Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-05-15
CONGRESSIONAL.


WASHINGTON, May I4th-A letter yrss re
ceiveu from the Secretary of the Treasury trans
mittlng the report of Chinese InSpector Coon
Ts ITSspsetins the evasion by the Chinese of the
tXcluslon Act in his district
wilson of Iowa, from the Jlssiiciary Cnrnu,it
zee, reported bill placing the sale OF imported
liquors qnder the laws of the respective States
ms Dill was brought abon. by the rec eut de-
cision of the supreme Court on lianor irnportsd
into prohibition states
Hoar member of the Judiciary Committee
explained that the bin was rendered necesssr ~
by a late decision of the Supreme Conrt M,
ially coneurred IN the purport of the bill hut
supposed the principle of the Courts opinion
eSIenaeo 70 other things than distilled spirits
70 opium, FOR lnstsnce--and he should have pre-
ferred that the bill should have applied
to all articles whichthe States might desir, 10
prohlelt the sale. However in order not 10 de
lay action in the matter. he had aSSentet 10 the
report of the bill.
Edmunds, also member of the Judiciary
Committee, expressed the same idea.
After some further discussion Plumb desired
to know what question was before the Senate
and was informed by the Vice President that
there was no question pending. He then de-
manded the regular order and when Hoar de-
sired TO make some further remarks, Plumb oo-
Ieeted, and insisted on the regular order
This was resented by Hoar. who remarked
boorishness before.
tort of Plumb
Edmunds introduced bill to establish a Uni
10 q select committee
The silver bill was then taken up and Teller
addressed the Senate. He spoke Of the bill as
relating TO perhaps the most important question
that had been presented 10 the Senate since the
demonstration of silver i'll 1878 He disclaimed
any anxiety or any especial interest in promot-
ing the price of silver save and except that sill
yer was an American product, and therefore
every American ought to have interest in ad-
vancing its price. The people of Colorado had
comparatively little interest in the ADVANCE
ment OF the price of silver, because although
they produced one-sixth o. all the silver pro-
duced in the world, they did not depend upon
terests OF the State would far outweigh the in
terest OF the mere silver production.
The silver product of the United States was
$50 600 last year 1t was insignificant in com
parlson with the great interests Of the country
that were involved in rehabilitation of silver as
money metal. II would not do 10 say the
silver Barons OF the West, We're demanding it
or that ITS demand was in the interest of cheap
money. 1t was demanded in the interest of
humanity, IN the interest of progress, in the in
terest of the whole human race
He criticised WINDOWS bill and he could not
see what the purpose and object of that scheme
was. II met with the approval of gold mono
metallists everywhere, and that was reason
enough to warrant suspicion that it was Tro-
jan horse.
OF the bill reported from the Finance Corn
mittee he said 1t was founded on a system of
in 1t, but 1t did not propose to use silver as
money. Its fundamental idea was as in the
other bill, that silver was metal and nothing
else.
Teller went on to speak of the silver plank in
the National Republican platform as promising
full recognition of silver money, and said the
plank was inserted in recognition of the uni
verSel demand OF the country for use of silver
as money. and he would insist upon its observa-
ton whether it parted him from the admins
tration or not. Did the pending bill, he asked,
recognize silver IN accordance with the plat
form I? He thought not. Without concluding
his speech Teller yielded to motion to go into
executive session.
When the doors were re-opened the silver bill
was laid aside informally till tomorrow and the
Senate proceeded to the business on caendar,
and after passing several bills, adjourned.
IN THE HOUSE.
WASHINGTON, May 14th.-The House resumed
consideration of the tariff at IL O'Clock.
Mills criticised the duty of 81 per ton on steel
rails. when the labor on each ton of rails is
only SS.
Bland offered an amendment authorizing
farmers to organize associations for the sale of
products and to obtain foreign articles free
of duty in exchange for their products. Re-
iected.
Various amendments looking to a reduction
OF duty on earthen, china and glassware, were
made on the Democratic side, but met with no
success.
In the course of the discussion of one of these
amendments Mcmillan said Campbell of Pitts
burg, glass manufacturer, asked for protection
from foreign labor, while he was charged with
importing foreign labor in violation of the con-
tract labor law.
Bynum said Campbell had come before the
Ways and Means Committee and held con-
sultation with the gentleman from West Vir-
ginia (Wilson) and himself, and then had gone
away and made affidavit which was false
from beginning to end.
Bayne said he would take Campbelps word as
soon as he would that OF the gentleman from
Indiana, and he knew them both.
Wilson of West Virginia confirmed what the
gentleman from Indiana had said.
In the course of some further remarks Bynum
said the Committee of Ways and Means in seek
ing information on Its bill had closed the doors
of the Capitol against the labor of the country,
but admitted manufacturers. The very entrance
TO the Capitol was closed in order to keep any
body from coming in but those. The majority
would allow the admission of manufacturers,
but if honest labor came and knocked at the
door it was not admitted.
Mckinley said the imputation of the gentle
man from Indiana that the Ways and Means
Committee had closed up the passage to the
House in order that the majority might have
private consultation room ia Sc. He did
not permit any man TO impute to the committee
any bad motives or lack of courtesy to the
minority. The minority of the committee knew
that any imputation OF that kind was absolutely
false.
Having considered sixteen of the ifty-six
pages of the bill, the committee rose and the
House adjourned.