The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1885-01-21
CONGRESSIONAL.
HOUSE.


y HOUSE.
- WASHINGTON, Jan. 16.-Cobb /
10 ported the conference disagreeme
" upon the bill to forfeit the unearn,
VI Atlantic and Pacific land grant.
OF Cobb stated that the difference b
~ tween the two houses grew out of .
ee amendment placed upon the bill /
70 the senate and commonly known
70 70 the Morgan amendment. He desire
- = the house would give an expressio
' Of its opinion in respect to the amen,
u ment Hiscock moved the house r
u cede from its disagreement to tt
u senate amendment. Lost, As to IS.
'e The committee remained in sessio
several hours considering the wa
claim bills but no final action WI
II reached. The Indian appropriate
0 bill was reported and placed on til
Q calendar.
). Wood presented petition signe
by l.8OO citizens of his district il
favor of the Mexican pension bill, re
ferred. Recess until the 8 o'ciocl
e evening session for the consideration
: of pension bills.
On motion of Cobb, the senat,
amendment to the Oregon Centra
Land Grant bill was nonconcurreO
in.
SENATE.
Among the memorials presented
was one from 5000 cigar makers OF
Philadelphia, setting forth that the
ratification of the pending Spanish
treaty would throw out of employ
ment more citizens of the United
States than there are inhabitants in
Cuba and Porto Rico, and protesting
against its ratification. A number
of other petitions against the ratitica-
ton of the treaty was presented and
referred.
Van Wyck addressed the senate.
He said that since 1872 all political
parties had demanded redress from
grievances in transportation, but
party managers seemed to learn no
lesson from disaster. They were still
trying to amuse and cajole the peo.
pie. The people only demanded
reasonable rates, no discrimination,
and no greater charge for short
than long haul. This, he said. "is
no time to delay the mock and d..
ceptlon cannot longer be carried on.
You cannot pretend to be willing to
90 something or that an obstinate
or unwilling house of Representatives
refuses. If the senate falters now to
accept the house bill, an indignant
peopl= will believe it falters in q
double sense, and is seeking by dis
agreement to prevent the legislation
SO long sought and so long denied"
Roads owned and controlled eleva-
toas. The farmer, if he desired, !
could not possibly ship his own grain
or cattle to market. for he could
obtain no rebates. The power aud
absolute control by railways was not
always exercised in a sanity manner.
TO illustrate: The Union Pacific be-
came incensed at Columbus, an
active interior city whose citizens
are enterprising, and aided to
secure another road. The company
determined they should be punished
for such temerity and rebellion.
So rates were changed, and
more was charged per carload
from Omaha tnan to Kearney and
points farther west. So the Central
Pacific, without excuse, but for re-
venge or punishment OF rebellious
subjects in their territory, actually
charged to points east of San Fran
cisco through rates to San Francisco
and then local rates back. Was it
not evident railroads should be re-
stricted from exacting more for q
short haul than long one? Van
Wyck quoted from letter written
by w. Walter Phelps, in which he
said the latter showed that senators
and representatives purchased rail- !
road shares Oh basis OF to 3. Ser
|ainly." he said, ''stocks and bonds,
according to hisevidence, are owned !
n this chamber ard the other end of I
;he Capitol on that basis. that is, you
put down 81 and take 80. So would
appear that even members of congress {
earn where the little joker is. No
wonder there is here manifested the
for public ciamor as Van
lerbllt is said to have expressed in IAN 1
yuage more fOrcible, but not so reve- t
'entlal as by distinguished senator's"
to the written and printed 1
statement of enc cf the New Jersey
tatesmen and Poor's manual, ID, ,0OO,- I
700, 900 fictitious watered stock Was
epOrted In stocks and bonds of rail-
oads. On this interest and dividends t
we're collected from the people and +
made mortgage on every acre OF Il
and in the republic. Imitation S
industry and laying tax i
n the producer aud consumer. Jay /
aould had greater wealth than the c
ssessed property, real and personal Il
+ both Kansas and Nebraska, and
Vanderbilt could buy both states and r
ave forty millions left. Were y
hese millions honestly acquired? t.
he senator from Iowa (Wilson) a
rembled lest too mu.h should be |,
one and the senator from Kansas a
| Ingalls, said he did not stand as an ii
dvocate or champion for that cheap b
that appeals to public il
piniOn against railroads. G.
Railroads we're entitled to the pro- o
.ction of the law. In Kansas and is
'ebraska fifty bushels of cOrn will IL
OF purchase one ton of soft coal. n
ne hundred and fifty bushels will Il
OF buy one ton Of hard coal. Your
expands for pauper labor Al
, Europe and India while your r.
carts seem sIeeled against the cry al
II bread by Americans who are tt
freed to work at starvation wages or r.
ave their places supplied in mines, tt
7 specially protected mine owners, tc
= pauper and convict labor imported a
nder CONTRACT from Europe, Its Fl
ilers are seeking labor in the al
lrnace heat, in underground OF
byrinths settles in dug-outs on the in
ontier of Kansas and Nebraska, a!
hose wives and children are deriv- ia
g warmth from corn because great I'll
,rporatiOns refuse to reduce the
ties of freight so that coal from or
may be exchanged for n
le corn of the west. For twenty th
.ars these corporations have grown h'
ch, strong and def ,pt in violation m
law, and now let US see to it pl
at the protection of law shall a
} gwen to those who are the pa
nf mo of fb oi O tnrfinp kT.Dhoroop | m