The record-union., 1895-12-17
Valley.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 16.-The evil
DAYS with which Western manufact-
uring industry is threatened by com
petition from China and Japan were
passionately portrayed in the Senate
today by Stewart Pop) Of Nevada,
in connection with his resolution IN
structing the Finance Committee to IN
ouire what the effect of the difference
of exchange between gold standaru
countries and silver standard countries
has on the agricultural and manufact-
uring industries of the United states.
Stewards contention was that as the
expenses of Eastern labor and materl-
ais are paid for in silver by those coun-
tries. and as the products are sold in
the United States and Europe for gold
o. its equivalent, the Orientals nave
IN the difference of exchange, an adVah-
tage of 80 per cent, and this adVan-
tage. ioined to their mechanical SIKH,
their low wages and their cheap mode
ST living. enables them to andersen All
competitors, and will, If not checked
transfer the manufacturing Tor the
world from the West to the East. The
only way to prevent such an evil. Stew
art argued, is to restore the parity De
tween gold and silver. No action was
taken on the resolution, which hes on
the table, to be called up at any time
for further discussion
The other proceedings in the Senate
to-day were Of a routine character.
Petitions were presented for restora-
ticn of the wool and woolens schedule
of the Mckinley Tariff Act, and Tor
one cent letter postage. Bills were IN
troduced to exclude aliens from public
employment and to protect public Tor
est reservations, and resolution was
offered and agreed to calling on the
President to report as to why the law
providing for the payment of sugar
bounty has not been executed.
The Senate, at 2:20 p. m, adjourned
until tomorrow.
IN THE HOUSE.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 16.-The ses-
sion of the House to-day was devoted
chiefly 10 routine business and lasted
an hour and forty minutes.
Delegate Flynn of Oklahoma offered
= resolution. which was adopted, calling
on the Secretary of the Interior for the
reasons why that official had not, III
accordance with the law, thrown open
~ settlement the Wichita Indian Res
ervation. in Oklahoma, and inqulrlng
whether any of the Secretary s relatives
were interested in delaying the time of
IT.. opening. He severely criticised the
Secretary for his dereliction in eXecut-
ing the laws of Congress and asserted
that there never was Secretary OF
the Interior since the foundation OF the
Government who had devoted less time
TO the public duties than Secretary
Smith. who, he said, was 'paradlng
around the country changing ms nina
on the money question.
Tomorrow was set apart for the con-
sideration of amendments to the rules
Of the Fifty-frst Congress, so as to
hermit an enlargement of the list of
committees and an increase Of member
ship thereon.
practices in vogue of importing fish and
packing them in bonded warehouses
Tor export.
Unsuccessful attempts were made TO
have printed in the Record various
memorials and petitions on the Cuban
and Armenian questions.
Messrs. Bull (Rep) of Rhode Island
and Cobb Dem.) of Missouri were ap-
pointed additional members or the Ac-
counts Committee.
The annual report of the Secretary OF
the Treasury was received.
The House, at 1:40, adjourned until
tomorrow. Among the bills introduced
fn the House to-day were the following:
BY Mr.. Long (Rep) of Kansas
Granting 10 the State of Kansas, as an
addition to the Soldiers Home, the
abandoned Fort Dodge military res
ervation.
BY Mr. Bartholdt (Rep.) of Missouri
Providing for the registration Of trade
marks on bottles, boxes, barrels and
other receptacles.
BY Mr.. Johnson (Rep.) of California
Appropriating $26S,650 for the purchase
of the toll roads through the Yosemite
National Park, and making free roads
of them.
BY Mr.. Crowther (Rep) of Missouri
Extending the provisions of existing
pension laws TO the officers and privates
and their widows, children and depend
ent mothers and fathers Of all State
military raised in the States during
the years 1861 to 1865, who performed
military service.
BY Mr.. Miller Rep.) of Kansas-Ap-
propriating S250.000 for public build
ing at Kansas City, Kan.
BY MIR. Hull (Rep) of Iowa-Appro-
priating $4,000 for military post at
or near Des Moines. Iowa.
BY Mr.. Hubbard CRep) OF Missouri
Defining train wrecking with the in
tention to rob. and making the crime
punishable by death; also appropriating
S25,000 for a public building at Fulton,
No.
BY Mr.. Linney Oem.) Of North Car
olina-Providing for the coinage of all
silver bullion the product of mines of
the United States.
PANANIA-PACIFIC MAIL cos.
Presidents Huntington and simons
Sign the Traffic Agreement.
NEW YORK, Dec. 16.-C. p. Hunt