The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1879-05-27
FoRTY-s1xTH CONGRESS.
A Quiet and uneVentruI Day Ia tie
| senate.
e'eI WANIIINdroS, May %.


The bill reported by Mr.. Bayard 10 pro.
vide for the exchange Of subsidiary colrs
for lawful money and making such coli
legal tender In sums not exceeding $50 wua
taken up, and Mf. Edmunds spoke againpt
the bill. '' p
When Mr.. Edmunds concluded consider.
alton began OF the bill heretofore intro.
duced by Mr.. Mcdonald authorizing Ia 4
employment OF the militia and land anil
naval forces In certain cases, and to repeal
the election laws. 'lITI - IL
Mr.. Mcdonald claimed that the rU.
spective States have the right TO prescriIN,
the machinery for conducting elections.
No power for this purpose was ever dele-
egated to the general Government, and /;
was never exercised until Of late wears.
under the authority OF law, through thr,
agency Of Supervisors. The debates Il,
the convention that adopted the CoHstitu.
ton supported the position he had taken.
nor was the principle departed from until
1870, when false plea OF security and
freedom and fairness at elections was
urged as an excuse for the enactment Of
the election law. The control OF tho
Southern States was passing from the Re-
publicans, and hence they assumed tbs
power Of interfering in elections for their
own advantage. Ri! n9r4a0
At the conclusion Of Mr.. McDonald's
address Mr.. Edmunds said:he intended To
speak on the subject when 1t again came
up.
The President pro ltm, announced his
signature to the Legislative appropriation
bill which now goes 70 the President. I
The bill relative TO the transportation Of
animals was then taken up.
Mr.. Mcpherson explained and adyocat.
ed the bill. ITO - II f-l-7 80 -
Mr.. Maxey opposed the last clause oftlle
bill which authorizes the Commissioner OF
Agriculture to appoint an inspector at
each port from which live stock and
dressed animals are exported who shallin-
spect all animals offered for export, and il
found in good health to give the owners
or shippers certificate to that effect and
whose salaries shall be $500 per annum.
He thought such officers should be ap-
pointed by the President, by and with the
advice and consent OF the Senate. ".
The clause also provides that the Com
missioner OF Agriculture may fix the fees
for inspection, to be paid by the owner or
shippers. As representative OF great
cattle producing State, he protested against
this direct tax on the export Of cattle,
Mr.. voorhees, moved 10 strike out the
clause above referred to, though he sun
ported the bill in the main. These in
spectors would have too much power.
They could ruin shipper by Withholding
certificate, and they could receive bribes
for giving certificates for diseased cattle,
Western cattle are not diseased, but be-
come infected in the stock yards in East
efl pOfts and any additional daloU ,vo,,I1
increase the liability 10 disease. For this
same reason the certificate OF health given
TO cattle that spend only short time IN
these ports would be worthless because the
disease incurred might exist in the germ
and be developed while on the vessel,
No foreign country would accept the cer-
titicates OF our inspectors. The goyern4
ments are jealous in these matters and de-
pend only on their own officers.
England has found it necessary to sche-
duIe against certain countries where
disease among cattle exists, and this is onn
OF those countries. No certificates OF any
inspectors will take US off that list. THIS
only remedy Is to eradicate the disease by
proper quarantine and other health reg1-
lations.
Mr. McPherson said while he believed
the clause objected to should be returned,
he would not insist on It, as the principal
object OF the bill was to prevent crueltyt0
animals in transit and to guard against 4,
danger to public health from the con-
sumption OF meat Of exhausted and III fed
animals.
Without further action the Senate went
into Executive session and soon after a,l-
journed.