Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-05-04
CONGRESSIONAL.
Senator Stewards New Chi
nese Bill.
CATTLE TRUST DISCUSSED.
The Needs Of a Bureau of Animal
Industry Fully Set
Forth.


w AnlilNGTON, MAY Oil the peuale
among the bills reported and placed
on the calendar were the fol
lowing Senate bill to retire certain
disabled officers of the army. House
bill authorizing the President to retire
Alfred Pleasanton, with the rank Of
Colonel. House bill for the promotion
of army officers after twenty
years. continued service in one grade,
.(minority dissenting). The Senate
bill granting TO the Oregon Railway
and Navigation Company the right
of-way through the Nez Perces Indian
reservation. The House bill to re-
store to the public domain part Of Tin
tab Valley Indian reservation in
Utah.
Stewart introduced bill to execute
the stipulations of the new Chinese
treaty offered. 1t absolutely prohibits,
after ninety days from its passage.
the entry of Chinese laborers, or lab
orers of Chinese descent, wherever
the have been born, excepting only
such as were in the United States at
the date of the treaty, or those who
shall enter ninety days from the
passage OF the act; those who
may leave the country having the
rig ht to return in pursuance Of the
terms Of the treaty, and such other
Chinese laborers as may enter the
country for transit across the United
States. The last mentioned class are
permitted to enter only at the ports OF
San Diego, San Francisco, Portland,
Oregon; Boston, New York and New
Orleans. 1t is made misdemeanor,
punishable by fine and imprisonment,
for the master Of a vessel to bring in
any Chinese laborer not fully entitled
10 entry. The Secretary OF the Treas
ury is empowered to make such regu-
lations as he may see fit to secure the
rights OF Chinese named in Articles
2 and 3 of the treaty and
to protect the United States against
the coming and transit of persons not
entitled to the benefit Of the said ar
'ticles. He is authorized TO prescribe
form Of certificates to be issued, and
to require the deposit of a photograph
of the PER-, On to whom a certificate
is issued. False personation of the in
dividual named in the certificate is
made punishable by not more than
81 900 fine or five years imprison-
ment. Chinese persons found unlaw-
fully in the United States may be ar
rested, and upon conviction may be
returned to where they came from,
the expense Of the proceedings being
-chargeable against the parties who
brought them in. Diplomatic and
other officers of the Chinese govern
ment are exempted from the opera
tons OF the act. State courts are pro-
hibited from admitting Chinese to
citizenship.
The Railroad Land Grant Forfeiture
bill was taken up, and after consider
able discussion the Portage Lake Ca
nal matter went over until tomorrow,
and the bill was taken up for the es-
Enlistment of a Bureau of Animal In
.dustry and to facilitate the export of
live stock and their products.
Palmer addressed the Senate in sup
port of the bill, and read various com
municalions to show the auimus of
the opposition to the BILL" which was,
he said, machine work rightthrough."
The idea conveyed was that the oppo-
sition came from the existing Bureau
Of Animal Industry.
Vest said that If half OF what was
stated in the correspondence was
true, the Commissioner of Agricul-
ture should be hurled out of official
life, disgraced aud dishonored; but
he (vest) did not believe the state
ments. He could not support the
bill. He proceeded to speak of what
he called "the cattle syndicate" and
said the people were helpless and in
its power. There were fTe
men or firms in the city of
Chicago which regulated the price u,
cattle every day by their manipulG-
ton of the market prices. These
men owned the cattle-raiser's prop
erty and confiscated it as if they had
a right to take from his farm without
paying him one cent. Talk" said
Vest, "about trusts, talk about pool
cattle, the pool OF Chicago is the most
infamous tyranny that ever existed 10
the United States"
Plumb had also something to say
on the same subject. In his opinion
the worst combination in the country
was that Of the beef and pork packers,
having its headquarters in Chicago.
There was no trust or combination
that had 30 powerful and SO baneful
an influence as that combination. For
years the prices Of cattle to producers
had been going down. They had
gone down, he thought, so per cent.
In the same time the price ofmeat to
consumers had gone up and every
single dollar Of the difference had
gone into the pockets Of that combi-
nation. Under the operation of this
truss prices had declined unnecessa-
rily and distinctively. 1t was safe to
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 $40 per head. The damage done
to the State of Kansas alone during
that period had been more than $40,-
)OO. 900 and the wealth of the syndi-
cate had grown proportionally. They
had committees here now having
in their pockets the mon.
ey of this "stock ring tc
get Congress 70 give Them controi OF
the question of cattle in quarantine.
This combine had allies in the rail-
road managers. They had allies in
the railroads; step by step they had
come to the final condition that they
actually fixed the prices of cattle just
as if they were the men who raised
them. He believed in giving the
Commissioner of Agriculture al
the powers proposed to be Civ
en- to the Commission ant
would not vote for any measure tina
would detract from the power ant
dignity Of the Department.
Blair spoke briefly in favor of the
bill, which then went over. and Il,