The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-01-03
FIFrIETH CONGRESS-.
Doings in the Senate and
House.
THE WOMAN's RELIEF BOARD
The Ladies, Whoever They Are,
Protest Against the Admission
of Utah as a State.
SENATE.

WASHINGTON, January 2.-There was
more than a quorum of Senators
present. Among the petitions and
memorials presented and referred was
one by Edmunds from the branch of
the Woman's Relief Board of Salt Lake
City. demonstrating against any action
of Congress looking to the admission of
Utah as State. Edmunds said he
was happy to think there was not much
danger of such action this session.
By Hoar-.To prohibit disfranchise-
ment on account of sex.
By Sherman - From the Boston
Board of Trade for the suspension Of
the purchase of silver bullion and the
coinage of silver dollars.
Hoar, to day, introduced resolu-
ton which was adopted, asking the
President to transmit to Congress any
correspondence had with Great Britain
concerning the seal fisheries near
Behring Straits. and especially as to
the seizure of any vessel of the United
States and any other country, and
what regulation governing the fisheries
had been adopted By this government.
He says there have been, ano are still,
widespread complaints of
UNJUST DISCRIMINATION
made against Americans, and says that
while they are not permitted to take
seals out at sea, which is perfectly
proper and right. no interference is
made with the operations of vessels of
other countries, particularly those of
Great Britain, and he wants to know
why.
The President sent the following
nominations to the Senate: Leslie Gull
lom. of Tennessee, to be collector OF
customs for the district OF Puget Sound
in Washington Territory.
THE TARIFF BILL,
The Senate then resumed considera-
ton of the tariff bill.
Allison. going back to paragraph
1874, as toschains, moved to amend it by
reducing the rate on chains, less than q
of one inch in diameter. from to 211c
per pound He stated that this was
the rate under the existing law. The
amendment was agreed to without
division. The bill was then taken up
at the point which had been left when
last before the Senate-Sehedule 1,
cotton manufacturer - the ques-
ton being on the amendment
offered by Vest to reduce
the duty on cotton thread, yarn. warp,
etc., valued at not exceeding % cents
J per pound, from 10 cents per pound to
35 per cent. Gd vdIorens. Vest confessed
his objection to the high protective
tariff was the enormous price which the
people of the west, the real producers,
had to pay under IL in order to increase
the profits. In New England manu-
facturers, Stewart said, he found the
tariff question so intimately connected
with the question OF money that he was
unable to separate the laws thereto. He
thereupon proceeded to read a speech
on the subject OF
SILVER COINAGE.
At the close of the speech, Jones, OF
Missouri, read from the testimony of q
cotton manufacturer in Georgia, Mr..
William Il. Young, showing that his
mills had been earning an average
dividend of IL per cent. since 1870; that
the tariff was no advantage to him, and
| if he were to make the same class OF
coarse goods as is made in England, he
could send them to England and make
q good profit on them.
| Aldrich said the reason southern
cotton mills paid such large dividends
was because some of them did not pay
| two-thi-ds of the wages that the manu-
facturers did in New England.
Jones replied that the southern ope-
ratives were contented with the wages
and did not go OF strikes, While strikes
| were common in New England.
| cotton mill strikes in Rhode Island IN
five years and that there had been very
| few strikes there in a generation.
TIE DEBATE WAS THEN CONTINUED
at some length, various sections OF
country being participated in-Salis-
bury, Morrell. Teller, Vest, Vance Coke,
Allison, Hoar and Chandler. r1nally,
the bill was laid aside, without action
pending the amendment.
The presiding officer laid message
before the Senate from the President IN
regard to the correspondence of the
treaty with China-that pending last
September, The reading of the nes-
! sage was interrupted by Sherman. who
suggested it be referred as an executive
matter.
Presiding Officer ingalls, said it had
been sent to the Senate, and that i!
would be laid on the table for further
examination. The Senate then ad-
journed.
The message mentioned above con-
tanned nothing new except the trausla-
ton of cipher message dated Septem-
Der 81. saying China would not consent
to ratify the treaty unless further time
was given for discussion of the propo
sition to lessen the term of restriction
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