Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-27

be mistaken in invoking the Constitution
against the effort to remove the burden OF the
monstrous and crying evil against which the
| bill and amendment were aimed.
| Mr.. Vest replied to Mr.. ingalls,: Ii the results
| of the war he said. were to put the entire
| Southern people under q ban. and outside the
| pale of constitutional obligation, then that
| Senator's conclusions were correct, and South.
| ern Senators were amenable to his criticism.
Since the arbtrament of battle had been
| against the Southern people, there had been
but one question among honorable men: and
| that was whether the South had accepted the
result honestly and intended to abide by 1t.
VEST ACCEPTS THE SITUATION.
Mr.. ingalls, asked Mr.. Vest whether he be-
lieved that the constitutional position taken by
the South during the war was right or wrong.
Mr. Vest replied that he had believed then
that it was right, and that he accepted the re-
suit and meant honestly to abide by the con,
struction put upon the Constitution by the
Supreme Being; but he did not accept as the
result of that struggle all the constru ctions
put upon the Constitution by the Republican
party or by the Senator from Kansas. If Sen
ators representing the Southern States were
| to be under the prescription announced by
that Senator, they might as well be out Of the
Union. He was under an obligation to obey
the Constitution, but not to take the construc-
tions put upon it by the Senator from Kansas.
Coming down to details he said that he would
move to amend the amendment of the Senator
from Kansas by making the license to deal in
futures $4,000 instead Of $1,000
Mr.. Eustis also replied to the remarks of Mr..
ingalls,. That Senator had intimated that
Southern Senators knew nothing about the
Constitution.
VIEWED IT FROM BOTH SIDES.
"Oh, no." said Mr.. Ingalls,; you have been
on both sides. and you ought to understand
it."
Mr.. Eustis-Supposing to-day that l contract
to sell 1000 bales of cotton on the 1st of May,
and that do deliver them then. although
have not them when 1 make the contract
would be obnoxious to the provisions of this
bill?
Mr.. Ingalls-You ought not to be.
Nh. Eustis-I assume that the Senator knows
what amendment he has offered, and say that
1t does apply to lust that case. rms amend.
a contract for future delivery unless the party
making the contract is the actual owner of the
thing sold and to be delivered. If the Senator
sought to correct the morals of the people of
Illinois; if he was to assume the role of censor
Morum, the archangel, who looked down upon
and wept over the depravity of his fellows, he
(Mr. EustIs) asked the Senator to leave out
Louisiana.
THREATENING THE LOTTERY.
Mr.. Ingalls-We want to take hold of your
lottery by and by.
MIR. Butler offered an amendment extending
the provisions of the bill to stocks and bonds.
Adopted.
Mr.. Eustis offered an amendment extending
its powers to cotton prints steel rails boots and
shoes, lead and lumber. Adopted.
On motion of Mr.. Blair an amendment was
adopted including wooden goods and whisky
and all kinds of intoxicating drinks within the
provisions of the bill.
Motions to recommit the bill to the Finance
and Judiciary Committees were rejected.
Mr.. Vest moved to increase the license for
dealers in options from 81 900 to sl0 0O0 Adopted
rising vote.
The bill. which had been considered all the
time as in Committee of the Whole. was re-
ported to the Senate, where all the amend
ments have to be acted upon again and where
other amendments may be offered.