Los Angeles herald., 1890-04-16
AT THE CAPITAL.
The Montana Case Further
Ventilated.
A Vote TO Be Taken on 1t
Today.
The Naval Appropriations Bill Passes
the House.
A Final Effort Made to Change the Sugar
and Wool Schedules of the New
Tariff Bill.
Associated Press Dispatches.

WASHINGTON, April 15.-In the Senate
today, among the petitions presented
and referred was one from the Boston
Executive Business Association, for the
privilege of purchasing ships abroad for
ten years.
Among the bills reported from the
committees and placed on the calendar
was one providing for the return of
secondclass mail matter, and the Senate
bill to allow California to make certain
grants to educational institutions.
Sherman offered resolution (agreed
toy directing the Secretary Of the Interior
to communicate to the Senate the re-
port of Jesse Spaulding, Government
Director of Pacific Railways, 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 2Sth,
1885, in reference to the transit of the
Chinese through the country and their
departure therefrom, any Chinese, en-
tered for transit under such regulation,
has 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
successes in Helena and Butte as a
response to the attempted fraud in seat
ing the Republican claimants If those
elections, he said had gone the other
way, there would have been no trouble
in referring the case back to the people.
Now he supposed that was impossible.
He declared that if Montana were now
coming asking for admission as State,
with all that filth clinging to her skirts,
she would be kicked from the threshold,
and insisted that no man had right to
claim a seat as Senator from Montana
unless he could do so on a certificate
from the Governor of that State. The
certificates had to be signed by the Gov
ernor and countersigned by the Secretary
Of State. The Republican claimants
had no such certificates; the Democrats
had certificates signed by the Governor,
but, unfortunately, not countersigned
by the Secretary of State.
Continuing, Morgan said it would not
be very long until the little cloud in
Montana, which seemed "no bigger
than mans hand,' would sweep like
cyclone and tear the Republican party
all to fragments.
Daniel argued against the majority
report.
Vance created amusement by reading
the following telegram received from
Butte this morning:
"Hurrah for honest citizens who vindcate the
right.
Hurrah for law and liberty; the people won the
fight,
Republican 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 crepe
upon the door,
The G. o. P. was killed for stealing Precinct
thirty-four :"
Hoar said he understood that the facts
were that the Democratic majority in
Butte, which year ago was consider
able, was reduced to about 250, and that
at precinct "a there was not single
voter left. All of these apparent voters
had gone like last years snow banks.
, Vance-My information is entirely diff
ferent. Butte gave a Republican major
ity last year, and there has been great
turnover in consequence of the subse-
quent proceedings.
Without concluding his speech Daniel
yielded for motion to adjourn, and
after an agreement that the vote would
be taken at O'Clock tomorrow the
Senate adjourned.