
| the majority of the members of the Com
| mlttee on Foreign relations to explain why
| they put the address to the British Crown
at the conclusion of their report. 1t is an
arrogant act of presumptuous imperti-
nence, that is all
Several bills were passed, including the
Senate bill providing for an additional AS
sociate Justice of the Supreme Court of
| Wyoming.
Adjourned.
The house.
WASHINGTON, August 2d.-The joint res
| olution directing the Secretary OF War to
! investigate the amount due the State of
| South Carolina from the United States for
the rent of the citadel at Charleston was
adopted.
A call of the committees was ordered af-
ter several Senate bills were read and re-
ported to the House.
A bill was reported from the Naval Af-
| fairs Committee providing for assistants to
Chiefs of Bureaus in the Navy Department.
| The Senate amendments to the army ap-
preparation bill were non-concurred with,
on motion CT Burns.
The House went into Committee of the
| Whole, for the purpose of considering the
appropriation bills. The general defici-
ency bill was the first taken up.
! Representative Herman reported with
amendments the bill to grant certain land
to the town Of Moscow, Idaho, for cemetery
purposes.
The House then proceeded to the recon-
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