Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1890-03-27
VEST AND INGALLS,.
They Put Some Life into the
Senate Proceedings.
THE MIssoURIAN CRACKS HIS JOKE,

It's Point Being that the Farmers Alliance
Can Run the Senatorial M.s.hine IL 1t
Wants to-IngalIs Tartly Taunts the
Strict Constructionists with Their Lack
of Influence in Recent Years-The Talk
in the House-OhiciaI Notes.
WASHINGTON CITY, March 27.-Ths Sher-
man antitrust bill was the occasion of an
other lively debate in the senate yesterday,
Vest and Ingalls, contributing most TO the
entertainment. Vest, who has opposed the
bill because it is as he believes, unconstitu-
tional, declared that he would not say an
other word about the constitution. He was
prepared to Hjoin the procession" 1t re-
minded him of the hunting party that made
an agreement that the first man who COM
planned of dish set before him in camp
should cook for week. One of them hap
pened to kill an old crow and cooked it for
the mess, and every one praised it as most
delicious morsel The Farmers Alliance"
was cooking now, and no dish could be
placed on the senatorial table that would
not be taken with a gusto that would de-
light Partisan gourmand. He character
lied the bill as a remarkable act of legisla-
engaged in dealing in futures and options
that they Were lot of criminal thieves and
robbers, but that if they would pay 81, 900
into the treasury they might go on rob
bling
Ingalls, Characteristic Defense.
ingalls,, i'll defending his amendment Jim
posing tax on option dealing), said he
could not conceive of anything more humor-
Gus or more grotesque than to see the sen
ators from Louisiana, Mississippi and Mis-
souri,, and their associates, rise in their seats
on every occasion and plead the constitu-
tion with stimulation of terror, as if the
minuteSt alteration of that sacred instru-
ment would-iike the death of Kosciusko-
make freedom shrek" In seemed to him
that it would be little more becoming for
those senators 10 remember that their view
of the constitution had not been maint aimed
by the people of the United States Ingalls,
commended to those construers of the con-
stitution the contemplation of the results of
their criticisms during the last thirty years
and suggested to them whether it was not
barely possible for thsm to be mistaken in
invoking the constitution against the effort
to remove the burden of the monstrous and
crying evil against which the bill and
I'm endment were aimed.
The Wyoming Case the House.
There was also a warm debate in the
house on the bill for the admission of Wyom-
ing as a state. Strong pleas in favor of such
action were made by Carey of Wyoming.
and Others but the Democrats made vigor-
GUS opposition. Barnes was opposed to the
woman suffrage provision in Wyoming's
constitution and 50 was Oates
Meagre Population Objected To.
Dockery said he was in favor of admitting
states as fast as they were ready for state
hood, but in the case of Wyoming, the ter
ritory had been organized for fourteen years
and the total vote cast in 1888 was but Is, 0lO
900 of the vote being cast by women
Thus the whole vote was less than that cast
in his Dockery's) district. The bill was par
tisan its purpose being to increase the Re-
publican majority in the senate by two
votes and add two votes to the Republican
column in 1892.
Mansur Talks to the Country.
Mansur of Missouri addressed himself, he
said ito the country, if not to the house flor
on an actual count there were not twelve
m embers IN their seatsl, and said that the
slim attendance reminded him of the fact
that the house was bringing a state into the
Union by the CRsarian operation rather
than with the care and comfort which sur
rounded the accouchment of an honorable