Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-06-16
Mr.. Edmunds Says It is Not Ruled
by Railroads.
SUNDRY CIVIL BILL AGAIN.
Old Soldiers Who Want the Con.
federate Flag Suppressed.
SILVER SPEECHES IN THE SENATE.
SENATE.

The House amendments to the bill to estab-
lish the customs collection district of Puget
sound were non-concurred in and a conference
asked.
THE ANTITRUST BILL.
A message from the House asking further
conference on the antitrust bill was presented
and the request was assented to-after re-
marks by Senators Edmunds and Vest
MR.. EDMUNDs ExPLAINs
Mr.. Edmunds said that it had been stated
and seemed to have been believed in some
quarters, that the Senate amendment to the
House amendment to that bill had the effect to
repeal or to modify provision of the interstate
commerce law prohibiting pooling. That
amendment he said had no such
effect whatever. He thought il due to the
House OF Representatives and to the Senate to
say that. Referring to some remarks made In
the House, Mr.. Edmunds said that he had seen
1t stated In newspaper (that was the only way
he could properly allude to the NATTER that
the Senate amendment had been got through
the Senate by the influence Of railroads and
corporations; that the Senate was subject to
that sort of influence, and not much else could
De expected from the Senate i'll that behalf.
THE SENATE AND CORPORATIONS.
He wished to recall to the attention of the
Senate the fact that every piece of important
legislation in the last ten years or more that
htu ahSCteu bTedb corporations nau Deen. IN
the outset, the work of the Senate. The bill
which had brought the Pacific railroads into
some sort of obedience to the laws and to some
sort OF sense of their obligations to
the United States had been the
work OF the Senate. The interstate
commerce bill was a Senate bill. 1t was, there
fore, entirely unjust for anybody to say any
where (and perhaps he dignihed it a little too
much by aluding to it at alb that any act of
the Senate or any act Of any Senator could be
referred to at ~ timelto justify what had been
seen In the newspapers.
AN ORGANIZED EFFORT.
The only force which he had known to be
exerted (and he had knowledge of it) had been
a somewhat organized and persistent and pow
erful effort on the part of railroad and other
corporations, through well known agents and
influences (well known to HIM to induce simple
minded people somewhere tof course he
was unable to say where) to defeat the
Senate amendment, and to mislead those
people in opposition to it by betraying them
into the false notion that they were defending
the people i'll defeating an amendment which
the railroads did not want.
DEFICIENCY PROVIDED FOR.
The deficiency appropriation for pensions
and the census was reported and passed.
TO RETIRE GEN. BANKS.
Mr.. Dawes introduced bill to retire Gen.
Banks as major general of the United States
army, and presented petition of the members
OF the Massachusetts legislature in aid of it.
Referred to the committee on military affairs.
SLAVERY AND THE SLAVE TRADE.
Mr.. Blair introduced joint resolution re-
questing the President of the United States to
institute an international conference to meet
in Washington in February, 1891. with view
to the formation of an international alliance
for the suppression of slavery and the slave
trn do md nf fhn .,.t-x
icating LIQUORS, firearms and destructive sub
stances with uncivilized people, and to provide
for the establishment OF schools of common
knowledge, art and industry, also to secure the
disarmament of nations and the establishment
of international courts. and appropriating
SlOO, 900 for the expenses of the conference.
The JOINT resolution was laid on the table. Mr..
Blair announcing his intention to address the
Senate hereafter on the subject.
THE SILVER BILL.
The House silver bill was taken up, and Mr..
Daniel resumed the speech begun by him last
Friday.
MIR. Allison next addressed the Senate.
NO VOTE TO-DAY.
In the course of Mr.. Allison's speech on the
silver bill Mr.. Teller stated that there we're
(to his knowledge) two and perhaps three more
speeches to be made upon it, so that the final
vote would not be reached today.
HOUSE.
Mr.. Milliken (Me.) presented and the House
adopted the conference report ON the bill for
public building at Beaver Falls, Pa. (The
limit of the cost is 5O,000.)
Also the conference report on a bill for
public building at Salina, Kan. (The limit of
cost is S75,OOO)
TO PROHIBIT CONFEDERATE FLAGS.
Mr.. Williams (Ohio) presented the petition
Of ex-soldiers of Dayton, Ohio, for the enact
ment of a law prohibiting the sale, use, manu-
facture or importation of banners or flags rep
resenting the confederate flag or the red flag of
the anarchist. Referred.
THE sUNDRY CIVIL BILL.
The House then went into committee of the
whole (Mr. Burrows of Michigan in the chair
on the sundry civil appropriation bill