Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-10-03
WASHINGTON.
Disagreements on Deficiency
Appropriations.
THE UTAH WOMAN'S HOME
A Resolution to Ask Great Britain
and Mexico to Assist in
Chinese Exclusion.
Associated Press DISPATCHES to the HERALD,

Associated Press DISPATCHES to the HERALD,
WASHINGTON, October 2.-In the Sem
ate to-day the resolution offered by Call,
on the 9th of September, instructing the
Committee on Epidemic Diseases to con-
slider and report additional legislation to
prevent the importation of contagious
disease, was taken up and Call spoke
on it.
Pascoe offered an amendment directing
the Committee to inquire further into
the introduction of yellow fever into
Florida and other States during the pres
ent year.
In the course of his remarks Call read
a letter from DR.. Reed, suggesting spirits
of ammonia as q method of cure and pre-
vention, and recommending that some
action be taken to test that method.
A long discussion followed, in which
Blair, Pascoe, Call, Chandler, Morgan
and Barry were the principal speakers.
Morgan said that there were eight
States in the South which had been
heretofore subjected to the ravages of
yellow fever. He proposed that each of
these States should vote 100000, max
ing fund of 100000, and that each of
these States should appoint Commits
sioner to form joint Commission, COM
posed of men selected for their reliability
and skill, and that this Commission
should have access to the fund and to
use any part of it wherever yellow fever
might appear.
After further discussion the amend
ment was referred to the Committee on
Epidemic Diseases.
The conference report on the Deficiency
bill was presented by Hale. The larger
portion of the disagreeing votes had, he
said, been arranged by the conferees.
There were four matters on which an
agreement had not been reached; one
was the item to pay the widow of Chief
Justice Waite the balance of his years
salary, the House conferees insisting that
there was no precedent for it; another
item was to pay the years salary of in
ternal revenue officials who remained at
their posts in Florida and died there of
yellow fever; another was proposition
to extend the Territorial laws to No
Man's-Land; another was an appropria-
ton for an Industrial Home in Utah Terri
tory.
Hale proceeded to state the arguments
on behalf of this latter item. The Asso-
citation was regularly organized and was
composed of many leading business men
of Salt Lake. Its purpose was to relieve,
protect and care for dependent women
and children seeking to escape polygam-
GUS relations. The scheme had excited
kn v,rofo,,y,l L1ot,1.txx &c L.
Church and its leaders, who saw in it a
great peril to their institutions, but so
numerous were the applications for re-
lief that the donations received were en-
tirely inadequate, and applications for
aid had been made to Congress, and in
the Deficiency bill of 1886, the Senate
had inserted an item of 100000 in aid of
the objects of the Association; that item
remained in the bill and thus Congress
embarked in the work. He declared
that q home should be created and
in Utah for the benefit
of women and their dependent children
who shall renounce polygamy. A diff
Guilty had been thrown in the way of the
good work, however, by the narrow con-
given to it by the Governor of
the Territory, to the effect that the first
wife was not entitled to the advantages
Of the institution, inasmuch as she was
not polygamous wife. Congress had
adopted this Industrial Christian Home
Of Utah as its agency in the good work.
The work was going on; the Association
had gone forward and purchased land
and made contracts for the erection of a
permanent Home. Without the appro-
priation in the Deficiency bill voted by
the Senate, but resisted by the House,
the work would be turned aside and
crippled. He admitted that the sum
in the Deficiency bill, $4,000,
was large, but the work was great one
he could see in it, properly sustained by
Congress and properly managed and
carried out, more of a menace to
polygamy than anything that had oc-
Cured in the years that Congress
has been endeavorin g to deal with that
question. The Mormon leaders per-
ceived that and had set themselves earlv
and late against the amendment. He
that branch of the Govern
ment, not the Legislative, had been so
impressed by the opposition of the Nor
mon Church that it ventured to set itself
n the way marked out by Congress.
The House conferees would not agree to
several parts of the proposition in any
They said that the sum was too
arge, and that they would not agree to
any amount except on condition that
work on the building be turned over to
he supervising architect of the treasury.
lie appealed to the Senate to insist on
;he amendment.
Cockrell, one of the Senate conferees.
stated that it was his conviction that no
influence of the Mormon Church had
oeen brought to bear in any shape, and
n the discussion of the question, the
principal ground of difference between
he Senate COME, ees and the House, was
hat the former wished to have the
money expended by charitable institu-
ion, while the latter insisted that the
money should be placed in the hands of |
he Secretary of the Treasury.
Teller favored the amendment as a |
Measure that supplemented other legis-
alton against polygamy, in such way |
IS to be effective and at the same time |
nerciful and right. Other nations that
lad dealt with the question of polygamy |
lad made a provision for women and |
hildren but the United States had made
lone. 1t had insisted that the relations
hould be severed; it had made polyga-
ny crime, not only for man, but for
Toman, but had made no provision
" which woman could break these
onnections without meeting want and |
tarvation. He should prefer to see the
Vords "who desire to sever their allegi-
l. L. M NJ