Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1888-05-04
FIFTEEN CotGHESS.
WAsHrScToy, May 3, 1888.
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WAsmScToy, May 3, 1888.
senate.
Mr.. Stewart introduced bill to exc
cute certain treaty stipulations prohibit
| ing Chinese immigration. Referred &c
the Committee on Foreign Relations.
The railroad Immigrant forfeiture bill
was taken up and amended so as to ex-
clude from its provisions tho Portage
Land Canal CompanyGnd the OntanaSon
and Bruc- River Railroad Company, both
Of Michigan. Amendments were alec
adopted relating TO the course of proce.
dnre by the Land-Otfice officials in carry
ing it into effect. The bill then went
over, and the bill for the establishment
Of bureau Of animal industry WAS
taken up.
Mr.. Palmer addressed the Senate in
support of the bill, and Mr.. Vest OPP
posed it. He proceeded to speak Of
what he called "the cattle syndicate, 81
and said that the people were helpless and
writhing under IT, 1t was the most ter
rihle tyranny ever exercised. There
were five men or firms in Chicago which
regulated the price of cattle every day,
They ruet and fixed the price for the next
day, so that these men owned the cattle
raiser's property. and contscated it rs
absolutely as il they possessed the right
to take 1t from his farm without paying
him one cent.
"Talk, said Mr.. Vest, "about trusts
Talk about pools The cAttle-pool Of
Chicago is the NEST infamous tyranny
TINT ever existed in the United States.
They have got their collar on the cattle
producers Of the entire Vest AID
know no remedy for IT. The statesman
who would invent remedy would de
serve a monument more enduring than
the Capitol. lie wonld perform the
HIGHEST benefaction on the people OF the
Northwest and the cattle-raisers OF the
country
MIR. Plumb had also something to say
on the same subject In his opinion
the worst combination in the country was
the combination Of the beef and pork
packers. having its headquarters in Chi
cago. There was TO trust or combina-
tion-the Standard Oil trust. sugar trust,
copper trust, or any other tIust--that
had 30 powerful or so baleiul an IN
fueuce rs that combination. Under the
operation of this trust the prices of cattle
had declined unnecessarily and destruc-
lively. 1t was safe 70 say that on every
steer three years old and upwards
raised west OF the Mississippi river during
the past five years the market value had
been by this combination reduced not
less than ten dollars head. The dam
age to the State OF Kansas alone during
that period of time had been more than
forty million dollars, and the wealth OF
the syndicate had grown proportionately.
Mr.. Blair spoke III favor of the bill,
fayoring more particularly the commits
sion feature Of it, because Of the conf
dence he felt in the Judgment and IN
tegrty of the appointing power (tbe
Presldent) and the confirming power
(the Senate.
The bill then went over. and the
Senate went into secret session.
When the doors were reopaued the
bill was passed TO perfect the quarantine
service of the United States. 1T imposes
u punishment of fno Ot not more than
$500 or Imprisonment for not more than
thirty days, or both, upon any person,
master. pilot, or owner Of any vessel
entering II United States port in viola
ton OF quarantine regulations framed
under the act 10 prevent the introduction
OF infectious or contagious diseases into
the United States 1t provides for the
establishment OF additional quarantine
stations at the mouth of the Delaware,
at the entrance Of Chesapeake ley near
Cape Charles, on the Georgia coast, ct
or near Key West. and at several Pacific
coast points Appropriations are made
as follows for the construction and main
tenance OF quarantine stations AZ Della
ware Breakwater, SIS, 900; Cape Charles,
Va. $4,000; South Atlantic station
(Sapelo sound, s3S, 500; Key West,
SIS, 200; Gulfquarantine formerly Ship
island), $l5, eco.
Adjourned.
House OF Representatives.
Mr.. Belmont, of New York, presented
and the House adopted the conference
report on the joint resolution accepting
OH behalf of the United States the invi-
tation of the French republic TO take
part in the international exhibition 10 be
held in Paris in 1889. TThe commission
tho United States will re-
ceive $40. 900.
The House then went into Committee
Of the Whole (Mr. Springer, OF Illinois,
in the chair on the tariff bill.
Mr.. Wilson, of West Virginia, a mem
Der OF the Ways end Means Committee.
said that the opponents of the bill repre-
sented the issue to be between free trade |
and protection. 1t was rather an effort |
Of the people TO recover the right to tax
The rule that only those
who paid taxes should impose taxes was
a universal test Of free government but
after twenty-five years OF protection pri-
vate interests we're SO entrenched in the |
tariff and had so overcome the pablo /
interests that they regarded it as their
exclusive domain, and resented the
intrusion of the people as that Of tres
passers. In this tone and with this
they spoke through the
press, aud even through their advocates
On this floor. This was not new. Six
years ago, when a demand came
rom the country for reduction
d taxes. 80 urgent that not even the
Republican Congress could neglect it,
The chairman OF the Committee OF Ways
md Means came into this House, not
With bill to reduce peoples taxes or
tay the unneeded dow OF their money
nto the Treasury, but with set crgu-
nent 10 prove that the peoples repre-
entatives were not capable OF framing
bill to tax people. The Forty seventh