Morning journal and courier., 1890-03-25
THE FlFTY-FlRsr CONGRESS.

THE FlFTY.FlRsT CONGRESS. Several Petitions Presented to the sen-
 ate Against she Ratification of the
 Extradition Treaty With Russia
 Discussion of mr. Sherman,s Ansi-
 Trust Bill-The Worlds Fair Bill .
 Special order To-day.
 WASHINGTON, D. C., March 24.-Several petitions against the ratification of the extra dition treaty with Russia having been pre- ssnted from Massachusetts and Missouri, Mr. Hoar said that he would once more raise the question as their presentation in open ses- sion. That was decided the other day (said MT. vesD by vote of the senate. .s -..
 The point of order was withdrawn by MT. ! Hoar for the time being.
 MT. Hoar, from the committee on privi- 1eges and elections. reported four resolutions in the cases of'the persons claiming seats as senators from tho state of Montana, two of them declaring that Clarke and Magfnnis were not entitled to seats, and the other two declaring that Saunders and Powers were ''entitled on the merits of the case to be ad- mitted" t. seats.
 Resolution for the minority of the eom- mittee, making opposite declarations, were reported by Mr. Gray, and all were ordered to be printed, Mir. Hoar giving notice that he would ask the senate to consider them on Thursday next.
 The bill to declare unlawful trusts and combinations in restraint of trade and pro- duction was taken up and Mr. Turpie ad- dressed the senate. He discussed the con- stitutional points involved. He said that he himself would have held had that transpor- tation was not commerce, but was only 8 means of conducting commerce, but yet congress had acted upon the contrary idea in the passage of the interstate commerce law. So also he would have held that the relations between debtor and creditor were exclusively within state jurisdiction, and yet the history of general bankruptcy laws made the power of congress over the subject res adjudicata.
 And he predicted that before many years the whole mass of mercantile paper made at one place negotiable at another place and payable at another would be remitted to con. gressional action, so as to avoid the eternal dissonance of the judgements and decisions of forty or fifty state tribunals of last resort. Therefore he would not indulge in strictures on the pending bill. He was too favorably inclined to it's main purpose to do so. He was very far from saying with the senator from New York (Mr. Hiscock) that the ob- jections to the bill were fundamental, and that it's scope lay beyond the power of con- gress. On the contrary he believed that congress had the same power to regulate the interstate commerce that the states had to regulate commerce within their own lines. MT. Pugh addressed the senate. He said that he had listened with interest and in- | struction to MT. Turpie's remarks, and that 1 in the main he fully indorsed them. The existence of trusts and combinations had be- come matter of public history, and the magnitude and oppressive and merciless character of the evils resulting from them had caused the universal inquiry to be made | whether congress could not do something to prevent or mitigate those evils and those in. l tolerable exactions. He had no doubt that congress had the power to make such trusts l and combinations criminal and punishable. his antitrust bill, was the first question to be | voted on.
 l MT. George said that he regarded the amendment as he did the bill, as utterly | without warrant in the constitution. But he | regarded the amendment as more efficient than the bill, if an unconstitutional bill could be efficient, and for that reason he
 rather of the proceedings) Qaughter) vote for
 the amendment.
 MT. Teller said that he was in full sympa-
 thy with the object of the bill. The only
 question was how trusts and combinations
 could be controlled. His own judgment was
 that the states were the most proper
 to control them. But it had just beer
 suggested to him, sssuppose the trust.
 control the statesl" He did not know thai
 they were more liable to control the statel than they were to control congress. He wal
 inclined to vote for the bill, although hs
 doubted very much whether any bene6
 would be derived from it. Unless the statel
 took hold of the question and suppressed
 those trusts by limiting the amount of capi ! fa1 that ho ted in ioy the trouble would continue.
 The discussion drifted from MT. Reagan amendment to that offered by MT. Ingall
 (aimed at dealers in futures and options). MT. Sherman opposed 1t as not in harmon, with the bill, as referring to an entirely diff
 ferent matter, as proposing a tax (whicl
 could not originate in the senate) and as no also opposed MT. Rea9an's amendment (whic had not been considered by a committee) an , pleaded for the passage of the bill as reporte ! from the finance committee.
 After further discussion the bill went owe till tomorrow without action.
 ,I A conference was agreed to on the urgen l deficiency bill and Senators Hale, Allison an , Oockrell were appointed conferees on th T part of the senate.
 After short executive session the sena, . at 5:15 o'clock adjourned.
 HOUSE. l Mr. Cannon of Illinois, from the committe D of rules, reported resolution making th 2 worlds fair bill special order for to, morro . morning immediately after the reading of tt journal, the previous questions to be coi f sidered as orderdd at four o'clock. Adopted
 MT. Henderson of Iowa, from the commi - tee on appropriations, reported back th s urgent deficiency bill with senate amend l. ments thereto with the recommendation th ,l certain of those amendments be concurred ]; and certain non-concurred in.
 '; Mir. Henderson stated that the aggrega 7, amount carried by the senate amendmen !, was $650, 900. The amendments in whie
 the committee recommended conourren
 carried only $37 1000. The amount appr
 pristed by the bill wss $24, ,720, ,000, of whit r. $22, ,874, ,000 was for the benefit of the o n soldiers of the country.
 The recommendations of the commit Tt were agreed to and conference was ordere n The floor was then accorded to the COT ,a mittee on the District of Columbia. V, The first bill called and which was conside e. ed in committee of the whole was a senate b ,a authorizing the establishment of @ publ park in the District of Columbia.
 After long debate, on motion of Mir. Pa
 son of 1llinois an amendment was adopt n. providing that the total cost of the land sh, ,- not exceed the amount of money appropl p- ated by the bill-$1 ,200, ,000.
 or Pending further action the committee ros ae and at 5 o'clock the house adjourned.
 ANOTHER FLOOD IN THE OHI
 Nearly Fiftv-seven Feet at Cinclnna, o. Thrce Persons Drowned-The Situ A. tlon at Pittsburg.
 n. CINCINNATI, March 24.-At half past [ ,r, o'clock this fornoon the Ohio river reached ry stage of fifty-six feet eleven inches, the ( ly act heioht of the flood A month auo. T
 river is still rising, however, at the rate
 two inches every hour, and, while {