Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-05-30

inal package bill was yesterday passed by
the Senate. 1t applies to nothing but In.
toxicating liquors, and will now 60 to the
House for final action.
WASHINGTON, May 29.-In the Senate
to-day the bill subjecting imported liquors
to the provisions of the laws of the several
States was again taken up, the question be-
ing on the following substitute offered by
Mr.. Gray to the substitute reported from the
Judiciary Committee:
That fermented, distilled or other intoxica-
ting liquors transferred as an article of COM
merce or brought into any State or Territory
from point or place outside of such State or
Territory for use. consumption or sale therein,
shall not be exempt, nor shall the owner or
person in possession thereof be exempt from
the operation of the laws of, or the regulations,
control, police or taxing power of such State or
Territory affecting and applicable to all other
like property, by reason of such liquors being
in the original package of importation or trans
portation as subjects Of Interstate or foreign
commerce.
SENATOR VESTS IDEA.
Mr.. Gray's amendment was agreed to
yeas, 26; nays, 20; and then Mr.. Vest
moved to amend the substitute just adopted
by making it apply to fresh beef, veal, NUT
ton, lamb and pork, and argued that if the
bill was to become a law it should not be
confined to intoxicating liquors. He had
not heard, however, an argument tending to
show that the bill was in the right direction,
or was anything else than an innovation on
the established policy Of the Government
and on the decisions of the Supreme Court
of the United States for the past 63 years.
1t was the first time that he knew of the
Supreme Court being a suggester of RENE
dies. There were only two questions before
the court in the Iowa case, and when the
court went outside of them and said that it
would suggest what could be done it was
presenting novel and unique proposition.
Instead of the uniformity sought by the
trainers of the Constitution the proposed
law would produce chaos, and confusion
worse confounded" as the ages sh ould con-
tinue to progress.
EQUAL JUSTICE FOR ALL.
But if he were wrong in his position in
regard to the bill, and if the friends of the
bill were right, then he wanted to save the
cattle raisers of the West the same priv
ITSges us ILL., L=Il s---s-a sO tiIO IT, 1-esis-
lsture in regard to the exclusion of alcoholic
stimulants. He had served on the Senate
committee in relation to the beef business,
and had found an alarming state of things
in the matter of the inspection of beef cattle.
He had found that even in the great cities
there was no inspection at all.
There was not a Senator to-day who did
not, in eating a beefsteak run the risk of
putting into his stomach the larvae and
germs OF cancer or fever. In New York
there was no inspection, and in Chicago
there was sort of dual inspection, one in
spector being appointed by the State of IlIi-
nois, who made a weekly inspection, and
another being appointed by the munich
pality, and there being between the two a
continual war. 1t was to prevant such
condition of things that he offered his
amendment
NOT MANY SUPPORTERS.
The vote on Mr.. Vests amendment was:
Yeas, 3; nays, 80 (the affirmative votes
being given by Messrs. Call, Morgan, Payne,
Stewart and Vest). There was no quorum /
for the yeas and nays and his amendment |
was disagreed to.
Mr.. Wilson, of Iowa, offered a substitute |
for Mr.. Gray's amendment providing that |
liquors transported into any State or Terri |
tory tor use, consumption or sale Cor stor- |
age) shall, on their arrival, be subject to |
the operation and effect of the laws of such |
State or Territory, enacted in the exercise of |
its police powers, and shall not be exempt |
theretrom BY reason of there being intro |
dueed into original package.
Mr.. EHstis moved to amend Mr.. Wilson's |
amendment by inserting in it the words |
excepting beer" Rejecteu-their being |
only two votes in its favor
The vote was then taken on Mr.. Wilson's |
substitute for Mr.. Gray's amendment and it |
was adopted-Yeas, %; nays, 90.
PASSAGE OF THE BILL.
The bill was then passed-Yeas, "a; nays,
10. 1t reads:
That all fermented, distilled or other intoxi- |
eating liquors or liquids transported into any |
or storage, shall on arrival in such State or |
Territory, Tor remaining therein) be subject to |
the operation and effect of the laws of such |
State or Territory enacted in the exercise of |
the same manner as though such liquors or |
liquids had been produced in such State or |
Territory; ana snail not De exempt tnere1r0m i
by reason of being introduced therein, in |
original packages or otherwise.
The vote in detail is as follows: Yeas |
Messrs. Allen, Allison, Blair, Call, Casey, |
Colquitt, Cullom, Davis, Dawes, Dixon, |
Dolph, Edmunds, George, Hawley, Hiscock, |
Hoar, Ingalls,, Jones (Nevada), Mcmillan, |
Moody, Morrill,, Paddock, Platt, |
Plumb, Power Pugh, Sawyer, Spooner, |
Stewart, Stockbridge, Walthall, Washburn,
Wilson (Iowa)-34. Nays-Bates, Blod- |
gett, Cockrell, Coke, Harris, Jones Gar |
kansas), Turpie, Vance, Vest, Voorhees-1o.
INDIANA SARCASM.
Mr.. VOORHEES, moved to amend the title |
bv making it read: "a bill TO overrule the |
decision o. the Supreme Court of the United |
States in its Interpretation and construction
Of the Constitution on the subject of COM
nerce between the several States, and there
by to relieve the State of Iowa from the con-
sequences of her own misguided legisla-
tion." The amendment was srejected-Yeas,
5; nays, 81.
The title was amended, on motion of Mr..
Wilson, of Iowa, SO as to read "a bill to
limit the effect of the regulations of CON-
merce between the several States and with
oreign countries in certain cases."
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