Show 11 co the senate struggles 4 with the blair BILL I 1 I 1 I 1 vest thinks it would be 3 greater calamity THAN adark AND FAMINE I 1 il Nu in I 1 both bodies the practice of by springer various western asevo press to trig landard sanate washington jan 0 in the senate a number of bills and memorials were offered among them by jones of 1 evada IL reo lation g the resident rei ident to negotiate a treaty aith china containing a provision that no chinese enter the united states except ambassadors Ambas sadora and othera engaged in diplomatic service and merchants on in trade between the united states and foreign countries laid on the table a resolution call lil 9 on the secret of state for comics of ay tile arnera aai minister to corea relative rela tivo to the recent alleged attempts on tile part of tho chinese government to deahr the king and to absorb corea referred to the committee oil teller from an committee on pul R land reported hills granting to tile city of colorado Cu lorado ili the state of lands for water reservoirs and granting rights of way through the public lands for giop purposes placed on tile calendar t the senate then took up tile resolution offered by brown on the ath of january I 1 fora repe alof the revenue I 1 aws brown addressed the in favor of the resolution and moved its reference to the committee on fin an cc g it le on i ala ble d aiato iato by sherman to provide for me nt of certain funds in the treasury it directs tile tr c 4 IS alry from time to time to invest not exceeding 80 per cent of tit I 1 fund held in the treasury for the redempa tion of notes of the ilAt ional banks failed in liquidation and re du bilig circulation by in 0 pen market of any bonds of the U n atod states bearing interest it fu arther provides that whenever the money on hand fund shall fall below 20 per cent of the funds deposited the secretary of tile treasury is directed from time to time acsell in open market any per lion of tho bond purchased for said fund that may be necessary in ilia opinion to enable him to pa as presented any notes of national by a aks for redemption of which the fund I 1 s held the purchase being to retrain in the treasury for such red emption not less than twenty and not to exceed 3 80 per cent of the money deposited any national bank authorized to issue 00 per cent of bonds deposited by it ns security for circulating notes is au zid after the passage of the act to issue circulating notes to the amount of per cent of par value of bonds deposited by senator F arwell to authorize tho president to appoint a commission which shall be known as the lake and gulf waterway commission and which shall mature and submit a plan for a of water communication to connect lake michi gan at chicago with the mississippi by way of tl a illinois and Desp laing rivers by senator cullom to pension at the rate of ta per month all surviving officers ani enlisted men who actually nerved sixty daa a in the northwest in the indian or in the ou tit in tile flor i da seminole war pensions are also granted to the wid aws of deceased soldiers in these 11 ars A special proviso declares that this act shall not do so constructed as to krant pension to jefferson davis by senator to amend a bill introduced by Teg UlAto immigration so tat right of immigrants to re main in this country may be chat at any time within twelve months after their landing by senator bowen to estAll sh a in int at denver lie B a bill was taken up nd vest spoke in opposition if lie was ailed upon lie said to framo a I 1 itle for it lid would call it an act toe recta monument of alexander hamilton and to en m in the southern states 11 ile his Bur prime i democratic se tors m I 1 to ba given their lives to a a elo duent defence of a construction of the constitution and jeffersonian Jeffers onlan doctrine that all of a r 10 1 lion more givis to Cong U 1111 i s or neves r ily im plied guarantee gua of afie 8 ere now found to have sur bodde red all the land marks of their party in the presence of that gleat te andlen tation ili the proposed law were permitted to take ally interest lit the affairs of the living what the surprise of tile majestic spirit of john C calhoun when lie saw ills corbier followers strict construction lats and state right democrats of the south yelling in both houses of congress for the old aig and sin appropriation in his judgment tile enactment of tile pending bill be a greater c a ami 0 le 0 rn people t I 1 I 1 ur pestilence and ine at the clo of ilia speech tile in executive session and soon ad journoud jour nod TIME baker of illinois resigned from tile committee oil accounts reported a resolution designating tile committees entitled to employ clerks shaw demanded buos quos tion but the alouse reused I 1 to austain tile amand hooker of mississippi offered art amendment clerks to tile com cittee on expenditures in tile tate on in I 1 I 1 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 the navy department on e x hires in tile department of jat ico on anti OIL ventilation and committed comm ittem w I 1 itch had not ix ell se clerks by the report of I 1 lie committee on accounts clooke r ili support of tits amendment men dment barrows of said that to 1 s to I 1 lie committees barned mould be it profligate expenditure of public n e an amend ment ili committee on claims to err