Morning journal and courier., 1889-02-21
Fiftieth Congressional s Session
WASHINGTON, Feb. 20.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 20.
 SENATE-A number of amendments were reported from the committee on appropria- tions and agreed to. The senate then took printing of government work by steam printing maohins at the bureau of engraving and printing, which had been reserved yes- terday. The amendment allows as royalty for the use of machines fifty cents per one thousand impressions instead of one cent Gas provided by the House) strikes out the proviso in the bill on that subject and sub stitutes for it the following: And unless the patentees of said steam processes shall &C., cept the rate per thousand sheets herein provided, the said presses shall not be used by the government after the close of the present fiscal year, provided that there shall not be an increase of the number of steam plate printing machines of the character now employed in tine engraving and printing bu- reau.
 MT. Hawley said if there were on the stat ute book law requiring the currency to be printed in the highest style of art it would rule out every one of those presses. Steam printing bore the same relation to hand work as the chromotype bore to an original paint ing by Raphael.
 Mir. Platt presented the conference report on the bill for the admission of South Dakota as State and for the organization of the ter ritory of North Dakota. The clerk read the substitute agreed upon by the committee looking to the admission as States of North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana and Wash ington, and concluded at 4:30. A message from the House announcing the signature by the Speaker of the direct tax bill was laid before the Senate and the bill, having first bren signed by the president of the Senate, was sent to the President.
 The consideration of the conference report being resumed, MT. Roar called the attention to the fact that in the territory of Washing ton the policy had been established of ad mittipg women to vote and to hold office; that that policy had been eminently success ful; that when the Republican judges of the territory were replaced under the present ad- ministration by Democratic judges of the Supreme court so constituted had made @ most remarkable decision, holding that the territorial law which conferred or established the right of women to vote and hold office was in violation of the organic law under which the territory was organized. He had addressed to the Senate confeIees a commu nication signed by twenty two senators ask ing them to have the right of women in Washington territory recognized in the bill, and he asked MT. Platt to state the result ar rived at in the conference.
 Mir. Platt stated that the decision of the court of Washington territory against the right ot women to vote had been appealed to the Supreme court of the United States and he hoped that that case will be advanced on the calendar. He should be glad if the court would find that the judgement should be re- versed. The senate oonferees had pressed the matter, but the house conferees would not consent.
 MT. Cullom-The second Republican con- fierce made short statement. He had felt he said that he could not afford by his action without giving away more than was involved | to forfeit the opportunity of giving state governments to those territories.
 MT. Vest inquired why the proposition to admit New Mexico as State has been elim- | mated from the bills In 1874 8 bill to admit ! New Mexico as State had received vote in | both houses of congress.
 MT. Cullom declined to go into the discus ! sion of the merits of the question. The vote was taken and the report was | agreed to without division.
 The message from the President transmit \ ting the report of the Secretary of State with \ accompanying correspondence touching the case of Lord sackville-West was presented, read and referred to the committee on for | eign relations.
 The Senate at 6:3O adjourned.
 ! aousE.-Immediately after the reading of
 the journal the contest over the direct tax
 bill was resumed, MT. Csswell, of Iowa, call \ ing up the conference report as matter oi
 privilege. He declined to yield to enable the
 Speaker to clear his table of Senate bills, al.
 though he was warned by MT. Hooker, o1 I
 The House determined, yeas 134, nays 93 ! to consider the conference report, but Mir ! Bland, of Missouri, moved reconsideration having voted in the affirmative to enable
 him to make that motion.
 MT. Kelly moved to table the motion t reconsider, which was approved, yeas 159 nays 77, and MT. Stewart of Georgia and MT Bland of Missouri addressed the House il
 opposition to the adoption of the report
 The constitutional features of the bill were
 discussed by Messrs. Oates, Hooker and Gas we'll and the conference report was theI
 agreed to-yeas 168, nays SS.
 ! Mr. Springer of Illinois presented the con l ference report on the territorial bill. Tn
 bill as agreed to in conference provides fo
 the admission of the States of North Dakota
 South Dakota and Montana and Washington
 The territory of Dakota is to be divided ol
 the line of the seventh standard parallel pro
 duced due west to the western boundary o I the territory. The delegates delegated to tn l constitutional convention north of this paral Tel shall assemble at Bismarck and thos
 elected south of the parallel at Sioux Falls
 The delegates to the convention in each c the proposed new States shall be elected O the Tuesday after the first Monday in Ma
 next and shall meet on July 4th and declaI that they adopt the constitution of th United States. They are authorized ther, ! upon to fo-m Constitutions and State goverI ! | ments. .it@ It was provided that the election for del \ gates in South Dakota electors ehalI for {