St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-04-25
Messrs. Kasson and Cox Have WOrdy
Wrangle. and Hewitt Strikes
at Secretary Chandler.
The Pleuro-Pneumonia Bill Likely to Come
to Grief in the Senate. RecOmmittal
Being Wanted.
The Senate.

The following petitions were presented and
referred:
By Mr.. Frye, from the governor, executive
council, secretary of state, and other citizens
of Maine, praying that congress appropriate
money in aid of the worlds exposition at New
Orleans In presenting the petition, Sena-
tor Frye remarked, that Maine was as far
from Louisiana, as one could reach within
the limits of the United States, and he was
very glad that his state took SO much inter-
est in the New Orleans exposition. He sin
cerely hoped that a suitable appropriation Tor
the exposition would be made by congress.
Senator Miller, California, from the cham
Der Of commerce, San Francisco, represent
ing the helpless condition of the harbor Of
that city, and urging Its early completion.
The following favorable report from COM
mittees:
By Senator Hoar, from the committee on
library, joint resolution providing that
the two houses attend the ceremony of I'M
yelling the statue of Chief Justice Marshall,
on Saturday, May 10, and appropriating
1900 to defray the expenses on that occa-
sion.
Senator Plat, from the committee on terri
tories, to provide for the admission OF Taco
ma, as a state into the Union.
Senator Hill, from the committee on post
offices and post roads, approved for deposit
| in the treasury, of the receipts of the money
order system and Of the expenses out of the
appropriations.
Senator Frye, from the committee on COM
merce, the house bill, to constitute bureau
on navigation in the treasury department.
This is to take the place of the senate bill OF
like import, which, on motion of Senator
Frye, was indefinitely postponed.
Senator jackson, from the committee on
pensions, to amend the pension laws relating
to attorneys fees.
Bills reported were placed on the calendar,
and joint resolution relating to the Mar
shall memorial was passed. A bill was pass
ed for the disposal of abandoned military
reservation because useless, that he place ii
| in charge of the secretary of the interior,
who shall have it surveyed and sub divided,
appraised and sold.
| A bill amending the revised statutes re-
lating to trespassers on Indian lands passed.
1t adds Imprisonment to the fine already
| provided for.
| The chair laid before the senate unfinished
business, being the bill to provide bureau
of animal industry and suppress cattle dis
| eases.
Senator Mcpherson thought the bill defec-
tive, and moved its recommittal.
| Senator Morgan said the bill provided for a
| number of inspectors who would be interest
ed in keeping alive the impression that dis
ease existed among the cattle of the country.
The continuance of the Office depended on
the fact or the supposed fact, that such dis
| ease existed. The commissioner on agricul-
| ture should not be given power by which he
might go into any state and slaughter ami
mails without the consent of the owners. The
owner of the property should have an oppor-
tunity to be heard, and the bill should pro
vide for such right.
While Senator Plunb's attention was di-
| verted, the question was put to recommit,
and chair, upon Vya Uocie vote, got so fan
| as toannounce that the 'ayes seem to have it,
when Senator Plumb rose to speak. The
chair said the only thing in the order was, as
| to whether there should be a division of the
senate.
| On the suggestion of Senator Hoar, how
ever the matter was treated as though the
| question had not been put.
Senator Plumb then addressed the senate in
| reply to the objections made to the bill and
! his opposition to the motion to recommit.
| A recommittal he said would be destruc-
ton to the bill and an indication that the
senate did not want to pass any bill on this
| subject of the cattle disease at this
session. All the stock growing association
had passed resolutions favoring the bill, and
every intelligent stock grower favored it. In
regard to the constitutional question, Sena
| tor Plumb said when one state attempted tt
keep out cattle from another state the SUI
preme court decided it had no constitutional
| power to do so, and to assert now that the
| United States had no right under the coDsti
| tuition to regulate this Interstate commerce
in cattle, would be to assert that power vest
ed nowhere. Replying to the charge that the
agricultural department had been instru
mental in spreading the reports of cattle dis
assesses, Plumb said the news carried, moi
primarily by the agricultural department
but by newspapers, and to attempt to pass il
over by not mentioning or discussing it.
| would be the worst thing that could happen
| to us. The sooner known and dealt with
the better. The people did not wait in these
days for information to be conveyed official
| ly, and even if they did, an official declara-
u Al
existed among the cattle of this country,
would be a parallel for the pope's bull against
the comet AS to McPherson's criticism,
that there was no pleuro pneumonia in the
! country, Plumb pointed to the resolutions of
the Legislature Of New Jersey, admitting its
| existence.
Senator Mcpherson inquired if Senator
Plumb was aware that any cattle disease ex-
| listed in New Jersey to-day.
| Senator Plumb said he did not know that
| it did not exist.
| Senator Mcpherson said the speech Of the
senator from Kansas, Plumb was just OF
the character of one needed by the govern
ment of Great Britain, to keep every head OF
American cattle out of the ports OF that
| country.
Senator Plumb said several years before,
when this question came up here, the British
government had issued an order prohibiting
the importation of American cattle beyond
the seaport at which it might arrive.
| Senator Mcpherson said, that the British
statesman doubtless thought it desirable, in
behalf of their own cattle raising interests,
but the total exclusion of American meats
from foreign countries would have the most
serious effect upon the enormous cattle inter
ests of this country.