Evening journal., 1890-03-27
IN SENATE AND HOUSE.
An Interesting Debate on the
Anti Trust Bill.
INGALLS, AND THE CONSTITUTION.

ators and the Consultation in the Past
WASHINGTON, March 81 After the trans
action OF routine business the senate pro-
ceeded 10 consider tho antitrust bill. The
amendment offered by Mr. Stewart to insert |
the words ''or Of the value Of money hy |
which such cost may be advanced or re-
duced, was agreed 70. Mr. Spooncr offered |
an amendment giving tie courts authority |
to issue wriis of injunction prohibiting and |
restraining combinations from proceeding |
any further In the business except 20 wind |
up its Affairs The Amendments ana the Bill |
were discussed by Messrs Spooncr, Gray, !
Hear, Stewart, Vest, Reagaa and Eustis.
air. Vest and "the rroccasion.n
Replying TO certain remarks made by Mr.
Reagan, Mr. Vest declared that he would
not say another word about the constitu.
tion. lie was prepared to ''join the process
siou.p II reminded him Of th,. hunting
party that made an ngreemestthat the first
man who complained Of "A sah set before
him in camp should cook for week. One
Of them happened to kill an old crow and
cooked It for the mess and every one praised
il as n most delicious morse The Farmers
alliance was cooking now, and no dish could
he placed On the senatorial table that would
not be taken with gusto that would de-
| light Pnrisian gourmand. He character
lied the bill as a remarkable act Of legis
lative legerdemninp II is said to the per-
sons engaged in dealing in futures and OPP
tions that they we're a lot OF criminal thieves
and robbers but that If they would pay
$1,000 into the treasury they might 80 on
robbing
Mr. Ingalls, Takes the Floor.
Mr. Ingalls, in defending his amendment
said IL was directed against that gigantic
modern invention known as dealing In
futures which was Just as nefnrious and
| disreputRhle as the pofor table or the faro
table He could not conceive OF anything
more humorous or more Erotesque than to
have the senators from Louisiana, Missis-
sippi and Missouri and their associates rise
with terror on every occasion and plead the
constitution as il the minutest alteration
of that sacred instrument would--like the
death Of kosciusko--make "freedom shrek. y
z'ar south and the Constitution.
These gentlemen had spent a considerable
portion Of time in endcavorinE TO destroy
that constitution What, he asked. was ths
secret OF their new found reverence for the
constitution Had they borne il away il
the ark OF the covenant for four years. ans
than brought it back as its chosen guar
A. diansf Aud did that permit them 90 taun
those who endeavored 20 carry out the idea
Of national growth and progress withou
being violators Of the constitution 4
seemed TO him that IL would be littil
more becoming for those senators VIII,
were scourging them and holding them ~
TO public castigation TO remember that theil
view Of the constitution had not been main
tanned by the people Of the United States
There has been no step in national progress
in the last thirty-hve years against whicl
the senators from Louisiana, Mississippi an,
Missouri lmeaning Messrs. Eustis, Georg
and Vesi) had not risen and declared tha
it was against the constitution.
The Constitution aud Secession.
Mr.. Ingalls, recollected that there wa
once great demonstration to prove tina
there was no power in the constitution I,
coerce q state which saw fit TO go out OF tn
union yet the people had found it, some
where in its latent resources. They had beel
told that the abolition Of slavery was with
out warrant in the constitution, but it ha,
been found, and when not found in the let
ter it was amended by the sword They ha'
been told there was no constitutional powe
to reconstruct the states; to make paper
legal tender; TO resume specie payments
and recently, when resolution offered Il
. the senate 10 inquire into some violation o
law in Mississippi, the whole organization
had risen up and declared it - be a violation
Of the constitution The government had
right 60 20 to England, Germany, Austri
or Spain, wherever the rights of an Amer
can citizen had been violated, but it had n
power under the constitution to take car
Of the rights Of American citizens that hal
been assailed and overthrown IA Mississippi
Their Past Criticisms.
Mr.. Ingalls, commended 70 those construer
Of the constitution the contemplation OF th
results Of their criticisms during the Las
thirty years and suggested 70 them whethe
u was not barely possible for them 70 b
mistaken in invoking thecoastitution agains
: the effort 70 remove the burden OF tn
monstrous and crying evil against whie.
: the bill and amendment were aimed.
The Amendments Adopted.
Mr.. Eusts, criticising the option amenc
ment, said that no such stride in tile aires
tion Of Capitalization, absolutism aud tv,
amy had ever been made 20 regulate ID
private contracts Of findividualsol lie I ntt.
Amendments were offered ana adcpt.d !
follows: BY Mr. Butler, extending the rr.
visions of the bill to stocks and bonds. i
Mr. Eustis, TO boots and shops. lead at
lumber, and by Mr. Blair, to wooden good
and whisky and all kinds Of intoxicarlii
drinks Mr.. Vest moved TO increase tie +
cense for dealers in options from si.Mg
$4,000 and it was adopted. The bin. ~ tie
: had all the time been considered in commit
tee Of the whole, was reported 60 the .-.s0
but vote on it was not reached
ELLA Island for ImmigTation putps.-,
Dir. Mcpherson, from tic committee .
naval affairs, reported joint rcs,,iu io
authorizing the secretary OF the navy 10 Z,
move the naval magazine from Ellis island
in New ork harbor, and 10 purchase ST
fo- and to erect naval magazine az som
ether point, and appnopriaring $4,000 70
the purpose. Mr.. Hisoox moved to amenl
by appropriating a further sum Of a75 0G
to oenable the secretary Of the treasury to i'm
7 prove Ellis Island for Immigration purposes
. The amendment was agreed to and the join
: resolution was passed.
Woman Suffrage I'm the House.
WASHINGTON, March 2T.--In the hous,
the Wyoming bill was taxep up. Mr.
Barnes Gal opposed the bill because h'
beloved that the territory did not contain
population requisite for admission intS