Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1886-05-13
TUESDAY, May 4.

Senate After the passage of number of
private bills the post office appropriation
bill was laid before the senate. Sen. Cali
favored the proposal to appropriate $500,
600 for the carriage of the u. S. mail to
Central and South America, Japan, China,
etc. He did not regard it as a subsidy.
Sen. salisbury opposed the proposition.
Sen. Hall said that according to Sen.
Beck's explanation, given yesterday, the
post Office department was more capable
than he at first supposed, as to the leav-
ing at Pernambuco of large body of the
Rio Janeiro mail. Sen. Plumb
saw that no senator had shown that
the sum per mile provided for by
the amendment was too much. Plumb
critized the course of the senators who
would ask for many millions to improve
the Mississippi river for commerce but
were unwilling to devote anything to de
yelope commerce from the mouth of
the Mississippi to other lands. The debate
then closed and voting began. A number
of amendments were offered, some of
which were agreed to.
House Mr.. Hail called up the Camp
bell-Weayer election case, and after
some opposition it was proceeded
with. After an hour and n half debate
the resolution of the majority of the com
mittee ON elections was adopted confirm
ing the right of the sitting member to
his seat. The resolution was advocated by
Green, Turner, Lowey and Hall. was
opposed by Hopkins, Ely, Powell
and Spooner, who claimed that
the contestant had abandoned his
contest Internationally and that it should
not now be re-opened. As a substitute
for the resolution Spooner offered a res
olution giving Pierce forty days within
which to cross-examine the witnesses and
Page ten days thereafter to take evidence
in the rebuttal. Rejected. Yeas, 80;
NAYS. 1919. The resolution reported from
the committee of election was then adopt
ed. Yeas, us; nays, 50.
WEDNESDAY, May >.
Senate-The interstate commerce bill
was laid before the senate. The pending
amendment was that of Camden, being
on the absolute long and short haul clause
applied to each railroad separately. Sen.
Spooner opposed the amendment, because
it would strike al the producers of the
west and because it was vicious in prin-
ciple II would result not in a reduction
of through rates. but in an increase of
local rates. 1t would injure the farmers
of the west. while not benefiting the far
mers who depend on low rates. The
amendment sought to deprive Chicago of
its natural advantages for competition,
and would put on the statute books legal
lied discrimination worse than any rail
road companies had perpetrated. The
west. Spoouer said they could not ship its
wheat to New York, Baltimore, Philadel-
phia or Boston, if the through rates were
increased under the Camden amendment,
but would have to ship by way of Mon
treal. The present was no time, SpoOner
though, for the people Of the country to
Indulge in radical experiments. A vote
being taken on the Camden amendment
il was agreed to- Yeas, %; nays, -. The
technical form of Sen. Camden's amend
meut thus agreed to, is 10 strike out from
the long and short haul clause of the com
mittees bill the words. from the same
original poirt of departure The only
republicans voting ) II the affirmative We're
Senators Conger, Malone, Morrill,, Rid
dleberger and sherman. The only dem
ocrats voting in the negative were Sena-
tors Brown and Mcpherson. After ex-
ecutiye session the senate adjourned.
House Mr.. Frederick of Iowa. from
the committee on alcoholic liquor traffic,
reported adversely the senate bin proyid-
ing for the commission ON the subject of
liquor traffic, Referred TO committee of
the whole. Mr. Morrison of Illinois, from
the committee ON ways and means, report
ed the bin repeating so much Of section
1914 revised statutes as allows 20 collectors
of internal revenue, and commissioners
on taxes collected or distributed spirits
Placed on the house calendar. The day
being set aside for the consideration Of
business reported from the committee on
military affairs. the first bin called up