The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1886-07-02
PROCEEDINGS OF CONGRESS.

members OF congress from dCCtp ny
ployment from railroads that had received
aid from the United States. The motion
was debated and went over. The senate
took up the bill repeating the pre-
emption and timber culture laws
Mr.. Blair had moved an amend
ment prohibiting tho acquisition in
one ownership of more than GAO acres OF
desert land. To this Mr.. Ingalls, offered an
amendment applying the limitation to all
public lands. The latter proposition,
which was the pending question, was voted
down. Mr.. Blair's amendment was then
voted down, yeas 3, nays ~. Those vot-
ing in the affirmative were Messrs. Blair,
Dolph and Teller.
HoUsE.-The senate bill passed granting
right OF way torailroad companies through
Northern Montana Indian reservations.
A proposed change in the rules making it
in order TO add to a general pension bill II
provision for the imposition OF a TAX was
discussed The subjects OF pensions and
the taritfwere brought into the debate, and
warm controversies took place among the
Democratic leaders.
At first il was purely partisan affair,
led by Morrison, MatsOn, Holman and
Others on the Democratic side, and by
Reed, Hiscock and Hepburn or the Repdh-
lican. They passed rapidly over the his
tory of each party in its relation to the
soldier. and the customary number Of left
handed compliments and parliamentary
vituperation on either side, to the keen de.
LIGHT of crowded galleries and the eX-
hilaration of gentlemen on both sides,
who have been for weeks spelling
for fight, and then there was a some
what bitter controversy between Bragg,
Morrison and Randall. Mr.. Randall said:
Some years ago We had the same contro-
versy, and | cast my vote then as | cast it
on Thursday-from conviction. | resisted
anything that tended to free trade in the
United States, and the lowering OF wages to
American laborers. | was condemned in
some quarters for that vote. | went with
the rest of you addressing the Democrats
to n national convention where | was told
that would have no Republicans to help
me. What was the result of that conven-
ton? Does any man here attempt to say
that the measure reported to this
house BY the committee of ways
and means, is in harmony with
the spirit OF that convention or enuncia-
tions of those who took the stump in its
behalf? No, am just to-day where stood
then. am in favor Of revision Of the
tariff and the lowering of rates ofduty and
a repeal in part of internal taxes, upon
which the ways and means committee OF
this house has denied any one the privilege
OF q vote.
Mr.. Morrison, the gentleman from Penn
sylvania, had gone out of his way to say
that the proposition presented by the ways
and means committee was not within the
spirit of the Chicago platform. In nearly
every paragraph of that platform the de-
mocracy had pledged itself as party to the
reduction of tariff taxes, and had especial
ly declared in favor of the continuance of
internal revenue taxes. The war taxes re-
main substantially as they did at the close
OF the war, and the party promised reduc-
ton; yet Mr.. Randall, notwithstanding the
promise OF reduction and his desire to keep
faith with the platform, would
not vote TO consider the. bill
unless it gave him an opportunity to do
that which he had pledged himself not to
do. The gentleman knew that the Chicago
platform required additions to the free
list.
Mr.. Randall asked il the gentleman be-
lieved that President Cleveland could have
been elected il the convention had declared
for free raw materials.
Mr.. Morrison replied:
Mr.. Cleveland would have gotten more
votes than he did. He had not carried
Ohio, anyhow, and had not carried Penn
sylvania by $4,000 votes, and would not
have carried them if the tariff on wool
had been piled mile high.
SENATE. Senator Edmunds succeeded in
preventing the Lassage of the bill to pro-
hibit members OF congress from receiving
fees as counsel for land grant railroad com
panies. The bill was passed June 10 by a
vote OF 30 to IL. It was recinded by a
vote Of 81 TO 81 and sent to the judiciary
committee. The feature OF the debate,
which lasted the entire afternoon, was a
speech from Mr.. Evarts against the bin.
He paid an eloquent tribute to his proies-
sion and said:
Nowhere in or out OF the senate was
such stigma ever stamped upon it as was
intended by this bill. 1T was an attack up
on theintegrity and independence OF the
law, an eneroachment upon its honor and
emoluments. No act Of congress would
make adishonest senator an honest man.
Then Edmnnds made his speech, In which
he accused Mr.. Beck OF insulting the SUI
preme court with a charge OF dishonesty.
There were spicy coloquies throughout the
debate, and good seal OF feeling shown on
both sides.
A bill passed providing for the pay
ment of steamboat Inspectors expens-
es. being ameRdatory OF the shipping bill,
lately approved by the president.
Ine preStueut sent nine more messages 70
the senate. announcing that he had vetoed
nine more bills granting pensions to sol
diers. and il is understood that similar
batch may be expected every day until the
large pile Of bills in his hands il disposed
OF.
Among tn bills vetoed was 6ne granting
pension TO Alfred Denney, whose record
showed no disability. but twenty years
after he was discharged he filed ciaim
alleging that he was injured by being thrown
forward upon the horn Of his saddle The
president says:
The number oi instances in which those
OF our soldiers who rode horses during tho
war were injured by being thrown for ward
upon their saddles indicates that these
saddles were dangerous contrivances.
Senator Van Wyck submitted proposed
amendment to the bilI authorizing the
Union Pacific to construct branch roads