Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1890-02-26
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CONGRESSIONAL.
SENATE.

SENATE.
WASHINGTON Feb. 2G.-Senator Cuan.
dler rising to question on persoEal pri'i-
lege offered preamble and ie.ouiion
stating that Senator Call (Fa } CHARGED
him in debate Thursday with the PERSONAL
responsibility for the outraginG of women
and the murder of children and the de
struction of the happiness of households
in the south by him and the emissaripe
behind him and that Senator Call in nd
dtlon inserted in the official report the
following paragraph whirh he hal not
3 oxen: "rEe blood of Saunders, il tn
evidence shall show his death 10 be in
any way connected with the prosecutions
III the United States courts, v i'll rest on
his conscience. The shrieking ghosts Of
outraged and murdered women and chill
dren, victims of the wild lusts and pas
sions of race who owe all they know
of religion and civilization to the southern
white people, and not to the senator from
New Hampshire, will disturb his sleeping
and his waking hours. Like Banquo's
ghost, thev will not down, and the ocean
will not wash his blood stained hands
from the guilt OF the rape and murder of
those tender white women and children. :"
The resolution condemns such action as a
breach of privilege, for which Senator
| Call is censured, and orders the insertion
and the paragraph SO added stricken from
the report in the congressional records.
Senator Call defended his course in the
matter, asserting that he in debate ex-
pressed substantially the same IDEAS was
expressed in the additional paragragrapll
that he had simply changed the phr9se-
ology, as he had right to do.
The resolution was referred to the com
mittee on privileges and elections.
Senator Vance introduced bill to es-
tablish in every county in every stale in
the union an agricultural depository nn-
der the control the treasury department,
in Which owners of grain, cotton, tobacco,
ETC., may deposit their product receiving
therefor warehouse receipts and treasury
notes equal to S0per cent of the net market
value of the deposit. The deposits may
be redeemed at any time on payment of
the sum advanced, and interest of | per
cent per annnm. Fifty thousand dollars
is appropriate TO carry out its provisions.
Senator Paddock introduced bill to
amend the inter state commerce act. |
The amendment is intended to provide
relief for the farmers in the west who are
unable at present to market their crops |
Oh account of the high freight rates pre-
vaiIing on the long haul, and which
railroads claim can not be reduced !
without demoraizing all the short rates
under the inter state act. The bill pro-
vdes that the long and short haul clause /
be amended 80 that in case of an investi-
CATION of an infraction Of that section the
commissioners will be Obliged to consider
the cost of transportation and the facts
and circumstances bearing upon the
market value of the product, and if it ap-
pears that the product is one OF the neces-
saries of life, and upon it Il justly lower
rate is indispensable in order to enable
such product to be transported to tie
market, such transportation rate so far rs
the long haul clause is concerned shall be
considered nm exception to the general
rule. The amendment also provides thai
a long haul for such product, within he
meaning OF the amendment, shall be 500
miles or more by the route over which the
freight is actually transported.
The communication from the attorney
general on the assassination OF Depnty
Marshal Saunders was referred to the
on privileges and elections.