The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-04-16
In the Senate.

WASHINGTON, April 15.-Among the petitions
presented and referred was one from the Bos-
ton Executive Business association for the priv
ilege Of purchasing ships abroad for ten years.
Among the bills reported from committee and
placed on the calendar was one providing for
the return of second class mail matter
The Senate bill to allow California to make
certain grants to educational institutions
Sherman offered q resolution, agreed to- direct
Ing the secretary of the interior to communi-
cate to the Senate the report of Jesse Spauld-
ing, government director of the Pacific rail-
ways, as to the general management of such
railways
Wilson, of Iowa, offered resolution. agreed
to, calling on the secretary of the treasury for
information as to whether, since the adoption
of the treasury regulation of September 2S
1859. in reference to the transit of Chinese
through the country and their departure there
from, and Chinese have entered for transit
under such regulation and have failed to depart
from the United States in due course
Hawley gave notice that he would call up the
Chicago worlds fair bill Friday.
The Montana election case was then taken up
and Morgan addressed the Senate.
He referred to the recent Democratic success
in Helena and Butte as the response to the
attempted fraud in seating the Republican
claimants. If these elections" he said. had
gone the other way, there would have been no
trouble IN referring the case back to the peo-
pie" However, he supposed that was impoS-
sible. He declared that if Montana were now
coming asking for admission as a state, with
| dll Jldb Lluu W Qtr Sfle would
be kicked from the Threshold, and he insisted
that no man had right to claim a seat as Sen
ator from Montana unless he could do so with
| the certificate OF the governor of that
state The certificates had to be signed
| by the governor and countersigned by
the secretary of state. The Republican claim
ants had not such certificates; the Democrats
| had certificates signed by the governor, but I'M
| fortunately not countersigned by the secretary
| of state. 1t would not be very long, he said.
until the little cloud in Montana, which seemed
no bigger than mans hand, would speed like
a cyclone and tear the Republican party all to
| fragments.
| Daniel argued against the majority report.
| Vance created amusement by reading the fol-
| lewing telegram received from Butte this morn
| ing: "Hurrah for the honest citizens who vim
| dictate the right side. Hurrah for law and lib
! erty. The people won the fight and the Repub-
lican corruptionistS went weeping to their fate
| for the voters placed the ban upon the men
who stole the state. The mourners speak in
whispers; there's Grape upon the door, T
| G. o. p. was killed by stealing Precinct "a
| Hoar said as he understood the facts, the
| Democratic majority in Butte, which YeaI
ago was 500, the Republicans reduced to abou1
two hundred and fifty; and that, at Precinct 81
| there was not single voter left. All of those
apparent voters had gone, like last years snow
| bank.
| Vance-My information is entirely different
Butte gave Republican majority last year, an6
there has been u great turn oyer" in conse
Quence of subsequent proceedings.
Without concluding his speech Daniel yielded
! for motion to adjourn and after an agreement
that vote would be taken at o'clock 10
morrow, the Senate adjourned.