The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-07-19
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THE HOUSE DEBATES THE ORIGI-
NAL PACKAGE BILL.

E. B. Taylor Advocates the Passage of
the Senate Bill - MIR. Culberson
Argues Against the Constitutionality
of the Proposed Legislation-Mr.
Adams on the Supreme Courts
Ruling.
WASHINGTON. July 1s.-In the House
this morning Mr.. Hit of Illinois asked
unanimous consent for immediate con-
sideration of the joint resolution providing
that nothing in the diplomatic and consular
appropriation bill shall be Construed to de-
lay or interrupt the prompt translation,
publication and distribution of the reports
of the proceedings of the international con-
ference.
Mr.. Rogers Of Arkansas objected.
Mr.. Cannon of Illinois, from the COM
mittee on rules, reported resolution pro-
viding that the House shall Immediately
proceed to consideration of the original
package bill, the previous question to be
considered as ordered on Monday after the
reading of the journal; and that the House
shall consider the bankruptcy bill, the pre-
vious question to be considered as ordered
on Wednesday after the reading of the
journal
Mr.. Breckinridge of Kentucky raised the
question of consideration.
The House decided to consider the resolu-
ton. One hundred and twenty-four men,
bers were announced as paired on the VOTE
Mr.. McMillin of Tennessee said that the
order provided two days for the conSdera-
tion of each OF these important measures.
An exception was made Of conference re-
ports on appropriation bills The confer
ence report on the District of Columbia
appropriation bill was now pending. Its
consideration might consume three quarters
Of the time set apart for the consideration
of the original package and bankruptcy
bills. The time was fixed for the final vote
on these measures without regard to the
sGatus in which they were.
TIME FOR CHANGE
When that time arrived he believed that
the House ought to be the House of Repre-
sentatives. 1t ought no longer to be gov
ernment of the House by the COMMITTEES on
rules, but ought to be government of the
House by the House itself. 1t was the
method of proceed z to which he objected.
The House was no longer deliberative
body. The only deliberative body which the
people had was the Senats of the United
States. Measures of the importance of those
LlSublOu6u III 1u6 T5SOIuUlOIlS SHOULD receive
the deliberate consideration of the House.
AT the suggestion of Mr.. Adams of Illi-
nois the resolution was modified so as to
provide that appropriation bills shall not in
terfere with consideration of the two bills,
and the resolution was then adopted.
THE oRIGINAE PACKAGE BILL.
The original package bill was then taken
up. Mr.. E. B. Taylor, in educating the
measure, said that never had such q blow
been given to state sovereignty and state
rights as had been given under the consti-
tuition of the United States. A citizen of
foreign state might take into
another state any property that
was subject of commerce and there sell it
without liability of the burden of taxation.
He did not advocate it in the interest of any
prohibition party or any sentiment, but be-
cause the best interests Of the whole people
demanded its passage. While he infinitely
preferred the House substitute, he feared
that its adoption would endanger legisla-
ton, and consequently he advised tn adop-
ton of the Senate bill
CULBERsoN AGAINST 1T.
Mr.. Culberson of Texas argued against
the constitutionality of the proposed legis-
lation. For one, he was not willing to vote
for measure that made his state q mendi-
can't asking for the privilege of the exercise
VI lJOllC5 DOW0T WuIOn BIO LAQ never Qel0-
gated to congress and which was inherent
in her. If the House substitute should be-
come law it would be as we'll to strike from
the constitution the clause giving congress
the right to make commercial regulations
When this proposition became a law our
great commercial supremacy would topple
and fall. If the state of Iowa could pro-
hibit the importation of intoxicating liquors
it could exclude tobacco and it could go
farther than guarding the health and NOR
ais of its citizens. 1t could protect its own
products against those of other states. 1t
would be better to amend the constitution
rather than to mangle it by this makeshift.
CAUSE OF THE AGITATION.
Mr.. Adams of Illinois said that the origi-
nal package shop was the cause of all the
present agitation. Everybody was agreed
that the unlicensed shop should be aDol-
ished. He believed that consideration of
the context of the decision Of the supreme
court would show that that the chief Justice
did not intend to express the opinion that
congress could grant permission to
state to prohibit the sale of
liquors. He had simply intended to avoid
saying that congress could not do.so. Gases
were going to the supreme court from the
prohibition states of Iowa and Kansas, and
he thought it important that some case
should come from hign license states. He
did not believe that the remedy for the
original package saloon could be found in
either of the measures. He argued in favor
of the substitute defining an original pack
age OF introducing Liquors in bottles as a
case containing not less than dozen bot
ties, and when not i'll bottles as cask con-
taing not less than five G lions
NO CHANGE EXPECTED.
Mr.. Reed of Iowa, whose decision as a
judge was overruled by the decision of the
supreme court, spoke in favor of the pro-
posed legislation. He could not indulge in
the hope expressed by the gentleman from
Illinois that on a rehearing of the ques-
tion different result would be arrived at
Any lawyer who studied the dissenting
opinion of the court would see that every
possible phase of the question had been dis
cussed fully and thoroughly before the de-
cision was announced. He was informed
that rehearing had been applied for and
denied. If any relief was to be given the
people from the wrong and evil to society
growing out Of the decision Of the supreme
court, it lay in the direction pointed out by
the pending bills. They delegated no power
to the state They merely exercised the
power delegated to congress to regulate
commerce among the states.
Messrs Morse of Massachusetts and Hen
derson Of Iowa advocated the passage of the
bill
Pending debate the House took a recess
until o'clock, the evening session to be for
the consideration of private pension bills.
Nothing was done at the evening session.
Mr., Enloe of Tennessee raised the pojnt of