Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1885-01-24
RAILROAD RUMDLINGS
Have a Peculiar Effect on Several
Senators.
FIGHTING THE EDUCATIONAL BILL
The House aad Senate Presented
With Beautiful American
r silk Flags,
Mr.. HuRD COMES TO THE FRONT.

the Senate and House by representatives Oh
| the Woman's Silk Culture Association with
appropriate ceremonies. The representa-
tives of the associations who made the pre-
sentation are as follows: Mrs. John Lucas,
President; Mrs. c. D. Thum, Miss Phoebe
Horne, Mrs. +. 7. Reynolds, Mrs. G. W.
/ Hall, Miss +. 7. YanRenselaer, Mrs. E. V.
/ B. Osborne. Mrs. Everett, Miss Horne and
| G. W. Hall aud John Lucas, constituting
the advisory board.
A Railroad Commission Proposed.
Representatives in Congress are begin
ming to realize that they have been little
hasty in the passage of the Reagan Inter
State Commerce bill Western Senators in
speaking of the measure say that the passage
Of the bin in its present shape would be a
fatal dow to the great agricultural interests
of their section Is it would Immediately cut
them of from the markets Of the East and
foreign shipment from ports on the seaboard.
The great carrying roads represented BY
President Roberts Of the Pennsylvania have
/ submitted statements showing that their
profits are mainly derived from local tr0ights
and in case the bill becomes a law, the
grain producers and -four manufacturers OF
the west and northwest viii be forced to pay
/ local rates in order to comply with the new
requirements. AT present these shippers
pay thirty cents barrel from Minneapolis
to New York. The same rate is charged
from Buffalo or Pittsburgh to New York.
These and other facts are having great
weight with the Senators, and they believe
that instead of being q benefit it will be de-
/ struetiye 10 western interests.
7 The Senators are, therefore, convinced
/ that the only safe course to pursue Is the
/ creation of Commission, so as to give
! this important subject more thorough In
/ yesngstion.
A Blow at the Educational Bill.
/ Mr. Willis and the friends of the kducs-
i tional bill having given notice that they In
tend to press this measure in the House at
every opportunity, and many of the Demo
Gratis west and south being opposed to it,
but fearing it would pass put forward
| Hurd TO offer resolution to have it re-
ferred to the Judiciary Committee to deter
mine its constitutionality. He followed his
resolution by a close logical argument, to
show that the Educational bill was "reye-
nue. bill" as that term is known to the Brit
/ ish Parliament and was so understood IN
the Constitutional Convention and there
fore the Senate had no right to originate
il.
The opponents OF the bin hope BY this
movement to prevent its consideration. 1t
is evident that there is a considerable Demo
cratic vote from the South for the bill and
supported as it will be by Republicans
Willis feels confident of q majority II IT can
be brought suusrely before the House.
In the House.
When the House was called to order there
was displayed on the right OF the Speaker
an elegant silk dag, bearing the stars and
stripes, and as soon as the journal was read
the Speaker laid before the House a letter
from the Woman's Silk Culture Association
of the United States, presenting the
flag made Of. American silk,
raised By American women
and children, reeled BY the ladies Of the
Womans Association; spun, dyed and
woven bv them, and presented by that As
sociation to the House Of Representatives as
a memento Of the success attained IN SILK
culture in the United States.
), Mr.. Kelley of Pennsylvania, offered a
resolution accepting the flag, conpimenting
the exouisiteuess Of the fabric and the per
lection ofits colors, regarding it as evidence
of the rapid progress made in Amerlcan
silk culture, and providing that the tag be
hung in the hall Of the House as National
emblem, and preserved as q memento OF
the fact and energy Of the Womsns Silk
. Culture Association.
The resolution was adopted with one dis
senting voice-that of Mr.. Hammond, of
Georgia.
6 Mr.. Hurd, of Ohio, as a question OF PRIV
lege, offered resolution recitng that the
} Educational bill and others appropriating
, money had originated in the Senate, and
, ! were now on the Speakers table; that Il
had been asserted that these bills were IN
violation Of the privileges ofthe House, and
! directing the Committee on the, Judiciary
to inquire into the power Of the Senate to
originate appropriation bills
MIR. Hur1 addressed the House, claiming
that these bills came under the first clause
ofthe seventh section af the first article o.
!, | the constitution, which declares that "Al
bills for raising revenue shall originate II
the House of Representative" He cited
various authorities to sustain his po
sition that the application OF money was the
? true intent of the clauses. He argued tha
Z 20 raise money was one thing; taxation
wonld do that, but revenue, the word substi
tinted by the Constitutional Convention
mea,t no, only the raising Of money, ou
: ira annropriation, and that the raising o
I revenue covered taxation and appropriation
= He denied the right Of the Senate to origin
ota any appropriation bill, whether private
or general, and insisted that the. passage o
e such bills by the House did not serve ..
i precedents to destroy the prerogative Of th'
/ House. =.
i ] s. Wise said Hurd's motion was d
- rect attack on what was the most importan
4 measure before Congress Willis moved Z
b tobIs the resolution. Ayes III, noes l2S
h ReEore the vote was announced Warner, o
n Ohio changed his vote from the negative =
the Affirmative in order to move reeonslc
v Grafton. The motion TO reconsider wa
tabled.
Evening Session.
W,SurxGr6S. January 23--At the even
> ing session the House passed forty-si1 pen
b sion bills, including one granting q Penslo
s of $50 per month to the widow OF Commo
a dore Green. and adjourned until tomorrow
|. DEFEATED AGAIN.