Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-07-03
IN THE SENATE

WASHINGTON, July 2d.-To-day, IN the Senate,
Plumb, from the Committee on Public Lends,
reported the Senate bill TO provide for tie de-
livery of land patents to their Cightful cwner,
and asked for its immediate consideration.
Statements were made by Plumb, Paddock and
Berry that there were some 250;t00 land patents
accumulated in the General Land Office for
which those entitled 10 them had not applied;
that thrifty firm of Washington attorneys had
been permitted 10 haze the lists made of them;
that they had then communicated with per
sons entitled to them. notifying then'that they
could get their patents on the payment of a GER
tain fee; that this was an act of collision be-
tween the assistant Commissioner. who was
then Assistant secretary of the Interior, acting
as Commissioner, and this law firm, and the bill
was designed TO Illustrate that job.
The bill was then passed. IL directs the Sec
Deeos in each city in which lands SO patented
lie. the lists of land patents in the county that
have been in the General Land Office uncalled
for tor twelve months.
Hiscock called up his motion to reconsider
the vote by which the Senate yesterday refused
to recede from the amendments 10 the legisls-
tive appropriation bill. The motion was agreed
to, and after debatethe Senate receded from
the amendments. The bill now goes to the
PRESIDENT
The Senete:proceeded to the consideration of
two senate bills reported from the Committee
on Commerce. to place American merchant ma.
rine engaged in foreign trade upon an equality
with that of other nations, and to provide for
an ocean mail and security OF service between
mote the service.
Frye said the first bill was bounty on ton
mage, ana the seeend was known as the postal
subsidy bill He declared that unless Congress
did something to aid American ships, and that
speedily. there would soon not be q single
steamship line trapersing the ocean carrying
the American flag.
He could not understand the innermost
thought and feelings OF American citizens who
could listen to statements of facts about the
foreign earring trade and not feel an impulse to
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United States stood in such proud conspicuous
ness thirty years ago. The American carrying
trade was dead for want OF protection. 1t was
the only great American industry of which the
same could besaid The people of the United
States had paid fifty millions a year to keen
alive the sugar industry of the United States
Six millions year would revive the dead body
of the American merchant marine and keep II
on the oceon.
Vest addressed the Senate in opposition to the
subsidy bills. The foreign carrying power was
languishing and almost dead, but so was the
cattle trade and yet if he were to propose sui
sidy for the cattle trade the proposition would
be attacked as the most monstrous ever heard
He went on to speak of the Pan-Amerlcan Con
gress 'chestnut"-a back number 1t was
half made up when Harrison's administration
came into existence. land the restless and ambi
tious spirit of the present Secretary of State
selz- upon 1t and concluded TO parade it be
fore the country as q great and phenomenal
diplomatic victory. The senator from Maine
wanted to give subsidies to vessels in the foreign
eiubOs ~ o W piiAS dDOut III luCTcSSeu TRACE
not only with the South American States but
also with all European countries and the world
at large. The effect of substituting any particu
lar line was to discourage all others.
Vest yielded thefioor without concluding hi.
speech, and Frye said he hoped to have the
Senate act To morrow on both bills, as he in
tended to call up the river and harbor bill or
Monday.
After an executive session the Senate ad
journed-
~ THE HOUSE.
WASHINGTON, July 2d-Last evening was de
voted TO discussing the Federal election bill
The House this morning resumed considera
ton of the Federal election bill, the pending
question being on an amendment offered by