The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1886-07-21
FORTY.NINTH CONGRESS-
THE 0LE0MARGARISE BILL
PASSED THE SENATE.
Amendments to the River and Har-
Dor Bill in the HOuse-Re-
ports of Committees.

WASHINGTON, July 20.-House.-Mr.
Ha'ch, Mol, rising to question OF
privilege, went to the Clerks desk
and had read extracts from Senator
IDgalls's speech in the Senate, yester-
day, on the oleomargarlne bill, in
which he characterized as a shameful
spectacle, the support OF this measure
in the House under the leadership of
the chairman OF a committee, himself
engaged in the dairy business, and up
on which be relied for support. Sem
ator ingalls, also charged that the
above named chairman had a personal
interest in the measure. "Mr.
Speaker" said Mr.. Hatch, "every gen.
tleman on the floor will agree with me
that reference to me as chairman of
the Committee on Agriculture of the
House of Representatives by a Sena-
tor 10 discussion of bill that passed
this House is IN violation OF every par
liamentary rule aud in violation of
every manly ard decent instinct that
oughtto actlate member of either of
these houses. The respect which
l have fer this House and
its members alone deters me from
chsracterz ng this attack as it ought
to be characterized. / desire to state
that when this gentleman come cts my
name in the statement that l am per-
sonally interested in the passage of the
oleomarg 4Iine bill, and that / derive
my support, or any part oft, from the
product of herd of COWS on my farm,
it is simply complete and gratuitous
falsehood. There is no truth in it and
no foundation for it. As farmer, l
am the OWE of little herd of Jersey
COWS which l raise for the profit in the
increase. l would be proud of owning
a dairy farm and being dairy farmer
of Missouri. / wish l had the good
fortune to have saved enough ia my
past life to be classed among the dairy
farmers OF Missouri. but when the gen.
tleman attempts to insinuate in my
absence and ia forum where | have
no rights, that l have any more per
sonal interest in the passage CT the
bill than the 100000 farmers and
60,000,000 consumers Of butter in the
United States, he simply utters
a falsehood. And when the gentle
man goes further and says that l have
in any part of the discussion descended
into the arena of vulgar personality
and denuncialion, he utters the great
est ia school of his life, and that is the
hardest thing / can say about him. /
am not in the habit of descending to
vulgarities and personalities. / leave
them 10 flow from the mouth of the
Senator of Kausas-that womb OF SLAM
der and detraction."
A Senate bill WIS passed authoriz.
ing the construction cf bridges across
the Tennessee and Cumberland rivers
by the Ohio Valley Railroad Company.
Mr.. Willis Ky.l, from the Com
mittee on Rivers and b arbors, reported
back the rivers and hsrbor appropria-
ton bill with the recommendation
that the Senate amendments be nom
concurred in but on point OF order
raised by Mr.. Hepburn la the bill
and amendments ware referred to the
Committee OF the Whole.
Mr.. Hewitt IN. Y |, from the Com.
mittee on Ways and Means, reported
back resolution requesting the Plesi-
dent to communicate to the House
copies OF any correspondence, repous
or information relating to the prob
able advantage or disadvantages to
accrue to the United Safes by the
operations of the Reciprocity CONNER
cial Convention between the United
States and Mexico. Adopted.
The House then went into Commit
tee of the Whole (Mr. Hatch Mo. in
the chair) on the Senate amendments
to the river and harbor bill.
Mr.. Randall moved to amend by
striking cut the Hennepin Canal
clause.
Mr.. Cannon, Mr.. Grosvenor, Mr..
Murphy, Mr.. Springer and Mr.. Hen
derson I'LL briefly opposed the mo-
ton, which was rejected-93 to 100.
Mr.. Holman Ind offered an
amendment having the effect of TAX
ing the charge of the Mississippi river
improvement out of the hands of the
Mississippi River Commission. Lost
50 to 106.
Mr.. Bayne Penn. expressed his as
toniehment that a member from New
York should oppose an appropri alton
for his State. He did not know but
that this action was taken es a means
to relieve the President from the obli-
cation which would be imposed on
him if the clause remained in the bill.
Mr.. Hewitt said, in view OF the fact
that the great harbors had been
ruined by injudicious efforts at i'm
provement, he had been requested by
the Chamber of Commerce not to al
low this folly to be accomplished.
On Mr.. Hewitt's motion the vote
stood So TO 81, but the point of no
quorum being raised, the committee
rose.
Mr.. Morrison reported back the con-
current resolution fixing July 2Slh as
the day for fiual adjournment, but,
pending action the House took re-
cess till O'Clock, the evening sestion
to be for the consideration OF bridge
bills.
The Senate.