Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1885-01-15
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tue lomuIftee On ApProprLskaoues pot-
s1anf 70 RECOMMENDATION OF tne fresi-
dsut. reported bill. which vas paesed.
providing for the compensation and ex-
psn>es Of special electoral MESSENGERS
70 be ssnt 30 Iosa and Oregon for the
from those States
EdmunSs calling FRYE TO tie chair,
tooA the floor and called az the otli yes
tsrdzy offered by him providing that
the PrssideBt may appoint 90 toe retired
list one person who has oceupied tne
position OF Grueral, commanding the
arm,-a Of toe Cn1tsd States. or General
in Chief ef the United States army. De
moved 10 amend IL by adding, " With
the rank and full pay Of such General
or General IN Chef a. The ease may be"
The m ndment Vas sRreod 70.
Cockrtn desired to record bis vote
azainsf the bill, not knowing whether
the yess and nays Eoald Be called on II.
The retired lis. VAS lot the place for
private citizen. II bad been created for
officers who, being skill 10 Ihs service,
had been rendered unit for duty.
Toets was neither justice nsr proprlety
IN placing q private citizen on such
list. General Grant was nov enjoying
the receipt Of $i5,OO0 = year, vhico vss
s1ough tor the support Of al American
cit Z-n.
Edmunds' b II TO place Gen. Grant
the r..Irzd lisf, With the full rank and
pay of General. then passed the Senate;
yeas -. nays 3. Eimunds spoke strong
Iy and feelineiy IN favor Of the bill.
Among the Democrats, Aaxey, Voor-
be. q. George, GIBSON and Jonas spoke
in its favor.
The Senators who voted nav we're
Beck, Cockrell. Coke, Harris, Pendle-
ton. Salisbury. Slater, Vance and
Walker.
Tue Senate upon motion Of Hale took
up the Naval Appropriation bill. The
Senate Committee amendments we're
concurred in and the bill passed.
The chair laid before the Senate the
inter state commerce bill. Senator slater
offered an amendment prohibiting the
charging OF higher rates OF compensa.
ton for transporting the same kind and
amount of property shorter than Tor
longer distance. Senator Slater de
scribed the operation of the principle OF
dlscl Eliminating against short hauis,
and the suffsrinRs of western communi-
ties IL consequence.
Cullon said the amendment was i'm
p0rtane, bnt IN his opinion its adoption
| would resuit IN disaster to the rail-
roads.
Van Wyck favored Skaters amend
ment and cited illustrations of the dis
elimination prscticed by railroads and
combinations made by companies to re-
sist all attempts Of the public to remedy
the evil.
Cullou said the adoption of Slater's
amendment would seriously iDjure not
only the producers of the West, but the
consumers east. IL would iDiure hun
dreds Of thousands Of people.
| Van WICK had often heard this state
ment made, but had no proof of IL.
Tue people of Nebraska, as well as
Iowa, lliinos aud other States we're
suffering from tho extortions of rail
roads. He aoald like TO know how the
community coald be benefited by the
railroads charging a. they did in the
instance cited by him. $500 for car
load delivered 600 miles west of San
Francisco, and charging 500 for car
load delivered in San Francisco. go
miles beyond.
Hoar favored commission, and said
that the Massachusetts, railroad CON-
mission had accom- plished results hard
ly less than marvellous.
Coke inquired WHISTLER q commission
could act for the whole United States as
sdyantaReoasiy and as we'll as for sin
gle State.
Hoar thought they could not enter
into so much minuti@, but could do
great good.
Slater explained that his amendment
would have the effect of prohibiting
companies from charging frem Chicago
to any point west of New York greater
sum tran it charged from Chicago to
New York. II IL charged 500 car to
New York, IL shsuld not charge more
than 300 a car to any point between
Chicago and New York. He defended
his amendment as tending TO build
places OF moderate size, instead of CON
centratiug population so densely in a
few large cities. He also cited cases of
| extOrtioA growing out of discrinina-
tions by railroads in favor of large
cities.
Allison thought Skaters amendment
was radical departure from the priu-
ciple of Commission embodied in the
bill. Ii would be- fixing a cast iron
rule. The sharp competition of rail
| roads aud water routes rendered the
establishment of such a rule, on a mat
| ter so material. undesirable. The prin-
ciple of the amendment would be i'm
possible of application without serious
effect. At the risk of some criticism,
Allison, for one, preferred to favor the
\ appointment of Commission Of emf
hent men, as provided by the bill, TO
thoroughly examine the subject and
give their combined and mature iudg-
meut. and not to take the hasty iudg.
ment OF one man, Who had not ex-
aHined the sAbitot. He believed in
making haste slowly 10 this matter.
Commissioners had been successful in
several States. Let a Comnission be
tried for the United States.
Harrison called the attention OF the
senate Ia the death Of Hon Schu, Ter
Colfax, who had been presiding officer
OF the Senate and Vice President Of the
United States. After q few brief but
feeling words Of euloRy of tue deceased
BY Harrison and Sherman, Harrison
offered q resolution recitinQ that the
senate had heard with great sorrow Of
Collars death, and out of respect to
his memory the Ssnats do nov adjourn.
The Senate accordingly adjourned.
HOUSE,.
WASHINGTON, Jan. H.-Rsndall sent
to the Clerks desk and had read let.
ter received from the Secretary OF
State, Informing the House that ore of
the certificates Of the electoral vote Of
Iowa and Oregon, not having been re.
ceived by the President pro tenn. Of the
Senste, 10 became incumsent ON him to
send special messenger to each Of
these States, ~ required BY Law. The
Secretary requests that an appropria-
ton be made for the expenses and oum-
p<nsation Of these messengers.
The Speaker laid before the House q
message from the President on she
same subject.
The missing certificates are the dupli-
oates inquired % be saut by mail