The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1884-04-03
usunr1Na YnE s1AyHs nIeHrs,

The member of tho United States SEN
ate for few days past have had an oppor-
tunity to air freely their visws and their
lie ,rning on the subject OF slater rights
not the popularity known kind Of Ststes'
Rights, to withdraw from the Union, but
tle constitutional rights OF the states to
mana 20 their own internal and local s1ails'
While the republicans admit in argument
as general thing, that the states have
rights that even the Federal goyernm' n
csnuot deprive them or prac ically they 80
N enacting measure after measure in di.
rect antsponism not only 90 these states,
rig lts bu to tbs letter and spirit OF Tho
+ raj constitution.
t . proposition which passed tire senate
W days since to Appropriate $4,000 un-
der direction of the committee of 1grlcul'
ture tor tne purpose OF meeting and
Stamping out the Kansas cattle plague, IVES
unGues'ionao y q usurpation Of power and
an uDcons ii utioual, unwarrsntsd eppro-
priation. IT the states have any rights at
all, Ger ainly they have by precedent and
constitution the right to reg ulate their OVID
Quarantine and police matters. When the
neral government once Commences to
take charge of these matters then is the
sovereignty OF the state or the freedom of
the 10 pie gone. Ia this Kansas MAYER it
doe. not cha ge or lesaen the obj ctions to
tn. proposed legislation that K ,nsas is
sta I'd ug ready aud desirJus OF
| fe lersl Interference. Tue damage and
| injustice add wrong co sst in
the establishment OF the pro-
,dent that is open to Infinite mod6ca-
tic aud application. The house ought to
vote down the join, resolution BY d large ma
jority. The resolution hasn't even the virtue
OF the pleurc-pueumonia Dbl, Tor at is a
cru q attempi to regulate one sp cies oi
in er-state commerce. Mr.. PLUND's ress-
luton on the other hand IOogs to the
agents OF the bureau of agriculture going
int "a state. slangatering its cattle for alIeg-
ed quarantine purposes and compromising
those whose disea,ed cattle ore dest Dyed.
/ IS in another sense big sale Of diseased
cattle to the government.
tits gratifying to Texans to fnd their able
sen atore vigorously combating this resou
tlon and delivering some OF the sledge-ham-
mer blows that we're delivered against the
reso ution. SENATOR MAIEY said with
strong effect in the discusiion "The
granting of $4,000 (s5O,OOO) for the
purpose OF investigating the charac-
ter and nature Of diseases of cattle Is
one thing. but the power to appropriate the
money of this government to destroy cstile'
and pay out OF the peoples treasury Tor the
cattle thus destroyed, is q power which I
boldly assert, in my Judgment congress
has not aud never was designed or intended
to have. This is simply the advance guard,
he skirmish line, Of the pieuro pneumonia
bill. We are starting out. in nv judemer +
upon the most dangerous route that this
country has ever travelled. Twenty-Five or
fifty Thousand dollars is mere bsgsttlle
IN this matter compared with o startlins
precedent. You give that. You make it
the duty of this government to pay for the
property which is destroyed By disease in
this country out of the common treasury,
and your surplus revenue will Don vanish
and the country be taxed untold millions Of
dollars"