Morning journal and courier., 1888-07-13
Fiftieth Congress--First Session.
WASHINGTON. July 12,

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 WASHINGTON, July 12.
 SErArE-A resolution to print extra copies of the report of the committee on pensions in the case of seven vetoed pension bills was the text for some politibal discussion. MT. Cockrsrl desired to have the last of the pen- sion yetoea (the Doherty easel printed among the other vetoes. MT. Hawley intimated that the publication of that veto would not help President or his party with the surViv- ing soldiers of the republic in view of the as- sertion contained in it. that there was reason to fear that the case in question would find & parallel in many other cases that had reached successful conclusion.
 Mr. Davis stated that the bad character aseribed to the beneficiary in that case was on old matters going back to 1872 and that the committee had, in view of her good con- duct since then, taken a charitable view of the case.
 EMIT, Blair characterized the Presidents statement of the case ss gratuitous insult to the woman. He asked senators to recall their personal history and the President to recall his personal history and see whether silence was not welcome thing to all. Let him who was without guilt cast the first stone.
 MT. r.Cockrell moved an amendment to print one hundred thousand extra copies of the Presidents vetoes.
 Mr. Sherman hoped that that proposition would not be treated by the Senate as seri- ous.
 ss Mr. Hawley said that the President entire- ly misconstrued the proper functions of the veto power. He objected to the sentence in the message referring to the "unfair and reckless granting of pensions by special acts. :" Eight hundred pension bills had been con- sidered by the Senate committee on pensions and two hundred had been reported unfa- vorably. He objected to comments on the two pension committees and on the two houses made by president who was violat- ing the constitution by his vetoes. The two houses represented the law making power of 50, 100000 of people, while the pension bureau was one of it's auxilliries, subsidiary creation. The President accepted the adju- dication of a s1 200 clerk as superior to the judgment of three or four hun- dred members of Congress. MT. Hawlsy also objected to another sentence in the veto message to the effect that those who had influence of friends to push their claims procured pensions, while those who had neither friends nor influence had to be content with their fate under the general law. He repelled with indignation that which in another place he would have characterized as grossly false.
 Mr. Hawley asked senators to compare the language of President Cleveland with the language employed by other presidents dur ing the course of a hundred years. The Ian guage of former presidents on veto messages had been that of courtesy and dignity, equal to that which came from the Supreme court. Scores on scores of such violations of pro- priety could be found in the vetoes of the present executive. This was not merely ais agreeable in a political sense, but the Ian guage of the President contained covert sting and insinuation concerning not only the wisdom, but the moral integrity of Con- gress. There was scarcely one of the Presi- dents IFS vetoes that did not contain some- thing of the kind. That thew Daniel come to judgment" seemed to suppose his position to be that of a judge of petty facts, and the Democratic party seemed to think there was divinity which hedged him in, and that the representatives of sixty millions of people must be aware in speaking of him how they touched his majesty.
 Mr. Butler admitted that the President had direct sledge- hammer way of getting at things which WAS pretty effective.
 MT. Blair said the Senator from South Car olina had criticised with great freedom the action of Congress in regard to pension legis- lation and had appeared to feel that he was justified in such criticism by confessing that he himself was as great Q sinner or the great est sinner of all. So far as he (Blair) could judge, the President had vetoed quite as good bills as those he had approved. Taken as a whole the vetoed cases were cases of absolute merit and the vetoes were outrages on the rights of American citizens. Many of these veto messages were libels upon Congress. off, lenses for which men in private life would assail each other, at least in courts.
 Without disposing of the subject the Sen ate at o'clock proceeded to the considera tion of the fisheries treaty in open session and was addressed by MT. George in favor of it's ratification.
 The Senate then took up Senate bill re- 4.>o If o1oipnc of IahO CTS, workmen and mechanics employed un- der the government since the 25th of June, 1868, for excess of labor over the eight hours fixed by the law of that date as total days work. The bill was discussed by Messrs. Cookerill, Blair. Payne, Vest and others.
 Mir. Blair replying to question said it was estimated that the cost under the bill would be from one to four millions.
 Mr. Dawes favored the reference of the matter to the accounting officers of the treas u1y. Many of these claims were for small amounts and the men should not be con- pelled to institute suit. He knew some of the leborers protested against his views and had argued against them, but it was nota- ble fact that every one who came to him came with claim agent and he was afraid that idea had been put into their heads by claim agents.
 Without action the Senate at 6 p. m. ad- journed to tomorrow.
 HoUsE.-Mr. Ford of Michigan, from com mittes on military affairs, reported back the resolution for the appointment of Q special committee to investigate alleged evasions of the contract law. Mir. Oates, of Alabama, spoke of the importance of the subject mat ter of the inquiry and thought that the conn., mittee should be composed of the best men in the House. In reply to question by MT. Vandever, of California, MT. Ford stated that the resolution was broad enough in it's scope to cover the subject of any evasion of the law against Chinese immigration.
 Mir Cox, of New York, called the attention of the House to the great necessity of this resolution to correct the abuses now exist ing. There was an abnormal immigration to this country by men persuaded to come here by false and fraudulent pretenseS Instead of there being ordinary immigration from the rate of 60,0o0 year under influences that should be inquired into. There had come into New York in one month 50, 900 men who did not know our language and who added nothing to our wealth and labor.
 Mr. Morrow, of California, was glad that the House at last comprehended the evil be- setting the country from unrestricted immi grafton. The Pacific coast has been con- frouted with that question for thirty years, and the representatives of that section had been declaring over and over again that the Chinese immigration could not be assimilat- ed Now New York was confronted by the same condition of affairs. Immigrants were coming there as slaves precisely as the Chi nese came into San Francisco
 After an intellectual effort by MT. Holman, of Indiana, to limit the expenses to 5000, the resolution WAS adopted.
 The House then went into committee on the tariff bill, the agreement being that no vote should be taken on the pending wool sehe- dule to-day.
 Mir E. s. Taylor said that the debate would be greatly shortened if the majority would agree to allow yea and nay vote to be taken in the House on the wool schedule, but Mr. Mills of Texas disclaimsd any su- thority to enter into any such arrangement.
 MT. Pugsley of Ohio opposed the schedule as it appears in the bill, contending that.it would destroy the sheep raising industry and incidentally make unavailable much of the poor land of the country. The duty on wool instead of being reduced should be increased and if this were done there would be in this country 100, ,000, 900 sheep instead of 40, ,G00,- 900 and 100000 growers instead of ,000 O0O
 Mir. Morse, of Massachusetts, criticised the action of the Republican party in the House in refusing to make any revision of the tariff and in refusing to allow the Democrats tc make any revision. The Democrats were ob-