Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-04-18
SENATE AND HOUSE.
Able Discussion Of the
|, Tariff Question.
PIG IRON ! SELLY's PROTECTION
River and HarbOr Bill to Come
up Again-News of General
Interest.
GAssociated Press Dispatches to the HERAI d.


(Associated Press Dispatches to the HERAI D.
WASHINGTON, April 17.--In the
Senate to-day Cullom introduced a
bill providing that in all cases where
it shall appear that parties have paid
$3.50 per acre for land reduced in
price to $1.25 per acre by the act o
June Is, 1880, the Secretary of the
Interior shall be authorized to repay
to sucb parties the excess Of $l.25 pei
acre.
On motion of Mr.. Plumb the bill to
forfeit certain lands heretofore grant
ed for the pun pose of aiding in the
construction of railroads was taken up
for consideration, and a number Of
amendments were offered and ordered
printed and then the bill went over
until tomorrow.
The Senate then resumed the con-
oideration Of the bill for the admis-
sion OF South Dakota and the organi-
zation of the Territory of North Dako-
ts and was addressed by Mr..
Vest in opposition to the
bill. The Senator from Wis
,consin (Spooner) had spoken yester-
day of secession and said there was nc
difference between State trying to
break out Of the Union and the States
trying to break into it. But what did
that Senator say of the State neither
in nor out Of the Union which claimed
to exist as State in spite of the laws
and in defiance of Congress. If any
Southern community had undertaken
to do what the people of Dakota had
done there would have been an out
cry Immediately only exceeded by
that in regard to Fort Sumter, and
the Senator from Vermont would
have proposed piece of legislation
equivalent to that celebated legi lation
which he had carried in 1876 which
had put Hayes into the Presidential
chair and
''To ARMS, TO ARMS"
Would have been the cry all over the
North.
Edmunds wished to say with en-
phasis that he believed, and that
nine-tenths Of the people OF the United
States who knew anything about it
believed Che thoughD, that President
Hayes was lawfully and fairly elected
by the. votes OF the States, according
to the constitution OF the country, and
that the only evil which had existed
in regard to that matter was the at
tempt of a body of men at the head
quarters in New York to buy the cleo
tors of South Carolina, and these men
had not been Republicans.
Vest said: Conkling had made use
of expressions in the Senate chamber
showing that he had doubted the elec-
ton of Mr.. Hayes, and to this Edmunds
replied that he believed that Vest
was mistaken and that Conkling
thought Hayes was lawfully elected.
Vest remarked when the Senator from
Vermont stated that large majority
of the people believed that Hayes was
elected, he must take issue with him.
AS to the purpose of the Democratic
opposition to the bill being the keep
ing out of the three electoral votes Of
South Dakota, Vest denied it
energetically and declared his
'DelleI LnhU OIoVeiaIlu WOulu
be elected President by a
majority in which the votes would be
so small d fraction as not to affect the
result to any appreciable extent. The
Democratic Senators were willing to
admit the whole Territory of Dakota
as State, but were not willing to d.
vide it. A vote will be taken on the
bill tomorrow.
The Senate passed 35 private pen
sion bills, and, onamotion of Man
derson, the Senate bill for the relief OF
the Omaha tribe Of Indians in Ne
braska. authorizing the payment to
them of $40 900, being ten annual in.
stalments under the treaty, was taken
up, and amended by authorizing the
Secretary OF the Interior to extend the
time for the payment of the purchase
money for lands sold on the Omaha
Indian reservation, and was passed
The Sc nate bill for the public build
ing at Salem, Oregon ($100 ,0OO), was
passed. The Senate then adjourned.