Los Angeles herald., 1890-05-30
Senator Stewart and Major
Powell.
Each Makes InsinuatiOns About
the Other.
The Imported Liquors Bill Passes the
Senate.
Public Building Bills in the House-The
Senate Finance Committee Gets
Down to Business.
Associated Press Dispatches. |

Associated Press Dispatches
WASHINGTON, May 29.-In the senate
today Stewart, rising to a question of
personal privilege, had read an article
from local paper containing a state
ment by Major Powell, director of the
geological survey, in reference to
Stewart's recent resolution, in which
Powell spoke of the movement as in
stlgated by land sharks and spectators
for the purpose "of gobbling up irrigable
lands and establishing sort of hydraulic
feudal system" Stewart sketched an
outline of what had been done in the
work OF stimulating irrigation in the far
west recently, and the appropriations.
Powell, he said, had used more than half
OF the appropriations in vast and expen-
sive surveys of no practical use for the
object in view, and intimated that
S. Powell had enormous power in both
houses from his giving employment to a
lot of young men, the sons and relatives
OF members of congress, and that he
kept an enormous lobby in Washington
to control the action of congress. The
bureau OF geology and mineralogy was
nothing, Stewart said, but a mass of
humbug and foolishness.
German defended Major Powell as a
valuable public officer who discharged
his duty faithfully.
Teller introduced Joint resolution
setting forth that it is the determined
policy of the United States government
to use both gold and silver as full legal
tender money under the ratio now exist
ing in the United States, or which may
hereafter be established by the United
States alone, or acting in accord with
other nations. Laid on the table and
ordered printed.
The imported liquor bill was then
taken up, the question being on the fol-
lowing substitute, offered by Gray, from
the judiciary committee; "That fer
mented, distilled or other intoxicating
liquors, transferred as an article of COM
merce or brought into any state or terri
tory from point or place outside such
state or territory, for use, consumption
or sale therein, shall not be exempt nor
shall the owner or person in possession
thereof, be exempt from the operation of
the laws or regulations, control of po-
lice or taxing power of such state or ter
ritory, affecting or applicable to all other
like property, by reason of such liquors
being in the original package of impor-
tation or transportation as subjects of
interstate or foreign commerce."
Gray's amendment was agreed to-
yeas, 26; nays, 20. The nays were
Allen, Allison, Bate, Blair, Blodgett,
Coke, Dawes, Edmunds, Eustis, George,
Hoar, ingalls,, Moody, Morrill,, Paddock,
Plumb, Power, Sherman, Vest, Wilson
(Iowa).
Vest moved to amend the substitute
by making it apply to fresh beef, veal,
mutton and pork, and argued that if the
bill was to become law it should not
be confined to intoxicating LIQUOR. This
was the first time he knew of the su-
preme court being a suggestor of rem
edies. The proposed law would produce
chaos, but if he were wrong in his posi-
ton and the friends of the bill were
right, then he wanted to give the cattle
raisers of the west the same privileges
granted the Iowa legislature in regard
to the exclusion of alcoholic stimulants./
He had served on the senate committee
in relation to the beef business, ), and
found an alarming state of things in the
inspection of beef cattle.
The vote on Vests amendment was
yeas s. nays so, the yeas being Call,
Morgan, Payne, Stewart and Vest.
Wilson Qowa) offered a al>substitute for
Gray's amendment, providing that
liquors transported irlto any state or
territory for use, consumption, or sale,
or storage, shall on their arrival be sub
ject to the operation and effect of the
laws of such state or territory, enacted
in the exercise of its police power, and
shall not be exeNpt therefrom by reason
of their being introduced in original
packages. 4
Wilson's Wi Substitute was adopted by 2s
The billt was then passed, "a to 10, as
follows:
Yeas-fAllen. Allison, Blair, Call,
Casey, Golquitt, Cullom, Davis, Dixon,
Dolph ,lEdmunds, George, Hawley, His
cock, Hoar, ingalls,, Jones (Nevadal
McMillin, Mitchell, Moody, Morrill,,
Paddock, Platt, Plumb, Power, Pugh,
SAWYER, Spooner, Stewart, Stockbridge,
Walthall, Washburne, Wilson Qowa).
I Nays-Bate, Blodgett, Cockrell, Coke,
Harris, Jones (Arkansas), Turpie, Vance,
Vest, Voorhees,.
Voorhees, moved to amend the title by
making it read: GA bill to overrule the
decision of the supreme court of the
United States in it's Interpretation and
construction of the constitution on the
subject of commerce between the sew
eral states, and thereby relieve the state
of Iowa from the consequences of her
own misguided legislation" Rejected.
The title was then amended, ON mo-
ton of Wilson Qowa), to read: "a bill
to limit the effect of regulations OF com.
merce between the several states, and
with foreign countries, in certain
cases.'
The river and harbor bill was received
from the house and referred to com.
mittee, and the senate adjourned until
Monday.
HOIISE PROCEEDINGS.