National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1884-04-24
NAVAL APPROPRIATIONS.
Senate Amendments Discussed by the House
in Committee Of the Whole.
Necessity Shown for Money for Guns
for the New Cruisers,
A Neat Question Of veracity Raised Between MesSrS
Randall and Dorsheimer
The PIeuro-PnoumoniH Bill Up for Dis
cussion In the senate.
THE SENATE.

THE SENATE.
Mr. Conger, from the committee on commerce,
reported favornbly and asked unanimous consent
for consideration to put at once upon its passage
the bill providing for tho government and control
of the Sante Marie Falls canal, Michigan. The
bill authorizes and directs the secretary of war to
assume control OF the canal, and prescribes regu-
latons for the passage of boats through it, The
bill was passed.
Mr.. Hill from the committee on postofIices and
postroads, reported favorably the bill granting
thirty days annual leave ofiabsence to letter car
riers at free delivery Offices II was placed on the
calendar.
Mr.. Hoar introduced BILL which was referred
to the committee on the library, to provide for
the appointment Of an acting secretary OF the
The senate then proceeded to the consideration
OF bills on tho calendar.
The bill amending the revised statutes in rela-
uon to timber depredations was read third time
and passed. 1t protects Indian reservations from
the unlawful cutting OF timber. ,
The bill defining the title and duties OF certain
officers of the medical department Of the army
was also read a third time and passed. II pre-.
scribes that the six officers Of that department.
having the rank OF colonel shall be styled assist
ant surgeons general. and the officers with the
rank of lieutenant colonel shall be styled deputy
surgeons general. The rank and pay OF all to re-
The bill reported adversely from the committee
on finance 70 authorize the payment OF customs
duties In legal tender notes went over, Mr.. Beck
calling the yeas and nays upon the motion to take
it up--yeas %, nays &c.
ALS D CLOCK t00 CDHlr lulu DelOTe tne seuute tuo
special order, being the bill TO establish bureau
OF animal industry, prevent the expectation of
diseased cattle, and provide for the e1tirpaton Of
pleuro.pneumonia, and other contagious diseases
among domestic animals. The house bill was
substituted for the senate bill.
Mr., Plumb said that the cattle interests of the
country were unanimously In favor of the legisla
ton proposed by the bill.
Mr.. MCPHERSON stated that the alayning reports
spread throughout the country ana Europe some
months ago had been discovered TO DO unfounded
and those reports had come principally from such
people as the bill under consideration provides
should be appointed as inspectors Of meats for
export. The European governments, he added
only wanted an excuse for keeping out American
meats. If those governments preferred dear meat
for their people that was matter between their
people and themselves. Mr. Mcpherson knew
that cattle had exhibited some evidence of dis
ease, but 1t was neither pleuro-pneumonia nor the
foot and mouth disease. 1t was simply bad
Mr.. Coke severely criticised the department of
agriculture for spreading false reports OF the nature
oil the disease among American cattle. He had
pretense that any animal having the foot and
mouth disease or pleuropneumonia had ever been
landed in England or any other European coun-
try. If the bill passed with the oyershadowing
powers which 1t gives to the commissioner of az
ricultnre. MFR. Coke would recommend his people
to get rid of their cattle as soon as possible There
was but one reason, he thought, why the agrcul-
turai department had given such wide publicity
msnt, was determined to aggrandize Itself
at the expense 4. Of the cattle interests Interest,"
kicked out Of the senate, and should be kicked
out again. The states separately were quite eff .
oa bS 10 ds Sn sae qT b cattle ana
partment would stop hbelling the cattle Of the
United states no more trouble would be found
with the cattle business. Our government was not
apaternal one, and the people could take care of
their own cattle without the paternal care Of the
q bill to prohibit tho Importation or expectation
OF diseased cattle. but would not vote for bill
appointing inspectors TO 70 smelling around
rnn an "a n n M n a ~
disease.
Mr.. Williams regretted that the senator from
Texas [Mr. Cokel had been carried so far by the
warmth OF his feelings in the denunciation of
those who desired the passage Of the bill. He for
one favored the bill, and alter hearing All that
the senator from Texas had said he MI. Williamsl
was happy to say that he still found himself In the
open air, standing on his feet and in no wise the
worse for having experienced such Texan
1t was amazing to Mr.. Williams how senators
could fear the results of bill OF this character:
Should a state permit itself to become a hotbed
of contagious cattle disease without the other
states being protected? He wanted to know If
sacred bulls of India Texas steers were tall thin,
slab sided brutes tlaughterh with horns some;
times extending to seven feet in width, but for all
that they were entitled to no more privileges
in this democratic country than common
cattle, renewed iaughtorl. Mr.. Williams said he
was himself stock raiser, and he knew that nine
teen. twentleths OF all the stock raisers OF the
country favored this measure, And" calculated
Mr., Williams TO say that there Is no pleuro-
said, in New Jersey New York. Pennsylvania,
Maryland, and the District OF Columbia. Mr..
Williams had himself seen 1t.
Mr.. MCPHERSON said he had not been able to
find any in New Jersey.
Mr. Williams acknowledged the emlnence of
doctor" Mcpherson as authority on constitu-
tional law and matters affecting the navy but he
did not think that that gentleman would recog-
nize pleuro.pneumonia II he saw II.
If that disease should once spread upon the
plans itwould be ineradicable, and the duty was
imperative to stamp 1t out.
MIR. Williams had no doubt of the entire const-
tutionality of action by the national government,
and II was of no use for constitutional lawyers
20 hang the question up "between the devil and
high water" tLaughter.l The evil had to be
met.
Mr.. Brown, representing the minority of the
committee on woman suffrage submitted the
views of that minority in opposition to the meas
ure recently reported by the majority OF the COM
mittee which proposed n constitutional amend
ment granting the right OF suffrage to women.
Pending debate on the pleuro-pneumonia bill
the senate lat 1915 p m.) on motion of Mr.. Ingalls,
went into executive session. and when the doors
were reopened adjourned.