Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1890-04-02
WASHINGTON VIKINGS.
Amendment OF the Morrow Bill
The Ticket Seaiper-, etc.

WASHINGTON, April lat
meeting Of the Senate committee on
census, the House bill providing for
furnishing certificates to Chinese
residents on the LIST Of June, 1880,
by the enumerators Of census, with
view Of prohibiting further emil
grafton OF Chinese TO the United
States, was amended as reported to
the Senate. The bill, in addition to
the provisions heretofore given, pro-
vides that Chinese children born In
the United States subsequent TO
June LIST, 1890, shall not be held to be
Chinese within the meaning Of the
act. An amendment makes the
provisions Of the act apply to Chi
nese who refuse TO give the informa-
ton required by the census emu
merators, and who shall fail or re-
fuse to obtain certificates of identi-
ficatiOn provided for. BY another
amendment Chinese merchants,
tourists and students are exempted
from the operations Of the act, pro-
vided they have the certificates re-
quired by the act Of July ., 1854.
An additional section enables n
Chinese resident, who fails to Oh
tain the required certificate Of iden-
LITIGATION, TO prove by competent
testimony his right to one, which is
his sole evidence Of being lawfully
in the United States. IL is made a
misdemeanor for n census enumera-
tor to wilfully neglect or refuse to
give the required certificate. In its
present shape the bill is wholly I'M
acceptable TO the Pacific coast.
TICKET sCALPERs.
The National Ticket Brokers' AS
ISOLATION today presented to the
House committee on commerce a
vigorous protest against the passage
Of Bakers amendments b the Inter
state act, prohibiting the sale or
transfer by any person, except a
regularly appointed ticket agent, Of
railroad tickets. They held that
the proposition would result in
higher railroad rates to the public.
OCEAN DANGERS.
Representative Turner today in-
troduced n preamble and jOiut rIsO-
luton for better protection to hui
man life on the Atlantic Ocean. IL
calls attention To the recent accident
to the CITY Of Paris; says the rivalry
between competing lines Of steam
ships is 50 keen that considerations
of safety and even humanity are
often lost sight Of; holds that better
protection TO human life and prop
erty can be afforded by system OF
ocean patrol than by any other
means; such system of ocean patrol
must necessarily be maintained by
the different nations, and instructs
the President to communicate with
the foreign powers interested in
transatlantic travel with a view 10
securing their cooperation in the
establishment Of an efficient system
Of ocean patrol.
THE PAwSEE LANDS.
Perkins, from the committee on
Indian affairs, today reported the
House bill providing that all pur-
chasers on the Pawnee Indian
reservation in Nebraska who may
be in default Of payment under the
PROVISIONS Of the act Of April 10,
1876, be required to make fun pay
ment therefor within two years from
the passage of this act; and any per-
son in default sixty days thereafter,
shall forfeit the right TO the lands
purchased and to any and all pay-
ments.
EsTRAf CATTLE.
The collector Of customs at Fort
Benton, Montana, has informed the
Treasury Department that n large
number Of foreign cattle strayed in
the district from British America
about three years ago, and have re-
mained ever since. He asks whether
they are liable TO duty. Assistant
Secretary TichenOr replied that
while the increase In number Of
animals which may have naturally
occurred since arrival in the United
States are liable to duty, being Of
domestic production, the animals
which strayed across the border are
properly subject ~ duty.
THE PUBLIC DEBT
Following is the public debt
statement March 3lst:
Interest bearing debt.
Principal. i2ss3l
Inferest.......... t,e1t.Q3