Wichita eagle., 1888-10-03
SENATE.

SENATE.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 2.-Ihe resolutlon
offeredsby Mr.. Call on the 9th OF Septem-
Der instructing the committee on epidemic
diseases to consider and report before the
adjournment of this session OF congress
additional legislation to prevent the I'M
portation of contagious or infectious dis
eases from foreign countries on the coast
and boundaries of the United States, was
taken up, and Mr. Call proceeded to speak
on it.
Mr.. Pasco offered an amendment re-
ouesting the committee to inquire further
into the introduction of yellow fever into
Florida and other states during the pres
ent year.
In the course of his remarks, Mr.. Call
read letter from DR.. Reed suggesting
spirits of ammonia as a method of cure
and prevention, and recommended that
some action be taken to test that method.
Mr.. Blair-Has the gentleman some
practical proposition to make SO as to
bring things to a focus?
Mr.. CALL have introduced joint reso-
luton asking the president OF the United
States to convene the academy of science.
Mr. Blair-What is the object OF con-
vening the academy of science?
Mr.. Call-And such other learned men
MIR. Bair-Learned men have worked
for ages on this business and have found
out nothing.
Mfr. CALI don't know any better plan
than to convene men of the greatest intel
ligence and ask them to adopt the proper
method of investigation and follow it up
in the most earnest and approved method
Mr.. Blair-How would it do to appoint
committee of the senate and let that
committee summon experts? l never
a. i. -Tzf - N q
ny yet
Mr.. CALI differ with my friend on
that. could show such men as Professor
Huxley and the late Doctor Proctor.
Mr.. Blair-These are not citizens of the
United States. How could the president
convene them?
MIR. Call-He could only request them to
attend.
Mr.. Blair-I know doctor in New
Hampshire who would find out more
about it than all of them. You may sum
mon him before the senate committee.
Mr.. CALL have no objections. have
no doubt but that he Is a very learned
man, but learning is not confined to any
particular limits. / acknowledge that
there are great men in New Hampshire
but there are also some great men else
where and let us have as many as we can
get.
Mr.. Blair-Suppose that a specific for
yellow fever be discovered and that the use
of that specific would interfere with the
doctrine of state rights, how would it be
them
Mr.. Call-We will attend to that cues
tion when it arises. | never knew states
to Interfere with good legislation.
Mr.. Blair-The trouble is that Florida
furnishes the yellow fever and we are ex-
pected to furnish the remedy.
After further discussion the resolution
nd n
mittee on epidemic diseases.
The conference report on the deficiency
bill was presented by Mr.. Hale and explain
I'd by him. The larger portion of the dis
greement vote had, he said, been arranged
by the conefrees. There were four matters
On which an agreement had not been
reached. One was the item to pay the
widow of Chief Justice Waite the balance
Of the years salary the house conefree in
ssting that there was no precedent for it:
another was the item TO pay the
gear's salary of AN internal revenue officer
who remained at his post in Florida and
died there of yellow fever; another was a
proposition to extend the land law to No
Mans Land and the other was the appro-
priation for the Industrial Christian home,
Of Utah Territory. Mr. Hale proceeded TO
Etate the argument on behalf of this latter
item. The institution was regularly Or
saniZed and was composed of many of the
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It's purpose was to relieve, protect and
care for respondent women and children
seeking to escape from polygamouS rela
tons The system excited the pro
found hostility of the Mormon church
aud It's leaders who saw in it grea5 peril
10 their institution, but so numerous were
The applicants for relief the benefactionS
received were entirely inadequate and the
application for aid had been made to con-
greSs and in the deficiency bill of 1886 the
senate had inserted an item of $4,000 in
aid of the object of the association. That
It remained in the bill and thus congress
embarked in the work and declared that a
home should be created and maintained in
Utah for the benefit of women and their
dependent children who should renounce
polygamy. Difficulty had been thrown in
the way OF the good work, however,
by a narrow construction given TO the law
by the governor of the territory, To the
effect that the first wife WAS not entitled
to the advantages OF the institution, mas
much as she WAS net a polygamous wife.
Congress had adopted this Industrial
Christian home of Utah as the agency in
the good work. The work was going on.
The association had gone forward and
purchased land and made contracts for
the erection of permanent home without
the appropriation in the deficiency bill
voted by the senate, but resisted
in the house the work would be
turned aside and crippled. He admitted
that the sum proposed in the deficiency
bill. s400oO, WAS large, but the work was a
great one. He could see in il, properly
sustained by congress and properly man
aged and carried out, more of a menace &c
oolygamy than any thing that had occurred
In the years that congress had been en-
deavoring TO deal with that great question
The Mormon leaders had set themselves
early and late against the amendment He
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ment, not the legislative, had been so i'm
pressed By the opposition of the Mormon
church that it ventured tC
set itself in the way marked
out by congress. The house conferees
would not agree TO the substantial parts
of the proposition in any respect. hey
said the sum was too large and that they
would not agree to any amount except OF
condition of the work or the building be