Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-01-17

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the force of the nation, aided by its treasury,
eight millions of laborers, born on American
soil, every one of them entitled to every right.
were to be deported to what the Senator had
just styled the dark region of the Dark Cont
nent, and which, in spite of RECEIPT explorations,
their illustrious fellow. citizens was less known
to the readers of history to-day that it was when
the father of history attempted description of
it three hundred years before the birth of
Christ
Blair spoke against the bill. He thought that
il, instead of exporting eight million coloTed
people, there We're one thousand white people
exported to Africa and kept there, the whole
difficulty would be settled. The difficulties of
the race problem existed in the excited imaeina-
tions and ineradicable prejudices of a few white
men. not between the races themselves As TO
the idea of the Senator from Alabama (Morgan)
that the choice was between numbering negroes
or marrying them. between killing them or as
similating them, he thought that course OF
lectures on the sixth and seventh command
ments would settle the whole thing, and no
more would be heard of the doctrine that was
an absurdity and an insult to our common hui
mainly
The bill went over without action.
Teller presented the credentials of Sanders
and Power as Senators-elect from the State of
Montana. They were referred to the Committee
on Privileges and Elections.
The Senate bill to amend Article 105 of the
Rules and Articles of War lin relation to desert
ers), was taken from the calendar and passed.
After an executive session the Senate ad-
journed till Monday.
IN THE HOUSE.
WASHINGTON, January I6th-In the House
resolution was agreed to calling upon the Secre-
tary of State to furnish the tariff rates of Aus
tria, Germany and France.
The Committee on Rules reported resolution
authorizing the appointment of special COM
mittee of thirteen members, who shall within
three days report bill fixing a site for holding
Worlds Fair.
Cannon offered substitute, referring the
Whole matter to the Committee on Foreign Re-
10 or h 10 ttcpfA fol
Hit of Illinois, Chairman of the Committee
on Foreign Affairs, favored the substitute for the
resolution, and testified to the vigorous and
faithful work which the committee had per-
formed in reference to the projected Worlds
Fair.
Morrow of California took the same view.
Hatch of Missouri favored the majority reso-
luton. He said that prior to the appointment
of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, gentlemen
representing the competing cities had entered
into compact that special committee should
be created. All st. Lonis asked was that a
special committee shall be appointed by the
Speaker, and that the committee should contain
an equal number from the four cities competing
for the fair. He asked that the agreement be
carried out in good faith, and that the majority
report be adopted.
Franks of Missouri strongly advocated the
majority resolution.
Springer of Illinois, who leads the Chicago
faction, denied there had been any compact be-
tween the representatives of the competing
cities 1t was true they had agreed to request
on Rules in order TO create special committee
but that was long ago. The only intention of
that agreement being that the committee might
sit during the holiday recess.
Hatch characterized Springer's argument as
Especial pleading"
The Representative did not know that the
gentlemen they had treated with were looking
around for loopholes through which to crawl
out of an honorable contract.
Springer denied the right of any gentleman
to meet in hotel parlor and make compact
to bind members of the House. The friends of
Chicago had done just what they agreed to-
McCreary of Kentucky and Chapman of
Michigan argued in favor of the Committee on
Foreign Affairs retaining jurisdiction over the
subject.
Payne of New York and Flower of New York
argued for the majority report.
Hopkins of Illinois opposed the creation of q
special committee, and called attention to the
fact that there were two New York members on
the Committee on Foreign Affairs
Turner of New York strongly opposed Can
mons proposition that the House shall first vote
on the question locating the site east or west of
the Alleghany Mountains.
Cummings said all New York asked was a
fair, square deal, and no trickery.
Spinola thought the friends of Chicago had
not acted in perfect good faith, and he said the
Chicago bill had been slipped in before the COM
mittees had been appointed.
Adams of Illinois deniei that the bill had
Mason of Illinois favored the retention of the
Worlds Fair bill by the Committee on Foreign
Affairs, because he believed 1t would expedite
the business of the House.
Butterworth of Ohio argued against withdraw.
ing the jurisdiction from the Foreign Affairs
Committee.
Cannon of Illinois said the great contest was
between the cosst on one hand and the valleys
of the Mississippi on the other, and it would be
simplified if it could first be decid, whether
the fair should be held east or west of the Ale
ghanies.
The House. as was its right, had referred bill
after bill in regard to the Worlds Fair to the
Committee on Foreign Affairs, which was nearly
ready to report. The object of that co-operation
Immediately after the meeting OF Congress was
to select special committee, and it was not an
agreement which would last through the ses-
sion. 'We failed to get the special committee
and the object falling, the agreement faied'
Cannon then modified his resolution by striking
out the clause requiring the vote to be first
taken on locating the fair east or west of the
Allegheny mountains.
A vote was then taken on substituting Can
mons resolution for that reported by Mckinley,
and it was defeated. Yeas 140: noes 142
.. siaPIblnge dd rising 70 o question Of prixeg
his tally did not agree with the official tally.
Without impugning anyone he asked for a re-
count.
To the surprise of the House the recount re-
versed the former result and the substitute was
agreed to. Yeas 1877, nays 1874.
Then much confusion ensued as to the next
step to be taken in the preliminary proceed
ings Many members commended that the next
vote special TO be taken was on McKinley's res
olution as amended by the substitution of the
Cannon resolution, but the Speaker held other
wise and stated that the next vote was upon the
substitution of the majority resolutions las
amended) for the original resolution referred
to the Committee ON Rules.
The vote was watched with intense interest,
and when it was known at the end of the roll
call that the resolution had been defeated by
tie vote, Springer of Illinois, who had voted in
the affirmative, changed his vote to the mega
tive in order to be able to move a reconsider
alton.
The substitute was rejected-yeas, 1873; nays,
1885,
Springer moved to reconsider and Mckinley
moved to lay that motion on the table, pending
which the House adjourned.
The Secretary of the Treasury transmitted to
the House letter recomme ndng an increase
of the limit of the cost of public buildings as
follows Los Angeles, Cal, $3.50, 900; Sacramento,
Cal, $4,000 Carson City, New, SIS 900.