Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1888-08-13
AT THE CAPITOL TO-DAY.
DISTRICT DAY IN THE HOUSE
The Rock Creek Park Bill Discussed
FISHERY TREATY IN THE SENATE.
A Resolution About0 overhead Wires Adopted

A Resolution About0 0verhead Wires Adopted
A communication was presented to the senate
to-day from the Postmaster-General with an esti-
mate OF s562 4s2 deficiency In railway mail trans
portation. Referred to the committee on appro-
priations
SALARIES OF INSANE HOSPITAL ATTENDANTS.
The vote by which the House bill for the relief of
attendants at the insane hospital District OF Co
lumbia) was indefinitely postponed last Friday
was reconsdered, and the bill referred to the COM
mittee on the District OF Columbia.
REroRTs FROM COMMITTEES.
Among the bills reported from committees and
placed on the calendar were the following:
For the relief Of settlers on the old Camp Sheri-
For the appointment Of an additional associate
justice Of the supreme Court in Idaho.
NEW BUSINESS.
Mr.. Plumb introduced bill to prohibit the erec-
tion Of bridges across navigable streams without
the consent of Congress. Referred to the commit.
tee on commerce.
OVERHEAD WIRES.
Mr. Edmunds offered a resolution calling on the
Commissioners Of the District of Columbia for
Information as to whether. since the 1st OF JAN
uary, 1888, they have granted any permit or given
any authority for the erection Of overhead electric
alleys, and II 80 for what purpose and under what
authority. He said he had read a newspaper state
ment TO the effect that electric wires had been
true, as he had supposed that both houses Of Con-
greSS were OF opinion that Such overhead electric
wires OF any kind were TO be prohibited entirely in
washington. The resolution was adopted.
THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE AND THE SUPERVISOR
OF ELECTIONS.
The resolution offered last Friday by Mr.. Ed
munds calling on the Attorney General for copies
OF correspondence between the Department of
Justice and supervisor OF elections In the city of
tion was taken up, and its purpose was explained
by MIN. He understood that the head Of the
Department Of Justice had undertaken to notify
pn advance) that while the statute
gave him ten days In which to perform his duties
he would be paid only for i've days. If that
statement were true [as he most earnestly hoped
1t was not), II would seem TO require some expla-
nation as 10 what authority the Department OF
Justice claimed to have In determining how long
an officer SHOULD be paid for service imposed
upon him by statute It had been stated in some pub
nc declaration OF a powerful party that the fran
chise Was "a right OF all rights"-fundamental-
and thatt ought to be pure and secure and guarded
against fraud or violence. And SO he Was bound
to imagine that the public statement imputing TO
coercive or even persuasive control over the su-
pervisor OF elections was entirely in error.
Mr.. Cockrell expressed his belief that when a
reply was received from the Department OF Justice
At would show that The Attorney General had full,
Just and legal ground for Whatever he had done in
The resolution was adopted.
MT: Wilson. Of Iowa, gave notice that he would.
on thursday Lext, ask the Senate 10 consider the
report Of d tne judiciary committee on the alleged
NR. CALL FOR RATIFICATION OF THE FISHERIES TRIGrY
The Senate then resumed the consideration OF
the fisheries treaty in open executive session. and
was addressed by Mr. Call in support Of its ratii-
cation. He urged that the contention Of Mr.. Sher-
We're high seas and puci!c property. Would apply r
to the Open-sea fisheries or Florida between Key
West and the mainland, and to the coasts OF
surrender or territorial possession and Jur sdic-
tion over all that vast line. To his mind treaty
which asserted the Jurtsdictional power and the
mended, as establishing principle far more i'm
portant than the enjoyment OF the inshore fisher
les OF the Gulf Of st. Lawrence.
SLICE The DAYS OF ARISTOTLE.
He declared the right Of nation to the exclu-
sive jurisdiction of the waters its coasts and in
bays and straits within its boundaries as matter
OF public law since the days OF Aristotlethe first
writer on the subject No publicist, he said, had
ever denied the justice or the a1rmed principle Of
lnaa on0 aared n es1endS all
to the United States and to his own state OF Flor
ida, abounding In tish and fisheries, the right to
fishing might be enjoyed BY a foreign people was
q most important consideration, and that the
pending treaty did amrm that principle by recog-
nizing the right Of Great Britain to declare what
portion OF her inshore fisheries should be the
privilege Of American fishermen.
As 10 THE POWER OF THE UNITED STATES,
he said that the United States was great and
powerful, but only 20 long and so far as it con
formed to right, TO justice, to humanity in its
relations with other nations; he declared
commercial rights in Florida waters to fishing
sn1acks, and he was not willing that Canada
ton. The eject OF the retaliation proposed
would be to make poor people in the United States
pay two prices for the fsh that they used. He did
not acquiesce In that policy. and be regarded the
pending treaty as fair and just and proper.
Mr.. NoRGANs NOTION.
At the close OF Mr.. Calls speech the presiding
oficer (Mr. Cockren In the chair) announced the
question to be on Mr.. MOrgan's motion topostpone
the consideration Of the treaty till December next
and asked whether the Senate was ready for the
Mr.. Hoar-On that motion call for the yeas and
nays
Mr.. GRAY HAS SOMETHING 10 SAT-.
Mr.. Gray said that, before the vote was taken,
he desired to say something on the motion. 1t
had become evident from various outgivings on
the republican side Of the chamber that the
treaty not be ratified at this session. The Sem
that it was not only to be rejected but was to be-
rejected at once and without delay. No special
reason for that had been given. but there were
reasons for 1t which lay on the surface and were
easily read. The treaty was being discussed In
the very midst OF an excited political campaign,
and democratic Senators had been told that they
were arguing the British side OF the case. Why,
he asked, should not the consideration OF the
treaty be postponed to more quiet season.
House Of Representative.
Mr.. Phelan CTenn.) attempted to obtain the pas.
sage Of the Senate bill to secure to Cherokee freed
men their proportion OF the proceeds OF certain
lands, but Mr.. owen Qnd) objected.
NEW BUSINESS.
Mr.. Buchanan On. ~ offered q resolution direct
ing the committee on printing to investigate the
truth Of the allegation of New York paper that
the public printer 10 buying felt for printing In
Mr.. Dubois Qdaho) offered Q resolution calling
on the attorney general for q list OF pardons
granted by the President to persons convicted Of
the crime OF cohabitatton In Utah and Idaho since
March 4 1885. Referred.
Mr.. Davidson {Fla.l introduced O joint resolu.
tion appropnattng 500 600 TO aid In suppressing
infectious diseases In the United States Referred
DISTRICT DAT.
The noor was then accorded to the committee ON
the District Of Columbia.
DISTRICT DAY IN THE HOUSE,
The Rock Crock Park survey MN
Taken Up.
The House at 1855 to-day took up the consid.