The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-05-10
THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.


following:
The house bill authorizing the presi-
dent to retire Alfred PleasontOn with
the rank OF colonel.
The house bill for promotion of army
officers after twenty years of contin-
Gus service in one grade, Ia minority
dissentingl.
the stipulations of the new Chinese
treaty. Referred. 1t absolutely pro-
hibits after thirty days from its pas
sage, the entry of Chinese laborerS or
labOrers Of Chinese descent wherever
they have been born, excepting only
such as were at the date of the treaty,
or shall be ninety days after the pas
sage of the act in the United States,
who may leave the country, having
right to return i'll pursuance Of the
terms of the treaty, and such other
Chinese laborers as may entirely leave
the country free transit across the
United States. The LAST mentioned
class are permitted to Lenter at the
ports of San Diego, San Francisco.
Portland, Oregon, Boston, New York
and New Orleans. It is made a mis-
demeanor punishable by fine and i'm
prisonment for master Of a vessel to
not lawfully entitled to entry;
or by false personation of individual
named in certificate is made punish
able by not more than 81 600 fine or
five years imprisonment. Chinese
persons found unlaWfully in the United
States may be arrested and upon con-
viction may be returned to the country
from whence they came, the expense of
the proceedings being chargeable
against the parties who brought them
in. Diplomatic and other officers of
tho (Nhinaaa enOun1.nr1Qnf Qrn oYQnntaH
from the operation of the act. State
courts are prohibited from admitting
Chinese to citizenship.
The senate then resumed considera-
ton of the railroad land grant bill.
The question being on the amendment
offered yesterday by Hoar.
HOar withdrew his amendment with
the explanation that Palmer desired
to offer one which would accomplish
what he (Hoar) intended to accomplish
and something else.
Palmer thereupon offered an amend
ment providing that the act shall not
be construed to prejudice any right
of the Portage lake canal company;
or the Ontonagon and Brule river rail-
road company, or anybody claiming
under them to apply hereafter to court
or to congress for any legal or equita-
bic relief to which they may now be
entitled, nor to prejudice any right of
forfeiture or recovery of the United
States in respect of any of the lands
claimed by such companies, nor to
prejudice the right of any person
claiming adversely to said companies
or their assigns. Agreed to.
After long discussion, participated
in by Senators Spooner, Berry, Palmer,
North, Teller and Call, the bill went
over without further action. and will
be taken up tomorrow morning.
The senate then resumed conSidera-
ton of the bill for the establishment of
a bureau of animal industry, and to
facilitate the Importation of live stock
and their produce.
Palmer addressed the senate in sup
port of the bill and had read various
communications, Ito show the animus
of the opposition to the BILL" which
was, he said, machine work right
through" The general idea conveyed
was that the opposition came from the
existing bureau OF animal industry.
In conclusion, he expressed the hope
that bill would pass. 1t it did not, he
had the satisfaction of having acquit-
ted himself of his duty.
Vest said that if one-tenth of what
was stated in the correspondence
which had just been read was true,
the committee of agriculture should be
hurled out of official life, disgraced and
dishonored, and if the commissioner
had used his official position to defeat
or advance legislation he was unworthy
to be q messenger, much less the head
Of that great department, but he Vest)
did not believe these statements. He
had been diligently searching for the
truth all through the labyrinth of
speeches and literature on this subject,
and he could not support the bill. He
proceeded to speak of what he called
1.-THE cattle syndicate" and said that
the people were helpless in its power.
1t was the most terrible tyran-
five men or firms in the city of Chicago,
which regulate the price of cattle
every day. They met every night and
fixed the price for the next day, and
of the Missouri farmer who found
from the market quotations that cattle
were or 81 a pound. Shipped his
cattle to Chicago, but when he got
there he found that the syndicate had
put beef down to or q cts. He
could not store his cattle as they would
be diminished every day, in weight and
sell. He went to an agent of Ar
mour's and was told that prices was
/ 81 cents, he went to another Armour
| agent and got the same answer, and
| he was met all over the city with the
| unVarying response of 24 cents a
pound, and he had to take it. So that
| these men owned the cattle raiser s
property and confiscated it as If they
| possessed the right to take it from his
farm without paying him one cent.
Talk, said Vest, about trusts, talk
about pools, the cattle pool of Chicago
| is the most infamous tyranny that
ever existed in the United States.
The have got their collar
on the cattle producers of the entire
west, and know no remedy for it,
The statesman who would invent the
remedy would deserve a monument
He would perform the highest bene-
faction on the people of the northwest
and of the cattle raisers of the country
Plumb also had something to say or
the same subject. In his opinion The
worst combination in the country was
the combination of beef and pork pack
ers having its headquarters in Chica
go. There was no trust or combination
the Standard Oil trust, the copper
trust, the sugar trust or any Other
trust that had so powerful or so Dane
full an influence as that combination
For years the price of cattle to prOdu
GERS had been going down, they haC
gone down, he thought, so per cent
but at the same time prices to cOnsu
mers had gone up, and every single
dollar of the difference had gone int
the pockets of that combination. s,
perfect was their control that the
knew absolutely not only how
each day in Chicago, but over wha
railroad they were coming, or wher
they had been shipped from and tn,
character of the men who shippet
them. When the cattle reached Chi
cago the syn1icate's representative
} were sent to view them and put a pric
upon them, and that was the price a
which they had to be sold, unless i
was made lower. No cattle man dare
] to set up for himself in Chicago, his o.
! cupation would. be immed
ately gone under the operation
] of this trust and the price G
cattle had declined unnecessarily an
destructively. 1t was safe to say tina
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