Morning journal and courier., 1889-02-28
Fiftieth Congressional Session

WASHINGTON, rep. ~. SENATE.-A conference was ordered by the Senate this morning on the army sppropria- tion bill, and Senators Allison, Plumb and German were appointed eonferees on the part of the Senate. The conference report on the agricultural department appropriation bill was agreed to.
 The Senate bill to amend the law to pro- vide for the better protection of the salmon fisheries of Alaska was reported by Mr. Stockbridge from the committee on fisheries and passed.
 MT. Hawley, from the committee on print. ing reported back a substitute for the reso- lution as to printing the inaugural addresses of all the Presidents of the United States, and it was passed. It provides for the print ing of 10, 900 copies of the addresses, brief biographical sketches of the Presidents, the Declaration of Independence, the Constitu- tion of the United States, the farewell ad- dresses of Presidents Washington and Jack son, steel engraving of the capitol, steel portraits of the Presidents, and 8 suitable in- dex by subjects.
 Mir. Platt, from the committee on territo- ries, reported two bills for the formation and adm ission of the States of Idaho and Wyo- | mings
 Mir. Hoar, from the committee on privi- leges and elections, reported an amendment to the deficiency bill, which was referred to the committee on appropriations, appropri- ating $25, ,000 to enable the president of the United States to offer a suitable reward for the detection and conviction of the persons \ who illegally carried away and destroyed the ballot boxes of Plummersvills, Ark, at the \ last election for representatives in Congress ! and presidential electors.
 On motion of MT. Cullom the senate pro- ceeded to the consideration of the Senate bill ! to amend the interstate commerce law so as | to act upon the two house amendments on ! which the conference committee had been un- | able to agree.
 Mr. Sherman favored concurrence in the | two House amendments. One of them he said gave to State courts jurisdictian Gin | certain cases) of questions arising under the ! act. He was not prepared to give any ! opinion upon that amendment except 10 ! express the general belief that State courts may properly be entrusted in questions of | local character, with the enforcement of ! National law. As to the other House amend ! ment it simply made it unlawful for any | cannon carrier to transport refined oils etc., \ for any shipper owning, leasing or control ! ling, ears tank, or cylinders, except on con- dition that the railroad company shall charge \ the same rates per carload for the transpor- tation as is charged for oil transported in bar | rels. So simple proposition he had supposed | would have been acceded to without question. He thought the adoption of the House l amendment would be wise in every sense of \ the word. There should be equity and jus | tlce between rlcn ana poor. InS poor re- finer who disposed of eight or ten barrels a \ day in homemade coopered barrels had to be I treated by the railroad companies on the
 same plane of equity the giant corpora l tion which was dealing with some 30, ,000, ,000 barrels year.
 MT. Stewart opposed the House amend | ment as an interference with enterprise and ! organized effort which had greatly eheapened | the price of refined oil to the consumers. MT. Harris opposed the amendments. The | object and purpose and rule of the commits l tee on interstate commerce, Of which he was l a member, had been, he said, so to shape it's | legislation as to secure absolute equality as
 between shippers; and, so far as that legisla-
 tion went that precise object had been aca | complished. But the House amendment, so l far from securing absolute equality between 1 shippers, would produce absolute inequality. l The Senate at b:5O adjourned.