Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1886-05-08
OUR RIVERS AND AARBORs,
The Annual Appropriation BIN For
Them Fully Discussed and Passed
BY the House Yesterday.
Black Eye For the Mississippi Commits
sion-The Inter. State Commerce
Bill Still In the Senate.
Congressional Committees Agree to Re
port Adversely on Woman Suffrage
and Gladstone Sympathy.

WASHINGTON, May 6.-ln the Senate N
Jones, OF Nevada, from the Committee q
Contingent Expenses, reported ~favorab
MI. Edmund's resolution providing for a
assistant clerk for the judiciary Commi
tee for the remainder of the session at 8
per day. The resolution was agreed to.
On motion OF Mr.. Sherman the Senat
agreed that the anti-Chinese immigratio
bill and the bill to indemnify Chinese sui
jects for losses by the Rock Springs rio,
shall be special orders for May Is.
On motion OF Mr.. Hoar the Pacific Raj
road funding bill was made. a 81 ecial orde
for May II.
MI. Cullom called up the inter-stat
commerce bill, and Mr.. Frye called up til
State Island bridge bill.
The Chair stated that the Senate ha,
alreodv given unanimous consent to cor
tinue the consideration OF the commerc
bill during the morning hour and through
out the day from day to da,
until disposed of. The commerce bi
was, therefore, laid before the Senate
The Chair laid before the Senate a mes
sage from the President, transmitting let
ters from the Secretary OF the Interior
SAAC 0&0AV vi y III IGCOI1
mended by the Commissioner OF India,
Affairs, providing for the payment OF i'm
provements made by settlers on thu
Michalero Indian reservation in New
Mexico. Referred. ,
MI. Cullom then called up the Inter.Stat.
Commerce bill.
Mr.. Butler opposed the bill.
Mr.. Wilson,. OF Iowa, offered an amend.
ment providing that the provision of the
bill agaianst receiving more for a shorte,
than for a longer haul should not be con.
strued as authorizing any railroad com.
pany to charge as much for the shorter az
for the longer haul.
Mr.. Maxey would vote for the bill as the
best that could be had.
Mr.. Ingalls, said the Camden amendment
was in such abs olute hostility to the inter.
ests OF the West that il the bill became a
law, which he Qngalls) thought doubtful,
there would never be a bushel of
grain o a pound Of beef or pork brought
east from Iowa. Kansas or Nebraska. Mr..
ingalls, said the Senator from West Virginia
(Mr. Camden,) lived on the line of a rail
roa I that was directly interested in short
haul, and those voting with him were also
interested. The general effect OF Mr.. Cam
den's amendment would be to make the
producers Of the West pay short haul rates
on every pound Of freight brought to the
seaboard. The Senator from West Virginia
was too astute not to know the fact. His
design was to compel the men who raised
the creals OF the West to a low rates ali
the way to the seaboard.
Mr.. Hoar said he could not vote for. the
long and short clause rs amended by Mr..
1t would strike d fatal blow at
our foreign commerce.
Mr.. Allison said that under the pr0vi.
OF the bill as they now stood it would
be practically impossible for the people of
Iowa to get their cereals to market. He
thought the introduction OF the long and
haul question into the bill was a mis-
take. The proposed arrangement would be
q very serious embarrassment to the bust
ness OF the country with it's many ramif-
The general provisions of the bill
met with Mr.. Allison's hearty approval
and he expressed the hope the Senate would
to them.
Mr.. Cullom said in his opinion the en-.
of the bill as now amended would
that the nearer a person lived t.
the seaboard, the cheaper he would get his
transportation, and this rule il rieidiy en-
'orced would destroy the m of the
He hoped the Senate would recon-
,;der it's action in agreeing to Mr.. Camden's
A running debate occurred between
Blair, Call, Brown, Vance, Platt,
Hear, Mcmillan, Kenna, Aldrich and Coke.
The latter said he would vote for the bill
Is amended, not because it was p1oba-
by the best that could be got, but
because it was probably the best that
be got through at this time. Mr..
amendment was agreed to. A
,reat number OF amendments were then
unlimited and ordered to be printed.
lmong them one by Mr.. Edmunds, pro-
riding that whenever any common carrie
hall violate OF refuse to obey any require
nent, the Commissioner may apply to the
United States Circuit Court for q hearing
m short notice in the matter complained
II without the formal pleadings and pro- !
necessary in OF binary eqity suits
he amendment further authorizes the
curt if it find the company guilty Of dis /
obedience to cause it to forfeit, not to- ex-
eed $500 a day after the day to be named
~ the court.
Mr.. Edmunds explained the object Of his |
amendment to be to make it impossible
or the railroad companies to tie up COM
'laiLts against them by legal proceedings
nd delays. This amendment is now the |
amendment.
Mr.. Miller, from the Committee on Labor
md Education. reported favorably the bill
,pplying to letter carriers the provision Of
1913 of the Revised Statutes,
eight hours a days work.
1t was unanimously agreed that a vote
hOuld be taken on the Interstate Com
nerce bill before a%djourning on Tuesday.
The Senate then went into executive SEES
ion, and when the doors were opened ad-