Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1885-01-08

Consideration OF the interstate com ,
merce bill was resumed.
Mr.. Baysrd of Delaware expressed
hope that consideration OF the bill In
the senate would be carried FATHER for
the present, as the question embraced
in the bill was under consideration In
the house with the proOaOl ity OF an
early decision on II by that body
Besides there were questions Of far
reaching Importance in the meas
ure, Mr.. Bay ard, for his
own part, worked for longer
time for deliberatinn and more intor-
nation on the subject. He had never
desired to vote on question OF doubt
ful constitutionality The responet-
bility was upon congress 10 afli ma
| lively show that IL had the power TO do
| that which 1t proposed 10 do, and not
| to legielate on doubtful premises.
| He did not seek to restrict the power of
congress to regulate interstate COM
merce, but all men knew that the rail
roads were working under state char
tiers, and, however plain may be the
! right or power Of congress to regulate
| the commerce between states. 1t was
certain that congress had never hither-
/ to exercised H.
Mr. Cullom OF Illinois replied that
| the house had been discussing the sub
| ject ten years, and IL was not neceess-
| ry for the senate TO wait ON the action
| Of the house. The senate would not
do It's duty TO the country If II did not
proceed with the bill
Mr. Bay ard preferred TO wait ana
sc what sort of measure the house
would present to the senate. He could
not bus feel that there had
never been so niue power committed
TO any Ave men on earth as II was pro-
pnsed by this bill to mmit to com
missioners They were To form supe.
riOr board of direction over all the
transportation companies In thirty
eigh, states and several territO-
ries. Our internal commerce
was at leust ten times
as gIeat as our foreign commerce, and
such a proposition as was embodied in
he pending bill il proposed to be ap.
piled to foreign commerce, would
scarcely receive respectful attention,
The bill abounded, he said, in d scre-
tionary pO' ers, and what was com.
monty called 1.-THE rule OF the thumb
was TO be found in almost every sec
ton.
Mr.. ingalls, of Kansas was surprised
az the posi- ion taken by Mr.. Bsysrd,
, that the senate should not consider a
subject Independently with its
consideration by the house. IL was
! tautamount to Gn admission that
when the house had any topic In hand,
the senate would have either 10 take
up some other topic or so into eXecu-
tive session. There was no subject of
greater Importance to the peO-
pie of the United ST ties
than that Of transportation,
! and with only two months Of the ses-
sion remaining we were advised to
, await the result Of the deliberations OF
the house.
I'VE may as well deal plainly with
this subject" continued Mr. Ingalls,.
THE senate of the United States II
use plain language the senate Of the
United States Ia suspected by the peo.
! pie OF this country with the desire
not to do anything in this matter.
do not need TO appeal to the con.
seriousness of apy senator l need not
appeal 10 the current strains of oh
servance made in the public press
when | say that the senate of the
, United States is not an object of public
adulation at this moment in this coun
= try. / regret to hear the senator from
Delaware (Biyard) who is supposed
I to be the leader OF the new public
q opinion under the new evangel of re
q form in the days that are to come
r gravelY recommending the senate o
!. the United States to pursue he do
e nothing policy chat has characterized
/. congress- on this subject for the tel
y years past"
. Mr. ingalls, added that he would re-
i sist Injustice To railroads IA he would
4 resist injustice to the humblest settle
4 in the remotest dugout on the Western
d frontier, The railways were creation
"a of law aud should h ave the protection
1 OF law, but IL would not be denied tina
n there existed In the country conviC
d ton, in which he profoundly shared
v that the rail Ways had made eXaction
ia Tia rendered II necessary to suhjeC
Il. them TO limitation and contro
l. The subject WAS too impOrtau
"a TO allow II Rip Van Wrinkle Inactivity
n lie (Tngall 81 did not know but that III
time was approaching when an activ
"a coalition of the conservative forces
the country would be required In orde
in To prevent the destruction of Of
is ganic changes in our syl
1e tenn of government Tho peopl
10 demanded that these subjects Shout
be discussed and the man or body {
n. men who should attempt to stand /
he the way of the great inquiry would l.
a as politically absurd as the man VIII
40 should attempt 10 Tefule the law {
Ia gravitation by jumping from the sun
n. NIT OF the Washington monument.
rs Mr.. Bayard said that hls object hn
ii. been TO avow the vast
a. Of time that would come Of results hi
he were not practiced There was not
lv word OF what be said suggestive OF IN
TO idea that questions should not be d,
ga hated cOntempoTaneously with th
I'D house, An early result, howeve
M. seemed TO him more probable
n. II the result to be reached
its u house was not Rntagonlzed in a,
OF vance by the passage In the senate OF
OF bill totally dissimilar from tbs hou,
ke bill he was himself DESTROYS that a
ne ton should be taken ard s. resu
10 reached ON the subject
OF Regarding Mr Ingalls, references
ue the suspicious extended to the senat
Mr.