Los Angeles herald., 1890-07-23
THE LOWER HOUSE.
The Original Package Bill
Passed.
Much Excitement Over the TAX
ing Of the Vote.
What the House Substitute for the
Senate Pill Provides For.
The Debate on the Bankruptcy Bill
Begun-Arguments For and
Against 1t.
Associated Press Dispatches. |

fining an original package. Lost, 33 to
115.
The house then proceeded to vote on
the house substitute measure: That
whenever any article of commerce is i'm
ported into any state from any other
state, territory or foreign nation, and
there held or offered for sale, the same
shall then be subject to the laws of such
state, provided that no discrimination
shall be made by any state in favor of
its citizens against those of other states
or territories in the sale of any article of
commerce, nor in favor of it's own pro-
ducts against those of like character
produced in other states or territories !;
nor shall transportation or commerce
through any state be obstructed except
for the necessary enforcement of the
health laws OF such state.
AS the vote progressed it was evident
that the result would be very doubtful.
Great interest was manifested. At the
end of the first call the affirmative had
a majority of one; at the end of the Sec
ond call the majority had neither in
creased nor diminished. Then came a
change of votes. Fully two dozen
changes were made, and in the altera.
tions the affirmative came out trium-
phant, the vote being announced as
Ohio, who had changed his vote for tbs
purpose, moved reconsideration.
Frank, of Missouri, moved to table
that motion.
The motion to table was agreed to- :
yeas 11S, nays 95 The vote then re-
Cured on the passage of the senate bin
as amended, and it passed-yeas 176,
nays 3S.
Those voting in the negative were
Abbott, Adams, Breckinridge (Ken-
tucky), Carter, Caruth, Chipman,
Clunie, Grain, Culberson (Texas), Cum
mings, Dunphy, Elliott, Foreman,
Fowler, Frank, Hayes, Lanham, Law
Ter, Lehlbach, Martin (Texas), Mason,
McAdoo, Mccarthy, Mutchler, O'Neil
(Massachusetts), Cultivate, Quinn,
Richardson, Sayers, Stewart (Texas),
Taylor Qllinois), Turner New York;,
Vanschaick, Vaux, Whitthorne, Wike
and Wiley.
A conference with the senate was
asked, and the house proceeded to con-
slider the bankruptcy bill.
E. B. Taylor, of Ohio, chairman of the
judiciary committee, opened the debate
with a speech in favor of the bill, as one
in whose preparation no pains had been
spared to make it just. He opposed the
voluntary bankruptcy bill framed by
the minority, as favorable to creditors
only.
Culberson, of Texas, opposed the bill
in it's general features, and said the
scope of the bill was not materially diff
ferent from the Lowell bill of the former
congress, and from the act of 1867,
against which latter public sentiment
became strong. The senate in 1878
finally acceded to the third request of
the house that it be repealed.
Culberson said he could not under
stand why there should be so much
anxiety on the part of the money and
manufacturing interests for the passage
of this measure, unless it was that the
shadow of the legislation of this con-
gress had been cast over them. With
the Mckinley bill absorbing the earn
ings of the people in order to enrich the
manufacturers; with the silver bill,
which lodged in the secretary of the
treasury always dominated by Wall
stree) the power to demonetize silver
after one year; with the election bill,
which struck down at one fell blow the
unsurpassed prosperity of the south,
which had arisen from the ashes of the
great war, it might be that the conven-
tion conceived it necessary to provide a
wrecking train to pick up the debris of
all over the country when these laws
were enforced. Applause on the DEM
ocratic side.
Wheeler, of Alabama, said the speaker
had ordered the bill passed. Laughter
He had ordered the election bill passed,
and it had been passed, and he presumed
this bill would be passed.
Buchanan, OF New Jersey, member of
the judiciary committee, said he did not
know whether the speaker was in favor
of the bill or opposed to it. They had
never passed word on the subject. He
(Buchanan) was getting tired of insinua-
tions of this kind.
Continuing, Buchanan supported the
measure, contending that it was de-
manded by the people. There was moth
ing political or sectional in it. Those
members of the judiciary committee who
made a careful study of the bill were
satisfied that it contained all the safe
guards with which it was possible to
surround bill of this character.
Kelly, of Kansas, inquired whether,
under the provisions of this bill, lawyers
only could be appointed referees.
Buchanan made an affirmative re-
sponse.
Kelly suggested that it was not right
to discriminate against farmers and busi-
ness men who were not members OF the
bar.
Buchanan, speaking from experience,
said the worst thing that could befall
farmer was to quit farming and practice
law. But the fact was that referees had
judicial duties to perform.
Oates, of Alabama, opposed the bill,
and at the same time frankly admitted
that it was one of the best and most
carefully considered bankruptcy meas
ures ever brought up in congress. The