The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1892-02-16

The SENATE
The Vice President laid before the Senate
the Treasury recommendations for urgent de-
fciencv appropriations for tho present fiscal
wear as follows To continue the rccOlnage oi
uucurrent and worn subsidiary coin, soH.OlJ,
and for salaries end expenses of United States
circuit courts OF appeals. t4ZOOl. heieIIeI.
Bius we're reported and placed on the cal-
endrr ae follows TO reOrganlze the artillery
and infantry of the army and TO increase ITS
efficiency.
Making a deficiency appropriation to con
finuo the eleventh census.
Blr Hale gave notice he should call this blll
up tomorrow.
M ibsou from the Committee on Com
N roe. reported with amendment q bill 20 im-
move the navigation of the Mississippi river
snd 20 prevent destructive floods. lie ex-
rlatned that the object OF the blll was to eX-
senI the ietty system which had been so sue
oesslul at the mouth of the river, to tie banks
OF the river Ii appropriated ten millions dol
lars for this purpose. 10 be expended between
the mouth of the river and Cairo. no more
than two millions dollars TO be expended III
any one year. and five millions 20 DO expended
above Cairo o. the mouth OF the Illinois river
not more than one million dollars % be eX-
pended in any one year. The bill was placed
On the calendar.
Mr. Wilson of Iowa. offered q resolution,
which was referred TO the Committee on Con-
on Judiciary 90 investigate the subject of
dealing in options and to send for persons
au1 papers.
NJ Chandler introduced a concurrent roso-
luton for which he asked immediate con-
Alteration. providing that the Senate Com
IN ttee on immigration and Ito House Com
mittee on Immigration and Naturalization 10
Jointly investigate the working of various
laws of the uited States relating to immigrA-
ton from foreign countries u the United
States and the importation Of contract labor
and especially the recent importation into
America of Immigrants injected with typhus
fever into the port of New York, SAID Joint
committees 20 be authorized 90 proceed by
suh-cOrum ttees and 70 conduct their ngestl-
cation wherever they deemed best.
Mr. Chandler said IL was perfectly clear
q at these immigrants Infected with tins dam
gerous and deadly disease should not nave
been allowed % land u New Ork. Tho act
8t March 8. 1891. was explicit IN TWO particu-
lars that no person should pe allowed 90
come into the nlted States while suffering
from "a lOathsOmo and contagious disea q,
aai no person sho ould be landed who
was likely % become o pubic chaTSe.
Ou either ground these Injected Immigrants
should have cen excluded, bat being wated q
upon bv the Hebrew board of charities. end
receiving assurances from them that these
paupers would 30 taken care OF for one year
tle l0mmi sOner OF immigration openec VICE
Gle doors of Castle Garden and allowed them
t9 le distributed among the bOarding-houses
selected by the Hebrew board Within two
days afterwards this outbreak of deadly
typlus fever occurred among them. lie (Mr.
Chandler would not be behind any Senator
.u sympathlzing with these unfOrtu-
nate people and resretting the policy
" the Russian Government IN drly-
ing them out OF the country. but
set protection was the first law OF nature
Lese people were infected IN Odessa. They
went 10 COustantinople and Smyrna. but were
reused admission there by the turkish au-
thorties. They went 10 Marseilles. but the
french people would not allow them 10 come
90. They could not not 90 to England be-
cause England with all her professions OF
lAAanirophy. had closed It's doors to Russian
lie rews. 50 ttey were shipped TO the United
States 70 perhaps infect the whole commu-
niIy with typhus fever and he (Chsndler) re-