The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-02-01
IN THE TWO HOUSES.
The POstOffice Bill in the
Senate.
AMENDMENTS TO CONSTITUTION
To Change the Time of Termination
for Certain Of1ces-DOings In
the Lower House.
SENATE.

WAsH1NeToN,J January 31.-Among the
bills introduced and referred were the
following: r. ,...r
By Stewart-To establish land court
and to provide for the settlement OF pri
vate land claims; also to enforce the
restriction of Chinese immigration.
BY Mitchell TO permit mines and
mining companies to prospect and de-
VelOp mining portions of any Indian
reservation on certain terms and con-
diions.
Mitchell offered a resolution, which
was adopted, instructing the committee
on commerce to consider the adyisa
bility of inserting a provision in the
river and harbor bill, requiring all work
to be done by contract.
Vance, from the committee on finance,
reported favorably the bill passed by
DE Senate during the last Congress, to
pfoVide for warehouSing fruit brandy.
It declares that the provisions of the
act of March Sd, 1877, in relation to
the production of fruit brandy, shall
be extended to brandy distilled from
apples or peaches, or from any other
fruit not now required to be ware
housed.
In the Senate, to-day, Riddieberge.
offered q resolution that the treaty be-
tween the government and Great
Britain, now be ore the Senate in
executive session, be considered in open
session. and asked for its immediate
consideration.
Edmunds objected, and it was laid
over. -re r..s
The resolution, offered yesterday by
Plumb, instructing the postofice com
mittee to make thorough Inquiry into
the cause of inefficient mail services,
especially in the west and south, was
taken up.
Henderson hoped the investigation
would BE- thorough.
Stewart said the service in Nevada
was wholly inadequate. sf.
Teller thought the fault was largely
in the inadeQuacy of appropriations
made for the post-ofhce department,
although some reason for it might be
found in the numerous removals of
skilled and competent men, and the
substitution of new and unskilled men.
Beck thought that Congress had not
done its duty to the department in fur
nishing appropriations.
Chase, member of the post-office
committee. said the greatest cause of
difficulty was the great changes made
in clerks.
The resolution went over until to-
morrow without action.
Among the bills passed were: To
authorize Dalles City to construct
bridge across the Columbia River in
Oregon and Washington Territory; to
grant the right of way through the
public lands for irrigation purposes.
A Joint resolution provided an
amendment to the Constitution provid-
ing that the term of Office of the Presi-
dent and the Fiftieth Congress shall
continue uUtiI the S0th day OF April,
1889, at noon; that the Senators whose
existing term would otherwise expire
on the 4,h Of March, 1889, and there
after, snail continue in Office until
April Both succeeding such expiration;
that the 30th of April, at noon, shall
thereafter be substituted for the 4th of
March, as the commencement and
termination of the official term of the
President, Vice President. Senators and
Representatives in Congress.
Evarts spoke briefly in support of the
Blair educational bill. Adjourned.