The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-02-10
Thursdays Business in the
Senate and House.
THE DISCUSSIONS ON BILLS,
Monopoly Catches 1t In the house
Public Building Appropriations
In the Senate.
SENATE.

tons, reported to the Senate bill in
cooperating the Marstime Canal Com
pany of Nicaragua, and said he would
move to take it up, early next week.
Placed on the calendar.
| Henderson, from the committee on
printing, reported joint resolution for
the disposition of the undistrIbuted
copies of the records of the rebellion,
reports of the tenth census, and reports
OF the public land commission. The
resolution gave rise4to diScussi on, in
the course of which Vest gave expires
sion to his ideas as to the value Of the
| publications of the government print
| ing Office. He had q room IN Washing
ton in which there were several hun
drad volumes of public documents.
! bound in caf at the expense of
government, which books he conld not
give away. He could not trade them
off; he could not dispose OF them, unless
| he put them IN the fire. The upper
portion of the Capitol was crammed to
the roof with books, and yet there was
a continual stream OF these publications
pouring out OF the government printing
Office. Money might as well be taken
out apd thrown into the Potomsc river.
Teller admitted there was great waste
in that direction, but his experience
was not like that of the Senator from
Missouri.
Henderson suggested that Vests
stateme was the best argument he
had heard for the passage OF the Blair
educational bill.
The allusiop, by Salisbury, to the
Presidents message and accompany
| ing documents, as something which
people took no interest in, created
much amusement on the Republican
! side of tAe chamber. Finally, the joint
resolution was passed.
Riddlsbsrger s resolution for amend
ing the rules, so as to allow the British
extradition treaty to be considered in
open session, was reached in regular
| order. Rjddleberger explained that the
British lions tail having been twisted
by vote of % to 81. the passage of the
resolution was no longer necessary.
Senator Hawley, and others, called
the Virginian TO order, and be sat
down, remarking, as he did so, that
he supposed he had a right to
say so much, and that he did
not like to be called to order
every time he rose. Riddleberger'
illusions was to the vote of the secret
session last night, by which considera
ton OF the treaty was postponed to
next December. -.
The resolution offered by Plumb,
calling on the Secretary of War for
information as to why adequate care
had not bsen taken of the military
cemetery at Mound City, Kansas, WAS
adopted, as was also the resolution by
Plumb, calling on the Secretary of the
Interior for information as to changes
made by registers and recorders OF the
land offices for producing testimony to
writing.
The Blair bill was taken up as unfn-
ished business and laid aside.
A bill to authorize the sale to aliens
of certain mineral lands, was then
taken up, and after discussion, it
hinged upon the fact that non.Demo-
cratic members OF the committee were
present for consideration. Edmunds
moved its Recommendation to the COM
mittee on mines and mining. Ed
munds suggested that he could see no
good reason why distinction should not
be made between mineral lands and
agricultural lands, and sayiIHg some
what point-dly that if ne wanted to
obtain political influence he would pre-
A01 ~ NC q A4AAlO WHICH 1otdOl tuGu dI
owner of an adjacent agricultural
township, and Reagan arguing there
was strong popular sentiment for which |
the act of last session prohibiting alien
ownership of lands IN Territories was |
responsible. He would regret any
abridgement of the provisions of that |
act. The bill Was also opposed by |
Plumb.
Stewart replied: A silver mine in the |
he said, was as worthless as
a desert without capital. That capital,
so far from interfering with the laoerer
and bealing him down, brought en-
plovment to him and raised the price of
his labor. 1t was the laboring men OF
the Territories who were demanding the
passage OF this bill. They were asking
that capital should not be kept out OF
mines, and themselves deprived of en-
oloyment. The law of last Congress
vas an unjust restriction on the devel-
,pment of the Territories, discrimi-
lation against them, which no State in
he Union had put upon its own min
ng industries.
The bill was recommitted to the COM
nittee on mines and mining, and
stewart gave notice that there would
,e meeting Of that coIamittee next ;
Tuesday morning.
On motion of Morrill, the Senate ,
oint resolution for the erecting of a
tatue to the late SpeHcer F. Baird.
ecretary of the Smithsonian Institute, .
u front of the National Museum, and :
he appropriating of $4,000 for the ;
was passed. J
The Senate bill appropriating sc, 600 =
dditioDal for the public building al :
PENSACOLA, Florida, was taken up, AND S.
ecame the theme for general discus =
ion as to the erection of public build
ugs.
Vest, from the committee on public
buildings, stated, in reply to a question
rom Edmupds as to the aggregate
mount of bills for that purpose now
fore that committee, that he was I'M D
bic to furnish information but the s
ariH bill and the Blair bill would sink f
nto inslgnificance as compared with V
for public buildings. i
Dawes related his experience in re- =
ard to public buildings. He mentioned g
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