St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-03-18
CONGRESSIONAL.
The House Has Many Bills Either
Reported or introduced
Before 1t.
The Senate Have a Lively Discus
sion on the Foot and Mouth
Disease Bill.
The State Rights Question Brought Promptly
Before the Members.
The Senate.

cOludSc VI SILVER uOlldrS.
Senator Allison presented joint resolu-
ton from the general assembly of Iowa re-
lating to the pleuro pneumonia, and urging
tie adoption OF means for its extirpation.
Senator Mcmillan, Palmer and Henderson
presented petitions from the citizens OF their
respective states, praying that congress pro-
posed 10th amendment prohibiting the dis
reimbursement of citizens on account of sex.
Senator Vest, from the mercantile bodies
st. Louis, petition praying for the extern
sion of the bonded period on whisky.
Senator Hoar offered a resolution calling
on the secretary of the interior to report to
the senate the names of parties who have
pension applications pending more than two
years, and show the condition of such apph-
cation, and the reasons why they are not dis
posed of.
SenatorHoar said, inquiries are very numer-
GUS from all parts of the country as to the
pension cases undisposed of. No tragedy
could be put on the stage, Hoar said, which
ought to move the feelings of right minded
men, especially the American Legislators,
more than stories which come to us day after
day, week after week, month after month,
year after year, of the hopes deferred, OF
poverty, sorrow and agony eff the men who
suffered wounds and privations, who gave
up their strength and health for their coun-
try, and the widows and orphans Of those
who have given up their lives for it.. Hoar
found no fault with the pension office, but
something should be done to help forward
the pension cases.
Senator Dawes said the principal difficulty
was in the existence of claim agents, who
gather in pension claims by thousands and
tens of thousands. If these agencies could
be condensed or obliterated, and the apph-
cant deal directly with the government or his
member of congress, there would be more
hope for claims.
Senator Salisbury said the chief difficulty
WIS with the claim agents.
Senator ingalls, repealed the suggestion
that large number of just and proven PEN
sion claims were undisposed OF, and that
hundreds and thousands of men entitled to
pensions were starving to DEATH. No gov
eminent has been more liberal than that of
the United States, and there was no ground
for charging it with negligence in this mat
ter. Such charges created wrong impress
sion in the county. The difficulty was large
numbers of applicants had not proved their
right to pensions.
ingalls, believed, so few proven cases were
at present undisposed of in the pension Of
their disposal.
Senator Mitchell thought, pension attorneys
ought to be called pension sharks. They were
the parties who were principally responsible
for the difficulties in the way. The resolution
was referred to the committee on pensions.
Senator Vanwyck offered the following res
olution which was agreed to:
RESOLVED, That the committee on public
lon do ha To in nnir infn 1uh
ner large quantities of public lands had be-
come transferred to or possessed by foreign
corporations or syndicates, and what, if any
legislation, was advisable to prevent such
transfer or possession.
The following bills were reported favorably
from committees and placed on the calendar.
Senator Hoar, from the committee on
Judiciary, to fix the salaries of the judges of
the United States district courts at $4,000.
By Senator Dolph, from the committee on
public land, to grant the right of way over
public lands of the United States to the Lost
Lake and Mount Hood Improvement Co.
By Senator ingalls,, from the committee on
Judiciary, to compel the prosecution Of pro-
ceediDgs in bankruptcy to final decree.
By Senator Garland, from the Judiciary
committee, reported adversely the bill
providing two additional associate justices
of the supreme court for Dakota. The bill
was indefinitely postponed.
By Senator Plumbs, joint resolution, appro-
priating 100000 for the suppression Of the
foot and mouth disease, were taken up.
Senator Bayard addressed the senate. He
said, police powers have always been
execised by the state and not
by the general government, and
in his behalf, there is no authority in the
constitution for the power sought to be be-
slowed by this measure. The utter made
quacy of the appropriation proposed, $780,,
600 was very apparent, but if congress were
authorized to make such an appropriation at
all, this would be followed by claim for
So, 500, 900 for cattle aughtered in order to
accomplish the eradication of the disease.
The results in monied expenditure gave
such wide opening in the power of con-
gress were scarcely calculable, to say moth
ing of the improper assumption of police
power, and local government. If the meas
ure should be passed, there must, in the
near future, come a reassertion of the prin
ciple of a local relief government
Senator Pendleton said he had not been
able to bring himself to a full approval of
Coke's amendment, which would strike out
the word ''Kansas" from the original resolu-
ton, so as to make the fund applicable to all
states affected He thought he had seen in
the debate on this subject, spirit shown by
a suggestion made that there was in the
United States governments decency and pow
er to do the thing contemplated, and that
this resolution would exc out that authority.
If the United States government has the
power contemplated, there was no necessity
and no propriety in the proviso requiring the
consent of state governments. If congress
has not the power contemplated, then no as
sent which the state could give would come
within the provisions of the constitu-
ton. While he would be glad to see
the assent of the state given to every act of
congress affecting it, yet he was opposed to
asking states for assent. 81 am t 90 good a
states right man." said Pendleton, ''to strict
a constructionist to admit, that in anything,
the actiod of state, other than in the pre-
scribed form of making amendments to the
constitution, and other than in cases express
ly provided in the constitution, can enlarge
the powers of the federal government. There
was no power in the state to give the con-
sent provided far in this resolution. The
United States government had
no original inherent power, and
no power arising from the necessity, ex-
cept what was conveyed by the constitution.
Massachusetts had always been jealous of
the power of the crown, and when she came
to ratify the constitution of the United States
she remembered the causes that had led to
Concord and Lexington, and ratified the
constitution, with the express understanding
that s'no amendments should be adopted"
which, in her own words ono undue admin
istration should enlarge the powers given by
-4sA- l. r.
and pervert the purposes for which those
powers were given, ''and the ninth and tenth
amendments were adopted under her leader
ship, declaring that all powers, not delegated
to the United States, or prohibited to the
states, should be reserved to the,