Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-12-06

Tor speed in excess Of the contract re-
quirements. The Secretary may build
the vessels at the Navy Yards In case he
cannot contract for them at q reasonable
price.
BY Spooner, for the protection of
Federal officers in the discharge of their
duties. The bill declares supervisors of
elections to be officers of the Circuit
Courts of the United States, and charges
them with the enforcement of the ma
tional election and naturalization laws.
By Ingalls,, to aid and secure the
of the 400th anniversary
of the discovery of America.
a., INGALLS, WORLDS FAIR BILL.
Ingalls' bill provides for the appoint.
ment by the President of commission
consisting of two members from each
State, of different political affiliations.
and one from the Territories the extern
sion of an invitation to all the American
nations and states to participate, and to
European powers, If they desire, to join
in the celebration. The commission is
to decide on site for the exposition and
purchase the ground, not less than 800
acres. The President shall apportion
the land for the buildings Of various
countries, each one to select its own
style of architecture. The appropriations
are as follows: For the purchase of
ground, So, ,00O, 900; for grading and clear
ing, 81, 500, 900; for the buildings Of the
United States, $500, 1000; for incidental
expenses, 81 ,000, 600; total, $4,000, 900.
RELIEF FOR THE SAMOAN SUFFERERS.
Senator Hale also introduced bill for
the relief of the sufferers by the wreck OF
the United States men-of-war Trenton
snd Vapdalia, and the stranding of the
Nipsic in the harbor of Apia, Samoa, last
March. The bill provides that the sur.
viving officers and crews of the wrecked
vessels shall be paid sum equal to the
losses sustained by them. But in no
case shall the compensation for such loss
sustained exceed tho amount of twelve
months sea pay of the grade occupied
by the sufferer. Ia case of death, the
widow or children are to pe entitled to
tho money, and the expense OF removal
of the bodies already recovered shall
be paid to the relatives. The bill also
directs that the relatives of Pay Clerk
Alexander, who died On board the Tren-
ton while en- route to Samoa, be COM
pensated for his personal effects lost by
the wreck also that the sum of $l20 be
given to Lieutenant Wilson, being the
amount of public money stolen from
him while going from the Samoan
islands to Auckland to communicate to
the Navy Department the news of the
etranding of the vessels. The bill
authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to
remove the remains of the officers buried
at Samoa to the United States at the ex.
pense of the Government, and to have
them inferred in the National Cemetery
at Mare island.
VOORHEES, TARIFF MEASURE,
Voorhees, fered q long preamble and q
resolution in reference to tariff taxation,
which he asked to have laid upon the
table for the present. It declared that
all existing tariff taxes on foreign mer.
chandise should be 80 revised, repealed
or amended as to provide, first, for the
collection of sufficient amount of rev.
enue to pay the expenses of the Govern.
ment. economically administered, the
principal and interest of the public debt,
as they fall due, and liberal PEN
sions, but not dollar more
second, for the taxation OF ali
articles of luxury at the highest practi-
cable rates, and for the reduction OF taxes
on all the necessaries of civilized life, to
the lowest possible rates consistent with
tariff for nothing but revenue /; third, for
the curtailment and overthrow, as far as
possible, of all monopolies in trade BY
the enlargement of the free list to the
full extent, that the same can be done
without impairing and endangering the
necessary revenues of the Government
having in view at all times, under ali
circumstances, a liberal policy of trade
the establishment of equal and exact JUS
tice among our own citizens, with ex
elusive privileges to none.
Plumb offered a resolution, which was
agreed to, calling on the Secretary of the
Treasury for statement as to whether
the employees in the Office of the sub
treasury at New York have given as sc.
curity the bond OF foreign corporation
and if 30, what reasons operated to se.
cure euch preference for foreign cor.
poration.
Moody, of South Dakota, introduced q
bill to prohibit officers and agents of the
Government from requiring the payment
of special taxes under the internal reve'
nue. laws, for the manufacture or sale o
Intoxicating liquors in States where such
manufacture or sale is prohibited by the
State constitution. Referred.
The Vice-President having informed
the Senate that he would be absent from
the city two or three days next week, Mr.
Ingalls, was elected President pro teD,por.
during the absence Of the Vice. President
The Senate then adjourned till Monday