The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-10-03
SENATE AND HOUSE.
The Deficiency Appropriation
Bill Under Consideration.
THE UTAH CHRISTIAN HOME.
A Long Discussion Over the Proposed
Appropriation for Ahis
InstitutiOn.
SENATE.

WASHINGTON, October 2.-The resolu-
ton offered by Call on the 9th of
September, instructing the committee
on epidemic diseases to consider and
report before the adjournment of this
session of Congress, additional legisls-
ton to prevent the importation of con-
fagious or infectious diseases from
foreign countries on the coast and
boundaries of the United States, was
taken up and Call proceeded to 81 eak
upon it.
Pasco offered al amendment direct
ing the committee to inquire further
into the introduction of yellow fever
into Florida and other States during
the present year.
In the course of his remarks Call
read letter from DR.. Reed, suggesting
spirits of ammonia as a method of cure
and prevention, and recommending
Lhat some action be taken to test that
method.
A long discussion followed, in which
Blair, Pasco, Call, Chandler, Morgan
and Barry were the principal speakers.
Morgan said there were eight states
in the south, which had been hereto
fore subjected to the savages of yellow
fever. He proposed that each of these
States should vote 100000 making a
fund of $800,000, that the Governor of
each of these States should appoint
- commissioner, that the board should
select a president and form a
Joint commission, composed OF
men selected for their reliability
and skill, and that this commission
. should have access to the fund and use
any part of it, wherever yellow fever
might appear.
After discussion, the resolution and
amendment were referred TO the COM
mittee on epidemic diseases.
The conference report on
THE DEFICIENCY BILL
was presented by Hale, and explained
by him. The larger portion of the dis
agreeing votes had, he said, been ar
ranged by the conferees. There were
four matters on which an agreement
had not been reached. Oge was the
item to pay the widow of Chief
Justice Waite the balance Of his
wears salary, the House conferees hold.
ing that there was no precedent
tor it. Another vas the item to pay
years salary of an internal revenue
official who remained at his post in
Florida and died there of yellow fever.
Another was the proposition to extend
the land laws to No-Man land, and
another was the appropriation for the
INDUSTRIAL CHRISTIAN HOME
in Utah Territory. Hale proceeded to
state the arguments on behalf of the
latter item. The association was regu-
larly organized and was composed of
many of the leading business men of
Salt Lake City. Its purpose was to re-
lieYe. protect and care for dependent
women and children seeking to escape
from polygamous relations. The scheme
had excited the profound hostility of
the Mormon church and its leaders,
who saw in it great peril to their insti-
buttons. But so numerous were the
applications for relief that the bene-
fcations received were entirely made
quate and the application for aid had
been made to Congress and in the de-
fciency bill OF 1886, the Senate had in
serted an item of $4,000 in aid of the
objects of the association. That item
remained in the bill and thus Congress
embarked in the work and declared
that the home should be created and
maintained in Utah for the benefit of
women and their dependent children,
who should renounce polygamy. A
difficulty had been thrown in the
way of the good work, however,
by the narrow construction given to
the law by the Governor OF the Terri
tory 10 the effect that the first wife
was not entitled to the advantages of
the institution inasmuch as she was
not polygamous wife. Congress had
adopted this Industrial Christian
Home of Utah, as its agency, in good
work. - The work was gong on, the
association had gone forward and pur-
chased land and made contracts for the
erection of permanent home. With
out the appropriation in the deficiency
bill voted by the Senate, but resisted by
the House, the work would be turned
aside and crippled. lie admitted that
the sum proposed in the deficiency bill
$4,000, was large, but
THE WORK WAS GREAT ONE.
he could see in it, properly sustained
by Congress and properly managed and
carried cut, more Of q menace to poly
gamy than any tnlnS lnaC naQ occurred
in the years that Congress has been
endeavoring deal with that great
question. The Mormon leaders per-
ceiVed that, and had set themselves
early and late against the amendment.
He complained that branch of the
Government-not the legislatiVe-had
been 50 impressed by the opposition of
the Mormon Church, that it ventured |
to set itself il the way of the course
marked out by Congress.
The House conferees would not !
agree to the substantial parts of the |
proposition in any respect. They said |
that the sum was too large and that |
they would not agree to any amount |
except on the condition Of work on the |
building being turned over to the super
vising architect of the Treasury. He |
appealed to the Senate to insist on the |
amendment.
Ceckrell, one of the Senate conferees.
stated that it was his conviction thatno |
influence Of the Mormon Church had
been brought TO bear in an shape or
form in the discussion of the question.