Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1890-05-30
THE FIFTY-FlRsT CONGRESS.
The "OriGinaI Package" Question-Pub-
lie Building BiIls-No Session To-Day
By telegraph 70 the DisDaIch.l
Sennte.

WASHINGTON, Nav 2o.-On motion Of Mr..
Spooner it was ordered that tomorrow
being Internationally tho adjournmon
to-day shall be till Monday next. an
amendment to make il Saturday Offered
by Mr. Sherman being voted down.
Mr.. Teller introduced the following Joint
resolution, which was laid on the table
and ordered printed That u Is the deter
mined policy Of the United States Govern
ment TO use both gold and silver as full
legal tender money, under the ratio now
existing in the United States or winch
nav hereafter be established by the United
States. alone OF acting IN accord with otner
nations.
Tho Senate bill subiecting imported
liquors to the provisions of the laws OF the
several States was again taken up. the
question being on the following substitute
offered by MIR. Gray TO the substitute re-
ported from the Judiciary Committee:
That fermented, distilled, or other lntoxl-
eating liquors transferred as an article or
commerce or brought into any State or
Territory from point or place outside OF
such State or Territory for use, consump-
ton, or sale therein shall not be
exempt, nor shall the owner or per
son in possession thereof be exempt
from the operation of the laws of or
the regulation, control, police, or taxing
mower of such State or Territory, affecting
or applicable to all other like property by
reason IF such liquors being in the origi-
nal packages of importation or transpOrta-
ton as subjects of interstate or foreign
commerce.
Mr.. Gray's amendment was agreed to
yeas &c, nays 20-as follows
Yeas.- Messrs. Blackburn, Call, Cockrell,
Colquitt, Cullom, Dolph, Gray, Harris,
Hawley Hiscock, Jones of Arkansas, Jones
of Nevada, Mcmillan, Mitchell, Morgan,
Payne, Pugh, Sawyer. Spooner, Squire,
Stewart, Stockbridge, Teller, Walthal,
Washburn, and Walcott-26.
Ndys.-Messrs. Allen, Allison. Bate, Blair,
Blodgett, Coke, Dawes. Edmunds, Eustis,
George, Hoar, ingalls,, Moody, Morrill,, Pad
dock, Plumb. Power. Sherman, Vest, and
Wilson Of lowa-20.
MIR. Vest moved TO amend the substitute
lust adopted by making it apply TO fresh
beef, veal, mutton. lamb. and pork, and
argued that if the bill was to become law
1t should not be confined to Intoxicating
liquors.
On Mr.. Vests observation-disclosures 8, nays
so (the affirmative voters being Messrs.
Call, Morgan. Payne, Stewart, and Nest).
No quorum voting.
Mr.. Vest withdrew his demand for the
yeas and nays and his amendment was dis
agreed TO.
MIR. Wilson, of Iowa. offered a substitute
for Mr.. Gray's amendment, providing thet
liquors transported into any State or Ter
ritory for use, consumption, or storage
shall. on their arrival, be subject TO the
operation and effect of the laws of such
State or Territory enacted in the exercise
of it's police powers, and shall not be ex-
empt therefrom by reason of their being
introduced in the original packages. Mr..
Wilson's substitute was adopted-yeas, %
nays, 20.
The bill was then passed-yees, 81; nays,
10.
It reads: That all fermented, distilled,
or other intoxicating liquors or liquids
Transported into any State or Territory for
use, consumption, sale, or storage shall, on
arrival in such State or Territory or re-
naming therein, be subject to the opera
ton and effect of the laws of such State or
Territory enacted in the exercise Of police
powers to the same extent and in the same
manner as though such liquors or liquids
had been produced in such State or Terri
tory, and shall not be exempt therefrom
by reason Of being introduced therein in
the original packages or otherwise,
The title was amended. on motion of Mr..
Wilson, of Iowa. 50 as to read: " bill TO
limit the effect of regulations OF commerce
between theseveral States and with foreign
countries in certain cases"
The river and harbor appropriation bill
TO the Committee on Commerce. Brief ex-
ecutiye session. Adjourned till Monday.
House of Representatives.
Er Rowell gave notice that he would
Tuesday next ask the House 20 consider
the McDufie-Turpin contested-election
case. The House then went into Commit
tee Of the Whole (Mr. Burrows ID the
chair on the public building bills.
The special order setting apart day for
the consideration of measures of this cha
racter provides that the bills be taken up
according to the direction of the Commit
tee on Public Buildings and Grounds.
MIR. Mills inquired what that direction
was.
Mr.. Milliken. Of Maine, replied that, re-
garding the bihs politically, two Republi-
can bills would be called up and then one
Democratic bill. This was about the pro-
portion Of Republican and Democratic
measures on the calendar.
Mr.. Mills thought this arrangement I'M
fair and that the committee should alter
nate between the two sides.
The first bill called up was one intro
duced 10y Mr.. Milliken for the erection of
apublic building ut Bar Harbor at cost
of $4,000.
SIR. Edmunds. of Virginia, poured out
his tale of woe" When he first came 10
Congress he had introduced a bill for q
building at Roanoke, and had pressed it
before the committee, and received gra-
cious promises; but, alas, they were only
promises to the ear. To-day no found him
self in the position Of the Biblical animal
which fell between two bales Of hay. His
constituents wanted 20 know why he was
not in the city Of Richmond 10 do honor
70 the great Lee. and he would have been
there but for the fact that day before yes
terdsv Mr. Milliken had told him that his |
Roanoke bill would unquestionably be |
called up to-day. But where was iii And |
yet he was missiAg the glorious old Con-
federate time in Richmond on the state !
ment Of the Chairman. fI,aughterl
The bsr hkrbor bill asllad ont a oood