The Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1885-1886, 1886-04-30
ROCK ISLAND, FRIDAY. APRIL 80. 1856.
BUSINESS IN CONGRESS.


Beck and Frye Locking Horns on the
Mail Subsidy.
WASHINGTON CITY. April 30 "A bill was
passed in the senate Thursday appropriat
ing 50, 900 TO purchase an additional strip
Of laad for the postoflice building at Fort
Wayne
Pike obtained unanimous consent to
take up the fourth Of-Juiy claims bill
After some discussion the reading of the
| ninety four pages of the bill was omitted,
and the bill passed.
Wednesday, while the postoilice appro-
priation was before the senate, an amend.
| ment was offered appropriatiny S,eo, ,001 for
the carrying Of ocean mails on American
| steamships, the remuneration to be not
more than 81 per mile one way on
| the shortest route between South and Cen
trail Am rica, China and Australia Upon
this Frye made a long speech on tie tariff
| question in oppo ition to the reduction of
duties referring to the labor strikes, he
said that each house Of congress
and the president had remedy,
| which was an arbitration. That did
no harm 1t was giving brown bread pills to
a fevered patient According to Commits
sioner Wright, he said, there were 1,0)0, 900,
go idle men in the land This condition he
attributed to the large importation of man.
ufactured goods made from Great Britain
| by this country, every dollars worth OF
which should be made at home to give work
to the idle men Senator Frye eulogized
| the pro rressiSe spirit of the Argentine Re
pubic.
| Senator Beck asked why that republic did
not buy Of the United states the goods il
| needed
Senator Frye said it was because the sen
ator from Kentucky, like a watchdog, stood
etween the treasury and an honest pay
mont for carrying the mails
When the bll came up Thursday Becl
| took the floor He said it had been init
mated that he had endeavored to introduce
here, in season and out of season, questions
bearing on taxes commerce, etc. He askei
the senate to bear witness that he had no
done it now He said the house was en-
deavoring TO force the rule prohibiting leg
isiation upon Appropriation bills, and he haC
deemed it Lest not to have such legis
lation on this bill He insisted tina
it was tad policy for the Republicans Il
force on the administration an amendmen
on the po Office appropriation bill, whicl
had nothing to do with the postal service
but looked so!ciy to bli'ding up American
commercial relations. If were going t.
launch into a new s.a of legislation on ap
preparation bills, there would be no end t
appropriation bids, The president, the post
master general and the house Of representa-
tives had all protested against such provis
ions
| The senator from Maine Frye ha
sought to make the foreign mail provision
man iatory one, but the poStmaste. genera
had shown the committee that 1t would b
so ,;etrime ntal 10 the pabhc saryic
that the ma jority OF the committee
had not been able to submit to il
Tha amendment proposed by the committe
limited the postmaster general, however, {
American vessels, and he was to make con
tracts fer five years. Beck read the claus
of the presidents message relating to th
foreign mail provisions of last year i
which the president said 1t had been foun
inexpedient for the postmaster ger
eral to carry out the provision
of the last years appropriation bill relatin
priated would not have proved sufficient t
carry out the purpose, nor could contract
have Teen made unGer the law at all at
rate adequate to bring the ag gregate with
the amount OF the appropriation
After "A short discussion of the bill I
send expert medical men to investigate I'll
system of incubation for yellow fever al,
without acting thereon the house commit!o
Of the whole resumed consideration OF ii
river and Larbor bill