Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-05-06
The Senate.

WASHINGTON, May 5.-A resolution was
offered by Window for the appointment of an
investigating committee of five to inquire
whether any money had been raised by con-
trlbution or otherwise by the parties in inter-
est to promote the passage or defeat Of the
house bill relating to distilled spirits in special
bonded warehouses, and if so, for what uses
the money has been expended. Adopted.
Debate on the court of appeals bill was
resumed.
Senator Garland took the floor. He said he
favored limitation upon the mandamus and
other jurisdiction of the circuit courts pro-
posed by Jones, but maintained that the bill
contemplated the creation of new tribunals.
This proposition was properly matter to be
considered separately, but lift was now adopted,
and the legitimate business of federal tribunals
was confined as it was originally before the
innovations of the act of 1875, he held that the
business was sufficiently exacting to require
the additional courts proposed by the bill. He
referred to the measure introduced by him
early in his senatorial career. which he said
went step farther than the amendment now
offered by Jones, and which prevented cor
porations from being sued at all in federal
courts. His measure had failed to secure a
report upon it by the proper committee, but if
Jurisdiction was to be regulated now he
would offer that measure as substitute for
the one now pending. Jurisdiction of federal
courts over municipal and quasi-municipal
corporations, was demanded by the necessi-
ties of the times and was in strict accord with
the act of 1879, organizing the judicial system.
He maintained that the assumed jurisdiction
was based upon strained constitution of
law, and in reply to Salisbury, said, even if
Limitation was imposed there would still re-
main pressing necessity for new courts.
After arguing to disprove the correctness of
the rulings of the supreme court upon which
the strained construction he complainedfof was
predicated, namely, that municipal corpora
lions were citizens to sue and to be sued in
federal courts, he detailed the probable relief
to be secured by a system of intermediate
courts.
Frye deprecated the Offering of amendments
by southern senator's making radical changes
in the jurisdiction of the supreme court.
These would jeopardize if not defeat the bill
earnestly demanded by the country. He ap-
pretended new impediments which, he said,
had been interposed against like legislation
heretofore in Democratic house of
representatives. Upon being Intercepted
by Jones, he added that the reason for his
appointment Was the fact that in this way
southern members would secure means of
changing the laws, growing out of the war,
which they might not otherwise secure.
Morgan suggested the propriety of deferring
final action on the bill until Tuesday.
Davis Qll.) declined to assent to any ar
rangement for delay, but finally yielded to the
apparent reluctance of the senate to dispose
of the subject to-day, and the bill went over
until Monday.
Senate bills passed: Restoring portions of
the Fort Niobrara military reservation, Kan
sas, Withdrawn for military purposes from
the public domain; permitting the lot formerly
purchased for government building in Mem
phis to be utilized as site for public library
building.
Adjourned until Monday.