The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-09-20
DOINGS IN CONGRESS,
The Senate Clings to the Chi
neSe Bill.
MIR. SHERMAN ON PROJECTION
The House Deals With a Number of
subjects of Minor Import.
ance.
SENATE.

WASHINGTON, September 19.-Ed-
'munds reported from the committee on
foreign relations an order that the
President of the Senate be directed to
withhold the transmission to the House
of Representatives the House bill to
prohibit the coming of Chinese labor
-ers to the United States until further
direction of the Senate. He asked for
its immediate consideration.
Teller objected to its present consid
Grafton and the order went over till to-
morrow.
Vest inquired of the presiding officer
what the effect of non action on the
proposed order would be. No response
was made.
Edmunds also offered a Joint resolu-
ton, appropriating 100000 to be ex-
pended und er the direction of the Presi
dent of the United States in the relief of
the suffering caused by the yellow
fever in Florida and asked for
Immediate consideration. He pointed
out that the money that had been ap-
propriated fer the purpose of prevent
ing the spread of the epidemic could
not be used as relief fund. The resolu
ton was passed.
Sherman's resolution as to Canadian
affairs was, at the request of Morgan,
postponed till to morrow.
Jones, of Arkansas, proceeded to adj
dress the Senate on the motion to refer
the Presidents annual message, and
discussed from a Democratic stand
point the questions of surplus and of
protective tariff, which he declared
ga SYSTEM OF NAKED ROBBERY"
Stewart next addressed the Senate
expressing views directly opposite to
those put forward by Jones, declaring
that the existing stagnation and de-
preston in prices did not result from
the tariff, but from the decentralization
of silver.
Stewart pictured the condition of the
growing manufactures CT the south and
their rapid development within the last
few years, maintaining that the south
needed protection more than the north,
and with protection and development
its great natural resources, its wealth
and prosperity would soon rival the
north. He commended that there could
not be any free trade for the United
States with any other country, every
nation maintained a high protective
tariff against the products of the
United States, and that Great
Britain and her colonies legislated
especially to protect their own
industries and exclude all products, not
only by tariff and export duties, but
subsidized her merchant marine; that
since the United States made move
discriminating in favor of American
ships, foreign countries had adopted a
system of subsidies which made it i'm
possible for an American vessel to en-
gage in foreign trade; that free trade in
the United States meant the surrender
of our markets TO all the world, al
though without the possibility of recip-
rocetion from any source, the destrnc-
ton of our manufactures, the with
drawal of our gold to pay foreign
balances, and universal bankruptcy
throughout the country; that union be-
tween the six cen Southern States,
called the "Solid South" 163 votes with
the agents of foreign bondholders
and foreign manufacturers, located in
the City of New York, controlling by
the lavish use of money New
York, Brooklyn and adjacent places,
for the purpose Of overwhelming the
voters in the States of New York, New
Jersey and Connecticut, and adding 81
votes to the solid south is unnatural,
unpatriotic, in the interest of England
and against that of the United States,
and has no excuse, which the
COTTON planters of the south.
while slavery existed, urged for
opposing protection to home
manufacturers and advocating free
trade with England. On the contrary,
the infant manufacturers depend on
the policy of protection and no person
can be benefited by free trade except
foreigners and the agents of foreigners
doing business in the United States.
A number of bills we're taken
from the calendar and passed.
Among them were the following:
House bill to amend the river and
harbor appropriation bill of 1884 in re-
Iation to the use of the st. Mary's Falls
and other canals; the House bill grant
ing to the Duluth & Winnipeg Railroad
Company a right of way through the
Fond du Lac Indian reservation, Min
nesota, amended so as to give similar
rights aero SIS the Umatilla Indian Re
servation in Oregon, to the Oregon
r abroad Navigation Company, and
also so as to increase beyond 120 900
acres the extent of the Umatilla Ie-
servation to be reserved, after the a'lot-
ments in severalty; Senate bill to accept
and ratify the ACRE ement OF the 14th of
Nav, $780, submitted by the Shoshones,
Bannocks and Sheepeaters of Fort Hall
and Lembi Reservation in Idaho.
Adjourned.