The Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1885-1886, 1886-05-19
BECK ON BUTTERINE.
HE SEEMS TO GET AT THE MEAT
or THE MATTER.

Bland and Burrows EIucidate the Mail
Subsidy to the House Coke OH Arbitra-
tion-The National Snubbery About
TO Quit BUSINESSMAN Indian Agent
Suspended.
WASHINGTON CITY, May 1a-in the son
ate Tuesday Hale presented a memorial Of
the Pacific mail and other steamship COM
panies, which, he said, denied the state
ments that attempts had been made to i'm
properly influence congreS in favor OF al
legged subsidies Hale defended the recent
action of the senate in regard to foreign
mails, and said if the great effort to revive
American commerce ever prevailed in con
gress it would not be done by the influence
of any lobby.
Becs presented a memorial relating to
oleomargarine, and said that if that article
was not inconsistent with health it should
lie t. xei while il it were Inconsistent with
health the remedy was not TO be found in
taxation but in that case the manufacture
of the article should be prohibited. Beck
said as the petition related to revenue it
should 20 to the committee on finance.
This reference Miller opposed 40 com
planned of the inroads made fromssirne to
time on the agricultural committee. He
also took occasion to remark that oleomar-
garine, butterne etc, were famous art-
cles, The petition was referred to the com
mittee on agriculture.
AT > O'Clock the pension bill was laid be-
fore the senate, but temporarily laid aside
in order that Coke might address the body
. ba I.,lNn rh, fsnt.a "A
he would vote for that hill after one or two
amendments shall have been made to it, as
he believed it to provide the best practical
remedy for the difficulties with which it
dealt Neither side could afford to defy
public opinion by refusing to avail itself
of so beneiicient remedy for serious
public evil He saw no force in the arguments
against the bill on the ground of want of
constitutionality. He thought that the
plan allowing the parties concerned to
choose the commissioners as proposed by
the house bill was more acceptable than the
establishment of permanent board of
commissioners recommended by the pres
Ident, and maintained that the railroad
companies should be compelled to keep their
roads in operation strike or no strike"
| and that any one who interferred with that
UptTdIlOu DO LTBdt6u Will tlt ulDluSl
| severity.
The following bills were reported in the
| house Tuesday: Amending section 1891,
| revised statates so Us to reduce the penal
| sum of the bonds of cigar manufacturers to
| $2iG, with an additional $50 per each por-
son proposed to be employed by them in
making cigars adversely, bill to regulate
| the manufacture and sale of Intoxicating
| liquors in the territories
| The postottice appropriation bill, with
senate amendments, was reported back and
| tue house immediately went into committee
| OF the whole Tor the consideration of the
amendment Blount of Georgia spoke
| against the mai subsidy clause. As an in
| stance of the evils which he maintained
| would follow such an enactment he stated
| that the mails now carried by the Oriental
| and Occidental line at cost of 81, 800.
would have to be carried by the Pacific
| mail, at cost of SI09G20 He declared
that the decline of American commerce was
| not due to tins refusal of the United States
to pay subsidies to its steamship companies
but 60 the narrow minded policy which for
| babe American citizens from purchasing
ships abroad
Burrow. of Michigan, in supporting the
| amendment, maintained that all the talk
about subsidy was simply an appeal to
| prejudice instead of an appeal to the reason
| of q reasonable man. The proposed in
| crease in the ia 'ilities for mail transporta-
ton he said would have a tendency to ex-
tend our commercial relations with Mexico
and Central and South America He
showed that in twenty two years
Great Britain had paid 81, 00o, 900
for mail service to South and Central
| America while in the same time the United
States paid for the same service only $3.50
go. He quoted statistics showing that the
| South American trade was almost com.
| pletey monopol 81 by Great britain,
and said that of the S., 900 900
of manufactures imported into
| Chill the United STATES furnished
only per cent He would not permit Eng
land to hold this market on the Threshold
of this country, if by the payment of a lib
eral compensation for carrying the mails
the United States could rescue the trade
from her, and he hoped the senate amend
ment would he adopted with an amendment
which he would offer authorizing the post
master general to expend 800, OOt of the ay,-
| preparation on existing lines and the other
S4OO OO0 III putting service on new lines