The record-union., 1892-02-10
PROCEEDINGS IN CONGRESS.
BILL TO PROHIBIT CHINESE M
MIGRATION.
1t is Similar in Its Provisions to the
Law Now in Force in
California.
Special to the REcoRp-15H1ox.

'otSCldl 10 Jn6 6CECORD-UNION.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 9.-In the Senate
to-day adverse reports We're made by the
Finance Committee on the following bills:
For the free coinage of gold and silver
bullion (Stewart'sl; increasing the circu-
Iating medium by issuing Treasury notes
based on gold and silver coin and bullion
(Pefer's); for the retirement of National
Bank notes, the free coinage of silver and
the promotion of the international free
coinage of silver (Plumb's); making GER
tain issues of money full legal tender in
payment Of all debts (Kyle's) The first
three bills, with the adverse reports,
were placed on the calendar, and the last
indefinitely postponed
Sherman introduced a bill to prohibit
the coming Of Chinese persons into the
United States, and it was, with copies OF
the correspondence, referred to the Com
mittee on Finance.
Senator Sherman'S bill was compiled
in part from bills recently introduced
and now under consideration by Con-
greSs, with the addition of some new
provisions, providing ways and means
for detecting the presence Of a large class
of Chinese persons who smuggle them
selves into the country from across the
border line. The bill contemplates spe-
cjfic legislation to cure this evil by means
OF a new system of registration. A new
section of the bill provides that when a
Chinaman changes his residence he shall
have that fact noted on his certificate.
which will enable the officers of the
Government TO trace readily each regis
tered person from one point to another.
Another new section provides that the
fees and fines collected shall be set apart
by the Secretary of the Treasury and be
known as the Chinese fund, and used to
defray the expenses incident to the ad-
ministration of the Act. The bill intro
duced to-day is understood to be similar
in its provisions to the State law now i'll
force in California.
Without disposing of the West Virginia
direct tax resolution, short executive
session was held, and then at o'clock,
on motion of Harris, the business of the
Senate was suspended in order that a fit
ting tribute be paid to the memory of
Leonidas q. Houk, late Representative
from the State of Tennessee. Remarks
in eulogy Of the deceased member were
made, and then the Senate, as further
mark of respect, adjourned till to-mor-
row.
IN THE HOUSE.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 9.-In the House
the Mutchler resolution, directing in
quiry as to the failure Of the keystone
L
phia and the Maverick National Bank of
Boston, was adopted.
A resolution was introduced directing
the Committee on the Judiciary to in
quire into the right of the Secretary of
the Treasury to employ 500, 900, 900 of the
gold reserve for current expenditures
Referred.
The views of the New York Produce
Exchange in regard to proposed legisla-
ton against the sale of options were pre-
sented to the House Committee on Agri-
culture to-day by Henry b. Neilland,
who read a protest from the exchange
against its passage. The exchange ap-
proved Section / of the measure, defining
options, but not the other sections.
Hatch's bill, placing the Secretary of
Agriculture in the line of Presidential
succession after the Secretary Of the In
terror, was passed.
The House then went into Committee
of the Whole on the Military Academy
appropriation bill. The bill appropriates
S465, ,795.
Dockery of Missouri said every man on
the Democratic side had joined in the
chorus of denunciation of appropriations
made by the billion-doIlar Congress, and
yet the first appropriation bill to come
from the Democratic committee carried
S64, 900 more than similar bill passed by
the Fffty-first Congress. He smoke at
some length on the subject, and applied
to the Democrats elected on a platform of
reform to strike from the pending bill
every provision not absolutely essential
to the support of the academy.
After further debate the committee
rose and the House adjourned.