St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-04-29
Mr.. Hewitt, of New York, RenewS
His Attack on Secretary Chan
der, With Proofs.
Mr.. Calkins Defends the Secretary, and
is Exceedingly Personal in
His Remarks.
Senator Bayard Gives His Opinions Very
Pointedly During the Discussion on
the Pleuro Pneumonia Bill.
a Number of Amendments Agreed to
But the Final Vote Not Yet
Arrived at.
The Senate.

|
stitute for several bills relating to the same
| subject, heretofore introduced. The other
bills were indefinitely postponed, and the
bill wss reported and placed on the cal
endar.
The bill passed to consolidate the bureau
of military justice and corps of judge advo-
| Gates in the army.
The chair said before the senate the unfn-
ished business of Friday, being the bill to es-
tablish bureau of animal industry and to
extirpate contagious cattle diseases. The
| question was upon the motion OF Senator
Mcpherson, to recommit the bill to the
committee on agriculture. Lost, yeas ID;
nays 80
Senator Coke moved to except the disease
known as Texas fever from the diseases in
Guided within the meaning Of the act so far
as it concerned their transportation to
market. Nobody had ever called on con-
gress, he said, to legislate against the Texas
fever. Thirty per cent of the cattle coming
| to Chicago last year had been Texas cattle,
and testimony from the Chicago stock yards
was that there had been no disease among
them. The amendment was agreed to.
Senator Plumb withdrew the amendment
proposed by the committee, which increased
the appropriation for the purposes of the bill
from $3.50, 600 to s5O0,00O so as to leave the
amount as 1t came from the house.
| Senator Morgan opposed the passage Of the
bill. He said the senators would make
laughing stock of themselves If they were to
go into the line of legislation shown in the
bill. If congress had the right to slaughter
the peoples cattle, because diseased, 1t had
the right to destroy the growing Of cotton to
avoid the ravages of the cotton worm. 1t
had the right to compensate men for DANA
ges inflicted by drought and for variety OF
other causes" The statement that there was
pleuro- pneumonia and foot and mouth dis
ease in this country has been declared by the
English government erroneous.
Senator Plumb challenged Senator Morgan
for proof of the assertion made.
Senator Morgan said he had read the proof
in the newspapers.
| Senator Plumb thought so serious state
ment should be accompanied by specific
proof.
| Senator Morgan continued, the senate had
Of late become the mere sounding board Of
public calamity and legislation had to over
ride the constitution. Morgan moved to
strike out the clause authorizing payment for
| slaughtered cattle.
Senator Beck was willing to authorize the
examination as to cattle diseases, but was
unwilling to give power for indexrimenate
slaughter, and so give opportunity for wide
| spread fraud. Many Of the largest cattle
| owners in the northwestern territories, he
said, were foreign corporations, and it was
no SANDER to say, in many instances, they
sent their own representatives to the legisla-
| ture, and no man could go to such legisla-
| ture, unless he was a representative of the
cattle interest. 1t would not do to give
! those territorial legislature power to condemn
cattle by wholesale, and to pay the damages
out of the money Of the United States
Senator Williams remarked that not one
in twenty herds in the northwest belonged
to foreigners.
Senator Plumb said that If he could have
his own way these foreign corporations would
not own cattle land or anything else in the
northwest, but the quantity of cattle owned
by such corporations was but an exceedingly
small part of the cattle interest of the country.
He defended the provisions of the bill, but
said he had prepared an amendment which
would, to some extent remove the objection
of the senator from Alabama, Morgan. This
amendment was to strike out altogether the
reference to the slaughter of animals
Senator Williams read from the report of
| the cattle commission, to show the existence
Of contagious diseases In this country. He
thought the testimony of these disinterested,
scientific gentlemen, better than that of in
terested cattle traders, who want to sell their
stock. There were even dairymen, who, as
soon as COWS began to decline in the guam
tity of milk daily given, and show signs of
disease, sent them to the butcher, and for
aught he (Williams) knew, the senators
might, this very day, have breakfasted on
steaks cut from carcasses Of diseased COWS.
He was becoming afraid to eat beef or drink
milk at all in Washington. Mr.. Williams
referred to the probable early action of the
British government in excluding American
beef, and this in spite of the desire of that
government to have cheap food for the peo-
pie. After losing $780, 600, 900 by pleuro
pneumonia, it had found it high time to take
action and protect her own cattle.
| Senator Wilson had sent to the desk, and
had read letter to him from the commits
sioner Of agriculture, in reply to Senator Will
sons INQUIRIES, saying the exclusion of
American cattle from England, for at least
one year, would probably be Immediately de-
cided on by parliament. 1t was understood
that the cattle men of England had deter
mined to keep out American beef. The
commissioner adds, there was never time
when it was more important to ascertain the
real condition of American cattle than now
Senator Wilson said, it was an important
fact, that the British government was taking
positive steps to exclude American beef
! We should, therefore, show determin alton to
give our cattle clean bill of health, as they
are exported.
Senator Plumb's amendment agreed to.
Senator Bayard thought the purpose of the
bill would now be fulfilled by an appropria-
ton of $50, 900 instead of $3.50, COO allowed
by the house.
Senator Plumb had no doubt the appropri-
alton might now be reduced, but not by so
much as Senator Bayard proposed. Senator
Plumb moved to make the appropriation
$4,000.
Senator Bayard characterized the bill as
nothing more than an illustration of the
principle of socialism creeping into every
branch of our government Day by day, he
| said, the principles of paternal government
were being extended among us with the
prospect of our government finally falling
into the hands of the strong, under the pre-
text Of protecting the weak. How, he asked,
! could senators draw the distinction between