Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-09-12
CONGRESS
The Senate Still Dallyfng with the
Exclusion Bill.

WASHINGTON, September 11.-In the
Senate to-day the House amendment to
the Senate bill for a pension to the
widow of General Heintzelman, reducing
the amount from $100 to $75 month,
was nou-concurred in. A conference was
ordered.
Sherman, from the Committee on
Finance, reported the Senate bill to de-
clare unlawful trusts and combinations
in restraining trade and production.
Placed on calendar.
The bill for the allowance of certain
private claims, known as the Fourth of
July claims, numbering sixty-eight, and
carrying an aggregate appropriation OF
$3.50, 900, caused long, heated political
discussion Including an attack and de-
fense OF President Ceveland's pension
policy.
Harris inquired OF the Chairman of the
Committee on Claims as to another of
these claims bills, passed by tho House
masy months ago, and referred to that
Committee.
Spoouer replied that as it came from
the House it appropriated $155,O00, but
amendments had been offered to it by
Senators until it now aggregates 1886, 900.
The Committee on Claims had referred
the bill to him, and he had looked into
several of the claims in the bill as passed
upon the Court of Claims, and found that
the findings of the Court were not sus-
tained by the testimony.
The Senate then resumed consideration
of the Chinese Exclusion bill and was
addressed by Stewart in favor of it.
He was followed by Mr.. Teller, who
criticised the manner in which the Chin
ese Exclusion bill had been introduced
into and passed hurriedly through the
House. 1t was an open secret that the
bill originated in the minds of persons
not in the House, but outside of it..
When the bill was presented in the Sem
ate he waited to hear from the Senator
from Alabama (Morgan) to move to
refer it to the Committee on
Foreign Relations, and when that
action was made or if with
drawn, he himself had been almost in
clined from proper regard for decency to
make it, but he had thought if the men
who were supporting the Administration
did not, it was not for the Senators from
clamoring for such Legislation, to
been inclined to fall in the pit prepared
by the Democratic party. He had re-
called the saying OF the sweet singer of
Israel, talking Of his enemy: che made
pit and digged it, and he has fallen
into the ditch which he made" That
had been the condition of the Democratic
party when the Senator from Maryland
| (Gorman) came to its rescue.
The bill went over till tomorrow with
out action.
Plumb offered resolution, which was
adopted, requesting the President to
transmit to the Senate all correspondence
or communications concerning the late
Chinese treaty between the State Depart
ment and the American Minister to
China, or anv other representative or
agent of the United States in China or
elsewhere.
| HOUSE PROCEEDINGS.
The House resumed consideration of
the Sundry Civil Appropriation bill, the
to the reclamation of the arid regions. A
long discussion on the amendment fol-
lowed.
Weaver, of Iowa, urged the necessity
OF reserving portions of the wild lands
suitable for reservoir purposes.
Vaudever, of California, and Symes,
of Colorado, favored the Senate amend
ment, which was attacked by Herbert, of
Alabama.
Finally the debate ended and the ap-
preparation in the Senate amendment
was reduced from $3.50 900 to 100000.
Holman offered a substitute for the
Senate amendment, providing that the
necessary expenses for carrying on the
work Of the survey shall be paid from
the appropriation for Typographical
survey of the United States, and sus-
pending the operations of the desert land
law during the pendency in Congress OF
legislation looking to its repeal. The
vote resulted, yeas 81, nays 73. No
quorum. Adjourned.