Morris tribune., 1888-12-12
WORK OF CONGRESS.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 8.-At the conclu-
sion OF morning business in the senate,
the tariff bill was taken up and read by
sections for amendment. Senator Harris
said that to test the sense of the senate
he would move to lay the finance COM
mittee's amendment to the house bill on
the table. The yeas and nays being
called for a vote was taken with the re-
suit that the senate refused to lay the
finance committees substitute on the
table-yeas 10, nays 26. The division
was on party lines.
The substitute was then read by sec
tions for amendments, and thirty pages
of the bill were disposed of.
Senator Dawes introduced and the SEN
ate adopted resolution calling on the
secretary of the interior for information
concerning the alleged outrages on In
dian females and others in Alaska, and
the action, if any, taken by the depart
ment to protect the persons OF females In
Alaska from outrage, violence and re-
straint of liberty. Mr.. Dawes said that
he had no other Information on the sub
iect than that contained in the public
prints, but that if these stories were true
and the department of the interior had
adopted no measure to correct the out
RACES, the matter was a great public
scandal.
WASHINGTON, Dec. THE president
pro tempore laid before the senate Ger
titled copies of the certificates received
by the state department from the gov
ernors of Kansas, Maryland, North Car
olina and Georgia as to the result of elec-
ton for electors for president and vice
president. This is in accordance with a
law passed in 1887, requiring that copies
of these certificates shall be forwarded to
the two houses of congress by the score
tary of state. Mr.. Sherman raised the
question of the constitutionality of the
law and the papers were referred to the
committee on privileges and elections.
AT l :05 the senate resumed the consider
alton of the tariff bill.
The senate at 3 o'clock adjourned until
Monday.
WASHINGTON, Dec. lin the senate
Mr.. Frye offered a resolution instructing
the foreign relations committee to in
vestigate the condition of affairs in
Samoa. After some discussion the reso-
luton was referred and the senate took
up the tariff bin. In response to the
resolution Of Senator Dawes, adopted by
the senate few days ago, the secretary
OF the interior sent to the senate com
munication concerning the alleged out
RACES against the women of Alaska. The
secretary SAWS that the department pos
sesses no Information on the subject, MOI
has its attention been called to it, other.
l. anSc
of uncertain value" The department.
says the secretary, possesses no authority
to redress these grievances, even If they
do exist. After brief review of the
condition of the natives of the territory,
the secretary says that he has trans
mitted to the governor of the territory q
copy Of the senate resolution and of the
newspaper reports, and that as soon as
he forwards the information which has
been asked of him concerning these re-
ports, it will be transmitted to the SEN
ate.
The House.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 6.-Mr. Oates, OF
Alabama, introduced in the house a bill
providing that no alien shall be admitted
into the United States who is an idiot,
insane, pauper or liable to become a
public charge, or who has been legally
convicted of a felony or other infamous
crime Or Inisdemeanor, or who is pol
ygamist, Anarchist Or Socialist, or who
is afflicted with any loathsome or conta-
gious disease, or who has entered into
contract to perform labor.
Mr.. Richardson, of Tennessee, from
the committee on printing, reported a
resolution for the printing of %, 0OO
copies of the presidents message.
Adopted. Under the call of states the
following bills, etc., were introduced
and referred:
By Mr.. Oates, of Alabama, to regu-
late immigration.
By Mr.. vandever, California, to di-
vide the state of California into two
states.
By Mr.. Stewart, of Georgia, to estab-
ish a graduated income tax, the pro-
ceeds of which shall be applied to the
payment of pensions.
After passage of the bill to quiet title of
settlers on Des Moines river lands the
house adjourned.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 7.-Notice of Mr..
Belmont's resignation as q member of
congress from New York having been
received by the speaker, the clerk was
directed to drop Mr.. Beimont's name
from the roll of the house.
On motion of Mr.. Caswen, of Wiscon-
sin, the direct tax bill was taken up.
The order for the consideration of the
measure has been so modified as to make
it a special order for to-day. Tuesday and
Wednesday.
The house at $50 p. m. adjourned.
WASHINGTON, Dec. S.-The invalid
pension bill was reported and referred to
the committee of the whole.
The majority report in the South Car
DINA contested election case of .Smalls
vs.. Elliott was reported and placed upon
the calendar. It is in favor of Elliott,
the sitting member. The minority re-
port in favor of Smalls, was also reported
and placed on the calendar. The house
then went into committee of the whole
on the private calendar, the pending
business being the senate bill to incorpo-
rate the Nicaragua Canal company.
At the evening session the house
passed ten pension bills, and at 10 o'clock
adjourned until Monday.
WASHINGTON, Dec. lin the house a
large number of bills were introduced,
among them bill to repeal the inter-
state commerce law, by Morse, of Mas
sachusetts; bill reviving the grade of
lieutenant general in the army, by Camp
bell, of New York, and bill authoriz-
ing the construction of Notifications for
New York, Boston, Charleston and San
Francisco harbors, by Chapman, of
Michigan. District business was then
taken up.
Mr.. Holman, of Indiana, offered a
resolution instructing the committee on
the judiciary to investigate the charges
of the corrupt use of money at the recent
election. 1t was referred to the COM
mittee on the Judiciary.
Mcpherson, of New Jersey, moved to
postpone consideration of the tariff bill
until Jan. 10. The motion was defeated
on viva voce vote.
RESULTS OF A STRIKE.
The Montana Union Engineers Win Their
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