The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1885-01-22
XVIII Congress
SENATE.

XVIII Congrcss
SENATE.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 2l.-A resolution
was agreed to calling on tho secre-
tary Of the treasury Tor anv
further correspondence in his depart
ment relating to the collection or post
ponement OF the tax on distilled spirits
The CHAIR laid before tn senate Mr..
PluWb's resolution, offered Yesterday.
requesting the president to advise the
senate as To his views ON the present
status OF lands known as the Oklahoma
lands.
Owing to Mr.. Plumb's absence.
Mr INGALLS, asked that 1t 70 over
till tomorrow. So ordered.
The senate then proceeded to consid-
Grafton OF the bills upon the calendar.
me senate bill was passed author
iziIg The Illinois Il Missouri Railroad
company to construct u bridge across
the Mississippi river at a point north Of
Grand avenue, ST. Louis.
The senate then took up the bill TO es-
taDlish court Of appeals, known rs the
"David Davis BILL"
MIR. HOAR said: ain order to remove
any objections that might exist to its
passage, on account of the resulting an
pointments, that undoubtedly the ap-
pointments would tall to the incoming
and not to the outgoing administration
Mr.. MORGAN offered an amendment,
which was agreed TO, securing to de-
| iehdants III criminal cases the absolute
/ rlght to writ OF error.
| Further consideration of the bill WAS
cut off by the limitation of time, and
consideration OF tho Interstate com
merce bill was resumed, Mr.. Coke being
entitled to the floor
! MIR. COKE said no amendment to the
! senate bin that would accord with the
theory on which the bill was founded,
! would make I practical measure The
house Tor Reagan hilD was conserva-
1--WE is shd "a practical meas
invoked the candid consideration of the
senate. lie maintained that in its priIl-
clp0l features IL was simply cOditica-
ZION Of he common law. Undor tho
common law common carriers were pro-
hlbited from charging unreasonable
rates ana discriminating against indi.
yidnals, and were also prohibited from
| pooling. The railroad company exer-
cised the part Of the sovereignty of tho
state by condcmning land for their own
uses. Such exercise was public tru It
aud the public were therefore entitled
to know all about raj rJad administra-
ton.
Mr.. MCPHERSON inquired whether.
II pool rates were reasonable, there
would he any need to prohibit pooling?
MIR. COKE replied that The courts
of the, state of New York
had decided TO be Illegal n
pool composed of twelve poor canal
men, who had scraped together enough
money TO buy boats of their own. How,
therefore, could pool of forty great
railroads, which now controlled the
commerce Of the country be legal.
"rhat pool" said MIR. Coke, with em-
phasis, "has openly delied all the power
aud authority of the state" [Applause
In the galleries..
Messrs. Morgan aud Harrison asked
why the bill was needed ut all IL the
common law supplied sufficient
remedy.
Mr.. COKE replied that the necessity
for the bill was found in tho fact that
railroads denied the power of congress
to deal with the questions involved.
The people, he continued, some
times did wrong; but give them
a little time and they would remedy tho
wrongs they had Inflicted. Tho sober,
second thought OF the people was the
perfection of human wisdom. Mr.. Coke
took up the senate bill In detail and
itciclsed its provisions. "Each of the
nine commissioners, he said, "would
have five states under his supervision.
Gould he hear one in ten OF the cases
coming before him? Should witnesses
hc brought irem the remutest corners of
tho United States to get me opinion
from commissioner? The Reagan bill
was peoples bill. Under 1t questions
" issue were to be examined
by the courts at the homes
OF the citizens, where the
witnesses lived, and not at Washington,
} which might be thousand miles from
he field of operations. Mr.. Coke So
verely criticized Charles Francis
Adams, jr., who, he said, after having
asserted that railroads were "establish-
ing depotism that no spasmodic pop
ular action could shake off," was now
advocating the consolidation of feder-
alton of all the railroads in the country
under one head. In the days of his im-
partiality Adams saw the evils of great
railroad combinations. Since he has
got to bo "cheek by jowp with Jay
Gould, he saw no harm in them. Mr.
& Ike insisted that the great railroad
companits were the most lawless
bodies with which the government
+ ever had To deal aud the passage of tn,
Reagan oill would, In his opinion, hav,
u greater moral effect on them than any
thing congress could do.
4 Upon the conclusion OF Mr.. Coke's re-
! marks message was received from tn,
house announcing the death of the Hon
John Hamilton Evans, late represent
ative In congress nom South Carolina
On motion of Mr.. Hampton the mes
0 sage was at once taken up and Mr.
. Hampton offered resolution fittingl,
i expressing the sense OF the senate OF
\ the deceased Mr.. Evans.
i Mr.. HAMPTON, In Offering the reso
> luton, said the deceased gentleman haC
been close and dear friend of his
Justice 10 his memory needed no
language In panegyric. Mr.. Hampton
paid an eloquent and feeling tribute /,
the memory of his friend.
Mr. FRYE, who had served in tn
: FOrty-slxth congress with Mr.. Evans
: expressed In warm and friendly term
II high personal regard for him aud hi
hope that God may temper the heav,
n blow to his wife aud children.
= Mr.. BUTLER also spoke feolingly Il
1 eulogy OF the deceased.
The senate then, on motion OF MI
Butler, as y mark to tho memory Of MI
8 Evans, adjourned.
u Mr.. KELLEY, from the committee o
i ways and means, reported q bill to AZ
:. ihorize the establishment OF an expol
hureau Tor tobacco manufacturer
and allowing drawbacks on importe
x articles use d In manufacturing exporte
= tobacco, The report OF tho committe
accompanying the bill, states that IN
o lleve American manufactured tobacc,