The Delta independent., 1888-08-21
THE FIFTIETH CONGRESS.
MONDAY, AUG. IS.

At the close of Mr.. Calls speech the pre-
siding officer, MIR, Cockreii, announced the
question to be on Mr.. Morg ans motion that
he postpone consideration of the treaty till
December.
Mr.. Roar called for the yeas and nays.
Mr. Gray said he desired 10 say some
speech in favor of the postponement OF the
consideration. Mr.. Gray said it had become
evident from outgiNings of the Republican
side of the chamber that the treaty was not
was being discussed in the midst of an eXt
cited political campaign and the Demo-
cratic Senators had been told they
were arguing the, British side OF the
tion of the treaty be postponed to a more
quiet session. No inter 81 involved could
possibly be affected mlnrioUsly by the pro
posed postponement. The fishermen whose
rights were the subject matter OF the Treaty
were pursuing their avocatious unmoiested.
and undisturbed under the protocol at
tached to the treaty. After some Iurther
debate the discussion went over until to!
morrow and the Senate adjourned.
HousE.-Mr. Dubois of Idaho offered u
resolution calling on the attorney general
for list OF the pardons granted by the
President to persons convicted OF unlawful
Referred.
The floor was then accorded to the COM
mittee OF the District of Columbia. The
rirst bill called up was the one authorizing
bia to condemn property on Rock creek Tor
ark purposes. IL gave rise to Il protracted
discussion. The bill was finally Iecommit-
ted.
The House then went into committee of
the whole on the Fertilization Appropria-
tiOn bill and proceeded to the consideration
of the bill by sections.
TUESDAY, AUG Il.
SENATE-Mr. Reagan introduced bill
TO- define trusts and to provide Tor the pun
ishment of persons connected with them.
In the course of the discussion as TO its
reference, Mr.. Sherman said he had given
some attention to the subject in order TO
see how far it was within the constitution
al power of Congress to prohibit trusts
and combinations in restraint of trade. 1t;
was very clear there was no such power in,
Congress to be derived from its power to
raise and collect taxes. 1t was power
which might be exercised by each state by
itself. Similar laws had been enacted III
England and other countries. Whether
such laws could be engrafted by Natiomap
authority on the statute books of the
United States under its peculiar system of
government there WAS some doubt.
The Senate then resumed consideration
OF the FISHERIES treaty and was ad-
dressed by Mr.. Morgan.
MIR. Sherman introduced bill to declare
unlawful trusts and combinations in re-
straint of trade and production and had it
referred to the Committee on Finance,
After an executive session the Senate adj
journed.
HousE-Mr. O'Neill, of Missouri, rising
Clerks desk and had read an article in a
Washington paper TO the effect tnat the eff
fort of the Democrats to pass 4 bill for the
relis of the Cherokee freedmen was the re-
suit Of q bargain with j. Milton Turner,
"the freedmen's attorney and WAS in
tended as compensation to him for his SER
vices to the Democratic party at the Indian
apolis Colored Convention. Mr.. O'Neiil
said he desired to Lrand the statement as
an absolute lie from beginning to end
The House then went into Committee of
the Whole on the Appropriation bill but be-
ing,unable to hold aquorum soon afterwards
adjourned.
WEDNESDAY, AUG. To-.
SENATE-The resolution offered yester
day by Mr.. Sherman, calling on the secre
amount deposited in the national banks on
August /, 1888, and of the amount and des-
criptiOn of United States bonds and other
securities pledged for the repayment of
Mr.. Dawes presented the conference
report on the bill to accept and ratify the
agreement with the shoshone and Ban
mock Indians. as to the position of the Fort
agreed to.
The Senate then proceeded to the bills on
the calendar and passed the Sei.ate bill for
the relief of certain parties who have paid
ment lands reduced in price to sl.25 per
acre by act of Congress approved June Is,
1880.
The Senate then proceeded to the con-
sideratiOn of the fisheries treaty.
MI. Morgan resumed his argument in
favor of the resolution to postpone 1t till
December next. In the course OF a cOlloquy
and after some illusions 10 Yankees on the
tbetween Messrs. Morgan, Frye, Dawes and
HawIey) Mr.. Morgan said: You have
never hesitated to sneer at us and to-day
we are rebels, traitor, men not to be
trusted, men who violate Oaths and at
lacked national flags, men whose consci-
ences are burdened with the feeling that i'll
q political sense we all deserved to be hanged
and that we are living now by your mercy
10 hang any of us. You had Jefferson
Davis under arrest and the United States
government did not dare to bring him to
trial, because 1t would have turned out that
would have 20 try him he had not committed
trta on.
MIR. Teller replied 10 some statements in
Mir. MOrgan's speech 10 the effect that dur,
log Mr.. Artilur5 administration many out,
RACES had been inflicted on American fish
cry vessels and had not been resented by
that administration; He declared that
there YVES not a word OF truth in such
statement. During that administI alton
there had never been seizure of a single
American vessel for violation OF the treaty
a,f 1878, but since the present administra-
lion came into power there had been more
than 400 American vessels seized and
more than 9, 2,000 boarded by Canadian and
British authorities. The flag had been,
hauled down and no apology had ever been
made for it
AS to the suggestion that the government
had not dared to have Jefferson Davis
tried because the court would not have
found him guilty Of high treason, Mr.. Tel
der characterized that as "bosh."
Trsr-- hal a N II
Zee OF the Whole on the Fertilization bill.
'fhe pending point of order against the sec!
lion providing for the establishment OF n
gun tnctory at the Watervelt arsenal was
withdrawn by Mr.. Townsend, but was re-
l,ewed by Mr.. Turner, of Kansas, and over
ruled by the chair.
Mr.. Nntt,ng, of New York, offered an
amendment appropriating $4,000 for the
erection of a dry dock and proper mach,n-
cry, buildings and appliances at soIne point
on Lake Ontario, for building and repair
ing armed ships. Mr.. NuttiDg said that in
case of trouble with England the vital ques!
tion would be as TO to danger ON the north
ern frontier. At Kingston, almost witiii,
cannOn-shot of the shores OF the United
states, Canada, n dependency Of England.
was building derricks Tor the constrneti.l,
Of war yessels.
MIR. Farguahar, of New York, declared
that the state of New York, Independently
to take care of Canada and her 5,ODO,O10 in.
habitants inside of sixty days.
On point OF order raised by Mr.. Town
shend the section providing for the appoiDi-
Ment OF a board of defense and appropria'-
iny 50 ATT 600 for the pxu,luSetl of the Dparl