The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1885-01-08

unueI state chartorS, and however plain
may De tne right or power of congress
10 regulate commerce between the
states, u was certain that congress had
hover hitherto exercised it,
Mr.. CULLUM replied that the honse
mad been discussing the subject for tan
years, and IL was not necessary FOR tha
senate to walt on the action of the house
Inc senate would not do its duty lJv the
bill. '''A 'Ae
MIR. BAYARD preferred 90 wait and
see what sort Of measure the house
would present TO the senate, He could
not Dut feel that there had never been
SO much power committed to any five
men on earth as it was proposed by this
Dlll to commit to FIVE commissioners.
They were to form superior board
OF direction over all transporta
tlon companies in thirty-eight
states and several territories. The
internal commerce of the United States
was at least ten times as great as the
foreign commerce, and such proposi-
tion as was embodied in the pending
oil, lfproposed to be applied to FOREIGN
commerce would scarcely receive res
pecttul mention, lhe bill abounded.
he said, in discretionary powers, and
what was commonly called 'The rule of
'-'N'1 WIS w w lOuilu III almost
every section.
Mr. INGALLS, was surprised at the
position taken by MIR. Bayard that the
senate should not consider q subject
c0ntemporaneously with its cOnsidera
ton by the house. 1t was tantamount
to the admission that when the mousse
had any topic in hand tho senate would
have either to take some other or 90 into
executive session. There was no subject
OF greater Importance to the people
OF the United States than
that OF transportation, and with only
two months session remaining we were
advised to await the result of delibera-
tions in the house. "We may as well
deal plainly with this subject" contin-
ued Mr.. ingalls,. The senate of the
United States Il use plain language),
the senate of the United States is sus-
pected by the people of this country
with desire not to do anything in this
matter. | do not need TO appeal to
the conscientiousness of any sem
ator. need not appeal
to the current strains of observance in
the public press, when l say the United
states senate is not an object of public
adulation at this moment in this couu-
try. ! regretted to hear the senator
from Delaware (Bayard), acknowledged
to be the leader Of new public opinion,
under the new evangelist OF reform in
the days that are to come, gravely re-
commanding the senate of the United
States to pursue the do.nothing policy
that has characterized congress on this
subject for ten years past.
Mr.. ingalls, added that he would as
strongly resist injustice to the railroads
as he would resist injustice to tho
humblest settler in the remotest dug
out on the Western frontier. Railroads
were the creatures of the law and should
have the protection OF the law; but it
would not be denied that there existed
in the country the conviction, in which
he profoundly shared that the
railroads had made exactions that
rendered IL necessary to
subject them to Limitation and control.
The subject was too important to all ow
of Rip Van Winkle inactivity, He
(lngalls) did not know but that the time
was approaching when an active CO.
alltlon OF the conservative forces of the
country would be required in order TO
prevent the destruction of organic
changes in our system of government.
The people demanded that these sub
and the man or body Of
men who should attempt
to stand il the way OF the great inquiry
would'he as politically absurd as tho
man who should attempt to refute the
law vi gravitation by jumping from the
summit of the Washington Monument.
Mr. BAYARD said his object had been
TO avoid a waste of time that would
come Of results that were not practical.
There was not word of what he said
suggestive Of the idea that questions
snonld not be debated contemporane-
!
! however, seemed to him more probable
/ If the result to be reached in the house
was not antagonized in advance by the
I passage in the senate of bill totally
dissimilar from the house bill. He was
himself desirous that action should be
taken and result reached on the sub.
iect. Regarding Mr.. Ingalls, references
10 tho suspicious entertained of the sem
ate, Mr.. Bayard said:
"Mr. President: | know not how IL feels
to be suspected. So far in my life
| have not suffered from that
l do not know how TAR tho senate of
the United States is suspected, for if IL
has members open to suspicion they
are not those of my association aud |
certainly do not feel myself TO be one of
the number. | am perfectly Indifferent
to such suspicious, if they exist. [ do
not think they do" Mr.. Bayard added:
| ut is my good fortune, SIR, to be able
TO deal with puolic questions with
great frRnkness, and with disregard
OF suspicious from any quarter"
After. executive session the senate ad-
! iourned.
HOUSE.
The SPEAKER laid before the house
a letter from the secretary of the treas
transmitting the estimate from the Sec
| retary OF the navy, recommending an
| appropriation of S2,600000 lOr tho cree
tlon of gun foundry, and the purchase
OF steel for the mqnuiacturo of heavy
ordnance, in pursuance of the recom-
mendation OF the gun foundry board.
! Referred.
The house resumed consideration of
tho Interstate commerce bill, the pend
ing motion being one submitted by Mr..
O'Neill, of Pennsylvania, to strike out
the section prohibiting railroads from
charging more for shore than long
haul.
MIR. TOWNSHEND inquired of Mr..
Reagan as to the time to be occupied IN
further consideration of the bill, but Mr..
Reagan not hearing the question, Mr..
! O'Neill volunteered the conformation that
II would consume three weeks longer.
MR.. O'NEILlI then spoke in support
oil his motion. lie could not see how IL
was possible TO obligo railroads to carry
out the idea contained in this section.
An attempt to do so would
he inimical to the business interests of
the country.
MIR. HORR supported the motion. lie
said the section contained the principle
which would do more to render this bill
nugatory and injurious than all the
other provisions of tho measure COM
bined. Mr.. Horr said; at tho gentle
man were governed by business princi-
pies, this section would not get twenty
votes and IL It were retained 1t would be
retained entirely as matter of House
political clap-trap."
o'Neill's motion was lsst-yoas 90,
nays l2I At this point
MR.. BURNS, from the Committee on
Appropriations, reported the consular
and diplomatic appropriation ill. Re-
| larrol 10 the nmIniLI,.a of The Mhnln. IL