Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1884-04-29
CONGRESSIONAL.


| sion 10 regulate interstate comma. rec.
Cuilom stated that the bill Wa intended
as substitute for sevrr.l bills reiat NJ
I'D the same subject h. retofore Intro
duced. The other bills were indefinite
ly postponed. and the bill reported was
placed on the calendar
Ihe bill was passed to consolidate the
Bureau Of Military Justice and the
Corps OF Judge Advocates of the army.
The chair laid before the Senate the
unfinished business of Friday. being a.
bill to establish a bnrea1 Of animal
Industry and to extirpate conta-
eious diseases. b. question vas on
the motion Of McPbers1n to commit.
the bill to the Committee ON Asrirnl-
ture and II VS. lost: yes Ii, nays30.
Cox moved TO except what l. known
~ the l,Ias fever from the diaea. - IN
tend - be included within the meat
/ Ing o! the act 50 far a. II coac.r,,-si
tier an-porta,ion TO market. thirty
per cent IT that coming To Chicago last
year had been Texas cattle, ana TIE tes-
ilmony Of the ChIc4g" stock wares was
hat there had 'seen no disc ~. among
them. The amendment was agreed t.
Morgan moved ~ strike out the
clause authorizing Ply .ent for slaugh-
tered cattle.
BECK Wa willing Il hu'horlz. Al ex-
anIna' ION ~ To tn G tile .i-eis., bnt
VS. unwilling to give power for indIs-
! cr!minate slaughter aud Widespread
fraud. Mauy Of the Target cattle
owners OF The No Invest Territories. he
said, We're foreign corporations. Ii
would not do To give those Territorial
legislatures the power to cond-mu cat
Tie by the whOles lie and 10 pay the
DAMAGES out of the money Of the
United States.
Williams remarked that not one In
20 herds ia the Northwest BELONGED In
foreigners.
Plumb said th if he could have his
own way, the.e foreign corporatloDs
would not own cattle nor ANYTHING else
IN the Northwest but the Quantitv of
cattle owned by such corporations Was
an exceedingly small part Of the cattle
interest of the country. He defended
the provisions Of the bill. bat said he
mad prepared an amendmen mt which
would to some extent remove the obiec-
tons OF the Senator from Alabama.
This amendment WAS to strike out the
reference to ttfe slaughtered animals.
Wilson sent To the desk and had read
= letter to him from tie Commissioner
of Agriculture in reply to Wilson's in
quiries, saying that the exclusion of
American cattle ffem England for At
least one year would prob !bly be imme
dia,eiy decided upon by Parliament. Ii
Was understood that thu cattle Inen of
England were determined to keep out
American beef The Con missioner
adds There WAS never time when
1t WAS more important to ascertain the
real condition Of American cattle than
now" Wilson said II WA an import
ant fact that the British government
was taking positive steps to exclude
American beef. We should therefore
show determination To give oar cattle
. clear bull al they are exported.
Plumb's amendment! Was ARE d -.
Bayard thought the purpose OF the
bill would now bs fulfilled by an mp
preparation of $1,000 instead of the
$4,000 allowed by the Hohse.
Plumb moved to make 10 $4,000.
Biyard's motion to reduce the appro-
priAtion to $50. 600 was disagreed to, AZ
was also "A motion by Brown. that the
amount he $4,000, and Plu,ob's
amendment. making it xl50,0OO was
agreed to.
On motion of Harris Al amendment
was agreed To cOntining operations to
cattle from which there WAS d.uger of
disease spreading from one State to an
other.
Miller, of California, submitted an
amendment the substance of the bill
heretofore introduced by him. provid-
ing for the quarantining and inspection
If export cattle.
Plumb wanted To secure unanimous
consent that thu debate Oh the bill
should close at 3 p. IN. tomorrow AM
a vote be- reached, but this was not
agreed to.
Adjourned
After the introduction ~ a number
Of unipportant bills the House weut
into committee Of the whole.
Hewitt of New York rising 10 y que.-
ton Of privilege, said that on Fri hay
last he made \ statement that the Sec
rotary Of tho Navy had not complied
with the law, which required him t.
cover into the treasury the net proceeds
of the sale of condemned vesse $. THIS
statement had been oontrovert. d. and
he was subjected To very considerable
criticism. He read the section of ~
winch contains tie requirements and
the letter from the Treasurer, stat
by the Secretary of the Navy Ia the
credit IF his special account, but not
covered into the treasury, althouph $50.
900 WAS deposited on April IL. 1851. and
was now being covered in, the money
had not been covered into the treasury
but deposited with the Treasurer To the
credit Of the Secretary of the Nav
aud subject to his check. He cou'd
have taken tue whole of II
at anv time on his mere check
without "a voucher. The Secretary
had lncrea sed his wise discretion by
depositing the money with the Treasurer
rather than with a private banker. yet
Il WAS not in the treasury. ~ the law IN
tended. he had felt humiliated when
the gentleman from Illinois (Caunonl
had brought Ia his notice the fact that
N the appendix 10 the Secretary's state
ment there was "A statement that tn
money had been deposited with the
Treasurer. He had tono To every 9TH
Ger of the treasury who had accounts of
money covered INTO the treasury. and
they told him 1t had not been red
in. He b I'd not gons to til" Treasurer
for the reason that that officer did not
Keep such acc UNITS. If he we're 4 fault
that h had not gone to the treasure,
ii WAS because the treasurer was NOT
the per,ont 20 to. \ few days ago the
$4,000 had besn directed "a be covered
into the treasury. hut the Secretary of
the Treasury told him on Saturday that
IL II I'd not Yet been done. 50 that up -
the present moment not one dollar has
been covered in. He charged that tue
law pad not been complied with. Tie
Imputed lao intention on the part al the
Secretary To do any dishonest or dis
honorable thing. 50 far AS he had Oh
served, the administration OF the Score
tary Of the Navy had been most or, DIT
able. The whole tone of the service
had been raised, but the issue was
whether great officer Of the govern
men, had executed the clear command
Of the law He asserted that the Score
tary had not.
Calkins defended the S-cretarys ac-
ton. and argued that the provisi 'ns of
the law had not been violated. Ihui
law required that the net proceeds OF
sales should be covered into the treas
ury. The ne, proceeds would not be OBJ
tanned until all expenditures had bes II
paid for. and this had not been done.