The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1884-02-28
CONGRESSIONAL pnooEED1Nas.
Hatch, of Missouri. Thinks what the
Democratic Party Wants is Funerals.
sFNATE

SENATE
WASHINGTON, q. c.. Feb. 25.-Sena-
tor Logan, from the committee on Judi
ciaFy. reported two original resolutions.
which we're agreed TO, relating TO rail-
road lands, one calling on the secretary
of the Interior TO inform the senate
whether any OF the railway companies
mentioned in the act passed IN May,
1878, had failed to coHaply with the re-
quirements OF said set. and when, and In
what respect they had failed, whether
tkey were subsequently, com
piled with, and further, whether
said companies had paid diyi-
bends, and 10 what amoants. and the
steps. If any, that have been taken to en-
force the provisions Of said act. The
second resolution called on the attorney
general TO furnish similar information.
Senator Ransom offered joint resolu-
ton TO appropriate 100000 for the re-
lief of the sufferers by the recent great
wind storm in the southern states. He
SAID that over five hundred people were
killed and many thousands wounded,
and the sufferings resulting from the
storm are awful.
Senator'S Brown and Pugh supported
the resolution.
Senators Rrrris and Morgan opposed
the resolution on constitutional grounds.
Neither had received request from his
state for government aid.
Senator Garland thought the measure
constitutional.
Senator VOORHEES, thought these sufJ'
ferers should not be left entirely TO pri-
vate charity.
Senator VOORHEES, offered a preamble
and resolution, which was referred to
the committee on judiciary, instructing
the committee to inquire concerning the
leases of lands in the Indian Territory
for cattle grazing, how much money had
been paid into the treasury for such
leases, whether the lessees had sur
veyed the lands, etc.
The resolution was REFERRED, and the
senate then resumed the consideration OF
the currency bill, Senator George speak
ing in opposition to 1t.
HOUSE
Mr.. Ellis, rising to question of priv
ileee, sent to the clerks desk and had
read from the New York Sun of Satur-
CAV extracts from q document said TO be
in the possession of the p0stOffice de-
partment stating that George +. Brott
gave fee of several hundred dollara to
John Ellis, for his services in securing
star route contracts on the Donaldson
route Mr. Ellis entered a solemn, une-
ouivOcal denial of the whole story, and
said that BFott's denial of it was on file
| in the post0ffice department, but he could
not rest content with Brott's denial and
his own assertion, and therefore asked
| the house TO make an investig ation.
Mr. Gibson introduced q joint resolu-
ton appropriating $50, 900 for the dis
| tTibution of seed among the sufferers
| from the Ohio floods. Referred.
Mr.. Clements, from the committee on
foreign affairs, reported resolution re,
questing the president TO transmit to the
house all communications between the
| United States and Russia in regard 10
| the condition and treatment of the He.
| brews in Russia, especially in relation
| to the Hebrew citizens of the United
States. Adopted.
| Under q call of states the following
| bills were introduced and referred;
By Oates-To prohibit aliens or for
| eIgners from acquiring or owning land
within the United States.
By Belford-A resolution calling upon
the secretary of state for information
concerning the subsection OF naturalizeC
| German-American citizens to military
] duty while temporarily residing IN Ger
/ many.
Bv Stevens-To establish an inter
state railway transportation bureau TO
the regulation of commerce with foreign
Dations and amoug states and with In
dian tribes.
The house then vent into COMMITTEE
of the whole with Blackburn in tn
chair, on the pleurO- pneumonia bill.
Mr.. Hatch, OF Missouri, supported III
I I'D fa1H 8
by the opponents of the bill that it wonl'
provide for a large number of fedora
officials to work against the Democrat
party. He was not afraid of few NOR
office holders that was not what tn
I Democratic party lad to fear; what tn
Democratic party wanted was funerals
funerals in New York, funerals in IL
diana, funerals IN Ohio. Laughter.
He wanted to bury some of the barna
Giles and corpses that have been hangin
to it. Il had q national committee 81
here few days ago and the majority Q
that committee did not even have origi
nalIty or independence enougl
10 find place In tn
United States wherein TO hold
convention; outside of the place wher
the Republican convention was TO
held. He had travelled long enough II
| Inc WIKI Vi LnC CiG Dd4 hoNACS VI -
Democratic party, following the repubfl
can party. He wanted little new bloc
: in it, a little independence in it, a litti
;; originality in it. Before he would bav
followed the Republican party to CHI
csgo, he would have gone to Lo
Angeles. He would have gone wheI
the thermometer reached four hundre
degrees below zero or three hundred d.
b grees above boiling point rather than
J have gone to Chicago. Laughter ID
would have the Democratic party po
sess independence enough 70 strike on
for once on its own hook. He defied Il
D intelligence of the house to introduce
measure which had for its object I'll
!. promotion of the agricultural interest
and which sought in the slightest degr'
= ID interfere with the operations OF tho
t gigantic and almost monarchicai CO
o porations which controlled the tran
: portation of the country, without ha'
= ing some Democrat attacked by quail
: of conscience and jump on it quick
e than a duck on Junebug, with col
e stitutIonal objection. Laughter.
The bill was then read by sectione !
amendment.
b Mfr. Hatch offered all amendment pl
= viding that the number of persons 81
J. ployed in the bureau of animal indu
tries shall not exceed twenty persons
g any one time. Adopted.
: a Tilt Between the western Union a
o. Senator Hill.
& WASHINGTON, d. c., Feb. 26.-Wh
g DIR. Green, president of the Weste
IS Union telegraph company, appeared
fore the subcommittee of the Sent
committee on postofficeS and post rOal
to-day. Senator Hill asked that ali &C
D. tractsIwith the Press Associations be il
Ie before the committee. DIR. Green
b. ouested that the auesti of fuTnishi
:e the subcommittee with copies.
8 contracts with railroad companI
IN cable companies and Press AssOcIat1o
d, be referred to the whole committee.
I'd claimed that neither the sub-committ
lie nor the whole committee. Dor the sent
I'd had power to require the witness to
h. duee said contracts Besides, copies
d, them cannot be made without the CT
dc sent of the board of directors, nor col
be they be produced without
" consent of the other parties
be the contracts. DR.. Green decIiL
40 TO furnish information concerni
n. the receipts from the gold and stS
nj telegraph company from cable eontra'
II etc. He said there was nothing in
by contracts which he was not willing
Is. committee should not know, but he
nd clined TO answer on great principl
is The inquiries we're inquisitorial IN th
nature.
Senator Hill said, ''You are 9 pull
n corporation, are you not? Congress
Dg the EIght TO legIslate in the matter,
lei il uotf''
- aRo sir, not in the least" repl
~ Gwinn, counsel for DR.. Green.
DE cena.or LII - ~ oS Icy &C.; ne =
business so
"a GWinn-"No, but congress has
~ right 10 Interfere with the arrangem
JAG of our private business