The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1888-01-25
MONTANA.
BILL FOR ADMISSION As A STATE.
BRIDGE ACROSS THE MISSISSIPPI
AT MEMPHIS.
Special Committee on Pacific Rail
road Matters.
The Judiciary Committee Does Not Feel
Hurt at Transferring the subject
from its Jurisdiction


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and admission of the State of Montana.
Referred.
| THAT SPECIAL CoHsfrrTEE OF FIVE.
Mr.. Hoar called up the motion male
by MIR. German some time since, to re-
consider the vote by which the Senate
had ordered a special committee of five
on Pacific Railroad matters. He ex-
planned his motive in proposing the
special committee. The Judiciary Com
mittee had had the subject under con-
sideration for great while and he
should be the last Senator to question
with that or any other subject within
its jurisdiction. but it SO happened that
| it was a necessity for that committee to
deal with subjects before it without
| giving hearing to persons Interested.
The pressure of business upon it pre-
cluded its doing so, but it was exceed
| ingly important that legislation on this
| subject, which involved dealing with
| amounts and figures and ascertaining of
| what was within the power of the COM
| panies to do so on one side, and what
would be the most absolute security for
| the Government ON the other, should be
| considered by committee that could
have before it representatives of the
companies and officers of the Govern
ment The subject had been committed
by Congress to n special commission, it
had been made the subject of special
| executive message, and it therefore
seemed eminently proper that it should
be referred to a special committee.
Mr.. German said that when he made
| the motion to reconsider, it was simply
under the general impression that sub
| ject of such magnitude had better be
considered by a standing committee of
| the Senate. But for reasons stated by
the Senator from Massachusetts, and for
other reasons which had come to his
knowledge, he now thought that the best
| disposition of the question would be to
refer it to a select committee. He sug-
gested, however. that the committee
| should consist of seven members.
JUDICIARY COMMITTEE WILLING.
In the full and extended discussion
| which followed it appeared that the
Judiciary Committee were quite satisfied
to be relieved of the labor of considering
the subject. ard We're not at all jealous
of the prerlgative or precedent that at
tached to their having, for several ses-
sions previous to this one, had the Pacific
Railroad debt under consideration.
Neither did the change proposed occur
to them as being in the nature of a re-
Election upon them in any way, while its
wisdom appealed To their best judgment.
These were the opinions of Edmunds
(chairman), Hoar and Vest, while Coke
and George preferred the matter should
continue in charge of the Judiciary
Committee. Other Senators also par
ticipated in the discussion.
The resolution ordering the appoint
ment of the special committee was
reconsidered.
INCREASED To SEVEN.
A motion to refer the matter to the
Railroad Committee was rejected. The
original resolution was modified by in
creasing the membership of the select
committee to seven, and it was then
adopted.
Yeas-Aldrich. Allison, Bats, Beck,
| Blair, Blodgett, Bowen, Butler, Call,
Cameron, Chace, Chandler, Colquitt,
Cullom, Dawes, Dolph, Edmunds, Eus-
| tbs, Evarts, Farwell, Frye, German,
Gray. Hale, Hampton, Harris, Hawlev,
| Hesrst, Hiscock, Hoar, Ingalls, of Ne
vada, Manderson, Mitchell, Morgan,
| Morrill,. Paddock, Palmer, Pasco, Payne,
Platt, Plumb, PuSh, Quay, Sawyer.
| Sherman, Stewart, Stockbridge, Teller,
| Turpie, Vest, voorhees,, Wilson of Iowa,
and Wilson of Maryland-5i.
| Nays-Berry, Cockrell, Coke, Davis,
| George, Jones of Arkansas, Kenna,
Mcpherson, Ransom, Reagan, Sabin,
Salisbury, Spooner and walthall-l5.
THE IMMIGRATION BILL
Mr.. Palmer addressed the Senate on
the subject of the bill introduced by him
on the l2th inst. to regulate imInigra-
tion. He disclaimed any intention to
prevent any capable, honest, industri-
Gus, law-abiding person from seeking a
home ON American soil, but, he said, an
undue and oppressive competition in
wages was being felt at the industrial
centres, public institutions were being
over taxed, and, worst of all, there was
growth of classes, unamerican and
hard of assimilation. which menaced
the public peace and threatened to over
turn all established law and usage. The
conviction was growing that the coun-
try. with it's sixty million of population
and its forty billions of wealth, hac
passed beyond the need of immigration
and that it was time to go out of TIN
asylum business; time to cease to b
the dumping ground for the vicious, de
linquent human product Of other ma
tions. The object of this bIwas Z
provide for the exclusion of dependen,
delinquent and dangerous classes throug
an inspection and investigation in thei
own country, instead of at the ports G
entry, and to effect this with the leas
possible hardship or Inconvenience
desirable immigrants.