Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-03-28
CONGRESSIONAL.
IN THF SEEATE,

IN THE SENATE,
/ WASHINGTON, March 2zth.-In the Senate to-
DAY the Census Act was smended to allow spe.
elal agents IS per day for subsistence when
travelling.
! a bill was passed authorizing she Secretary OF
Mar TO purchase 2,5Go tents to shelter people
orlyen out by the floods in the Mississippi
valley. sf
The antitrust bin was referred 10 the Judi
eary committee with instructions to report in
twenty days.
Among the bills reported and placed on the
calendar were the Senate bill TO reorganize and
establish the Customs collection district al
Puget sound and the House bill for the retire
ment OF John G. Fremont as Maior-General
senate bill appropratlng SlO.GOG additional
for lghtship for the mouth of the Columbia
river passed.
utes requiring steamers to be provided with Ger.
pam iiie,saylng appliances guns for throwing
lines, ETC., passed
The antitrust bill was then taken nm. and
when the amendment excepting from the pro.
hlbition of the law combinations of workmen
and farmers came up Edmuuds spoke MT some
length he favored going as far as the Consti-
tuition permitted in suppressing and breaking
up trusts and monopoies. The people could
not shut their eyes to the fact that if capital
combined, if great industrial establishments
combined TO regulate wages workmea also
combined TO defend themselves and 80 this
country and other countries for the last forty
years mad been turned into great camps Of op.
positions, where there ought to be only one
camp OF cooperative friends. Even in Wash
lngton where Congress has exclusive irrisdic-
tion, all the trades had combinations which
were armed camps. making an aggressive war
fare against the rest of mankind.
Edmunds cited as an incident the case of a
skilled printer who wanted employment in III q
Public Printing Office but could not be hired
me man dld not oelorg 10 particular COM
bination. and the Public Printer was threat.
ened with a strike if the man was employed.
III that sert OF thing is rot tyranny, Edmunds
SAID, he didn't know what tyranny was.
n ont fN, II,
binations put up wages fifty per cent the peo-
pie who owned the mines and furnaces, etc .
had right to combine to protect themsel Nes
SO as to get such prices as would make up for
the increased cost OF production. He believed
IL better to reduce the partial evil of grinding
monopolies than 10 step clear over the boundary
line established and maintained between Con-
gress and the legislative powers OF the States.
Platt also attacked the bill.
motion by Walthall to refer the bill and the
amendments to the Judiciary Committee, to
report back IN twenty days, was then agreed to.
Inc senate bill granting pensions to ex. SOL
dieFs and sailors incapacitateG for manual la
Dor and to dependent relatives of soldiers and
sailors was taken up.
Plumb argued in support of his amendment
made some time ago. extending the provisions
to all who served three months or more, etc.
Berry opposed the amendments as another
form of the service pension bill.
Davis of the Committee on Pensions, also op-
posed 1t. He was not ready to go to the extent OF
pensioning everybody, irrespective of depend
ency. The bill as reported by the committee
would make an appropriation of $4,000 600
necessary IN addition to the S9S;0G0,0O0 now
needed.
Plumb's amendment would add at least Sls;-
and the bill went over.
The House bill for the admission of Wyoming
was ordered printed, and the Senate adjourned
IN THE HOUSE
WASHINGTON, March 27th.-The House met al
II o'clock in continuation of Wednesdays ses-
mo- ad drnis
taken up. Outhwaite OF Ohio opposed the bin
upon the ground of insufiiciency of population
Buekalew OF Pennsylvania antagoniZed the
measure, declaring that 1t was bribe held, out
to Congress by the local office seeking element
of the Territory.
MeAdoo of New Jersey said the Constitution.
OF wyoming if not the worst ever adopted was
abreast of the worst.
Springer of Illinois said the Wyoming bin
gave the Mormons the right of suffrage; the
Idaho bill deprived the Mormons of the right
10 vote. The reason was that in Wyo ming the
Mormons voted the Republican ticket while in
Idaho he suspected they voted the Democratic
ticket. He believed that if the Mormons Of
Utah voted with the Republicans, the gentle
men on the other side would railroad bill
through for the admission of that Territory.
1t was said by majority as an excuse for the
small vote cast for the Constitution, that during
the election the snow and tremedous gale kept
people away from the polls He created much
merriment on the Democratic side by quoting
from the returns to show that the tremendous
hour, and the driving snow. storm dwindled
down to a small furry.
Grosyenor of Ohio said the Democratic party
since the fall OF slavery and since it had ceased
to admit States in order to keep up the polioy of
slavery, was always opposed to the admission
of States, and its hostility was either open and
declared as now, or covert or insinuared as in
the Flaieth Congress. This had always been
the policy of the Democratic party. On the
question of woman suffrage he called attention
to the factthat there was nothing in the Consti-
tuition which prevented any State from apply
ing for such suffrage. The vote here in favor of
the admission of Wyoming by no means meant
that the voter was an adherent of the doctrine
of female suffrage, a doctrine which he was not
much alarmed about
At O'Clock the previous question was or
dered. Springer, on behalf of the minority
committee, offered an amendment providing
for another convention to be called under the
authority OF Congress. Lost-yeas Isl, nays
13S
Dunneu of Minnesota and Sherman of New
York voted with the Democrats in the affirm
ative.
Springer then offered an amendment provid-
ing for an election in Wyoming the Tuesday
after the first Monday in March next, for
representative to the Fifty-frst aud Fifty fifth
Congress and State and judicial offices, the Con-
stitution to be voted upon, and if they note
against female suffrage that feature to be elimi-
mated. Lost-yeas 1S3, nays l39. Dunnell aud
Van Shack OF Wisconsin voting with the DEM
ocrats.
Springer offered an amendment striking out
tne clduse III tEe W !OlnlIlg constitution prOvld-
ing for female suffrage Defeated-yeas. 123;
nays, l3S. Dunnel and LehlebacE of New Jer-
sey voted with the Democrats
Breckenridge of Kentucky moved 10 re COM
NIT the bill. Lost-yeas, 129; nays, 14I.
The bill was then passed: Yeas. 1885, nays
127. This was strict parry vote, except Dun
nell, who voted with the Democrats.
Baker of New York moved TO reconsider and
moved tc lay that motion On the table. The
motion to reconsider was tabled. Yeas, 132;
nays ll9; strictly party vote,
The House then went into Committee of the
Whole on the army appropriation bill. The
bill was read. and without action, the commit
tee rose and adjourned.