Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1890-05-31
Tjdings
CONGRESSIONAL.


WAsnNorUS, May 50. senator stew
art rising to question OF personal priv
ilege said yesterday he had read an article
from u localssaper containing statement
by Major Powell, director of the Geologi-
cal survey, in reference to his tStewart's)
recent resolution in which he powelll
spoke of the movement as instigated by
land sharks and spectators for the pur-
pose of "gobbling up irrigabe lands and
establishing sort OF hydraulic leudal
system" MIR. Stewart sketched the out
lines of what had been done in the work
of stimulating irrigation in the far west
recently, and the appropriations. Mr..
! Powell, he said, had used more than half
the appropriation in vast and expensive
surveys of no proCtical use for the object
in view and he ntlmated that Powell,
had enormous power in both houses from
his giving employment to lot OF young
men, sons and relatives of members Of
congress, and that he kept an enormous
lobby in Washington to control the &C.
ton of congress. The bureau of geology
and mineralogy was nothing, Senator
Stewart said, but a mass OF humbus and
foolishness.
Senator German defended Major Pow
ell as valuable public officer who dis
charged his duty faithfully.
Senator Teller introduced joint reso-
luton setting forth that it is the deter.
mined policy Of the United States govern
lnent to uso both gold and silver as full
legal tender money under the ratio now
existing in the United States, or which
may hereafter be established by the United
States alone or acting in accOId with 9TH
er nations 1t was laid on the table and
ordered printed.
The imported liquor bill was then TAX
en- up, the question being on the follow
ing substitute offered by Senator Gray
to the substitute from the judiciary COM
mittee:
THAT fermented, distilled or other in
toxicating liquors transferred as an article
of commerce or brought into any state or
territory, from point or place outside
such state or territory, for use, consump-
ton or sale therein, shall not be exempt
nor shall the owner or person in posses
sion thereof be exempt, from the opera
tion Of the regulation, control or taxing
power OF such state or territory affecting
or applicable to all other like property, by
reason of such liquors being in the origi.
nal package Of importation as subjects OF
interstate or foreign commerce"
Senator Gray's amendment was agreed
to; yeas 26, nays 20.
Senator Vest moved to amend the sub
stitute by making it apply to fresh beef,
veal, mutton, lamb and pork and argued
if the bill was to become law it should
not be confined to Intoxicating liquor.
The proposed law would produce chaos,
but if he were wrong in his position and
the friends of the bill were right then
he wanted to give the cattle raisers of the
west some of the privileges granted by
the 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 ip the inspection Of beef
cattle.
The vote on Senator Vests amendment
was: Yeas 5, nays 50,
Senator Wilson Iowa) offered sub.
stitute for Senator Gray's amendment
providing that liquors transported into
any state or territory for use, consump-
ton or sale (or storage shall on their ar
rival be subject to the operation and effect
OF the laws OF such state or territory
enacted in the exercise of it's police power,
and shall not be exempt therefrom by
reason OF their being inclosed in original
pacdages.
Senator Voorhees, moved an amendment
to the title by making it read "a bill to
over-rule decision of the supreme court
of the United States in it's Interpretation
and construction on the subject of COM
merce between the several states, and
thereby relieve the state of Iowa from the
consequences Of her own misguided legis-
lation." Rejected.
Senator. Wilson substitute was adopted,
by % to 20.
The bill was then passed by "a to 10.
The title was then amended, on motion
Of Senator Wilson (Iowa), to read "a bill
to limit the effect of the regulations of
commeace between the several states and
with foreign countries in certain cases."
The river and harbor bill was received
from the house and referred to the COM
mittee, and the senate adjourned until
Monday.