Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1890-04-04
THE BILL PASSED.
The Idaho Admission Bill Adopted
BY the House Of Repre-
sentatiTes.
THE MONTANA CONTESTED ELEc.
TON CASE.
Henry N. Stanley On Emin pasha's
Latest MoVe.-The Pa
eiflc Railroad.
by Telegraph TO the SEws.l
CONGRESS.
Nontana's Contested Election Case
The Idaho Admission BILL.

SontanR's Contested Election Case
The Idaho Admission Bill.
WASHINGTON, April 3.-Blair in.
troduced bill TO regulate the com.
pensation Of laborers employed by
the government, fixing the lowest
wages at 81 a day. Referred.
The Nice-President announced
that he expected TO be absent seve-
raj days next week. Ingalls, was
chosen president pro tempOre, took
the oath Of Office AMI assumed the
duties.
The Montana contested election
case was taken up rs unfinished
business, and Gray resumed his ar
gument in support Of the democratic
claimants.
The burden OF Gray's argument
was against the throwing out Of the
Ia votes cast in one precinct I'm
Silver Bow County. To vote for the
resolution Of the majority would be,
he said, to violate the most sacred
traditions OF American history and
American liberty. He protested
against the putting Of the odious
mark of the bar sinister on the State
Of Montana thus early In her career.
The matter then went over until
Monday.
Bills were passed for appropriate
ing 500, 900 for a public building at
Leadville, Colo; to reorganize and
establish the Customs District Of
Puget Sound.
Stewart, rs "A question Of personal
privilege, said that lie had been
credited 10y the newspapers with
having introduced yestesday n bill
10 regulate the manufacture and
sale Of lager beer. He had intro
duced no such bill and knew nothing
about it.
[Note-The bin was introduced by
Senator WOloOtt.
The House bill to amend the cen
sus law by providing for an enum-
Grafton Of the Chinese population
was read with the Senate amend
meuts.
Hill said that there was n demand
from the Pacific coast that there
should be some Identification Of the
Cinnamon there and who had a
right to remain there, as against the
Cinnamon constantly stealing into
the United States. He, himself,
would have been willing to go
farther and stronger in the way Of
Chinese exclusion than the bill
went. The amendments Of the
committee were all In the direction
Of making the bill less severe, and
he feared the committee had gone
too far in that direction.
EUSTIs THOUGHT II STRANGE
for the census committee TO report n
bill which had nothing TO do with
the municipal, police and inter-
national obligations. The bill pro.
vided penal statutes with reference
to a class Of people residing in the
United States 10y reason Of treaty
rights. 1t gave just cause Of COM
plant to a foreign governments
government considered within the
family OF nations Of civilized gov
eminent, with which the govern
ment Of the United States had
solemn treaties, and a matter with
which the American people had
important and valuable commercial
relations. If the question of Chi
nesc exclusion were to he reopened,
il should he done in a proper way.
ami not rest under the sham and
mOckery OF taking n census. The
census committee had bowed down
to the House in reporting what he
regarded rs the most outrageous bill
ever sent TO the Senate. The trade
with China was exceedingly inn.
p0rtant and the United States We're
brought in competition with Ger
many and England for that trade.
The Chinese government was en-
gagged in vast public works, for the
contracts for which there was much
competition, and there was no ne
cessity why that government and
people should be insulted, affronted
and degraded by such measures.
Hale stated that the object OF the
bill was to carry out the settled
policy Of the government, MS shown
10y legislation in excluding Chinese
labOrers from coming into the
United States hereafter. That was
its only object. Unless some such
bill were passed, hundreds and
thousands Of Chinese would come
from month TO month and from
year to year, rs they were now COM
ing. The object OF the bill was TO
prevent that. The matter then
went over until Monday.
Mitchell gave notice Of several
amendments which he would offer
to tie bill on Monday.
After executive session, adjourn
ed.