The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-05-01

lenc6 reaches Could he completed |
within a year. He said S120OO.OOO.
would construct complete line of |
evees 2H feet above high water from
cairo to New Orleans.
WASHINGTON, April 25.-Represen-
5ative Stewart, OF Texas, was directed |
today by the house committee on for
eign affairs to prepare bill providing |
for the appointment of three commits
sionerS to visit Mexico and Central |
and Southern America, and secure in |
formation relative to increasing COM
mercial interest between these two
countries and the United States. The
bill is to contain an appropriation of
$4,000.
WASHINGTON, April 24.-The house
committee on judiciary to-day sub
mitted four reports relative to extend
ing the rights of suffrage to women.
The adverse majority report was pre-
pared by May bury, and says in part:
ITO permit the entrance of political
contention into a home would be
either useless or pernicious useless,
if man and wife agree, and pernicious
if they differ. In the former case the
volume of ballots would be increased
without change of results; in the lat
er, the peace and cOntentment OF
home would be exchanged for a bed
lam of political debate, and become a
scene OF base and demoraliZing con-
troversy. In answer to the question Of
ten suggested-what portion and
what class OF women would avail
themselves of the privilege of stuff.
rage, if extended tomorrow? Your
committee is of opinion that while a
few intelligent women, such as ap-
peared before the committee in advo-
cacy of the pending measure, would
defy all obstacles in the way of their
casting the ballot, yet the great mass
of intelligent, refined, and judicious.
with the becoming modesty of their
sex, would shrink from the rude con-
tact of the crowd, and, with the eX-
captions named, leave to the ignorant
and the vile the exclusive right to
speak for the gentler sex on public
affairs.
Messrs. Reed, E. B. Taylor, 7. NJ
Browne, and McCDrd, in their mi
nority report, say the association OF
sexes in the family circle, in society,
and in business having proven to be
improving to both, there is neither
history, reason nor sense to justify the
assertion that an association in poll
tics will lower one or demoraliZe the
other. No reason on earth can be
given by those who claim suffrage as
right of manhood which does not
make it Womanhood also. If suffrage
is to be given to man to protect him in
his life, liberty and property, the same
reason urge it to be given to woman,
for she has the same life, liberty and
property to protect.
Dorsheimer, while concurring with
the majority in recommending the
| matter to be laid on the table, says:
81 think it probable the interests of
society will soon require tnat women
should have the right of suffrage, and
am not willing to say more than
that the present is not the opportuno
time for the submission to the states
of the proposed amendment"
Poland's report says: "The office
and duty which nature has deyolved
upon woman during all the active
often render it impossible and still
more indelicate for her to appear and
act in caucaSes, conventions and elec-
tions, or tu act as member of the
legislature or as juror or judge. l
cannot bring myself to believe any
large portion of intelligent women in
this country desire any such thing
granted, or would perform any such
duties if chance were offered them
WASHINGTON, April 24.-In the
senate to-day the bill passed provid-
ing for the disposal of the abandoned
| military reservations.
The bill amending the REVISED stat
utes relating to tresspassers on Indian
lands, passed. 1t adds imprisonment
to the fine already provided for.
| The chair then laid before the SEN
ate unfinished business, being the
bill to provide bureau of animal in
dustry and to suppress cattle diseases
| Mcpherson thought the bill defec.
tive, and moved its recommittal.
| Morgan said the bill provided fol
a number of inspectors who would be
interested in keeping alive the i'm
preston that disease existed among
the cattle of the country. Their con,
tinuauceiin Office depended upon the
fact, or supposed fact, that such dis
ease existed.
| Plumb then addressed the senate In
reply to the objections made to tht
bill, and in opposition to the motion tt
recommit. A recommittal, he said
would be destructive to the bill, ant
an indication that the senate did moi
1 want to pass any bill on the subject
4 of cattle diseases this seSSi)n. All tht
I stock growing associations had passed
= resolutions favoring the BILL and every
I Intelligent stock grower favored it
In regard to the constitutional ques
ton, Plumb said wnenthe state haC
| attempted to keep out cattle from
| another state the supreme court de
cided it had the constitutional power
| to do so, and to assert now that the
United States had no power, under
the constitution, to regulate this inter
| commerce in cattle, would be to as
| Sert power existed nowhere. Plumb
continued at considerable length dis
cussing the subject in various ways.
Coke, of Texas, said he took great
| interest in this matter. His state ha6
been assaulted and libelled, and its
value in consequence deprecated, by
| officials of the United States. The
bulk of the testimony before the sen
ate went to show that there was nc
pleuro-pneumonia in the country
| One gentleman had told him he
| advanced $4,000 on cattle, and II
this bill had passed he would lose halt
| if not all his money. The cattle In
terest were suffering, and would suffer
from this constant agitation. Where
he asked was pleurO-pneumonia? Agi-
tations nor agitators could not locate
it, except in the agricultural report.
If there was testimony of contagious
disease among the Texas cattle he
would only be interested to get passed
the best bill he could. AS there was
no such evidence he must oppose III"
bill. Between one-seventh and one
sixth of the cattle of the
United States were in Texas,
and the treasury cattle commission had
recomn ended these cattle to be quar-
antined from March to November,
the only time they were fit for market
This would make great difference in
the price of beef, and consumers would
be largely out of pocket by it.
The senate soon after adjourned.
WASHINGTON, ID. c., April 23.-In
the senate to-day the bill amending
the revised statutes, in relation to thu
Der depredationS, was passed. IL pre-
tects the Indian reservations from
unlawful cutting of timber.
The bill defining the title and duties
of certain officers of the medical de-
partment of the army passed. 1t pre-
scribes the rank of colonel will be
styled assistant surgeon-general. and
the office with rank of lieutenant
I'll no OF