St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-09-18
Senators Refuse to Reconsider
the Vote on the Chinese
Bill.
It Is Now Before the PpeSi-
dent Ready for His Sig
nature.
President Cleveland PardonS
a Convict Who Is Dying Of
Consumption.
Representatives Divert Them
selves by Engaging in a
Deadlock.
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Special to the Globe.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 19.-The features
of the senate proceedings to-day were
the rejection of Senator Blair's PROPOSE
ton to reconsider the vote by which the
Chinese exclusion bill was passed, and
the discussion of the bill to create an
executive department of agriculture.
Motions were entered to reconsider the
votes by which the following bills were
passed: Senate bill to declare forfeited
certain lands granted to the state or
Michigan, and house Bill authorizing
the postmaster general to purchase I'M
proved mail locks. The senate look up,
by unanimous consent. ana passed
house bill to provide for the erection OF
light houses and fog signals on tne
great lakes, and to transfer to the state
of Louisiana certain land on the MiSSiS-
sippi river to be used for quarantine
purposes. MIR. Mitchell announced
that he would address the senate on
Thursday on the subject of the presi-
dents message. Mr.. Sherman offered
a resolution, which went over, directing
the foreign relations committee to IN
ouire into the relations of the United
States with Great Britain and Canada.
The house Joint resolution was passed,
declaring the meaning of the clause IN
the river and harbor bill as to Fairport,
o.. harbor. MIR. Chandler said that the
words ''that Infamous before the
words protective system" used by MI.
Vest recently had been omitted from
the record. Mr.. Vest said that there
was no doubt that he had USED
the phrase. He repeated it now.
Mr.. Hoar offered resolution
instructing the finance committee to IN
quire as to the cotton baggage trust,
and as to what legislation Is necessary
to counterfeit. The vote on MIR. Blalr's
motion to reconsider the vote passing
the Chinese exclusion bill was then
taken, and resulted in the defeat or the
mOtion-nayS 81, yeas 20. the Dill
stands passed and goes to the presl-
dent. The following senators voted IN
the affirmative:
Messrs. Bates---Blair, Blackburn, Brown,
Call, Cockrell, Edmunds, Eyarts, George,
German, Hampton, Harris. Hoar, Jones, Oh
Arkansas, Morgan, Pasco, Pugh. sherman,
Wilson, of Iowa, and Wilson, OF Maryland
In the negative:
Messrs. Allison, Berry, Chandler, Coke,
Dolph, Farwell, Frye, Hearst, HlscocK,
Jones, OF Nevada; Henderson Mltcheil'
Payne. Platt Plumb, Srnouer stewart, otocK-
bridge, Teller, Vest and Walthall.
The house amendments to the senate
bill concerning details of officers. of the
army and navy to educational institu-,
tious. were coneurred in. The bill now
goes to the president. The house bill
creating an executive department to be
known as the department ofagriculture,
was then taken up, the pending ques-
ton being the amendment strlk-'
ing out the section transferring
the weather bureau of the signal
service to the department Of
agriculture. In the course of debate
Mr.. Plumb said that unless existing
conditions were changed India wheat
would sell in the New York market
within five years, duty paid in eompe-
tition with American wheat. 1t was
therefore necessary that the president
should have in the cabinet man who
represented the agricultural interests,
1t was necessary. he declared, to look
more and more to the home market than
to the foreign market. The discussion
was continued at length, but, without
action, the bill was laid aside until to-
morrow and the senate, at 5:lO, ad-
iOurned