The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-08-03

Washington, Aug. But one more
appropriation bill, the deficiency, re-
mains to be acted on by the Senate,
the sundry civil bill having been pass
ed today after a three days discus
sion.
The most important amendments
adopted today were the increase of the
quarantine fund from $624,O0O to 81, 0OO,
600 and donating 100000 AGREES of des-
ert lands to the states to which the
desert land laws apply, as we'll as to
Nebraska, Kansas. Utah, Arizona,
New Mexico and Oklahoma.
The report of the conferees on the
District OF Columbia bill was agreed
to. The Hatch anti-option bill was re-
ported by Mr.. Washburn from the
committee on agriculture and placed
| on the calendar.
Mr.. Gray, chairman of the commit
ttee to investigate the charges of bri
berry against senators. presented the
unanimous report of the committee.
By the resolution of June II, the
committee was also instructed to
investigate certain charges against
members of both Houses in regard to
the construction and charter privileges
| of street railways in the District of
! Columbia. but no evidence or teSti-
mony had been submitted to the COM
mittee. and he, therefore, asked that
they be discharged from further duty
under the resolution of May 30.
Messrs. Lodge and Davis (Republi-
cans), and Mr.. Allen PopulisD, made
supplemental reports.
| Objection VS. male by Mr.. Chand-
| Ter to the request of the committee to
be discharged, at least until the report
could be read and examined, and ac-
cordingly the request went on the ia
BILE for the present.
The following House bills were then
passed:
Placing James William Albert on
the retired list of the army with the
rank of majo~ of engineers; placing
| Charles B. Stivers on the retired list
of the army as captain of infantry and
for the construction of a military road
| from Ell Paso to Fort Bliss, Texas.
Dominion Coal Company.
| The resolution offered yesterday by
Mr.. Chandler, directing a special COM
mittee to investigate the Dominion
| Coal company, of Nova Scotia, wheth-
| er it was organized or is being con-
Quoted in the expectation that Con-
gress would repeal the tariff tax on
coal; whether any officers of the gov
eminent are interested in the COM
pany, and whether any assurances
that the duty would be removed were
given the company, and if so, who
gave such assurances, and whether
steps are being taken to fulfill the as
SuranceS. was laid before the Senate
and Mr.. Chandler urged it's adoption.
| Mr.. Chandler claimed that John E.
Russell. of Massachusetts, avowed his
connection with the Dominion Coal
company, and was to be an avowed
participant in the profits to come to
| the company from the removal of the
duty on coal He came to Washing
ton to give counsel and advice to the
President and urge him to stand fast
on the Democratic principle of free
coal. The President then wrote a let
| ter. without addressing it to anyone in
particular, dating it July g as a sort
of stock in trade, or a charge of dyna-
mite, ready to be launched without
warning in -ome unSuSpecting pur-
pose. It was accordingly sent to Mr..
Wilson. and. after due course of time,
and after an agonizing birth (who was
not know it saw the light of day very
much to the surprise of the senator
from Maryland (Gorman) and the SEN
ator from Tennessee Harris). He
| thought Mr.. John Z. Russell, as the
adviser of the President on the remov-
dl OIL the uuly Oh cOdI, WOulu Dedf IN
vestigation and he believed the facts
which had been submitted not only
warranted the Senate Investigating the
| charges. but it required it to do So
Leaving the subject of coal, he took
Up the question of sugar, and arraign-
| ed the Senate in it's action in insist
ing on the one-eighth differential as
the one-eighth donation to the trust
whose president, Mr.. Havemeyer, ad-
mitted having poured out its money
like water.
Went TO the Calendar.
The question was then put on the
Imotion of Mr.. Hill to lay the Chandler
resolution on the table, and the vice
president declared it carried, but Mr..
Chandler subsequently asked that the
vote be reconsidered and this being
done, the motion to lay on the table
was defeated-16 to 30.
The resolution went to the calendar
under the rules, and it will require
vote of the Senate to again bring it up
for consideration.
| The sundry civil bill was then taken
up.
Amendments were adopted to pay
the widows of the late Senators Vance
| North Carolina) and Stocllbridge
! (Michigan) $4,000 each. The appropria-
ton for quarantine purposes was in
creased by $4,000, so as to make the
total amount $1,000,000
| An amendment was adopted to grant
one million acres of surveyed desert
Hands to each Of the states to which
the desert land laws are applicable
and also the states of Kansas and Ne
braska and the states which may be
constructed from the territories OF
Utah, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Ari-
iona under certain stipulations.
An amendment appropriating 100000
for the recoinage of the uncurrent frac-
tional silver coin in the treasury was
adopted: also the bill, with its many
amendments, was then presented and
passed.
The general deficiency bill was then
taken up, but was laid aside, and the
Senate at o'clock went into executive
session and at $40 adjourned.