Springfield daily republic. [volume] (Springfield, O. [Ohio]) 1887-1888, 1888-05-01

The Senate.
The feature of the Senate proceedings YES
terday was discussion of the internationl
copyright bill. Among the bills reported
from the committees and placed on the
calendar were the following: House bills
for public building at Ashville, n. c., Sc
dalia. No., and Monroe, La; Senate bill
to increase the endowment of the Louisiana
State University and Agricultural College;
Senate bill increasing the appropriation for
q public sbuilding a Wilmington, Del. to
$3.50, 900, and appropriating 100000 sddi-
tional; House bill providing for the pur-
chase of additional ground at indianapolis,
Ind, adjoining the posto{fice site. and for
the improvement of the building, cost not
TO exceed sl25, 600; House bill appropriate
ing $3.50, 800 for q public building at Du-
luth.
Mr.. Stewart introduced a bill to make
the silver coinage four million dollars
monthly. Also a resolution Of INQUIRY as
to the amounts of bullion purchased by the
Government, prices and sellers. Bills were
also reported for the construction of public
building at Atchison, Kan, {S10O. .000;)
Emporia, Kan, ($l00, ,0OO); Waterbury,
Conn.,, ($l50, ,0O0); Paterson, n. J., ($l25,-
0o0); Fort Dodge, Iowa, ISIS, ,OO0L and
Dover, N. H, (s75, ,O00).
The resolution offered by Mr.. Hale last
week calling on the Secretary Of the In
terror for information as TO appointments
In his department below the civil services
grade since March, 1885, was adopted.
Mr.. Spooner offered a resolution which
was laid over, calling on the Secretary of
the Treasury for information in regard to
appointments in the New York Custom
House since March, 1885.
Senate bills for public buildings at
Youngstown, O., 100000; Akron, o., $75,-
900, and Lancaster, Pa, 500, 600 were
passed; also bill to authorize the Secre-
tary Of the Treasury to re-e1smine and re-
audit the claim Of the State of Penpsyi.
vaIi- for advances made to pay the militia
called into the service under the Presidents
proclamation of June Is, 1863.
The unearned land grant forfeiture bill
was taken up and discussed when it went
over, and the international copyright bill
was taken up. An amendment permitting
any publisher of q newspaper or masaziae
to import for his own use, but not for sale,
not more than two copies of any foreign
newspaper or magazine, was adopted.
Mr.. Beck then spoke in opposition
to the bill, insisting that it was measure
which proposed to give an absolute monop-
oily to few favored individuals in this
country, in combination with foreign
authors, and which would allow type
settlers and publishers to put up the price
OF every book printed. It was protection
gone mad. 1t was bill for trusts, pools,
and combinations
Mr.. Vest, replying to Mr.. Beck's argument
that it was bill in favor of pools, and
that there could be no worse pool and more
dishonest one than that of publishers tax
ing books to which they had no right and
publishing them. If the principle Of the
bill was struck down, it would be striking
down the underlying principle to sll prop
erty rights, whether Intellectual or physical
After some further discussion, the bill
went over and the Senate at p. IN. I'D
journed.
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