Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-01-26
FEDRAL LEGISLATION.
MorrOw's Views on the Sub
.ject of Samoa.
ADMISSION OF TERRITORIES.
| Conference of the Senate and
House to be Held on the Tariff
Bill Amendments.

Associated Press Dispatches to the HERALD
WASHINGTON, January 25.--In the Sem
ate, Gibson made an elaborate personal
explanation regarding how the inaccurate
report OF the speech by him on Wednes-
day inadvertently got into the Record.
This was done to head off a motion by
Chandler to strike out. After some fenc-
ing between Chandler and Gibson, the
matter dropped.
The Appropriation Committee reported
the Consular and Diplomatic Appropria-
ticn bill.
Allison moved that the Senate insist
on its amendment to the Tariff bill, and
asked for a conference with the House
on the bill and the amendment. The
bill was agreed to without objection.
The following bills were passed:
House bill to increase the maximum OF
International money orders from $50 to
500; Pension Appropriation bill; Mill
tary Academy Appropriation bill. The
vote by which on Wednesday the bill for
the relief of the Louisiana State National
| Bank passed, was reconsider and the bill
recommitted to the Committee on
| Claims, new facts in the matter having
been brought to light.
WASHINGTON, January 25.-The Senate
Committee on Territories to-day took up
the House bill passed the other day for
the admission of North and South Da-
Dakota, Montana. Washington and New
MEXICO into the Union. After session
of two hours, one of the committee said:
"We have spent the entire session in
considering the bill. 1t is notice
able for its contradictory provisions
and its inadequacy to get any
Territory, or part of Territory, into the
| Union as State. The attempt in
general bill Of this character to provide
for the local necessities of different Ter
ritories seems to have been such fail
ure as that if any State might come in
under its provisions it would be unable,
even by court to ascertain what its rights
are. AS the bill now stands, tits probably
the most complicated and most difficult
to interpret and administer that ever
passed either House OF Congress. If we
are to pass it, the measure must be cor
rected materially, and has been referred
to the sub committee with instructions
to see If its consistencies can be 30 recoL-
ciled that we can recommend its pass
age"
| THE HOUSE.
WASHINGTON, January 25.-In the
House the Army Appropriation bill was
reported and placed on the calendar; also
the bill to establish National Military
and Naval Museum in the city of Wash
iDgton. Referred to Committee of the
Whole. The House then went into
Committee os the Whole on the Sundry
Civil Appropriation bill.
| WASHINGTON, acknowledgements
tive Morrow, of California, Chairman Of
the subcommittee of the House Com
mittee on Foreign Affairs, intends to call
the subcommittee together and get to
work at the earliest opportunity. He
says his views of Samoan affairs
are positive and have been made
known through the resolution intro
duced by him in the House last
session. The statu quo at the time the
representatives of the United States,
Germany and England met, he says,
must be restored, and this would neces-
state the replacement of King Malietoa
in the position from which he was so
unjustly removed by German agents and
sent to the Marshall Islands. This step,
Morrow insisted, must be preliminary to
any further negotiations on the subject.