Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1888-02-02
rirrrErH CONGRESS-.
WASHINGTON. February /, 1888.
senate.

Judges OF Circuit aud District Courts t.
reduce to writing their instructions {,
1 iuries in States where the State judge
are required 10 do so.
/ The Senate took up the resolution
offered yesterday by Mr.. Call instructinf
the Judiciary Committee to report the
legislation necessary to prevent United
States courts, managing railroads through
receivers, from deprising creditors o
their liens through receivers certificates
and was addressed by Mr.. Call. II,
desired, he said, that beyond the wall'
of the Senate chamber the sound OF pub
lie opinion might be turned towards the
great public evil against which his reso
luton was directed. He illustrated his
argument by reference to the case of tn.
Florida Railway and Navigation Com
pany, for which, by collusive means, a
receiver was appointed, and the pro-
perry was now about to be sold. He
submitted the record in the case OF
William B. Cutting against that com
pany and invited attention to this re-
cord so that limitation might be i'm
posed on judges as the interests OF the
people, common honesty, and justice re-
quired.
At 2 o'clock. while Mr.. Call was still
speaking, the Blair education bill was
entitled to come up as unfinished busl-
ness. but Mr.. Blair waived his right so as
to let Mr.. Call conclude his remarks,
which drew from Mr.. RiddleberGer the
sarcastic observation that il the Senator
from New Hampshire would LET his bill
pass ii would pass.
In conclusion Mr. Call declared it to
be disgraceful state of law, and dis
graceful execution of it by the Interior
Department, which permitted citizens Of
the United States to be deprived of their
homes on public lands on false PFC
fences. II behooved the Judiciary Com
mittee TO bestir itself so that a condition
OF law should not continue that permit
ted such things as he had described.
Mr.. Pasco presented a telegram which,
he said, he received from the vice pres-
dent of the Pensacola and Atlantic Rail
road Company, stating that that com
pany claimed no lands except those en-
braced within the list approved by the
State OF Florida. This was in contra
diction to certain statements made by
Mr.. CALI
No action was taken on the resolution.
Mr.. Riddleberecr made an unsuccess-
full effort to get action on his resolution
TO change the rule 80 MS TO have the
pending treaty with Great Britain con-
siderad in open session. He incidentally
remarked concerning the Blair educa-
tjonal bill that if it were taken up now
the Senate wonld be entertained with the
views of the "school marms, - and he was
as much opposed to letting "school
marms" instruct the Senate about that
bill as he was to letting the British
commissioner instruct it about the
treaty.
The Blair educational bill was then
taken mp and Mr.. Pugh addressed the
Senate 10 its favor. He quoted largely
from speeches in opposition to the bill,
particularly that of MIR. Vest, and replied
TO constitutional and other objections
therein urged. He also made numerous
quotations from the debate on the agrl-
cultural college act and other like bills.
and argued that there was no practical
difference between the appropriation of
public lands for educational purposesand
the appropriation OF money from the
Treasury for like purposes BE charac-
terized the agricultural colleges as - an
indestructible monument of the good
effects of Federal aid to education"
At the conclusion Of Mr.. Pugh's speech,
at AGO o'clock, the Senate proceeded to
executive business, and at 40 p, NJ. adj
journed.
House OF Representatives.
The Speaker pro tenn. presented a
memorial signed by Mrs. Waite, wife of
Chief-Justice Waite, president of the
Woman's National Relief Association,
praying that pensions be granted to
those engaged il the hie-saying service.
Referred.
Mr.. Burnes, of Missouri, from the
Committee on Appropriations, reported
the urgent deficiency bill, and it was re-
ferred to the Committee of the Whole.
in the morning hour Joint resolution
was passed for the printing of 1900 co.
pies Of the special report of the chief OF
the Bureau of Statistics on wool and
manufactures OF wool.
The morning hour having expired the
House proceeded, in accordance with u
previous order, to the consideration OF
the report OF the Committee on Com
merce relative to the proposed inycstiga-
ton of the Reading strike.
Mr.. Clardy, chairman of the Commit
tee on Commerce, said that after careful
examination of the matter the majority
of the committee had been satisfied that
the original resolution offered by Mr..
Anderson, of Kansas, for congressional
inquiry, ought not to be adopted. He
briefly sketched the origin of the rail
road strike, and the subsequent strike by
the employees of the Philadelphia and
Reading Coal and Iron Company. whose
stock, he said, was held mainly 10y
stockholders of the Reading Compa-
nv. There has been no testimony
before the committe showing that inter
State traffic had been interfered with on
the Reading road week or an hour,
with the exception Of brief Interrupt
ton at Port Richmond on account OF the
refusal of the men TO obey the lawful
orders Of the superintendent On the
contrary, he thought it appeared affirm
ativeIy that there had been no sort
of interference with or interruption
of inter State commerce. 1t had been
stated that the Reading COM
pany. in making allotments of
cars to mining companies, Disseminated
in favor of some companies and against
others. This was matter which was
entirely within the jurisdiction Of the
Interstate Commerce Commission.
ANY person who was aggrieved could Sc
cure an audience by knocking at the
door OF that commissiC II. 1t was also
stated that the Reading company and
the Philadelphia Coal and Iron Compa-
NJ were practically one and the same in
violation OF the Constitution Of Pennsyl-
vania. II this were true the remedy
was TO be found in the State courts of
Pennsylvania.
MIR. Rayner, of Maryland, did not be-
lieve in halfway measures on this sub
ject. When monopolies combined to drive
the ranks of labor to starvation point
that labor had an equal right by every
natural law of justice to combine and
strike for living wages, He said this not