Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-01-23
THE ELECTORAL VOTE COUNT.
Mr.. HOar's Resolution Passes the Senate
'SuNDRY CIVIL BILL IN THE HOUSE.
The Senate.

relatlOns, reported two amendments to the
diplomatic and consular appropriation bill to
protect the interests Of the United States in
Samoan islands.
reported the bill further to fulfill obligations
In regard to the guano islands. Calendar.
INFORMATION ASKED OF THE DISTRICT CoMMIs-
sIoNERs.
MIR. Plumb offered a resolution (Which was
agreed to) calling on the Commissioners of the
District of Columbia for information as to the
debt of the Soldiers Home and lexington
railroad company to the District of Columbia,
and why such debt is not collected.
COUNTING OF THE ELECTORAL VOTE.
On motion of Mr.. Hoar the concurrent reso-
luton for the counting of the electoral vote
was taken up and passed. 1t provides that the
two houses of Congress shall assemble in the
hall of the House of Representatives on We'd
nesday, the 18th day of February, 1889, at
o'clock In the afternoon, pursuant to
the requirements of the Constitution
and laws relating to the election of
President and Vice President of
the United States, and the President of the
Senate shall be the presiding officer; that two
persons be appointed tellers on the part of the
Senate and two on the part of the House of
Representatives to make list of the votes as
they shall be declared; that the result shall be
delivered to the President of the Senate. who
U
persons elected to the two houses assembled.
as aforesaid which shall be deemed declara-
ton of the persons elected President and Vice
President of the United States, and, together
with list of the votes. be entered on the
journals of the two houses.
Mr.. Gibson presented resolutions of condo
lence as to the late Representative Roberts
(La.) and said he would call them up on Fri
day, February Is.
MIR. BLODGETT's PAIR WITH MR.. RIDDLEBERGER.
Mr.. Blodgett made an explanation as to his
pair with Mr.. Riddleberger on the tariff bill.
He had made that pair, he said, in good faith,
at the request of MIR. HiscOck and with the un-
derstanding that the Senator from Virginia
in favor of the bill. He had hunted up
that Senator and told him what he had done,
and at his request he had allowed the pair to
stand
MR.. RIDDLEBERGER REMARKED
that there was no difference between the state
ment which he had made to the Senate last
evening and that just made by the Senator
from New jersey. The pair had been made for
the vote on agreeing to the amendment, and
after that vote the Senator from New Jersey
had sought him out in the cloak room and said:
Let this pair stand"
He believed that they both misunderstood
attack the integrity of the other to that pair.
WHAT Mr. BLoDGETT BELIEVED.
Mr.. Blodgett-I had no information that the
Senator from Virginia was oppose d to the pas
sage of the bill. paired with him, believing
him to be in favor of its passage, and want
that fact to be distinctly understood
On motion of Mr.. Jones (Ark.) the Senate
bill granting to the Big Horn southern railroad
company a right of way through a part of
the Crow Indian reservation in Montana, was
passed.
THE BILL TO DECLARE TRUSTS UNLAWFUL
On motion of Mr.. Sherman, the bill to de-
clare unlawful trusts and combinations in re-
straint of trade and production was taken up
for consideration, and was amended by striking
out of the first section the words: THAT COM
petes with any similar article upon which
duty ia levied by the United States" and in
serting in lien thereof the words lin due course
of trade" He then proposed that the bill 60
over till tomorrow to allow Mr.. Hoar to offer
some amendments to it.
Mr. Hoar said that a week or two ago he had
given some careful examination to the bill,
desiring to make it a little more stringent in
one or two particulars, and had consulted
gentleman of very high character and great
legal ability (whose name it was not necessary
to state publicly. This gentleman had sug-
gested two or three amendments. which he
(Mr. Hoar) would like to submit, and which. he
thought, would carry out the object of the bill
more effectively but he had not those amend
ments with him now.
Mr.. Harris remarked that the more stringent
the bill was made the better it would suit
him.
The bill went over till tomorrow.
On motion of Mr. Voorhees, the Senate pro-
ceeded to the consideration of the House bill
for the relief of the State National bank of
New Orleans, formerly the Louisiana State
bank.
The bill was opposed by Senators Platt and
Edmunds and was advocated by Mr.. Hoar.
Mr. Edmunds spoke Of the bank as having
been
THE FISCAL AGENT OF THE CoNFEDERAcY,
and suggested, as a surmise of his own, that
the funds with which the cotton (Which is the
subject of the claim was bought belonged to
the confederate treasury. He was opposed to
setting aside the statute of limitations for such
a claimant, when every other claimant was
shut out
Mr. Hoar argued that. whatever might have
been the character for disloyalty of the old
Louisiana state bank. there was no question as
to the character of its successor, the State ma
tional bank. 1t was from the latter and after
the rebellion that the cotton in question was
taken and sold and the proceeds paid into the
treasury. The proceeds of all such sales were
to be treated as a trust, not as q cap
ture or as booty or prize of war.
The bank had presented its claim to the Treas
ury, which erroneously refused it. But the
| decision had not been made until after the
statute of limitations applied. The pending
| bill merely authorizes the Court of Claims to
take jurisdiction, Notwithstanding the statute
of limitations.
| Mr.. Edmunds offered an amendment (Which
was agreed to) striking out the word ''belong-
ing" and inserting the words ''alleged to belong
80 as to make 1t read: 1.-The proceeds of cot
ton alleged to belong to said bank"
| He also moved to amend the bill BY insert
| ing provision that it must be made to appear
| to the court that the managers of the Louisiana
state bank we're, at the time of the purchase of
the cotton. in fact, loyal to the United States,
and had not been. in fact engaged in the re-
bellion. The amendment was rejected, yeas,
II; nays, 35.
| House of Representative.
Immediately after the reading Of the journal
the HI use went into committee of the whole
| (Mr. Dockery, of Missouri in the chair) on the
sundry civil appropriation bill.
On motion of MIR. Randall (Pa) an amend
ment was adopted appropriating $4,000 for
| approaches to the court house at Fort Smith,
| Ark, and 900 for the payment Of labor on
| the public building at Frankfort, Ky.
Mr.. Lawler Qll.) offered an amendment ap-
propriating 900 for repairs and preserve
ton of the custom-house building at Chicago,
/ III.
Mr. Adams Qll) corroborated all his coll
| league had said as to the need for the appro-
| priation, and the amendment was agreed to.
| Mr. Davis (Masa Offered an ame mendunenk an