I 1 an lassi stant clerk perkins or cansas offered till amen 1 I that every deml r lie Ilo not the chair man a hall be allowe ct lie receive a callary of a Ilio nth ruled out on it point of order as not perkins then chanted tile of tile provi Aon as to ann it w thin the role without chang gg effect arum m struble E lougherty and 11 boucke favored the amendment and brown of indiana bloant matson kerr and rt opposed it blayne of pennsylvania contended that members clerks and that th gilt to have courage to say so DY YOU t beat the devil around the bush by giving clerks to tile commit ices that lad nothing to do after further delaite on tile pending all im it was re committed to tile tee on accounts tito speaker then proceeded to the call of states for tile introduction of resolutions ich call the and referred by oates of ain a on dia teching the committee 0 judiciary to I 1 w hat legis I 1 aaion Is ne I 1 a t ad restrict the numbers of united teg and to P anro a botter protection of it ie dinople of this country against the evils arising from the inlo discriminate admission to domici and citizenship citizen thip of haupers paupers Pau pers outlaws and from other countries by calieon califon Cal ifon tia author efing the pur thaw of tools for the ware island navy yard by thompson of california for the development of silk culture in the united by symmes colorado fo r the of a curtmn at derive r by springer of P r a ori sig c institutional p ab ing polygamy liv of ioa a a preamble at tile poci lie have persist antly refused to comply with the vari acts of congress persed for their regulation and that the ac t of 1878 provided that if tho companies eg failed to perform all the requirements of that and previous sects the attorney general take stepa for tile forfeiture of all grants and derived by them from the united states abid biru aing abo A 0 y gendral to report to tile louse wha t steps ila I 1 been ti cen b y him to 0 cure judicial aua emt f tl j i mile nono had bid reason for not proceeding as di beefed reefed by law I 1 By ODonnell AMich to rep cal the duty on sugar anti to 1 dovido for the payment of v bounty of 0 3 cars for tho tion of in tha united the f urther call of states was then until tomo to mo w 1 I I 1 ar 1 u adjourned 11 OF THE TI 1 2 washington WASHING Tox jan 8 ng 4 ta chairman of the committee oil ter 1 tories today to day said very probably enable 1 I 1 acts will be passed for somo of th e ories J abat is ave anky pass n ax some of the dorrit ories t 0 adopt sta to constitutions and construct of state government preparatory to a re cognition as states T he admission av el ly important matter and cannot be dot 0 on mere application or on any arithia c basis some how tin has got abroad that a territory miss t have a berain cerain population to gaii f y it for admission there is and no custom about it tire admission it it deiv state is ly u mat ter of leo it er of congress to erect no mans land into a state and it to the union the state of illinois was admits when lelie had leas than people dakota has oyer congress in its discretion may exclude dakota and may admit no land 11 WHAT CONGRESS WILL DO jail 8 tho tion bill is senata unfinished business for tomorrow to morrow and I 1 likely to hold this tion during the s week an effort will probably be made by colne senator not members of the u dietary to reach an un e rat anding in the lamar case should tile r ommittee not act upon it it tile ine eting to bortow many even of those who will oppose the on firma tion are becoming tired of the feces a ity of answering letters of inequity and advice on the subject and ish to have t io matter out of tile ay it is not eted that ally measure of great furlic interest will coule beford the honse of tives for action this week A great bills introduced last a Y have not yet been printed and tl anoro important commit teft of the alouse has e as yc A little to consider anti nothing to report tho first meeting of the committee on rules will be called early this week to consider the various proposed changes in rules and a report embodying tile views may be presented ta tho during the A eek tito for th formation in regard th alleged lis crimination against american ves sets passing through tile welland canal may bo brought before the iary co report some unit measures to be placed upon abo valo tular monday will he bills but no genaria tariff wit to meet the views of the marwitz aill be presented I 1 1111 9 adiong pi 0 nomination ti sent to senate today to day was that of mrs it A helm 01 0 1 port Ini stress at oregon G W irice postin aster nt fort benton fontana lon tana C A NIn slum billings ina sarah deming new mexico J L clar k gle n w 6 rinzs colorado tito nomination ol 01 J 11 ker w at glen wood springs ol orado was balth drawn jan S secretary lamar yesterday tendered to tile president tits resi pation us secretary of the interior and it was accepted by the president A formal rest g ua tion it is understood will not go I 1 11 to effect until noon of tuesday next the following is a copy of abet letter 0 f resignation and the 11 residents reply 14 jan 7 TO cheti rome months ago you invited me to accept tile vacant in the 0 court you a wish that I 1 the court was not irk session I 1 41 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 A postpone my resignation of my