Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1890-05-30
Which Allows Liquor to be Seized as
Soon as it Reaches Its
Destination.
The Bill Finally Went Over Without
Action, But Will be Taken
Up Again,
SlddOns, the Fort Yates Lightweight,
ChaSes a JmtOWu Man Out
of the Ring.
Arguing the Package Bill.

WASHINGTON, d. c., May 27.-The SEN
ate took up the consideration of the bill
subjecting imported liquors to the pro-
visions of the laws of the several states,
the question being on the substitute re-
ported yesterday from the Judiciary COM
mittee, providing that liquors so trans
ported shall (when their actual and con-
tinuous transportation shall have termi-
nated) be considered to have ceased to be
subjects OF commerce with foreign ma
tlons and among several states and shall
be Il part Of the common mass of proper
ty within the state, and be subject to it's
police regulations. Mr.. Coke argued
against the constitutional right of con-
gress to delegate its delegated powers
back to the states. Mr.. George made
constitutional argument on the question
and gave his support to the bill. Mr..
Eustls said the questions presented by
the bill under discussion were very per-
picking ones. On one hand, large prop
erty interests were represented, and on
the other hand there was encountered a
strong moral sentiment in one
OF two or more states. The
difficulty in question arose in
the attempt to reconcile the conflict be-
tween the rights of property, under the
constitution and the laws, and that moral
sentiment, known as prohibition. "To-
day 1t was proposed to legislate against the
breweries of Milwaukee, and of St. Louis,
and against distilleries of Kentucky,
North Carolina and Illinois, and of New
York" said Mr.. Blair Eyes, of New
York and New Hampshire" said Mr.
Eustis- Laughter. 1T is proposed"
continued Mr.. Eustis, "to tell the people
OF Iowa that they shall have the power to
regulate commerce between themselves
and all other states on the liquor ques-
tion. Tomorrow they would be asking
for the exclusion of cotton seed oil, of
which the state of Iowa produced large
amount in value. Then they would be
asking. that dressed beef from Illinois,
and tobacco from North Carolina should
not be considered articles of commerce
within the meaning of the constitution,
and thus power would be given to each
state to build in it's exterior limits an
impenetrable wall that would exclude
the product of every foreign country and
VI OVOAy OVAC1 6VdlCs uo p6uuluR Ulll
could not become law with his vote.
He was
A STATES RIGHT DEMOCRAT
of the strictest sect, and was in favor of
the states exercising to an unlimited ex-
tent the rights which had they reserved,
but the powers which they had lodged in
the federal government and lodged
wisely, he wanted the federal government
to exercise exclusively. 1t had been
amusing, he said, to hear the republican
New England senators preaching the
doctrine of states rights. He had been
surprised at the sudden conversion of
these republican senator's, He could
not understand how it wass sthat they had
abjured their political faith, renounced
their political education and repudiated
their political convictions and falsified
their political records. Such perform
ance, intended only to captivate the
excited imagination of prohibition
audience, had been to him inexpressibly
comic, but the novitiate of these sena-
tors had been too short,
their probation too slight to Justify their
being admitted into full fellowship with
believers in states rights. If, on the
question of federal election law, and on
the question OF civil rights, those sena-
tors should show that they had counted
their beads and said their prayers and
were truly penitent, states rights men
would be ready to give them their holy
blessing" After further debate, the bill
went over without action, Mr.. Wilson of
Iowa giving notice that he would ask the
senate to remain in session tomorrow
until the bill was disposed of.
The president nominated Boetius II.
Sullivan, surveyor general Of South Da-
kota.