National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1885-02-04
THE SENATE AND HOUSE.


Interstate Commerce in the Upper and
River and Harbor Appropriations In the
Lower Branch.
In the senate yesterday the consideration of
the interstate commerce bill was resumed.
The question was on Mr.. Plumbs motion to
add the words "undcr similar circumstances'
to the amendment offered by Mr.. Beck which
amendment would prohibit railroad com
pnny from charging more for transporting
goods over q part Of It's limo than, for trans
porting the same goods over itswhole line -.
Mr. Plumbs motion was agreed to-yeas 70,
fhe question then rocurred on Mr.. Beck's
amendment as modified.
on this Mr.. Vance addressed the senate. In
the course OF his remarks he rdiculed the idea
that senators did not have suiilcient knoWi
edge and common sense TO be able TO say tnat
railroads should bo prohibited nom pooling
and discriminating against persons ana places,
Mr.. Beck said that no would now vote
against his own amendment, since " had been
modified by the amendment OF MT iIumD. ~
would make the bill utterly useless II passed'
MIR. Cullom defended the bill against orlti-
cisms, aud ne said that the persistent declara-
tions Of the opponents to the effect thht the
friends OF the bill belonged to the oorpoIatlons
were declarations which, MS matter OF iaot,
were simply untrue. He had never IN MS NE
had five cents worth Of interest In any railroad
iIc had drawn the. senate bill himself aud II
passed 1t would nilord the relief sought by the
people. ma. ,...
Mr. Beek's amendment, as modified was
then voted down-yeas 9, nays al. -
Mr. Beck then moved to 30 amend the mouse
bill as to permit reduction OF rates Wllnou'
previous posting Of notice TO that eiect, put re-
| duiringthenoticc to be posted within hve days
Messrs sherman and Ronna each nude
speeches the former forcibly sustaining the
pending measure, aud the latter, while SUP.
porting the principle of the bill and iayorlng
| a law upon the subject, was not satisfied WIN
| the proposition TO raise commission. ,,
MI ck'samendment permitting reduction
| of price without previous notice was agteeu
| to-ycas &c, nays1 .,-..
| shall be made Between passengers on account
| of race or color. But the furnishing ofsepa'
| rate and equally comfortable accommodations
| should not be deemed Discrimination;
Mr. ingalls, moved TO strike out al OF tnls
except the statement that there should pe nc
discrimination on account OF race or color.
Mr. lngallss motion was agreed to-yeas ai
nays III thus striking out the Eroylso Iegh1ru Ar,
| ing separate accommodations. Messrs. bul
| lor aud Jackson were the only democrats VINO
| voted IN the affirmative.
| Mr. Cullom moved now to amend by sub
stituting for 1t the senate or commission plll n.
| This was agreed to-yeas 3d. nays 10 int
democrats voting in the athrfnntlve wer,
| Messrs. Colquitt, Hampton, Jonas, McPherson
| Morgan, and Pugh. The only republicans WhG
voted III the negative WcTO MI huhuuu' INV
| Mr.. Van WyCk
Mr. Sewcn moved to add new section "a
the bill. and amer brief discussion the pro
| posed section, amended on motion OF MI
Plumb, was adopted as follows; rms G az
shall be construed as applicable TO al ran
| road or transportation companies engaged ll
the carrying of freight from any place IN the
| United States through any foreign territory U
any other place In the unltcd states OF iI0i, ,,,
place outside the United States IT0ptaed
That, this shall not apply to tranhporIa'ior
| wholly by water ,,.,
AMER some discussion as TO the disposition
| the bill to-day II was unanimously agreed ina
| Immediately after morning business to-day
tho bill shall be taken up, and that debate
shall cease at o'clock, when the tnal vote OF
the bill aud all amendments shall be TAKEN
| ATTIC p. IN. the senate adjourned
! MONDAYS session of the house continuet
until past o'clock yesterday morning, ana
although the scenes attending night session
were enacted, they were not lnarkeu py ina
degree of hilarity which generally char
acterizes them, and the hours tediously
! dragged their slow length along. IL was after
| o'clock when the friends OF the bankruptcy
| bill succeeded after many chorls IN hhVlng
call of the house ordered, and II was not until
| l4j that the sergeant alarms brought IN INT
first batch OF rCcalcitrant members some
the same trlte and threadbare excuses Whlch
have done duty for years Were orereu WvI' t
were, In every case deemed satisfactory. I'M
now recruits voted for the next motion TO ad
Iourn, which, at 2:l5, was carried.
| In the house, yesterday the speaker pre-
! tcmporo (AIr. Blackburn announced the regu
lar order to be the consideration OF the resoiu
tlOn providing that for the remainder OF thu
session ono hour every morning shall DC &c
voted to the disposal of measures called up ..
individual members unless five objections arr
Nir. Epifor, Of Ohio, moved to amend b,
striking out the word 1--WE" and inserlln
The restitution as amended was adopted.
The house then lat l:i5) went Into commit
tee of the whole (Mr. Hammond, OF Georgia, u
the chair on the river aud harbor npproprla
tion bill, general debate being limited TO thfe
hours.
Messrs. Breckinridge, Price, Willis, Ochil
tree, Stone, WAshburn, Hepburn, Jones, Q
Alabama, and Funston took part In the gen
eral debate, at the conclusion OF Whicn ~, W,
Reed made verbal amendment for the pui
pose of calling the attention OF the commute
TO the fact that nearly all the time deyoted '
general debate had been consumed by III
friends Of the bill.
tude that the chairman Of the committee o.
rivers and hRrbOrs had been gracious enoug
70 allow members 10 print their speecnes j
tho RccOri lie had not been able 10 secur
time to make his speech, but he could at leqs
express his views by making motions TO Strik
out the last word. He proposed at every stag
OF the bill TO offer that amendment until hi
NlOWS regarding river anu nhIDOI iHhploNt
mcnt were impressed on this COMMITTEES
lIaughter.l He had that right under tn
rules, and fortunately he had the disposition
to see that his rights were preserved In thl
respect. He criticised the appropriate
for the Mississippi river in that onl
100000 was appropriated Tor IN
improvement between the sources an
the Ohio river; that was not fair shar
of the pork. Laughtcr.l If the Mississippi
river had got to carry through giganti
! scheme the committee should have been
! little more liberal. Let there be little con
mon sense applied TO the consideration OF th
bill If for only five minutes. Every sane ma
wanted the Mississippi river improved. III
engineers who had examined the matt
stated that II would take at least slO, 600 900
remove the obstructi0ns between the Illino
and Ohio rivers and establish a uniform dept
of nine feet. With miserable beggarly a
preparation of SI0O,00O n year, how long woul
II be before there was water there? The in
provement in question could and should
completed within four years and the peop
, given the benefit of cheap transportation. W
less the river and harbor committee woul
agree TO u proper divide when II came to a.
preparation for the Mississippi river, he, in Il
language OF the poet would "kick." tLaug
ter. Mr. willis said that the reaches TO whie
the gentleman had referred had received Il
same percentage of the estimates as the 9th
reaches ofthe river.
Pending further action the com mittee 70
, and the house at 5:l5 adjourned,