Show FIFTIETH CONGRESS SENATE WASHISGTOH September 25Stewart offered a resolution calling on the President Pres-ident for such information as he has received since the 7th as to the action of the Chinese government on the recent re-cent treaty Edmunds sugeEte t that the resolution resolu-tion had better be considered in executive execu-tive session for reasons which ne would state in the executive session The resolution was thereupon laid upon the table temporarily and tae Senate upon motion of Edmunds proceeded pro-ceeded to executive business with closed doors The resolution was withdrawn oy the Senator from Nevada as soon as the doos were closed to give Eimauds an opportunity to offer asumituie calculated cal-culated to bring out any official correspondence corres-pondence whicn may have taken place during the pending of the restriction bill I billThe doors reopened at 1 oclock Shermans resolution for inquiry into the state of the relations between the I United States and Great Britain and and Canada was taKen up Morgan proceeded to discuss it He yielded the floor temporarily so as to permit Allison to report bacK from the committee on appropriations the House joint resolution to continue the provisions pro-visions of the exiling law providing for the expenditures of the government up to and including the lOch of October The joint resolution was passed It is the fifth of its kind passed this season Morgan then resumed the floor and proceeded with his argument He paid a high compliment to the President for his clear sight and courage There was he said no trimming no double dealing no hiding away of his opinions on the part of the President DDlph replied to what he designated as the extraordinary speech of the Senator from Alabama He spoke of the inconsistency of Democratic Senators Sena-tors who from being on the British side when the treaty was pending were now the most radical l advocates of retaliation retalia-tion He regarded the Presidents retaliation re-taliation measure as a most extraordinary extraordin-ary docuiuent After the rejection by the Senate of the fisheries treaty which was n shamful surrender of American rights the President had been left free to execute the retaliation act of March 3d 1887 but chose to bluster rather than act and undertook to instruct in-struct the Senate on the question He demanded power to do what he could to prevent the transportation in bond I of goods to and from Canada a power the exercise of which would hurt the American transportation companies alone would tend to desroy American I industries and would hardly harm Canada all It would simply divert the transportation of goods for or from i I Canada across American territory oy American transportation lines I would give an opportunity for the I building up of Canadian transportation lines and would end he claimed by being a benefit to the Canadian provinces I inces The exercise of power lu me Presidents hand under the act of I March 3d 1887 would have injured Canada Was that the reason why the President did not execute it The I power asked for would injure Ameicaa interests and was that why the President Presi-dent desired it Did the President desire de-sire to retaliate upon the people of he United States rather than upon Canada Can-ada I At the close of Dolphs remarks the resolution was referred to the eon e-on foreign relations Sherman batin that it would be considered i tomorrow On motion of Paddock the Hous bill for the relief of settlers on the old Camp Sheridan Militar reservation in Nevada was taken from tne calendar I and passed I The Sanate proceeded to pass the pri I vat pension bills which were on the cal i endar to which there were no objections Among the bills passed was the Senate bill granting a pension of 3500 a year to the widow of General P H Sheridan All the bills on the calendar lit in number were passed The following fails warj also taken from the calendar and passed The House bill to authorize the Leavenworth Rio Grande Railway to construct and operate a railway through Indian Territory The House bill giving like authority to the St Louis San Francisco Railway Rail-way Company Senate bill creating three additional land offices in Colorado Senate bii to refund 624 income tax illegally collected from Alex W Baldwin as United States District Judge for Nevada Senate bill to create the Lincoln land district in New Meaico House Dill granting to the Citizens Water Company the right of way across the Papoga Indian reservation in Maricupa County t Arizona Adjourned |