The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1885-01-29

Mr.. COKE said 40 amendment 10 tho
senate bill that would accord with the
theory ON which tho bill was founded,
would mako II practical measure. Tho
house Tor lteagan pill) was ~ consorya-
a arc. F sn@ tina. piSdiH I Mr. " Coke
invoked tho candid consideration OF the
senate. lie maintained that in it's prin-
cipal features it was simply codiiiGa-
| ton OF tho common law. Under the
| common law common carriers were pro-
! hihitod from charging unreasonable
rates and discriminating against lndi.
! yidulls, aud wore also prohibited from
pooling. Tho railroad company oNor-
olsod tho part of the sovereignty OF the
state by oondemning land for their own
uses, such exercise WAS "a public trust
and tho public were therefore entitled
/ TO know all about railroad administra-
\ ton.
Mr.. MCPHERSON inquired whether.
II pool rates wore reasonable, there
Mr.. COKE replied that th6 courts
OF tho state OF New York
had decided to be Illegal n
pool composed Of twelve poor canal
mon, who had scraped together enough
money to buy hoatsof their own. How,
therefore, could a pool OF forty great
railroads, which now controlled tho
"fhat pool" said Mr.. Coke, with en-
/ phasls, "has openly deiied NIL tho power
and authority of tho state" Applause
/ In the galleries.
| Mcssrs, Morgan aud Harrison asked
| why tho bill was needed ut all II the
common law supplied sufficient
remedy.
MIR. COKE replied that the necessity
| for the bill was found in the fact that
railroads denied the power of congress
] 10 deal with the questions involved.
| The people, he continued, sumo
times did wrong; but give them
Il iittlo time and they would remedy tho
wrongs they had inflicted. The sober,
second thought OF tho people WAS the
| perfection OF human wisdom. Mr.. Coke
took up the senate bill in detail and
critic!ciSed its provisions. "lGach of the
nine commissioners" he said, "would
have five states under his supervision.
Could he hoar one in ten OF tho cases
coming before him? Should witnesses
be brought from the remutest corners of
the United States TO get me opinion
was n peoples bill. Under II questions
ut issue were to DO examined
by the courts at the homes
Of the citizens, whore the
witnesses lived, and not at Washington,
which might be thousand miles from
he field of operations. Mr.. Coke So
verely criticized Charles Francis
asserted that railroads were "cstablish-
ing depotism that no spasmodic pop
ular action could shake OIL" was now
advocating the consolidation of fader-
alton Of all the railroads in the country
under one head. In the days of his i'm
partiality Adams saw the evils of great
railroad combinations. Since he has
rpI ia ha t1sIgnl- law itYvl'' with Tn
Gould, he saw no harm III them. Mr.
ko insisted that tho great railroad
companies wore the most lawlass
bodies with which the government
ever had to deal and the passage of the
| Reagan bill would, in his opinion, have
a greater moral effect on them than any
thing congress could do.
Upon the conclusion of Mr.. COke'S re-
marks message was received from the
house announcing the death of the Hon.
John Hamilton Evans, late repre- emit
alive in congress nom South Carolina.
On motion Of Mr.. Hampton the mes
sage was Mt once taken up and Mr..
Hampton offered resolution iittingly
expressing the sense of the senate on
the deceased MIR. Evans.
Mr.. HAMPTON, in Offering tho reso-
| luton, said the deceased gentleman had
| been a close and dear friend of his.
Justice 10 his memory needed not
language in panegyric. Mr.. Hampton
paid an eloquent and feeling tribute to
The memory of his friend.
Mr.. FRYE, who had served in the
Forty-siXth congress with Mr.. Evans,
expressed in warm and friendly terms
high personal regard for him and his
hope that God may temper the heavy
blow to his wife and children.
Mr.. BUTLER also spoke feelingly in
eulogy of the deceased.
Tho senate then, on motion of Mr..
Butler, as mark to the memory of Mr..
Evans, adjourned.
Mr.. KELLEY, from the committee on
ways and means, reported bill to au-
thorize the establishment of an export
bureau for tobacco manufacturers
and allowing drawbacks on imported
articles used in manufacturing exported
tobacco, The report of the committee
accompanying the bill, states that the
committee thinks it will be wise to re-
lieve American manufactured tobacco,
exported to foreign countries, from this
burden, as a means Of stimulating and
increasing our foreign trade in this i'm
portant tobacco manufacture.
Mr.. DlBRELt, from the committee on |
agriculture, reported ,he agriculture
appropriation bill. Referred to the COM
mittee Of the whole.
The house then went into committee |
Of the whole on the Indian appropriation
bill.
Mr.. ROGERS, of Arkansas, criticized
that section of the bill which prohibits |
the Introduction of ardent spirits into !
the Indian Territory, in that it fixes tho
minimum Of punishment for that Of
Tense, and pointed out cases where such |
q law would work great hardship.
Mr.. KEIFER, referring to the Okla |
homa question, said there was no color
of right on the part of the whites to set
tie on or go upon Oklahoma lands, and
he protested against anything being said
in congress in defense of the action of
those settlers. Every one of them should
be driven at the point of the bayonet
from that territory.
The bill was then read by sections for
amendments.
Mr.. BURNS moved to amend the par |
agraph appropriating $4,000 for the pay
ment of interest to the Creek Indians
by adding provision that no part of
that sum shall be paid until the Creek
nation make and file an acceptance and |
ratification of the survey made under |
the treaty, and also statement in
writing releasing the United States from
the seeming trust created by the treaty
az to half of the lands sold to the United
States by that treaty. 1t is under
this treaty that the Oklahoma lands
were coded to the United States.
The house, Mr.. Burns said, had been
told that state of war existed in Okla
homa, and that settlers were now face
to face with their destiny. That destiny |
had been under the command of the |
United States army. There could be no
fair minded man who would claim that
this Oklahoma territory was not subject
to trust created by treaty by which,
if it was coded to the United States, set
tiers had no right to go on the Oklaho-