Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1886-07-29
CONGRESSIONAL.
Work of the Senate and the House
Of Representatives.

THE oleomargarine bill was the subject of u
long and warm discussion I'm the Senate on July
49, Messrs Miller, Edmunds, and Van Wyck ad-
vocating, and Messrs. Vance, Vest, and Ingalls,
opposing the measure. In the course of the de-
bate Mr.. ingalls, replied TO some remarks by
Mr.. Miller, saying that his (Millers) humor was
very much like the attempt of n hippopotamus
to dance ON q slack rope LLaughter.l The
Senator from New York had seen ft to
present him Qngalls) as country pod
der desLlng 1s,d IN bogus 1ewery ana es,x, nx
that he had never stood before the Senate adj
vocatng a measure In which he had the strong
est personal interest-as the Senator from New
York had done. That Senator was in the dairy
business. He had dairy farm and a herd OF
dairy cattle, putting its produce on the market
as the product OF Oak Hill or Oak Leaf cream
cry. And he used the whole power of his official
station Senator and as chairman OF q COM
mittee TO got the measure away from the COM
own committee, and he stood on the floor OF
the Senate day after day advocating q
measure which was to increase direct
A more shameful spectacle had never been pre-
sented to the American people than had been
presented in regard to this measure. In the
other house it had been under the leadership OF
the chairman Of committee who was himself
engaged in the dairy business; and in this body
that gentleman was reinforced by the Chairman
OF the Committee on Agriculture lMr. Miller,
who was engaged in the same business, and
who was to profit by the legislation. Mr..
Miller, apparently laboring under great ex-
having referred to the Senator'S 1ngaiI's)
calling In early life, and went on to say that
whether this bill became a law or not it would
could possibly receive. The House of Repre-
sentatives, after adopting an amendment pro-
viding that the guns, proiectiles, etc, .pur-
chased shall be OF American manufacture,
passed the fortihcations appropriation bill. Mr..
Morrison offered concurrent resolution for the
hnal adjournment OF Congress ON July %, and
It was referred to the Committee ON Ways and
Means.
TIE oleomargarine bill, with amendment
reducing the tax on the product from ive to two
cents pound, passed the Senate July 3D. by
vote OF 81 to "a All those voting for the bill
were Republicans except tYn-P9 VV@ vnt yaotrr
votes against the measure were oil cast by
Democratic Senators. Henry p. Henderson, OF
Michigan was nominated by the President to
be Associate Justice OF the Supreme Court Of
Utah. Tho President also nominated these post
masters: w. H. Bowser, Warsaw, Ind. Fred
erick II. Bates, Elmhurst, ILL., William H.
Loomis, Shawneetown, Ill. ; Emanuel M. Funk
Manning, Iowa Isaac ID. Toll, Petoskey, Mich. (;
Otis g. King, Kenosha, Wis. William A. Nc
Allister, Vinton, Iowa. The House OF Repre-
sentatives in committee of the whole, rejected
amendments to the river and harbor bill strik-
ing out the Hennepin Canal clause and taking
the charge Of the Mississippi River improve
ment out OF the hands of the Mississippi River
Commission.
THE reports in the Payne election case came
MP in the Senate for consideration ON July 20.
Senator Pugh in advocacy Of the position taken
by himself Senators Salisbury. Vance, and
Eustis, contended that there had been no ex-
press belief or suspicion ON tho part OF any
member OF the committee to the effect TINT MIR.
Payne was connected in the remotest degree
with anything wrong. criminal, or immoral in
his election, and that no further investigation
of the charges should be made. Senator
Ra4uv,r-~sqsta- -tlaA-.s.i1AKUa- aud
investigation was due to Senator Payne, and
contended that the charges We're made by in
dividuals and bodies OF sufficient weight to
compel the Senate to investigate them. Sena-
ment OF senator Hoar and to sustain the views
expressed in the report signed by himself and
Messrs. Teller and Evarts. Senator Logon
quoted from the Cincinnati Commercial Gazette
an article against himself and Senators Evarts
and Teller speaking Of Mr. Evarts as n repre-
sentative of coal oil in the Senate, and saying
that Teller was not worth talking about. Con-
tnuing, he read from another extract a state
ment that Senator Camden, whose intimate
relations to the Standard Oil Company are well
known" had telegraphed to prominent Demo-
Gratis that only six more votes were wanted to
carry the Senate, and that they were prepared
TO pay $4,000 each foT them, and said: Il say
that any man who will publish such in
famous slander and such villainous lie as that
upon honorable members of his own party is
unworthy Of recognition anywhere" Senator
Logan then detailed the course of the
Ohio Legislature in electing Senator Payne,
and afterward in investigating the charges
against its own members. There was
not. said the Senator, in the evidence taken be-
fore the committee Of the Ohio Legislature one
single iota of testimony duplicating Mr. Payne,
directly or indirectly. Senator Teller Coli ncxt
took the floor and said he was not
on trial He had no defense to make
State. The committee had kept steadily and
truthfully in the limo of the precedents The
State Of Ohio had made no demand Of the Sen
the question when IL came to the American Sem
ate? He believed the Ohio newspaper con-
vention was called for the purpose of COM
polling recreant Republicans to forswear
themselves and perjure themselves in the in
terest OF political success. In the House Mr..
Morrison's concurrent resolution, reported from
the Ways and Means Committee, providing for
the adjournment of Congress on July 26, after
being opposed by Mr.. Reagan, Mr.. Weaver, Mr.
passed by vote Of 145 to 49, Then a struggle
arose for priority of consideration between the
interstate commerce and the Northern Pacific
forfeiture bills, which was resolved-yeas 142,
nays 99-in favor Of the former.
THE PAYNE election case was the subject Of
another debate in tho Senate on July 90 Sem
ator Teller said, in regard to the resolutions
presented by the Ohio editors and the extracts
from the Democratic papers declaring their
opinion that tho election was procured by
corruption, that it was an attempt to
the Of
Senator Sherman said he rose to perform the
most disagreeable duty OF his life. He had
known MS colleaguo lfhynel since ne nau AZ
rived at the age OF manhood, and he believed
that whatever corruption had occurred IN the
process OF the election, no knowledge of such
corruption was brought TO his colleague. He
beloved also that II the investigation were
granted his colleagues honor would not
be touched 10y the testimony that
would be produced. There was gen.
eral belief in the State Of Ohio that
tho election Of his colleague mot with his
knowledge) had been accomplished Though
gross fraud and bribery. Whether not suffi-
cient evidence had been laid before the commit
tee Of the Senate il was for the Senate to say.
But certainly sufficient evidence had been sent
here to put the question on its inquiry.
Senator Frye, In supporting the minority re-
port, said tho question was whether bribery and
corruption had been used, and not whether the
Senator from Ohio had himself been partici-
pant in IT, Bills for public buildings at Clarks-
burg, w. Va. Springfield, Mo-, and Nebraska
City. Neb., were passed by the Senate. In tho
House OF Representatives Mr.. Hatch (Mo.), from
tho Committee on Agriculture, reported the
oloomargarine bill, with senate amendments,
and with recommendation that they be.non-
concurred in. It was referred to the committee
of the whole.