The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-07-20
In the Senate.


the select committee on Pacific railroads re-
ported back the Senate bill authorizing the
secretary OF the treasury to settle the indebt-
edness to the government and of the Sioux
City & Pacific railroad calendar. The Senate
resumed consideration of the Sundry civil bill.
Among the amendments reported by the com
mittee on appropriations and agreed to by the
Senate are the following: Inserting an appropri /
alton for the construction of buildings at and the
enlargement of military posts from S., 600 to
5000. The amendment TO add to the appro-
pration OF 100000 Tor artificial limbs or com
mutation therefore. The words: And in cases
of Communication the money shall be paid di-
rectly to the soldier, sailor or marine; and no
fee, or compensation, shall be allowed or paid
to any agant or attorney" was made the text
of statement by Cockrell, to the effect that
it had been the practice of various departments
not to inform creditors of the fact that money
is due to them, and that the practice en-
couraged the increase of clart agents. Cock
rell insisted 1t is the duty of thg 40 ,ernment
Whenever its records show an Indebtedness TO
any person, soldier or Citizen to hunt that per
son up and pay him. The amendment was
finally agreed to.
The following amendments were agreed to:
Inserting an item of sl89O0 for ordnance and
ordnance stores to be issued to the state of
Washington in place of the ordnance borrowed
from the territory of Washington, by the 5; o e
of Oregon; increasing the appropriation for the
maintenance of a soldiers home at Santa
Monica, California from $4,000 to Sll7,000. An
amendment was adopted increasing the amount
summed up as total of the appropriations for
all national soldiers homes from 81 ,261, 10 to
S2,6S6,00O. An amendment to add TO the para
graph as to the appointment of managers of the
national home the words and w. L. b. Frank
lin, of Connecticut; Thomas w. Hyde,
inois; and George w. Steele, of Indiana.
for the terms of office commencing April 81, $780,
to fill the vacancies occaSioned by The eXpira-
tionS of the terms of office and by the increase
provided hereby gave rise to a long discus
sion.
Plumb said hereafter he should not vote to
continue any manager in the board any longer
than one term of six years. He believed in the
renovation of the board on management of the
National home and said it was not as wise, con-
servative or economical as it should be.
Allison presented for Hawley an amendment
propos ng the name of Lewis b. Gunckel OF
| Ohio in place of General Harris who recently
| died.
Sherman suggested the name of S. S. Yoder
! in place of Steele, who had been appointed
| governor of Oklahoma. After further discussion
| the amendment was agreed to as modified by
| the insertion of the words Guncke and Yoder
The paragraph now appoints as managers Of
| the n ltonal home :EdmundS, Morrill, of Kansas,
| for the uneXpired term of John a. Martin, de
ceased; A. 5. Pea son. OF PENNSYLVANIA, for the
unexpired term OF John T. Hartrdnft, decease Il ::
| Lewis b. u unckel of Ohio, for the uuexpired
term OF l.. a. Harris, deceased; William B.
| Franklin, of Connectit vi; Thomas W. Hyde OF
! Maine; John {. Black of Illinois, and Samuel
S. Yoder, of Ohio.
| An amendment appropriatlng $4,000 for
aid 10 the Industrial Christian Home
association in Utah (Which was established for
the protection of Mormon women desiring TO es
cape from polygamy,) provoked q long discus
sion.
Cockrell said it never had had more thar
twenty inmates.
Fdmunds admitted that not MANY Mormon
women took advantage of the home, but it was
an open institution TO them.
West said the government had appropriated
$4,000 for the home and Congress was now
asked 10 appropriate $1,000 year for no Other
purpose than to pay the salaries OF lot of PEG
pie who had managed to obtain an appropriation
under the pretense of philanthrophy. 1t was
notorious fact. he said, that the women of Utat
were more opposed to doing away with polyg
amy than the men. This arose not from sen
suality, or fIom any degraded feeling, but from
religious rentimentS.
suffrage ought to be given the women of Utah 81
they could escape from poygamy. They got i
and every one OF them voted the poygam!
ticket
Edmuuds admitted that the women of Utai
voted that way, but it was on the same princi
pie that the colored men voted the Democratic
ticket-probably from religious enthusiasm.
In the course of the discussion, Vest resented
, the drft,of some of the remarks OF Edmunds al
to his Vests uniform opposition TO anti Nor
mon legislation. He said he was as much OPP
posep to polygamy as any one, but he Snl,
there was d line beyond which he would not &c
Plumb expressed the opinion that the HON
was an utter failure, and said he had fouud tina,
to he the gcnkral view in Salt LAX
? Edmunds intimated that the Senator iron
/ Kansas, like other righteous men, had gone in
to strange places. hau fallen among person
who did not tell AL the truth. He knew ther
was "a certain opposition To the home in Sal
Lake because the property was wanted TO
speculative purposes This led to q warm pei
4 sonol colloquy between Edmunds and Plumt
which lasted some time. The amendment wa
finally agreed To, as waS also the item grantiu
) TO the widow of the late Chief Justice Waite tn
; balance of his two years salary.
The amendment as 10 the proposed LatiI
Aroa al ;,
! Hawley by striking out the provision for
4 building to cost $4,000 and by substituting
3 provision for a section of the library of Con
!. gress, and appropriating SIS 900 for its benefit
After adopting some further amendment
the bill was reported to the Senate and til
amendments agreed to in committee of til
whole. agreed to in bulk, except those as to I'll
d irrigation survey. The discussion of irrlgatio
was one that occupied an hours time and the
the amendments agreed TO and the hi
passed.
The tariff bill was taken up as unfinished bu
l. mess and Aldrich gave notice tnat he wou
l. move to take it up ut O'Clock on Monday.
The Senate then, at 8:45 adjourned