present the meeting of congress allowed you to and my nomination to the senate and there word certain matera before tile department ine aura uura ted by ine which it was theroa foro d that I 1 should close be fore leaving As I 1 could ahme been very to take a place on the bench until your nomination mas con firmed t 1 to senate I 1 cheerfully consent 0 your request has naw been submitted to I 1 lie senate and recognizing both their and duty to subject its fitness to most crilio examination I 1 still wait in my present position their decision but I 1 think I 1 fun war ranted in that a final dei clelon may be delayed somo it in b at you havo a t the same t imo nominated any successor ili all d department and its successor in the department this delay ay M to same extent at feast embarrass 11 a a d 1 I 1 of public buAl in tit ings p a rement mentioned to avoid buell embarrassment and to leave before the senate in its final judgment upon my nomination tile sole quentio que stio 1 I of my fitness for the position from v gy other nomination and unaffected by any other considerations I 1 now respectfully ask you to accept my resignation secretary of tile I 1 interior which I 1 hereby bendet in terminating ro mationg to you as a member of your official family I 1 desira to express my grateful sense of obligation I 1 ant under to you personally for the tion and kindness which have always characterized your treatment of me and for the generous confidence and support which you have steadily given me in tho trying 9 administration of thi s department I 1 shall always be proud to have been alsoc assoc mith tile honorable record louvill you vill leave upon the P ag beof your histo L q abrasion washinton sanitary rani tary 7 MR laban whon I 1 do terin ined to dominate you to a poi coition tion upon the bench odthe supreme court alie personal gratification the tender to you of so honorable and suitable place ednd tile satisfactory conviction that executive duty would be well led me allnott to forget that my action in olvo api loss bf your a nd aid and in the cabinet counci It which for nearly three years jr have so much enjoyed and appreciated your note of today to day forces me to contemplate this continuance with the most profound and regret but since that I 1 kanovi tile r you now insist upon arises from that conception of tile public duty which has always so entirely guided your conduct in our official relations I 1 am c on strained to accept tho resignation you tender hoping it only conr entrance upon the diA chargo of I 1 her and more congenial functions tala n ahmo now rel in U bed that r have as ritten seems very formal indeed I 1 intended this I 1 ani sure the clofe confidence ind relations of positive which have grown up bet cen as need no expression or interpretation yet I 1 find it utterly impossible for me to this avo without assuring you that th air which have character iad iau I au r con duct and bearing in the from which you now retire all your devotion to your country and your triley your self sacrificing care and solicitation forthe public interest all the benefit As aich your official service have conferred rijn your fellow countrymen and all tile affection and kindness so often ward me personally 1 shall constanti member with tenderness and gratitude yours very sincerely 1 GROVER i decisions IA theSa preme coat of the united states jan 0 the lincola Lin coll nebraska case decision was rendered by the supreme court today to day in the aakash corpus case mayor and C fly council of lincoln nebraska are now in custody of the united states marshal there for contempt of at order of the circuit court the court ili a long opinion bM Justice ray holds that tile united states circuit court sitting as a court of equity baer no jurisdiction liate ver over crim lilal cabs or cases involving ft 10 a catmen t or removal of bbate pt and in officers the proceed ingia of tile federal court in nebraska therefore were from the beginning in diw nature of of the bunc tims of a court of law were beyond ts uris d action a nd were null and ta I 1 e detent ion of the macor alid city bouncil of lincoln in austol ydia illegal and they are ent it led to s charge the co and justice liar ian dissented disien ted A decision was also rendered in the case of jant 9 F whitney and others aplist win A robertson collector odthe port of new york tile 1 I 1 a lion presented by this case is thel r 1 anti scope of c ro vIsions con bained in treat ies between tile united A and tile republics of san domingo and the kin bindoni doni of respectively rho plaintiffs in error who are merchants of new york city imported in froin the island of san domingo a large quantity of centrifugal and molasses sugars similar in kind to free of duty from the islands tito c oli ector exacted duties on tile san DO bingo sugars to tile a noun t of V 2 the importers paid under protest brought this suit to recover the elioney so exacts a on the that by virtue of the ninth article 01 treaty between tile united states a nd the dominion the republic of the united states w de barred from imp ong i any higher duty or any other duty upon the product of un do mingo than should be imposed upon p ro ducts of other countries with w aich tile united states might havo coni inertial relations 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