Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1886-06-03
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had been rejected by the pension office, Mr.
Cockrell said the chief OF the division, who
had rejected so plain and well proven a
case, ought to be discharged from the SER
vice of the United States.
/ HoUsE-Seyeral senate amendments to
/ the Dingley shipping bill were non-eon-
| .urred in, including that OF Senator
Frye authorizing the president TO retaliate
/ or Canada for such acts as the seL-
I ure OF American vessels. Bills were in
/ trodueed to consolidate customs districts;
/ to revive the income tax for the payment
/ OF pensions, and to distribute the surplus
| in the treasury for educational purposes.
The bill to tax bogus butter was dis
cussed.
SENATE-The commissioner OF pensions
ives the subject OF lively and bitter de
| bate in the senate, and was pronounced an
impostor by Mr.. Ingalls,.
Mr. VOORHEES, defended Commissioner
/ Black with much warmth and earnestness.
/ The president sent two more mes
sages to congress vetoipg pension
/ bills, and they are liable to create another
| discussion ct any time. A good deal Of
feeling is being awakened by these yetoes,
especially those which refer to cases which
have once been rejected at the pension Of
flee, and it is believed that nearly all Of
these yetoes will be passed over the presi-
| dents head.
The bill to secure the appointment OF
Lieut.. Greedy, OF Arctic fame, as Rdiutant
| general OF the army, with the rank ofmalor
\ of cavalry, was indefinitely postponed.
! The Atlantic & Pacific railroad grant for
ieiture bin passed. The bin increasing the
| pensions OF soldiers and sailors who have
/ lost an arm or leg passed.
HoCsE.-The Harrison bill for the adj
mission OF South Dakota WAS reported adj
/ versely, and the Springer bill to admit the
whole territory was reported favorably.
| The greaterp part of the day was devoted to
debate on the bill to tax oleomargarine,
| which was continued at an evening session.
Mr. Henderson Iowa. said: The farmers
had to get fair play in this chamber,
| and il it were not given it would be
taken He believed that there were enough
votes on both sides Of the house to protect
the interest now clamering for protection
| without the help OF men who never raised
their voice except to defend the protection
tariff While he had never seen oleomar-
! gaTine mentioned in the Bible, Shakespeare
| had described the process of manufacture.
! and he read from Macbeth the description
OF the connections Of the witchs broth.
SENATE.--Senator Edmunds reported
fayorably from the committee on foreign
| relations the following described bill OF
| Senator Morgan OF Alabama:
! Directing the attorney general to bring IL
suit in the name of the United
| States in the supreme court OF the Dis
trict OF Columbia against Ben We'll,
/ or his legal representatives or assigDees
to. determine whether the awards of
/ the Mexican claims commission in the
| We'll and La AbFa cases were pro-
! cured by fraud, aud il so to secure judy
inent against the claimants, their heirs and
assigns to recover the amount paid The bill
to tax railroad land grants was briefly con-
sidered, when the bill experimenting and
I a,papAipr he 4 h;nasa 1rfniy fipp net Of
/ SS4 came up. Itwas, after debate, post
| poned.
| HoUsE.-Another day was spent on the
| oleomargariLe bill. Mr.. Hammond offered
an amendment making it unlawful for any
| merchant or shOpkeeper in the District OF
Columbia or the territories to sell oleo-
| margarine without labelling it in con-
spicuous manner. and requiring hotel,
| restaurant and boarding house keepers
| who use Oleomargariue to place in their
! dining rooms placaTd bearing the words,
! This house uses oleOmargarine, and
to have the same words printed on the bill
OF fare Agreed to-92 to So. Mr.. Ham
| mon6 also offered an amendment proyid-
| ing penalty for the violation Of this pro-
vision. Lost-5S to 100. Mr. Durham
moved toreduce from 5000 to 500 the
special tax on manufacturers of oeomar-
garine. Mr.. Breckenridge (ky.) denounced
the bill. Adjourned.
