Morning journal and courier., 1886-07-20
FORTY-NINTH CONGRESS.
WASHINGTON, July 19, 1886.

WASHINGTON, July 19, 1886. SENATE-Mr Blair offered an amendment to the House joint resolution for the. use o1 the surplus revenues in payment of the pub lie debt The amendment provides that be- fore the payment ot any part of such surplus there shall be reserved and set apart seventy nine million dollars to be known the con- mon school fund, such fund to be paid out as provided in his educational bill. Ordered printed.
 The Senate then took up the o1eomargarine bill and MT. Vance proceeded to argue against it. He characterized it as the most vicious of all the legislation ever attempted in the Senate; most outrageously violative of the constitution and of individual and personal rights. It was literally 'protection gone to seed"
 MT. Butler spoke in advocacy of his amend ment and had the clerk read various papers tending to show how imitation and bogus wines are put on the market. He regarded this whole system of legislation, however, as unconstitutional.
 MT. Miller renewed the motion to lay MT. Buffers amendment on the table and it was agreed to.
 MT. Edmunds wished to correct the i'm pression which some Senators seem to have that the bill proposed to tax one interest for the benefit of another. He did not so under stand it. If he did he should be against it. He supposed that out of every one hundred people who ate these oleomargarine compounds, nine ty-nine believed they were eating butter in the sense in which their grandfathers and grandmothers understood that term. The motive for supporting the bill, MT. Edmunds maintained, was the motive which influenced every State in it's tax bill. Congress had the right to discriminate against frauds.
 MT. Vest opposed the bill and said that every shadow of pretence that it was reve- nue bill had been effectually removed. It taught the people that there was no necessity for their State governments. The doctrine taught to-day ignored self-government, wip- ed out the rights of States and gave to Con gress all the functions and powers W hich he had been taught to believe belonged to the several States.
 The bill was discussed until the hour of 
 HoUsE-After the reading of the journal the House resumed consideration of the forti- fication appropriation bill. The pending question was on MT. Randalls amendment to reduce from $500, ,0G0 to $100,- 900 the appropriation for the armament of sea coast defense. MT. Randall withdrew his amendment and offered another which was adopted by unanimous consent provid ing that the guns, projectiles, etc., purchased shall be of American manufacture.
 The bill was then passed.
 The next business was the consideration of the Senate concurrent resolution for the printing of twenty-six thousand copies of the third annual report of the civil service com agreed to, yeas 198, nays 46.
 MT. Cobb, from the conference committee on the bill repeating the preemption timber culture and desert land laws, reported a complete disagreement. In reviewing the points of difference between the houses MT. Payson, of Illinois, condemned in severe Ian guage the Senate amendment which provides that after final proof of the claimant and the of fho fn mt it shall be proved to the satisfaction of the that fraud has entered into the title so acquired by the claimant unless 1t shall appear that the land has been sold or to bona fde purchaser for a valuable consideration, the commissioner shall suspend the issuing of the pa tent. He regarded the provision an incentive to fraud, as it required the com missioner to issue 8 patent if the land had been sold to bona fide purchaser, even though the original title had been acquired by fraud
 Mr. Stone, of Missouri, also antagonized the amendment, which he said spread it's wing over the most hardened land sharks.
 Messrs. Peters and Perkins, of Kansas, fla vored the Senate amendment on the ground that it protected the bona fide purchaser and punished the land sharks.
 MT. Laird, of Nebraska, approved the pro- VISIONS or the senate amendment auo Oelleu he charges made by the land bureau of the immense frauds in relation to the entry of public lands. !
 MT. McAdoo, of New Jersey. did not de- l sire that the Oklahoma district on the Indian ! territory should be open to settlement until ! he land laws were perfected by the passage l ,f the pending bill as it originally passed the | House. l
 Further debate ensued during which Mir. ! 0'Neill, of Missouri and others called upon 1 the House to adhere to the bill which 1t had passed.
 MT. Perkins moved that the House recede rom it's disagreement; lost.
 The disagreement was then insisted upon md Mr. Morrison offered a concurrent reso- ution, which was referred to the Committee ,n Ways and Means, providing for the ad- ournment of Congress sine die at p. m. ,n July 28.
 A recess was taken until p. m.-the night session to be for consideration of bills exported by the Postofice committee.
 The only bill passed at the evening session was to provide for the transmission of sums 1nder $5 by postal money order for fee of ;hree cents. The rest of the session was spent in discussion of extension of the free delivery system to cities of ten thousand in- labitants.
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