Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-01-10
THE CAPITAL.
A GEORGIA SENATOR AGAINST
FREE TRADE.
The Sacramento Land Office-I,a-
mar Out of Danger-South Da-
kota-Tax Cases-Etc.
lsPEcIAs DISPATCHES TO THE gEcoRp-uS1os.l
CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS.


WASHINGTON, January 9th.--In the SEN
ate number OF bills and memorials were
offered, among them the following: By
Jones of Nevada-A concurrent resolution
requesting the President to negotiate a
treaty with China, and containing provision
that no Chinese shall enter the United
States, except ambassadors and others en-.
gagged In the diplomatic service and mer-
chants engaged in trade between the United
States ana foreign countries. Laid on the
table.
Mitchell offered a resolution calling on
the Secretary of State for copies of the cor
respondence with the American Minister
to Corea relative to recent alleged attempts
on the part of the Chinese Government to
dethrone the King and to absorb Corea.
Referred to the Committee on Foreign Re-
lations.
Teller, from the Committee on Public
Lands, reported bills granting to the CITY of
Colorado Springs, n the State of Colorado.
certain lands for water reservoirs and grant
ing rights of way through public lands for
irrigation purposes. Placed on the calendar.
The Senate then took up the resolution
offered by Brown on the Ash of January for
the repeal of the internal revenue laws.
Brown addressed the Senate in favor of the
resolution, and moved its reference to the
Committee on Finance.
Beck objected, and the resolution was laid
on the table.
The Blair educational bill was taken up,
and Vest spoke in opposition. If he was
called upon, he said, 10 frame title for it,
he would call it An Act to erect monu-
ment to the memory of Alexander Hamil-
ton, and to encourage mendicancy in the
Southern States" He expressed his sur
prise and regret that Democratic
Yln LaI Il
to an eloquent defense of the strict
construction OF the Constitution and the
Jeffersonian doctrine-that all the powers
OF appropriation were given to Con-
gress under the express, or necessarily i'm
piled, guarantee of the Constitution-were
now found to have surrendered all the
landmarks of their party in the presence of
that great temptation IN the proposed law
II the dead were permitted to take any in
terest in the affairs of the living, what, he
asked, must be the surprise of the majestic
spirit OF John G. Calhoun when he saw his
former followers-strict constructionists
and States right Democrats of the South
yelling in both houses of Congress for the
old Tag and an appropriation In his judg-
ment the enactment of the pending bill
would be greater calamity to The Southern
people than war, pestilence and famine
At the close of his speech the Senate
went into executive session, and soon ad-
journed.
The House.
WASHINGTON, January 9th.-Baker of
ILLINOIS, from the Committee ON Accounts,
reported resolution designating the com
mittees entitled to employ clerks
Shaw demanded the previous question,
but the House refused TO sustain the de-
mand
Hooker of Mississippi offered an amend
ment assigning clerks TO a certain few COM
mittees named therein.
Perkins of Kansas offered an amend
ment providing a clerk for each and every
member of the House at salary of 500 a
month each.
Bayne of Pennsylvania said they all
wanted clerks, and should have the cour-
age to say so, and not beat the devil around
the bush by giving clerks to committees
that didn't need them.
After further debate the whole matter
was again referred to the Committee on
Accounts.
The Speaker then proceeded to call the
States for the introduction of bills and reso-
luhons, under which call the following
were introduced and referred
By Oates of Alabama-Resolution direct
ing the Committee on Judiciary to report
what legislation is necessary to limit and
restrict the numbers of foreigners annually
coming into the United States, and to
secure the better protection of the people of
this country against the evils arising from
indiscriminate admission to domicile and
citizenship of paupers. outlaws and turbu-
lent persons from other countries.
BY McKenna of Observation-Disclosures
the purchase of tools for Mare Island NAVY
Yard.
By Thompson OF California-For the
development of silk culture in the United
States.
By Symmes of Colorado-For the erec-
ton of a Custom house at Denver.
By Springer of Illinois-Proposing con-
stitutional amendment prohibiting polyga-
my.
By O'Donnell of Michigan-To repeal
the duty on sugar, and to provide for the
payment of bounty of 100000 a year
for two years for the cultivation of sugar in
the United States.
Further call of States was then postponed
until tomorrow, and the House adjourned.