The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1894-08-16
of January 25, 1879.

a favorable recommendation by Sec
retary Carlisle and was accompanied
by report opposing the bill of
Representative Stone, of Penpsyl-
vania, which the house passed, pro-
viding for the consular inspection
of immigrants at foreign ports. The
senate passed the bill as substitute
for the Stone bill, and it was on
| this disagreement that the confer
ence was ordered. The first section
| provides that no alien anarchist
shall be permitted to land at any
port in the United States, but this
\ provision shall not be so construed
as to exclude political refugees. The
bill provides for hearings in cases
of landing of reported anarchists,
and in case the charges be proved,
the secretary is authorized to send
the accused back to the country
from whence he came. The bill
also provides for the expectation
of any unnatural.zed foreign born
person who, upon a trial in any
court, shall appear to the judge
of the court before which he is
tried to be an anarchist. 1t also
provides a system of inspection of
other immigrants by authorizing the
secretary of the treasury to appoint
at such ports of departure as he
may deem necessary an immigrant
inspector, whose duty it shall be
to inspect passengers embarking for
the United States, to erase from
the passengers manifest the name
of any immigrant who he is satisfied
should not be permitted to land
in this country and to forbid the
transportation of any person be-
longing to the excluded classes
in the first or second cabin or in
any part of the vessel. He is also to
give information as to any suspected
persons and to admonish the master
of the vessel of the character of
any Immigrant, if Objectionable, who
is to be required to pay a penalty
of 500 in case he transports such
person after receiving the warning,
1t also provides that The fact that
an immigrant had given notice OF
intention to become citizen, shall
not constitute bar to proceedings
against him.
The only financial legislation ac-
complished by this congress, except
the repeal of the purchasing clause
of the Sherman act and the passag,
! Of. the seiggicrage bill which re
ceived the presidential veto, is tn,
bill to subject to state taxation
national bank notes and United
States treasury notes, which passet
the house Tuesday with senate
: amendments. Attempts have beer
made in nearly every congress since
the war to subject these forms o
money to taxation. The bill pro
vides that circulating notes o
national banking associations anC
:, United States legal tender notet
and other notes and certificate
of the United States, payable OIL
demand and circulating or intendin,
to circulate as currency, shall no
. be exempt from taxation unde
the laws of any state or territory
- provided that taxation is exercise
at the same rate and in the sam
manner as upon other property O
= money. The three acts authorizin
the issuance of greeubacks eac
put in circulation 500 million dollars
y but the total amount was afterward
= reduced to 345 million dollars,
- figure that has remained permanent
. although much of the money ha
~ been lost or destroyed. Each en-
suing act declared the greenback
exempt from taxation by state @
= municipal authorities, as well a
= all other obligations of the Unite
} States, and under this law are tn
. Sherman notes for the purchase {
= bullion, $50 million dollars, whic
" were Used under the act of 1S9,
~ There are in round numbers 10
- million dollars of United States note
I" exempt from taxation. Against tn
bill it was argued that it was a
> infringement upon the sovereignt
- of the general government to perm
state and municipal authorities
tax its monetary issues, but c
lc the other hand it was pointed OF
nt that the states were not permitte
le to discriminat, against any form
80 Of money, and that these greenbacl
20 should be placed on the same bas
'i as gold and silver.
le THEOLOGY OF LOADED GUNS
IN From the Schell City News.
t, Years ago an old hard -sht
80 preacher, who lived on the border
or the days when the Indians were
IN war with the whites, was makil