The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-10-02
A NEW THANKSGIVING
Congress, to the Nations Relief,
Adjourns.
THE TARIFF BILL BECOMES LAW.
The President Sends in Several Vetoes-Reed
At Last Looks Upon Genuine
No Quorum.

WAsH1NGToN, Oct. before the read
ing of the journal Breckenridge, OF Ken
lucky, raised the point of NO quorum.
While waiting for a quorum a message
from the Senate announced an agreement
to the conference report on the tariff bill.
Shortly before O'Clock Breckenridge with
drew his point, but it was Immediately re-
newed by Kigore, Of Texas, but few min-
utes afterwards Kilgore relented and with
drew the point and the journal was read.
Mckinley, of Ohio, called up the House
concurrent resolution directing the clerk to
number consecutively the paragraphs of
the enrolled tariff bill with the Senate
amendments. Agreed to-.
On motion OF Mckinley the concurrent
resolution was agreed to directing the clerk
TO make further correction in the punctua
ton OF the enrolled tariff bill. Mckinley
offered q resolu on for a committee Of
three each from the House and Senate to
wait on the President and inform him that
Congress was ready to adjourn if he had no
further communication to make. Adopted
Carter, Of Montana. submitted the con-
ference report on the bill to dispose of
Fort Ellis military reservation in Montana
This bill, Allen, of Mississippi, took as a
very remote text for political speech, in
which he charged the Republican party
with degeneracy and inconsistency. 70
say that the Republican party had begun
with Abraham Lincoln and ended with
Benjamin Harrison was proof that the
party had gone to seed.
| Mr.. Creary of Kentu ky, gave notice that
| he would raise the point OF no quorum
| against the conference report ana Carter
Withdrew.
| Clsweil, of Wisconsin, submitted a letter
addressed to the speaker by Postmaster
| Wheat, rendering his resignation.
| Subsequently Spooner, of Rhode Island,
from the committee submitted report. II
states that although the relation be-
tween Dalton (previous postmaster) and
| CulbertSon, mail contractor) gives raise 10
grave suspicion that there was some
private arrangement between them
whereby Dalton during the Forty ninth
| and F'iftieth Congresses had derived per-
sonal profits out OF his contracts for carry
Ing the mail, there no absolute proof OBJ
tanned. The report is accompanied by d
resolution declaring the Office of post
master of the House vacant and directing
the assistant postmaster to perform the
| duties until a postmaster shall be appointed
and qualified.
Hayes, of Iowa, submitted the minority
report, dissenting in reference to Post
master Dalton.
| Pending discussion upon the question
Mckinley called up the resolution for final
adjournment, with an amendment fixing
| the hour at 6 o. clock Agreed to. The
| Wheat resolution was then agreed to.
The speaker laid before the House a.let-
ter from Representative Eonger, stating
] that he had forwarded to the governor of
Iowa his resignation as Representative
| from the Seventh district of that state
The speaker further stated that he had re-
ceiyed substantially similar communica-
tion from Representative DeHaven, OF the
First district of California, but the letter
was misiaid.
The Senate concurrent resolution for ne
gotiatioDs with Great Britain and Mexico
for the prevention of the entry OF Chinese
laborers into the United States, was agree
to.
| Caswen, of Wisconsin, asked unanimous
consent for consideration of the resolution
electing Z. j. Flint, of Wisconsin, post
master of the House. y
! Williams, of Ohio, objected, and Caswell
withdrew the resolution.
Mckinley, chairman of the committee
appointed TO wait upon the President, an
nounced that the President had no further
communication to make, and then the
| House took recess. During recess nearly
! all the members left the hall to make pre-
| parations for their departure from the city,
ESQ when the speaker reconvened the House
that official looked down upon the vast
array of empty benches. He merely
| stated that according to the concurrent
| resolution. he declared the First session OF
the Fifty first Congress adjourned without
a day.