| SENATE.-The senate had under discussion
| the bill reported by the committee on public
| lands to forfeit that portion OF the
| Northern Pacific land grant from Wal
| lula TO Portland, over which it is
! understood the company does not
| not want to build Van Wyck tried to
amend the bill so as to forfeit all the lands
| west Of Bismarck, with the exception ofthe
| right Of way, but withdrew it and substi-
| tuted u modified amendment. Before any
1 ion faLr FFr1fA hn nd lnPNf
the regular order-the eulogies on the late
Senator Miller-was taken up.
| Wednesday was spent in fill
! clustering on the oleomargarine bill. This
! factious opposition was INDUCED in because
| the friends of the measure would not per.
NIT any reduction to be made in the spec
/ ial tax rates imposed, which in the case of
manufacturers OF oleomargarine are fixed
/ at $500 per annum. The opposition
/ claim that these rates as well as the
| tax OF 10 cents per pound, are excessive
| and unjust, and are prescribed to destroy
| the industry in the special interest OF dairy
| men. Many opponents OF the measure are
| willing that the manufacturers shall be
| placed under federal law and regulation,
| but will not consent that a law shall
be made that will entirely suppress it.
| Representative Breckenridge OF Kentucky
| reported favorably from the committee on
ways and means a bill to provide:
Manufactured tobacco, snuff and cigars
may be removed for export TO a foreign
| country without payment Of the tax under
| such regulations as the commissioner of in
| ternal revenue shall prescribe. The bill al
| so repeats section 1851, OF the Revised
| Statutes, authorizing the appointment of
| one or more inspector of cigars in each col
| lection district, to receive as compensation
! such fees from manufacturers as the COM
missioner of internal revenues may pre-
scribe.
| SENATE.--The hi Il TO forfeit the land grant
| OF the Northern Pacific railroad from Port
| land to Watlula created good deal OF in
| terest n the senate, and the amendment Of
| Senator Van Wyck to include in the for
! ie;ture seventy-tive miles over the the Cas-
| ,hde mountains awakened an antagonism
| that will probably de feat the bill. Sen
| ltor Edm uuds intimated that the
| oil would never pass with that provision
in it, and sa id that the remaining six
weeks OF this session were not long
enough for that purpose. Some OF the zen.
| ators hold that the Van Wyck am endment
| confirms to the Northern Pacific all OF
| the land il now holds, except those
| included within the provision, and there
| fore they object to it. Other sena.
| tors object to FORGETTING the land in the
Gas cad, branch OF the ground that the
! railroad tompany ne eds it to complete the
line, is faithfully endea oring to do so,
| and that the inhabitants OF the territory
| should have the benefit OF a road in that
| direction to compete with the Canadian
| Pacific.
| HOUsE.-The whole of Fridays session
| was devoted to the discussion OF the cleo.
| margarine bill. Mr.. Townsend offered an
| amendment reducing the tax on pound
| OF OiPOmargarine from 10 cents TO cents
| Mr.. Butterworth supported this amend
| ment. He warned gentlemen on his side OF
| the house that when the time had come to
| this country when congress was willing to
| wipe out one industry which could flourish
| simply because it was the competitor OF
| another domestic industry the specter of
| free trade would stalk through every town
and village OF the country within five years,
and it ought to.
Mr.. Hiscock (N.Y.) said: All the wit, the
! mvectiye, the flIbustering OF the bull-but-
ter men, the hog-fat butter men, the soap
| grease butter men, could not drive the
| farmer out of court. The agricultural and
| dairyman was here, and he hoped and be-
heved 10 stay until he had action on this
bill. The committee on agriculture, after
! consultation with the friends OF the
measure, had unanimously reported the
bill and the friends of this legislation are
pledged to it. Whenever the committee on
agriculture saw fit TO change any of the
provisions OF the bill, he would vote for it,
but he proposed, for one, to stand by this
! bill.
1t is claimed that a plate of finely
perforated zinc, a foot square, hung
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