Thomas County cat., 1890-05-29
FlFTY-FIRST CUNGRESS
STATUE OF eKNxRAL GRANT.

STATUE OF GENERAL GRANT,
The senate passed q bill to appropriate
$4,000 for monument and statue to Cen
eral Grant, to be erected in WASHINGTON
The bill came from the committee for SlOl-
OOO but was raised ON motion of Senator
Edmund.
TuNsroN on LEAD.
During the time spent in the house in pass
ing upon proposed amendments to the tariff
bill, Mr.. Funston, of Kansas, Offered as an
amendment to the metal schedule a proviso
that silver ore, and all other ores containing
lead, shall pay duty of IL cents per pound
on the lead contained therein, according to
sample and assay at port of entry. He ear
nestly advocated the adoption of his amend
ment, declaring that the provision of the bill
as it stood, with IL cents a pound on the
entire weight of the mixed ores, would de-
stroy the smelling interests of the country.
BYNUM CENsURED.
While still in committee of the whole or,
the tariff bill Mr.. Eynum called another
member a liar and perjurer. The words
were taken down in committee and the matter
reported to the house, where, amid great ex-
citement and confusion, resolution of CEN
sure was adopted: Mr.. Bynum was brought
before the bar of the house and censured by
the speaker.
SEVERAL SILVER SENTIMENTS
The senate continued the silver debate.
Senator Dolph believed tnat every senator
favored the use of both gold and silver as
money: and that Secretary WINDOWS, plan
open to fewer objections than any other.
Senator Teller said that it would not do to
take that ground. as the. plan originating in
the treasury department meant a single gold
standard.
SILVER IN THE HOUSE,
Mr.. Funston's amendment was discussed
at length in the house, being opposed by
mining interests and supported by smelling
interests. 1t was lost, 81 to 126. Mr.. Per-
kins. of Kansas, spoke against it. Messrs.
Funston, Kelley and Morrill, are recorded as
voted for it.
TOBACCO TAX.
Among the amendments to the tariff bill
agreed to is one providing that the internal
taxes on smoking and manufactured tobacco,
and on snuff, shall be cents q pound after
October l, 1880, or within sixty days from
the approval of this act (instead of January
1, 1891, as proposed by the bilD; making an
indefinite appropriation for the payment of
drawbacks.
In discussion of the tobacco schedule, Mr..
Mckinley said the committee on ways and
means had not abolished the tax on tobacco,
first, because the country needed the money,
and second, because it was not necessary to
abolish it in order to preserve in the act the
great protective system of the republican
party.
ORIGINAL PACKAGES.
The senate considered the bill subiecting
importing liquors to the provisions of the
laws of the several states.
Senator Vest opposed the bill. II il
question if congress has the power vested in
it, to delegate such power as the power to
regulnte interstate commerce, to any state.
SenatorlHoar thought it sad case if con-
gress could not itself control the liquor traffic
anA nj anC thp tp t,Iyp a ST To hQ
right to do it.
Senator Edmunds said: It is argued that
the right to carry any property into state
and there sell it is an inherited right, not to
be restricted by legislation, state or national.
There is fault in the logic somewhere. The
should have the power to regulate commerce
among the states and left the states the power
to deal with the subject of commerce after
they got there.
THE BILL PASSED BY THE HOUSE.
The committee of the whole having report
ed the tariff bill to the house the several
amendments agreed to in the committee were
adopted and the bill passed by The house,
164 to 13S.
BRICE's CREDENTIALS.
The credentials of Calvin S. Brice, as sem
ator from the state of OHIO, for six years,
commencing March T. 1891, were presented
Dy MT. IdyUe, redu anu pidcSu On NE.
RIVERS AND HARBoRs.
In the house Mr.. Henderson of Illinois,
chairman of the committee of rivers and,
harbors, explained the provisions of the bill,
stating that it appropriated S20932, OO based
upon estimates aggregatlng S39,5OO,OU. He
believed that there was no money going out
of the treasury that was so much IN the in
terest of the people of the country as the
money expended in the improvement of
rivers and harbOrs.
Mr.. Blanchard, of Louisiana, spoke in
favor of the principle of river and harbOr
bills, contending that they did more to solve
the problem of cheap transportation than
all the interstate commerce bills that could
be passed.
was defended by Mr.. GrosvenOr, of Ohio.
COMMON MASS OF PROPERTY.
Senator Faulkner gave notice of an amend
ment to the bill relating to liquors imported
to prohibition states, providing that such
liquors shall be considered as incorporated as
part of the common mass of property within
the state and subject to regulation, control
and taxation in the exercise of the states
police powers.
TARIFF BILL RECEIVED.
The tariff bill was received from the house
and referred to the committee on finance.
GOVERNMENT LOANS ON FARMS.
Nr. Stanford addressed the senate IN ad-
vocacy of the bill introduced by him some
days ago providing for loans by the govern
ment on agricultural land.
At the conclusion of his address the bill
was referred to the committee on finance.
oLEoMARGARISE IN THE SAME BOAT.
In the house, Mr.. Flower, of New York,
introduced asbill subjecting oleOmargarine
to the provisions of the laws Of several states.
Referred.
HENNEPIN CANAL.
The house was in consideration of the river
and harbor bill. and when the paragraph ap-
propriating S500OO0 for the construction of
the Illinois and Mississippi (Hennepin) canal
was reached. Mr.. Turner, of Georgia, made
the point of order that the committee on
rivers and harbors had no jurisdiction over
canals.
NEWS BREyITIES.
The Italian crown prince is to spend the
first week in June at st. Petersburg.
Twenty-Five miners are entombed in mine
No. 8 of the Lehigh company, which caved in.
Congress has been asked to appropriate