Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1890-05-31
GENERAL SUBJECTS.
The Senate,s Programme: Personal
Pririlegt-The Imported
Liquor Bill, Etc.
A VARIETY OF ITEMS FROM
WASHINGTON.
Nihilists Again Organizing a Plot
TO Dispose OF the Russian
Gar
By Telegraph to the SEws.l
SENATE AND HOUSE.
A Question of Personal Privilege.
The Imported Liquor Bill, Etc.

A Question of Personal Privilege.
The Imported Liquor Bill, Etc.
wAsHISGTOS, May 29.-In the
Senate, Stewart, rising TO a question
Of personal privilege, had read an
article from a local paper containing
n statement Of Major Powell, direc-
tor OF the Geological Survey, in
reference TO Stewards recent resolu-
ton, in which Pow ell spoke OF the
movement as insiigated i,y lard
sharks aud Spectators for the pur-
pose Of "gobbling up irrigable lands
and establishing a sort Of hydraulic
feudal system" Stewart sketched
an outline OF what had been done
in the work Of stimulating irriga-
ton in the far West recently, and
the appropriation. Powell, be
said, had usel more than half
Of the appropriation in vast
and expensive surveys Of no
practical use for the object in view,
and irtimated that Powell had enor-
nous power in both houses from his
giving employment to n lot OF young
men, sons and relations of members
Of Congress, and that he kept an
enormous lobby in Washington to
control the action of Congress.
The Bureau Of Geology and Miner
alOgy was nothing, Stewart said,
but a mass Of humbug and foolish
ness.
Teller introduced n joint resolu-
ton, setting forth that it is the de-
termineJ policy of the United
States government TO use both gold
and silver As n full legal tender
money under the ratio now existing
in the United States, or which may
hereafter bc established by the !
United States alone, or acting in ac-
cord with other nations. Laid on |
the table and ordered printed.
THE IMPORTED LIQUOR BILL
was then taken up, the question be-
ing on the following substitute Of
fered by Gray to the substitute from |
the judiciary committee: THAT |
fermented. distilled or other in
toxicating liquors transferred rs an
article Of commerce, OF brought iu-
to any State or Territory from n
point or place outside such State or
Territory for use, consumption or
sale therein, should not be exempt /
nor shall the owner or person in
possession thereof Ice exempt from
the operation Of the liquor regula-
tons, police or taxing power Of such
State or Territory affecting or APP
plicable to all other like property 10y
reason Of such liquors being in the
package Of importation or
transportation as subjects Of inter
State or foreign commerce."
Gray's amendment was agreed to
yeas 20, nays 20.
Vest moved an amendment TO the
substitute by making 1t apply TO
fresh beef, veal, mutton, lamb and
pork, and argued that If the bill was
TO become a law il should not be
TO intoxicating liquor.
This was the first time he knew of
the Supreme Court having suggest
ed remedies. 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 the same privileges
granted the Iowa legislature in
regard to the exclusion OF alcoholic
stimulants. He served ON the Sem
ate committee in relation tu the
beef business and found an alarm
ing state Of things in the inspection
1f beef cattle.
The vote on Vests amendment
was, yeas ), nays p, the yeas being
Call, Morgan, Payne, Stewart and
Vest.
Wilson Iowa) offered n substitute
for Gray's amendment, providing
that liquors transported into any
State or Territory for use, consump-
ton, sale or storage shall, on their
arrival, be subject TO the operation
and effect Of the law Of such State or
Territory enacted in the exercise Of
lis police power, and should not lie
exempt therefrOm by reason Of their
being enclosed in original packages.
Wilson's substitute was adopted
. to 20. The bill was passed-3I to
10.
voorhees, moved to amend the
title by making it read, ga bill to
,verrule the decision of the Supreme
Court Of the United States in its in
and construction Of the
Constitution on the subject Of com
nerce between the several States,
md thereby relieve the State Of
Iowa from the consequences of her
own misguided legislation" Re-
ected.
The title was then amended on
notion Of Wilson Uowa) to read:
"a bill TO limit the effect Of regula-
ions Of commerce between the sew
raj States, and with foreign coun-
ries In certain cases"
Senate adjourned untiI Monday