The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1886-06-24
,noug the @UnilateraI' Law Jaw
lnOI 7srs in the Senate. =
Or THEY R. B. ATTORNEYS
80. in 8 state OF ''Inoeuous
J DC DsssrtiOn."-othee News
Notes.



.-o-ably the bill to amend the laws re-
.s..to the inspection of steam vessels.
- 1 I'M provides for the payment out OF
.-.Trsasury Of the expenses ofstean-
:. in.oectors. The bill vas passed
,ithOut debate.
g.rlev's motion was then taken up
=, reconsider the vote by which the
80 nassed the bill pr hibiting MEM
- If congress from acting as attor-
Is n land grant railroads.
81 resumed the floor and continued
-snarks against reconsideration.
~ 5snisd that he had intended to in
ssnvbody BY the introduction OF the
"a n the Senate should agree to the
-I,;o1 N reconsider that would be the
-, IA the bill. Mr.. Beck read Mitchells
a-,sndment proposing 10 forbid mem
80 ~ Congress nom doing law bust
- for men who were managers OF
bsnkso ar importers of foreign goods, or
Tb9 manufactured butter, oleomar-
gsrine. tobsccO or whisky. lis not
s5Gat taxing q lick at crea-
,ion3n exclaimed Mr.. Beck. He
5snrscsted that sort of amendmen +,
nj added that he had often heard the
ishle al the advice given to all foxes by
he fox whose tail had been cut of.
That advice was that they should all
have heir tails cut off because his had
zen cut OF. He thought the fable
Illustrated the case OF this amendment.
n would be as reasonable to say that
because a man had been punished for
criminally killing another man, there
lore be should be punished for killing a
mouse or for taking life of any kind.
Mr.. Beck did not know whether Mr..
Mitchell was an attorney for the North
ern Pacific road or not. Mr.. Beck had
been informed that ne was. He believed
that Mitchell had right to be such.
The railroad companies sought the best
LAWYERS and had a right to them
Mitchell warmly replied that be, Wa s
attorney Of 70 railroad He desired the
Ssna OF from Kentucky Beck to IN
dsrsiand that he (Mitchen) had never,
while in the Senate, been employed by
any railroad company to argue any
case, in court or out. He was not now +,
and had not been for over q year, ;he
attorney OF any corporation whatever.
He was representing no corporation
mere. 1.-THE bill were 10 be passed on
the idea that every member of Congress
who was lawyer was dishonest. with g
view OF making him honest. then thl
bill should be made TO include the mat
tiers indicated in Mr.. Mitchell's sug
gested amendment.
Mitchell asked Beck when anybody
had told him that he (Mitbhelll haC
been attorney for the Northern Pacific
Railroad.
Beck said he mad been so told, The
time did not matter. He was clad "a
hear ID Senator confess that he had
resigned as attorney when elected to
the Senate.
Mitchell said that he was not in the
confessional but he had resigned eight
months before his election. He Mitch.
EN- remembered the time when il had
been said in the newspapers that GER
tain members OF Congress were very
Jealous IN regard to certain whisky mat
iers.
Ar. Beck-"Oh, well. that was inst
simply lie, that's all there is about il y
Nj Mitchell had no doubt of that.
NJ. Eyarts noticed that no disability
had been applied by Beck 10 another
profession tEan the law. He character
iLed as -uniaterai" the lawyers who
would be Disseminated against. They
could only take the case from the side
opposed to the railroad. y
Ar. Deck sad be was himself 4 law.
yer and would not place any indignity
On me profession CT tie law. When
steessa 70 Congress, however, he found
ma as pubic duties required all IN:
s.--s' no. being possessed of the
-'-.-5 -@sn- abilities that tbs
senator from New York. per
"a. ,sp' possessed. The country believed
- me S9,OJO year rSceiveG b,
s-- -a'oIs ana Representatives, in Con
80 enatled the people TO their Who'll,
.-.ss' ana Il the Senators or Repre-
.-----..'es could not live on that com.
P1-s-lon they had no right TO supple
80 - !. oy taking fees from corporation
~ $3.50 interests were adverse TO those @
III Beck did not know what
-l-aIeral' lawyer was: he suppose,
Vas 3 One-sided LAWYER. not /.
5-sllAateral lawyer such as the Sen
n "a, nom New York supposed himsel
~. sherman taking the door, sal.
universa, rule # the Ssnat,
grant reconsideration almos
hi tier Of course whenever aske,
~ even when the Senate was almost ,
s- -. :sss1lnsi q bill, the vote for its re
---c--,.lsration had often been unani
49, ~ -, THIS blll hss hearty approval
-, S. .llesslns made against il were "a
80 ~ 20 hne; the motion TO reconside,
s-,..s been brought to a vo.e, it wa.
~ yeas 81. nays p
as,s,,-o nly REPUBLICAN ting in tn,
S.ls vas NJ. Van " <.
i've -- Zen Dsnocrats voting In the affirma
and R sTIe Cal, Gray, Payne, Pugl
aT ~, AtLagiey then m-ved 10 refer tn,
Fsrc-l ne judiciary committee.
IN Nv, h. called FOR the reading OF tn
tLsnsr4s , Wy Of inal +fsreweii" to it
s,s1rss' ". having been read. Edmund
ias p's,.-.eir. Vance that he should hav
1srse --e-s1ey soto yoceI.With an sd
A n5 ~ bS'GGnniitee by vote Of go to d
o. veto messages feceiveI