McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1885-01-22
HOUSE.

Weller infrOducfu q Dill TO Tefuuu TIC OSht-
| ed debt of the United States at "a per cent
| interest, TO reduce taxation ON circulating
bank note currency, and to secure such cur
renew against unnecessary disturbances anu
fuctuation by applying the national revenues
economically TO the payment OF the nationai
debt. Referred.
Wait called up the Chinese indemnity bill,
and after a short explanation the bill passed.
On motion of Randall the senate amend
ments to the bill for the payment OF messen,
gers sent for the certificates OF the eiectoraI
votes of Oregon and Iowa was concusred H.
Adjourned.
WASHINGTON, January 15.-Hale, from the
committee on naval affairs, reported fayoraoly
the bill for the relief OF sufferers by the wreck
of the United States steamer "Tallapoosa"
Placed on the calendar.
Senator Morgan made speech In executive
session I'm favor oft he Ncarsguan treaty. He
discussed the possible relations of foreign
powers to this subject and set forth at great
leLgth the advantage to this country which
may be expected to follow the construction OF
this canal.
An amendment was offered by Sherman look
ing to negotiations with Great Britain for the
abrogation or amendment OF the Clayton-B Bull
wer treaty before the Nicsraguan treaty shall
take effect.
HOUSE.
The house, under special order, pro-
ceeded with consideration OF the Mcpherson
bill, and a somewhat extended debate eusGed.
Warner (Ohio) offered an amendment au-
thor, Zing the secretary of the treasury, when
ever circulating notes of the national banks
shall fall below $303, 3lS, 1854, to issue United
States notes of sufficient amount to keep the
volume OF paper currency ut all times at
total of $3.50, 600 600.
Wilkins then demanded the previous ques-
ton on the bill and amendments, pending
which Mills moved that the house adjourn,
stating that the democrats wished to hold
caucus. The motion was carried-yeas 40,
NAYS liz.
Buckner, chairman of the banking and cur
rency committee, said to an associated press
reporter: ''That settles the bill. We will
never again be able to getit before the house"
SENATE.
WASHINGTON, January 1.-THE committee
on pensions reported adversely the bill TO grant
a pension of $500 per month to Emma DeLong,
widow of the late Lieutenant Commander De-
Long, of "Jeannette" fame.
The Interstate commerce bill was then con-
sidered and Senator Van Wyck addressed the
senate. He said the people only demanded
reasonable rates, no discrimination, no pool
ing, no rebates, no greater charge for short
than a long haul. This" said he, lis no
time to delay. The work of deception cannot
longer be carried on. You cannot pretend to
do something hat the obstinate house OF rep
tiers now to accept the house bill an indignant
people will believe it falters in double sense
and is seeking by disagreement to prevent
legislation so long sought and so long denied"
The roads owned and controlled the elevators
and the farmer, If he desired, could not ship
his own grain or cattle to market, for he could
obtain no rebates. The absolute power OF the
railroads was not always exercised In sanity
manner. To illustrate, the Union Pacific be-
came incensed at Columbus, one of the active
interior cities of Nebraska, whose citizens were
enterprising and aided to secure another road.
The company determined they should be pun
ished for such termerity and rebellion. So the
rates were changed and more was charged per
car load to Omaha than to kearney and points
further west. So the Central Pacific, without
excuse except of revenue in puuishIng the re-
bellious subjects in this territory actually
charged to points east of San Francisco
through rates to San Francisco and then local
rates back.
Van Wyck quoted from letter written by
Hon. William Walter Phelps in which he said
that senators and representatives purchased
railroad shares on basis of one to three.
Certainly" he said, 'stocks and bonds, ac-
cording to this evidence, are owned in this
chamber and ON the other side of the capitol
on that basis-that is, you put down one dollar
and take up three So it would appear that
even members of congress learn where the lit
tie Joker is"
To day the farmers il. the west were work
ing their own farms on shares, the railroads
taking the lions share. They received not
one dollar in profit or interest on the money
invested in the lands teams or machinery, anil
yet the American senate seemed intent on how
not to do it; determined, at whatever sacrifice,
that railroad stocks and bonds shall secure
liberal interest and dividends. and great lam
entations was made if the stock gamblers, who
had stolen $4,000, OO0,O0 from the industries
of the nation, should be disturbed in wringing
interest from the Overburdened people. The
senator from ] va (WilsOn) trembled lest too
much should ,e done, and the senator from
Kansas Qngalls) said he did not stand as the
advocate of THAT cheap demagOguery that ap-
peals to public opinion against the railroads.
The railroads were entitled to the pro
lection of the law. In Kansas and
Nebraska fifty bushels OF corn will not pur-
chase one ton of soft coal, and $50 bushels will
not buy one tone of hard coal. Your sym
pathy expands for the pau1er labor of Europe
and India, while your hearts seem steeled
against the cry for bread of Americans who
are forced to work for starvation wages or
ave their places supplied in the mines BE-
pauper and convict labor imported under con-
tract from Europe Corporations, behind four
billions of stolen property, have been for years
controlling state legislatures, the national
congress and the judiciary as remOrselessly as
did slavery, and they need no sympathy or
active support from the senators. IL is the
toiler seeking labor in the furnace heat, III the
Underground laOyT4nIn- Jne settler III tne aug
out on the frontier of Kansas and Nebraska,
whose wives and children are drawing warmth
from corn because the great corporations re-
fuse to reduce the rates of freight so the coal
of Pennsylvania may be exchanged for the
corn of the west, who need your sympathy
and protection. For twenty years these cor
porations have grown rich, strong and defiant
in violation of law, and now let US see to it
that the protection of the law shall be given
to those who are victims Of their extorticn.