The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1886-04-28
SENATE.

WAsHSeTos, April 27.-The chair
man laid before the Senate commune
cation from the clerk of the House o
Representatives OF the state of Ohio
transmitting a transcript of testimony
taken BY the committee of that house
and the report of the same committee
on the subject of the charges against
the official integrity of certain mem
bers OF that house in connection with
the election of Henry Is. Payne as
United States Senator.
Mr.. Whitthorn was appointed mem
Der of the following committees. On
claims, on pensions, and on the tenth
census; also on naval affairs during the
temporary absence OF Senator Jones. OF
Florida.
The bill providing for the executive
mansion was passed. 1t appropriates
$500, 900 for the purpose.
The bill was passed to provide for the
allotment of lands in severalty TO the
Indians of Round Valley Reservation,
California.
The following bills authorizing the
construction of bridges, reported favor
ably from the committee on commerce,
were passed: Wagon and foot bridge
across the WILLAMETTE River, Oregon,
which may be available as a railroad
bridge. The railroad bridge across the
Missouri River at or near Kansas City
No.
The interstate commerce bill was
then taken up. The pending question
was on Mr.. Camden's proposed amend
ment to strike out the words from the
same point of departure, from the
long and short haul clause of the bill
Mr.. Cullom defended the bill. The
committee had given the subject of long
and short hauls good deal of consider
alton, and had not felt it safe TO go
further than the State Of Massachusetts
had gone in that matter. No country
/ in the world had absolute long and
short haul law for railroads. There
was in this country a belief that the
short haul people were swindled in
order to make up for losses on long
haul. The committee had endeavored,
by this bill, to prevent the possibility OF
railroads recuperatlng themselves out
of the short haul" people for the losses
on the long haul. The committee, he
said, had not been able to bring their
Judgment TO the conclusion that it
would be wise to insist that there should
never be a greater charge for the
shorter than for the longer haul. He
wished such a law could wisely be pas
sed, but if passed as things were, such q
law would be greatly injurious to the
business of the country.
Mr.. Miller opposed the amendment
and Mr.. Harris and Mr. Beck advo-
Gated it. Mr.. Conger also favored it.
The people of Michigan. he said, had
for years been suffering extortions from
railroad overcharges. The bill as it
stood now was in favor of the great
cites and against small towns and rural
districts. He ridiculed the idea that
the general provision in the bill relat-
ing to extortionate charges was of any
use against corporations. If the rail-
road managers OF the United States had
come together they could not have
gotten up a bill better calculated to
serve their intrests as against the water
routes than this bill would serve them.
If the bill passed there would De no
further need of improving our water
communications. The railroads would
have the water courses absolutely under
their control.
After an executive session the Senate
adjourned.