Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-04-27
CONGRESSIONAL.
The Senate is Addressed at Some
Length by Palmer on the Land
Forfeiture Bill.
The Tariff Bill Comes Up in Committee of
this WHO'S of the Housf, and IL
Discussed.
Fiftterh Congress.
THE SENATE.

WASHINGTON, April &c In the Senate
TO day Mr.. Ingalls, gave notice that on
Tuesday next he would reply to the at
tacks made upon him Yesterday in his ab-
sence by Senator Voorhees,, and would
call attention to some singular omissions
that the Senator made in his defense of
the present administration in Its attitude
to pension legislation.
Senator Sherman from the conference
committee on the House joint resolution
accepting the invitation of the French re-
public to take part in the international
exposition in Paris In 1889, made q report
which WAS agreed to. 1t fixes the amount
Of the appropriation at S25o,000.
The Senate then resumed consideration
of the railroad land forfeiture bill, when
Mr.. Palmer proceeded to argue against
all amendments as to lands granted to
the state of Michigan for railroad pur-
poses and by the Governor Of that state
decided to the Lake Superior Ship Canal
Company. He declared every process
| under the original grant to have been
known to the canal company as irregular,
and that the company only hoped that
time would cure It's title and that con-
tinuance in possession would give to it
nights which it could not claim
under the law. Mr.. Palmer made
lengthy address, snd after speech upon
the general land policy of the government,
by Mr.. Dolph the bill was laid aside with
out action.
Following bills were taken from the
calendar and pissed:
Senate bill, 10 authorize the construc.
ton of bridge across the Black river,
Arkansas.
Senate bill, granting right of way loo
feet wide to the Kansas City and Pacific
| Railroad Company through the Indian
Territory (the company to pay Sl5 per
mile per annum for the use of the nation
or tribe of Indians whose land is taken. }
Mr.. Jones of Arkansas, from the COM
mittee on Indian affairs, reported bill
giving right of way through the Indian
Territory to the Fort Smith, Paris and
Dardanelles Company from Fort Smith to
Rsxter Springs. Calendar.
The Senate then adjourned until Mon
day.
THE HOUSE.
WAsHIS GToN, April 26-The House,
after some unimportant business, wen,
into committee of the whole on the
tariff bill.
Mr.. Buchanan of New Jersey opposed
the bill, which, he said, struck blow Al
almost every industry in his district. II
was opposed by the teachings of Wash
ineto and the fathers OF the republic. 1t
was In its details vicious, inequitable
and illogical. It would increase the sur
plus by stimulating importation. 1t
would carry gain to other nations and
bring loss 70 our own. he denounced
In general and In detail the pro-
visions of the bill and declared that In the
contest between free trade and protection
he would be found on the side OF the
policy which tor many years had brought
prosperity and happiness to his native
land. .
Mr.. Hemphin OF South Carolina said he
could not conceive system more unjust,
more unreasonable, more unfair and more
unrignteous than the protective system.
He earnestly appealed to every gentleman
who had the faintest conception Of
justice to lend his aid to the pending
DILL which sought in some measure
at least to lift from the necks
Of the people Of the country the burdens
that had been laid upon them. 1t would
be 8 sufficient epitaph Or eulogy for him
II, when the trials and tribulations OF
life were over, when Its triumphs and