Birmingham age-herald., 1894-12-06
NATIONAL LAWMAKERS In Both Branches Find Plenty of
 Argument in the CHINESE = JAPANESE WAR MT. Peffer'S Bond Resolution Agreed To-Railroad Pools
 Reported.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 5.-Seventy- five
 members of the house were in their seats at
 the opening of the session today.
 MT. Blair. republican, of New Hamp-
 shire, presented a resolution asking imme-
 diate consideration thereof, calling upon
 the president, if not incompatible with the
 public interest, to transmit to congress all
 the correspondence by telegraph or other
 wise with the governments of China and
 Japan relating to the pending war between those countries.
 Objection was made to it's present. consid-
 eration and the resolution went to the committee on foreign affairs.
 The first bill called up for consideration was one reported from the committee on
 public lands, to prevent the free use of
 tint Der on the public lands and to revoke all permits heretofore granted in certain
 states for that purpose. Alter considera'
 be discussion the bill was passed without a division.
 The conference report upon the bill to regulate the printing and distribution of documents, which was before the house yesterday, was again called up by MT. Richardson, democrat, Of Tennessee, and was finally agreed to-136 to 95. MT. Outhwaite presented resolution from the committee on rules, making the bill to per init pooling of business by rail road companies, under regulations to be prepared by the inter state commerce com mission the continued business for the house during the morning hour each day until disposed Of, subject only to revenue
 and appropriation bills and reports from the committee on rules. The resolution was agreed to without division and the bill was reported to the house and it's dis cussion was entered upon.
 The bill adds to section of the present law a provision permitting pooling and sets out the conditions under which it may be done. Sections 6, IS, 16 and 20 are to be amended to further the object of the bill and a new section added. The orders of the commission in respect to the pooling agree' ments entered into under the bill are 10 be made enforcble in the United States court. Mr. Patterson of Ten nessee, who reported the bill from the committed, explaiDed it's provisions to the house, being listened to with an attention which bespoke an un- usual degree of interest in the question. MT. Patterson gave notice of few amendments he would ask to have made by direction of the committee. One of them | was of some importance, intended to make | the act of any agent or offiesr of a railroad | in relation to the provisions of the bill the net of the corporation without any qualiti- l cations.
 Numbers of questions were asked by mem bers in the line of elucidation of the pur- poses of the bill, which MT. Patterson | answered.
 Then at 5 D. ID. the house adjourned until tomorrow at 12 O clock. IN THE SENATE. Among the bills introduced in the senate l this morning were the following: By Mir. hunton of Virginia-To remit | the "time penalties' on the Yorktown, , Baltimore Philadelphia aud Newark. Re- | ferred.
 By MT. Berry of Arkansas-To provide a l temporary government for that portion of the Indian territory occupied by live civil- ized tribes of Indians. to. be hereafter | known as the territory or Indianoia. Lsld on the table for the present.
 resolution was offered by MT. McPher- son. democrat, of New Jersey, by request, | instructing ihe committee on education and labor to inquire and report as to the
 adyisability and Availability of establishiug | Irrational unit of value of labor, 'Where- with to regulate wages automatically Re- | ferred tc the committee on education and | labor.
 Mr. Merrill of Vermont, who was yester- 1 diy instructed by the finance committee to make an adverse report on some of Mir. | Peffer's financial measures, gave notice | that he would next Wednesday "seek an | opportunity of submitting some briet re- | marks on some marvellous senatorial bills | and quack panaceas for real and imaginary public evils and grievances. (Laughter.1 The resolution offered Monday by MT. | Lodge, republican, of Massachusetts, re- | ouesting the president o furnish informa- | tion as to the delivery to the Chinese l authorities at Shanghai of two Japanese citizens who were afterwards tortured and | put to death, was laid before the senate. | The following is the text of the resolution: | Resolved, That the president be re- ouested if not ompatIble with the pub | lic interest, to transmit to the senate all correspondence or other papers relating to l the delivery by the United States consu! at | Shanghai of two Japanese citizens to the | Chinese authorities, and also to inform the senate whether the said Japanese were put 1 to death after being tortured, and whether | there was any understanding with the Chi | ness government that officers of the United | States should aid, assist and give safe con | duct to any Japanese citizens desiring to leave China; and further, to inform the senate whether the United States consul at Hankow was reprimanded by Chinese off, cials for aiding Japanese citizens 10 leave | the country, and whether all information was refused 10 the United States consul at Ning-Pow when he made inquiries as to the charges against certain Japanese cjti- zeps arriving there.
 Mir. Sherman suggested that the resolu-
 tion should be referred 10 the committee on foreign relations.
 Mir. Lodge stated some of the prominent
 facts of the case as they appeared in Mr.
 Julien Ralph's report in the public press.
 The two Japanese citizens in question had
 been given up, he said, by the United
 States consul at Shanghai and had been put
 to death with the most bideous tortures.
 He regarded their surrender under the cir
 cumstances as an act of the greatest possi-
 ble discredit 10 the humanity of the United
 States and to the humanity of all civilized
 men.
 Mir. Morgan, chairman of the committee
 on foreign relations, said that the resou-
 ton seemed to contain an implication
 against somebody, against the president or
 the secretary of state or the United States
 consul at Shanghai. It therefore seemed to
 m that il would be well not to act in the
 matter with haste or precipitation. Besides
 tat, war was fagrant between Japan and
 China, and the least interference on the
 part ef ihe sena of the United States.
 which might be considered as favoring one
 h rr-;i or the other, would be an un-
 r.nu.ts circumstance at this time. It ,s.ssA> known that overtures for reconcilia- ti,., wege now being made through the assi >tancAof the United States ministers to { bi and Japan, and he thought that any
 prsc plate action on the part of the senate
 Would be unwise. He therefore favored