The Asheville citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1885-1889, 1888-02-02
LATEST NEWS.
Congress.

Congress.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 9.-SENATE
Mr.. Edmunds, from the committee
on foreign relations, reported a bill
to incorporate the Maritime Canal
Company, of Nicaragua, and said
he would move 70 take it up as ear
ly next week as he could get the
floor. Placed on the calendar.
Mr.. ManderSon, from the COM
mittee on printing, reported joint
resolution for the disposition of un-
disturbed copies of records of the
| rebellion, reports of the tenth cen>
sus and reports of the public land
commissioners. The resolution
gave rise to a long discussion, in
course of which Mr.. Vest gave ex-
preston to his ideas as to the val.
ue of publications Of the govern
ment printing Office. He said he
had a room in Washington in which
there were several hundred volumes
of public documents bound in calf
at the expense of the government
which books he could not give
away, he could not trade them off.
he could. not dispose of them unless
he put them in the fire. He had
asked a dealer in second-handed
books to make a bid for them, and
his offer was one dollar for the lot,
the dealer thinking that the offer
was a personal favor to him. The
upper portion OF the capitol
was crammed to the roof with
books, and he had been informed
by an architect that if a spark Of
fire touched that material the gas
from it would blow off the roof and
yet there was a continued stream
of these publications pouring out of
the government printing Office. The
money might as we'll be taken and
thrown into the Potomac river. Fi~
nally a joint resolution was passed.
1t puts the undistributed copies of
the documents mentioned, of the
quota of ex>members, to the credit
of their successors in the Fiftieth
congress, and in the case of ex mem
bers who have no direct successors
on account of the changes of the
boundaries in congressional dis
tricts copies are to be sold at cost or
distributed to the libraries yet un-
supplied.
The resolutions offered on the pre-.
vious days was then taken up in
their order. The first was Mr..
Plumb's resolution as to the inefiA
cent postal service and it went over.
The next resolution was that offered
by Mr.. Riddleberger to consi Ter the
extradition treaty with Great Brit
ain in open session. Mr.. Riddle-
berger said he heard it suggested by
Il he senators around that there was
no occasion for further considera-
ton of that matter, and he to0ught
they were probably rigkt. He
thought the British lions tail had
been twisted by a vote of % to 21,
and he only wanted to state this
fact now in open session. MIR. Rid
dleberger's allusion was to vote in
secret session yesterday, by which a
consideration OF the treaty was. s.post-
poned to next December. The next
resolution was that offered by Mr..
Riddleberger to amend rule 81 80 as
to have the executive business con-
sidered in open session. Mr.. Rid
dleberger said he had offered res
olution locking to a change of the
rules under which change he
thought he could get the so-called
British treaty considered in open
session. Further remarks by Mr..
Riddlebergsr were opposed by MIR.
Hawley who rose to a point of order
and said that the senator from Vir--
ginia was constantly and defantly
violating the rules of the Senate.
81 did not hear the remark of the
senator from Connecticut" said Mr..
Riddleberger.
II made the point to order" said
Mr.. Hawley, that the senator's re-
marks are out of order because they
are a conscious aud Wilful defiance
of the rules of this body which he
has taken an oath to support.
The senator from Virginia said
that the presiding officer would not
be allowed to take up any matter of
executive business when the doors
of the Senate chamber are open.
1 wanted to ask the chair (Mr. Rid
dieberger went on to explain) to
listen to what l said, that wanted
the resolution disposed of; but 1 do
not propose here or anywhere else,
to he called out of order at all times
aud under all circumstances.
Further remarks were summarily
cut off by the presiding officer in
strueting the cl.rk to read the next
resolution.
Several resolutions of inquiry
were adopted.
The Blair bill being taken up as
unfinished business was laid aside
after the statement by Mr.. Hawley
that he wished to speak upon it
next Tuesday, and that another
Senator wished to speak upon it
next Monday.
The Senate bill approprjating
$4,000 additional for the public
building at Pensacola, was taken up
and became the text for general
discussion to the erection of public
buildings. At conclusion of the de-
bate the bill. was passed.