Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-12-09
CONGRESSIONAL.
IN DfIE SENATE.

WASHINGTON, December sth.-In the Senate
to-day Jones of Arkansas offered a resolution
(Which went over calling on the Attorney
General for information as to Supervisors of
Election appointed for the First and Second
Congressional Districts of Arkansas, for the
sums paid out are called for in connection with
the election, or with tie proceedings since the
election, etc.
Cash offered resolution (which was referred
to the Committee on Agrfculture) calling on the
Secretary of Agriculture Tor a statement of the
progress made il the investigation for irrigation
purposes.
Dawes read portions OF letter written by
Lee, the Census Indian Agent from The Pine
Ridge Agency to the Interior Department, going
to show there was no lack OF food among the
Sioux. He said be read this to relieve public
anxiety and show that the Indians were not on
the war path on account of the want ofsupplies.
Discussion was continued on the joint resolu-
ton annropriating IS 900 for the investigation of
the lnriap outbreak. 1t was finally re ferred to
the Committee on Indian Affairs.
The resolution calling on the Secretary of the
Treasury for statement of the moneys paid
Davenport, Supervisor of Elections, each year
since lSfl, etc., was agreed to.
Hoar moved to proceed to the consideration
OF the elections bill, but at the suggestion that
Gray was temporarily alb ent withdrew the
motion and asked unanimous consent to have
the time fixed for Friday next for taking
final vote on the bill.
Gray meanwhile came in, and the bill was
taken up.
Gray yielded to German. who argued against
tue piOpDslIlOn 10 Tx the time LOT taklQy the
vote. He recalled the statement of Hoar at the
last session. that if the election bill was not
then taken up and disposed of there would not
be time TO do so in short session. 1t had been
the firm conviction on the Democratic side that
after what had occurred at the last election the
Senator from Massachusetts would not press the
bill; so the Senators on his side had not pre-
pared Themselves to discuss it intelligently.
German continued: I'VE stand 10 day on a
volcano. We have heard discussion as to
starving Indians, but take no note of the fact.
The farmers of the land are meeting ard re-
solving that there is danger and trouble, if not
starvation, among them. The faces of the
bankers and merchants are blanched with fear.
No mau can tell whetherto to morrow or next day
every bank in the great centers of commerce
will not be closed in suspension of payment,
and now, in the midst of such state of affairs,
we who come here. flushed with victory, had
hoped that the majority party would give us an
opportunity to join with it in preventing that
which is now impending. Lay aside this bill
which the country has pronounced against, and
let us take up matters which all classes OF our
fellow citizens are looking to US 10 consider If
you do not, If you persist in the course marked
out by The Senator from Massachusetts, the re
sponsibility must rest with the party in power.
II the Senator from Massachusetts forces con-
sideratlon of this partisan measure, while bank
ruptcy and ruin are going on, when he goes
back TO Boston he will find that the merchants
and bankers and men OF affairs, as well as the
farmers and laborers will tell him that, while
he is attempting hostile legislation against
| section of the country, if it had not been for
for the moving of the cotton crop, there would
not be a bank in Massachusetts able to pay its
depostors: The only thing that has saved them
| has been the fact that they have been able to
draw on the cotton crop and on the oil produc-
ton
Hoar replied that for four days the Senate
had been listening to DEM cratic speeches,
made for mere delay and obstruction. If the
Senator from Maryland had another measure
which he thought would allay the panic or the
menace to the commercial prosperity of the
| country, which had begun when the elec ions
were declared in favor of the Democratic
! party-the country having been before that in
| should he not after O fair and proper state
ment of the reasons for voting against the e &C.
| ton bill. let the Senate vote upon it? The elec.
ton bll was measure whose sole purpose was
| to submit to the Judges of the Courts of the
United States, against whose integrity and off,
cial honor no man could bring a charge, the
question Of who had prina facie title OF a seat
in the House Of Representatives, instead of hav-
| ing 1t declared by ruffianism fraud or vio-
lence, as so often has been the case in the past.
Gray spoke briefly in line with Germans re-
| marks. and then concluded his argument
| against the bill.
Berry obtained the floor, and after a short ex.
eeutive session. the Senate adjourned.
N THE HOUSE.
! WASHINGTON, December sth-In the House
\ this morning the Committee on Judiciary re-
| ported back the resolution for the arrest of
| George Minot, one of the doorkeepers, for at
tempting to prevent Enloe's exit from the
| douse 1uiAne q Cail VI the mouse III Aug ust
4 last. The committee reports that the case calls
| for no action on the part of the House, and the
| resolution was laid upon the table.
| Mckinley reported from the Ways and Means
| Committee, and the House passed the bill pro.
| viding for rebate on tobacco in stock equal to
! the reduction made in the internal revenue tax
| by the last tariff bill.
| Mckinley merely stated that the bill was
similar to the provisions of the tariff bill, Sec
| ton 80, which had been omitted in enrolling
| that measure, and on declaration of Mills OF
Texas that it was ''all right" no opposition was
II ade to its passage.