Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-08-16
CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS.
The Senate.

ICopy7ght, 1888, by the California Associated Press
WASHINGTON, August 15th-Senator Ed
munds introduced resolution inuuiring
into the amounts due white depositors who
were not connected with the mismanage-
ment of the Freedmens Bank. His object
in introducing the resolution was to show
the equity of paying deserving white de-
positors of the bank. The resolution was
laid over, on motion of Senator Beck.
Senator Sherman's resolution requiring
the Secretary of the Treasury to furnish the
Senate information regarding United States
securities held by national banks, was
agreed to.
Senator Mitchell reported favorably the
bill paying Sc 600 to NJ. S. Helman, of Can
yon City, Or, for grain and -four furnished
the United States army in 1871. He also
introduced resolution requesting the Sec
retary of the Interior to furnish to the Sen
ate information regarding the Puyallup In
dlans. III Washington Territory, and peti-
ton from the citizens of Washington Ter
ritory praying for two new judicial districts.
letter was received from the Secretary
OF the Interior transmitting information
regarding railroads which have been
granted the right of way through Indian
reservations.
bill was passed for the relief of certain
parties who paid 81 so per acre for United
States Government lands, since reduced in
price TO 81 25 per acre, by Act Of Congress,
June 80, 1885,
The fisheries treaty was then taken up.
and Senator Morgan resumed his speech in
favor OF it. He said in answer to remarks
made by the Republicans, that millions of
money were not made in Southern indus
tries, while millions were as thick in the
Republican party as pig tracks on the COM
mon highway.
Senator Teller next took the floor and
answered the charges of Senator Morgan,
regarding the terms closing the civil war,
made in connection with his fisheries
speech. Senator Teller said that was the
time for those Senators who owed their
position to the clemency of the Govern
ment to have made other terms, and Sen
atoTs now on the floor expected worse, as
was shown by their flight from the coun-
try. He thought they ought to be thankful
for the Governments magnanimity.
Vest followed in political speech. in
which he attacked Harrison and the Re-
publican party on the Chinese question.
Dolph replied to Vest, and denied that
Harrison's record in Congress would
show that he ever had been in favor
of the admission of Chinese labor
into this country. The people Of the
Pacific Coast were not to be deluded
in this matter. They understood the
policy which lay back of the Mills bill, and
which had inspired the Presidents message.
They saw the great Democratic party with
its arms around the great industrial struct-
ures of the country, as Samson had his
arms around the pillars OF the Philstine
temple, ready to pull it down over their
heads, and they were willing to trust the
question of Chinese immigration to the
Republican party.
Mitchell also defended the record of
Harrison on the Chinese question, and said
that the only restrictive legislation on that
subject had come from the Republican
party.
Allison said he desired to put in his most
emphatic protest against the attempt made
by Vest to draw distinction between the
two great political parties on the subject of
Chinese immigration. He would say for
himself that after Senator's Mortons re-
port In 1873 or 1879, and after the debate in
the Senate in 1879, his mind was clear that
it was the duty of the Government to ex-
ercise its undoubted power in the most sp-
propriate way, either by treaty or by legis-
laton, to secure the prohibition of Chinese
immigration. He never varied for a mo-
ment from that judgment He did not be-
ieve Mr.. Harrison-who, he believed.
would and ought to be elected to the Presi-
dency-entertained any different senti-
ment. He did not speak for Mr.. Harri-
son. Mr.. Harrison was no Lilliputian
candidate, but was The peer of his accusers,
from wherever they might come. He
would defend himself on all proper occa-
sions as respected his votes in the Senate.
The Senator from Missouri Vest ought TO
know, and did know that the Republican
party was as vigorous and strong on the
Chinese question az the Democratic party.
Allison presented the conference report
on the army appropriation bill, which,
without being read, was ordered to be
printed IN the Record, to be acted on to-
morrow.
Adjourned.
The House.
WAsHINGToN, August 15th.-The House
went into Committee Of the Whole on the
Notifications appropriation bill. The pend
ing point of order against the section pro-
Viding for the establishment of q gun
factory at Wateryliet Arsenal was with
drawn by Townshend but renewed by
Turner of Kansas, and ovefruled by the
chair
Nutting of New York offered an amend
ment appropriating $500 900 for the erec-
ton OF a drydock and proper machinery,
buildings and appliances, at some point on
Lake Ontario for building and repairing
armed ships.
Nutting said that in case of trouble with
England the greatest danger to the United
States would be on the northern frontier,
at Kingston Almost within cannon shot
OF the shores of the United States Canada.
dependency of England, was building a
drydoek for the construction of war YES
sells.
Farquhar of New York declsued that the
state OF New York, independently of other
States, would take contract to take care
of Canada and her five millions ipside of
sixty days.
BuuerTorth earnestly denounced the
action OF the Senate in amending the army
appropriation bill BY providing for forti6ca-
tons IN contragention Of what II knee To
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