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9
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March
Year
1882
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March 1. -Af ter the morning hour Mr. Voorhees made a speech upon the urgency of better accommodations for the library of Congrí. The Chinese bill was then taken up, and Mr. Hoar spoke against the ineasure, asserting that the right of every human being to go wherever on the surfaes of the earth he inay get an honest living, without interference by government, came frora the'same authorlty as the (Jolden Ruit-, and the Sermón on the Mount. In the House, the bill was passed to inake Denver a port of delivery. Bills were reported to provide for an exchange of trade dollars for legal tender dollars and (o stop the colnage of trade dollars. House calendar. Also (adversely) for retiring the trade dollar and tor the recoinagento standard silver dollars, and for the redemption of fractional silver coin. Tabled. The House went'into commltteeon the whole, on the Iadian Appropriatlon bill. The tutal amount the appropiiatlon recommended was $4.920,208, an Ulerease orer last year of $851,600, and a decrease of $921,060 irom the estimates. In lieu of approprlating for interpreters in detail as heretofore, they are provided for in gross at f 20.C0O, the Secretary of the Interior being nathorized to employ and distribute theui at his discretion, and at salaries not exceeding $400 per annuin. The numbsr of agents is reduced froui sixty-eeven to sixty The expenses of the commission of citizens eerving without pay are specified in detail. March 2.- Af ter the morning hour the Senate took up the Chinese bill. Mr. Grover spoke in its favor. Mr. Farley replied to the points in Mr. Hoai's speech and quoted froin Senator Morton's minority report in 1876 on the Chinese in California, the conclusión of its author that this class could only be protected irom pereecution and outrage by our giving them suftrage and citizenship- their influence as citizens being sufficient to assure their protection. Hethen asked Mr. Hoar to state eauarely whether he indorsed this sentiment and favored the enfranchisement and nftturalization of the Chinese. Mr. Hoar replied he was i i favor of admitfing to citizenehip all foreignera who renounced foreign allegiance and who were fit for it in characterand intelligence, and were attached to our government. I He would apply the test with reference to character, not the color of the skin, of the applicant. He was not quite as willing to admit to sulïrage the young Chinamen who last year received L. D. at Y ale College, or the learaed and admirable gentleman who died at Cambridge last week, aB the California persecutors of the Chinese whom Senator Morton had described f.s "fierce and unserupulous ruffians." In the House contested election caBe of Mc Dowell vs.(xeorge, of Oregon, was disinissed. A letter f rom the Director of the Mint stated that from March, 1878, to December, 1881 , the average monthly cost of silver bullion purchased by the treasury was f2,067,805, and the average amountof coinage f2,290,891. March 3.- In the Señale, Mr. Butler presented a long memorial from citizens of South Carolina for national aid for the education of the youth of that State. Beferred. Mr. Anthony reportad adversely the resolution for printing 10,000 copies of the medical and surgical history of the war of the rebellion. Mr Hoar reported adversely upon the petitlons for a Congressional commission to attend the celebration of the discovery of the mouth of the Misaissippi. In the House, Mr. Gib3on introduced a bilí making appiopriations of $6,113,000 lor the constructiou, repair, completion and preservation of certain works on the Mississippi River, in accoráance with the reconimendation, plans, etc, of the Mississippi Commission. Referred. A bill was passed reducing tho license fees of masten", chief engineers, and first-chss steam vessels from f 10 to 160, and chief mates engineers and pilota of interior grade from f5 o ninety-five cents. March 0.- Mr. In galla reported from the judiciary committee the original bill to establish a uniform systein of baDkruptcy throughout the United States embodying what is commonly known as the."equity system;" conferring jurisdiction upon the district courts of the United States to hear matters in bankruptcy upon petition. Mr. Vest, from the commerce committee, reported favorably. with amendments, the biU to incorpórate the InterOceanic Ship Railway. Mr. Teller reported favorably house bill to pension Mrs. ttarfield, with an amendment including Mrs. Polk and Mrs. Tyler. The amounts specified are f5,000 a year from September 19, 1881. The Chinese bill being under eonsideration Mr. Cameron of Wisconsin, declared his intention to vote for it W hen the immense anJ overflowiag population of China is considered and the entire cost of brioging a Chinese ashore' from Shanghai to San Francisco does not exceed f 12, we must.admit that China can, if no restriction be placed upon the emigration of her laborers, pour countless thousands of them lnto the ports of California and Oregon. The Six Companies were now hurrying coolies into Oregou to construct the Northern Paeific railroad. In the house Mr. Belford oflered a resolution protesting against Jewish persecution in RubBia. Mr. Kelly one to abolish discrimination duties and to increase the f ree list by adding cassia, cinnamon, cloTes,maoe, nutmeg.pepper, oil of cubebs, nitro benzobe, gum assafetidai chloride of potassium and nitrateof potassa (crude.) Friday night was designated to consider the pension bill. March 7.- Mr. McDill prssented memorials of the Iowa Legislature for an appropriation of not lessthan $7,000,000 for the improvement of the Missouri River between Sioux City, Ia., and St. Charlee, Mo. Mr. öeorge introduced a joint resolution authorizing the Secretary of War to use hospital tente to furnish tempor? ry shelter to sofferers by the Mississippi overflow. Passed. Mr. Da wes reported favorably the bill to ratify the agreement with the Crow Indiana for the bale of a portion of thcir reservation required for the use of the Northern Pacific Railroai. The Chinese bill was taken up, and Mr. Miller, Farley and Fair spoke in favor of it, and Mr. Dawes against it. Mr. Edmunds defended the principie of the bill R-i foundc 1 on the homogenity of the'American people. In the House on inotion of Mr. Neal the bill passed creating a local Board of Inspectora of Hulls aiid Boilers atGallipolia, O. The Senate bill appropriating $20,000 fr the erection of the statue of Cbief Justice John Marshall wai paseed. The Houee went into committee on the state of the Union, and Mr. Kaston called up the Taritl' Commissiou bill. Mr. Valentine again made his point of order thut the bill was entitled to no special privilege as it was not a bill to raise revenue. After a general disccBaiou of the point, the chair decided that the bill had no preference to eonsideration and it must take its regular place in the calendar, where it Unds as 54 In oider.

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