Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1890-05-30
CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS.

lTOm tHe JuuiCidTy CoumiJLee, reported
back the house amendment to the anti
trust bill, with an amendment thereto
striking out certain words and inserting
the words, las that rates of such trans
portation may not be raised above what
Is just and reasonable" Agreed to and
a conference committee appointed. The
silver bill was then taken up and Sher-
man offered the amendment mentioned
in yesterdays dispatches. Plumb moved
to amend Shermans amendment by in
serting land hereafter on funds avail
able for payment OF the public debit
Qncluding such as are kept for the re-
demption OF treasury notes. shall be re-
tanned in the treasury in excess of S110,
900, 900. The amendment and bill went
over. In the house, on motion Of Dun
nell, OF Minnesota, the senate bill was
passed authorizing the registration of
census mail matter. The house then
went into a committee of the whole on
the tariff bill. Mckinley offered an
amendment specifically including glass
chimneys in the clause relative to thin
blown glass, it is duty of 10 cents per
dozen and 40 per cent ad valorem. In
response to a question by Henderson, of
Iowa, Mckinley stated that the present
duty on lamp chimneys was As per cent
and the proposed duty between SO and
60 per cent. An amendment offered BY
Henderson, Iowa, retaining the present
duty of As per cent ad valorem on glass
chimneys was defeated, 103 to 1O7.
In the senate on the 18th the house
bill for the establishment of new har Dor
lines in Portage lake, Houghton couu-
ty, Michigan, was passed. Senator
Stewart then gave notice that he would
address the senate, on Wednesday, on
the silver bill. The bills on the calen-
dar were taken up and the following,
among others, passed: To pay the as
signees of John Roach $3s, $40, for ex-
ira work on the monitor Puritan, and
SEQ, PA for the care of the monitor Ro-
anoke; the senate bill, to pay $50, 900 to
the daughters of Joseph Henry, late
secretary of the Smithsonian institute,
in compensation for his public services;
the senate bill, granting the state of
South Dakota a section of land for an
insane asylum; the senate bill, to ratify
and confirm the agreement with the
Sykeston and Wahpeton Indians for
the sale and concession of their reser-
walton, at 81. so per acre; the senate
bill, granting n building and one sec
ton of land at Fort Sykeston to the
state of South Dakota for the use of
the militia; the senate bill appropria-
ting $1,000 for bronze equestrian
statue of General Grant In the house
conference was ordered on the senate
antitrust bill. The house then went
into committee on the whole on the tar
if bill.
In the senate on the 10th Mr.. Hale
from the committee on appropriations,
reported back the annual naval appro-
prlation bill. The silver bill was then
taken up and Mr.. Doph spoke in favor
of the treasury bill. He argued against
the free coinage of silver, believing that
it would stop the coinage of gold, but
thought international bi.metalism was
desirable. Mr.. Teller criticised the
speech sharply and Mr. Mitchell ex-
pressed dissent from the views of his
colleagues. In the house the tariff bill
was considered in committee of the
whole, the pending amendment being
that made by Mrs. Funston of Kansas,
striking from the metal schedule the
proviso that silver ore and all other ores
containing lead shall pay duty of III
cents per pound on the lead contained
therein, according TO the sample and
assay at the port of entry. The amend
ment was defeated after some debate.
The amendment offered Saturday by Mr..
Mckinley TO the internal revenue clause
of the bill was adopted, as were also a
number Of others of Mr.. McKnley's
amendments regarding the tobacco and
snuff tax, among them one that the in
ternal taxes on smoking and manufac-
tured tobacco and snuffs be 4 cents a
pound; reducing the bond of cigar man
4 a n II NJ
Henderson of Iowa spoke in favor of re-
storing the present internal tax on to-
bacco and offered an amendment to that
effect. ''rhe people believe" he said,
that this tax was the last which should
be taken from their shoulders. They
preferred that the tax should be taken
from the necessities of life rather than
from the pipe, cigar and whisky jug.
The main question before the house was
whether the treasury contained enough
money to pay the expenses OF the gov
eminent" AT such time he did not be-
lieye in taking the tax from tobacco.
He did not propose with soldiers knock
ing at the doors of the capitol, to take
the tax off tobacco. The amendment
was rejected
In the senate on the goth Stanford in
troduced bill providing for loans on
public lands, and announced he would
hereafter address the senate on the SUBJ
ject The senate then proceeded to con-
slider the Original package" bill and
was addressed by Wilson OF Iowa in IA
vor Of it. Vest opposed the bill. Will
son OF Iowa, who introduced the bill, ad-
dressed the senate in explanation and
advocacy of it, stating that il was made
necessary by the recent decision of the
supreme court. IL was response to
the suggestion contained in that decis-
ion that congress could permit the exer-
else OF the restraining power of a state,
and 1t was for the purpose of giving that
permission that the bill had been intro
dnced and reported. The effect of the
bill would be TO leave each state to de-
termne for itself what its policy should
be in regard to traffic in intoxicating liQ-
uors. AT the present time original pack
age saloons were being organized in his
state. A package might be pint or a
half-pint of whisky, or a key, or bot
tie OF beer. 1t was to put stop TO
such practice, and recognize in every
state the power TO regulate its own in
ternal policy, that this bill was report
ed. After further discussion, the bill
went over, without action, and the sem
ate proceeded with the consideration of
the resolution offered by Cameron, in re-
spect to the memory of the late Repre-
sentative Kelly, of Pennsylvania. In
the house the tariff bill was again con-
sidered in committee of the whole
Amendments aholis hfnp tho minimum