Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-01-17
CONG GREssIoNAL PROCEEDINGS.
In the Senate.

WASHINGTON January l6th.-This afternoon
| the conference report on the bill for public
| building at San Francisco was presented and
agreed to- The cost OF the site was limited to
| SS00,000
The President to-day sent to Congress the cor
| respondence in regard 10 the seizure of the
| Haytian Republic Most of the l,tters have al
| ready been made public
1he Presidents two messages in regard to
affairs in samoa and Hayti we laid before the
Senate, and referred with the accompanying
| documents) to the Committee on Foreign Rela-
| tions
There were then presented memorials of the
| Womens National Christian Temperance Union
| and other bodies of vari us States, in favor of
legislation for Sabbath observance, against run
ming interstate Sunday trains and against mill
| tary orill Referred TO the Committee on Edu-
cation and Labor. The memorials were in large
bundles, covered with red cloth, and their pre-
sentation was witnessed by deputation of la
dies in the gallery.
The Senate then resumed consideration of
the tariff bill
Vests motion to put salt on the free list was
voted down by strict party vote.
The amendment here ofore offered by Allison
making the duty on cross cut saws S, 10 and Is
Gems per linear foot, instead OF 6, S and l3
cents, was sgreed-to.
The amendment heretofore offered by Allison,
increasing the duty on taggers' iron, was some
what modified by him, and Jones of Arkansas
moved to put that article on the free list.
ALI on said the committee had decided to
allow the present rate of duty on tin-piate to
stand until the 1st of January, 1880, and that
would allow time for the establishment of a
sufficient plant in this country to produce all
Morgan advocated Jones' motion to put tin
plate on the free list, and said there ives no tin
III this country.
Teller contradicted the assertion and said
| there was a vast quantity of tin in the Dead
wood region.
Chandler spoke in favor of increasing the
duty on skates In the course of his speech,
criticisiug the opposition of the Democratic
party to protectionist ideas, he said the ''Con-
federate brigadiers" were now trying to carry
out the principles which had been Incorporated
into the Confederate Constitution. and meant
the destruction of all Northern industries that
were protected by the tariff system. They had
nothing to kick, kin or destroy but the protec-
tive tariff. That was the business at which
they and the President had been engaged in for
the last year. and notwithstanding their bad
luck they still continued to make faces and
kick.
crease the rates on tin-plate, saying there was
not a single pound of 1t manufactured in the
United states, and there was no instance in the
tariff legislation of the country where duty
was imposed for the purpose of creating an in
dustry which did not exist.
Aldrich admitted that there was not pound
of tin plate manufactured in the United States
at present but said that fact was owing solely
to the inadeqacy OF the duty.
There was further discussion on the subject
but no vote was reached, and after an agree
ment that from Friday till Tuesday next the
daily hour of meeting would be II o'clock, the
Senate adjourned
In the House.
WASHINGTON January 16th-After the routine
| business the House resumed consideration of
| the Territorial bills.
| 1t was addressed by Joseph of Eew Mexico.
who presented the claims of that Territory for
admission. He eulogizea the character of the
people of New Mexico denied the current be-
lief that they were ignorant and not desirous of
becoming educated, and refuted the declara-
tions that they had regard for law and order.
Voorhees, of Washington Territory voiced the
| demand of the people of that Territory for ad-
MISSION INTO the lnien Al the recent election
! issue. So keenly had the people resented the
| delay of this House in responding to their con-
tinual appeal for Statehood that a pronounced
Republican majority had been the result
Mansur of Missouri advocated the admission
of New Mexico, and asserted that her people
were fully capable of self government.
Adjourned.