The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-05-03

WASHINGTON, May 2.-Among the bills
reported and placed on the calendar was
the House bill for the classification of
Worsted cloths as woolens.
The committee on Interstate commerce
made report on the subject of American
commerce by Canadian railroads. Ordered
printed.
Vest introduced bill to place express
companies under the provisions of the in
ter-state commerce law. Referred.
Mitchell introduced resolution, which
went over till Tomorrow calling on the
secretary of the treasury fer information
as to the importation and expectation of
gold and silver during 1889, and as to bank
notes retired and the kind of currency
issued to take their places.
The concurrent resolution heretofore
offered by Dolph requesting the President
to negotiate with Great Britain and Mex
leo with view of securing treaty for
| the prevention of the entry of Chinese into
the United States, was taken up and
agreed to.
A message from the House with the
House amendment to the Senate dependent
pension bill was laid before the Senate.
After discussion it was referred to the
committee on pensions. The customs adj
ministrative bill was then taken up.
The customs administrative bill was taken
up, the question being on Grays amend
ment to strike out of the fourteenth sec
ton the words Except in cases wherein
applications shall be filed in the circuit
court within the time and in the manner
provided for in section fifteen of this act,n
and insert provision that where Congress
has not clearly and distinctly declared the
classification of any imported article, etc.
the lowest of the rates shall be applied and
collected, and the collector shall inform the
secretary OF the treasury for report to
Congress. .
|, During the discussion of the amendment
Platt interrupted TO say he was not present
when the report was presented from the
interstate commerce committee on the
subject of Canadian railways and as a
member of that committee he did not
assent to that report. He thought the
sections of the Interstate act as to long and
short hauls and pooling should he repealed
Discussion on Gray's amendment was
resumed and In the course of il Sherman
declared that if he had his way he never
would allow any of those revenue cases to
go to any court. 1t was an administrative
and not judicial question, and if any
grlevous error was committed the remedy
would be furnished by Congress- After a
long debate Gray's amendment was re-
jected without division.
Gray offered another and was discussing
it when Frye remarked that it would cover
plain, palpable, attempted frauds The
remark was resented by Gray, who asserted
that ''plain, palpable, attempted frauds''
were on the other side of the chamber on
the rights of American citizens engaged in
foreign commerce and were on the rights
of that business which competed with the
business of the favored manufacturing
classes. The amendment was rejected
The discussion was interrupted to re
| ceiye q message from the HoI1Se announa-
ing the passage of the Senate antitrust
bill, with amendment, which was referred
to the judiciary committee.
Discussion of the customs bill was re-
sumed at o'clock. The discussion closed
and the Senate commenced to vote on the
bill and pending amendments.
! Vest called for separate vote on the