Daily Yellowstone journal., 1890-05-29
The Package" Bill.
The Senate Considers the Bill
Regulating the Importation
of Liquors.
Siddons, the Ft. Yates Light
weight, Runs a Jimtown ..an
Out Of tre Ring.
Arguing the Package bill.

WASHINGTON, May 27.-The senate
took up the consideration Of the bill
subjec'iDg imported liquors to the
provisions Of the laws of the several
states, the question being on the sub
stitute reported yesterday from the
judiciary committee, providing that
liquors 50 transported snail (when
their actual and continuous traD-por
tation shall have terminated) be con-
sidered TO have ceased to I've subj.cs
Of commerce with foreign nations and
among several states and shall he
part If the common mas OF property
within the state, aud be subject to it,
police regulations. Mr.. Coke argued
sgairst the cousiituttcnrl right If
congress to delegate lis delegated pow
ers back to the states. Mr.. George
made a constitutional argument on
the question and gave his support to
the bill. Mr.. Eustis said the quest'on
presented by the hill under discussion
were very rerrlexing ones. On one
hand, large property interests were
Represented, and on the other hand
there was encountered a strong moral
sentiment in one of two or more states.
The difficulty in question aro-e In the
attempt to reconcile the conflict be-
tween the rights Of property, under
the constitution and the Laws, and that
moral sentiment, kGown "a prohibi-
tion. To-day Il was proposed to legis-
late against the breweries of Milwau-
kee, and Of st. Louis. and against dis
tilleries Of KentucSy, North Caroline
and Illinois, and Of New York" said
Mr.. Blair. ayes. Of New York and
New Hampshire" said Mr.. Eustis.
[Lsughtpr.l 1T IL proposed" con-
tinued Mr.. Mr.. Eastis. "to tell the
people Of Iowa that they have the
power to regulate commerce between
themselves and all other states on The
liquor question. Tomorrow they
would be asking for the exclusion Of
cotton seed oil, of which the state Of
Iowa produced large amount in
value. Then they would be asking
that dressed beef from Illinois, and
tobacco from North Carolina should
not be considered articles Of commerce
within the meaning Of the constitu-
tion, and thus power would be given
to each state 10 build In its exterior
limits an impenetrable wall that
would exclude the product Of every
foreign country and of every foreign
state. The pending bill could not be.
come law with bis vote. He was
A STATES RIGHT DEMOCRAT
of the strictsst sect, and was in favcr
of the states exercising 10 an unlimit-
ed extent the rights which they had
reserved, but the powers which they
had lodged In the federal government,
and lodged wisely, he wanted the fed
eral government TO exercise exclusive
ly. 1t had been amusing, he said, to
bear the republican New England
senators preaching the doctrine Of
states rights. He had been surprised
at the sudden conversion Of the repub-
lican senators. He could not under-
stand how It was that they had abjured
their political faith, renounced their
political education and repudiated
their political convictions and falsitied
their political records. Such . per-
formance, intended only to captivate
the excited Imagination OF q prohiti-
tion audience. had been to him mex
pressively comic, but the novitiate Of
these senators had been too short,
their probation too slight to justify
their being admitted into full fellow.
ship with believers In states rights.
II, on the question Of federal election
law, and on the question Of civil
rights, those senators should show that
they had counted their beads and said
their prayers and were truly penitent,
states rights men would be ready tC
give them their holy bleseing." After
further debate, the bill went over
without actian. Mr.. Wilson Of Iowa
giving notice that he would ask the
senate 10 remain In session to morrow
N ntil the hill was disnosed of.