Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-01-15
CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS.



WASHINGTON, January Hth.-Among the bills
reported from committees and passed on the
calendar were the following:
To declare unlawful trusts snd combinations
in restraint OF trade and production. (Sher-
Authorizing the purchase of a size for build.
ing for the Supreme urt.
George offered a resolution iustructing the
Committee on Finance TO iEqt.ire into the pro
priety of reduc ng the psusl boS5s required of
manufacturers OF efsats IN al ci.es, or AT least
where the manufacture Is carIied on Uy the
manual labor OF the manufacturer Referred.
Resolutions heretofore offered by Call in re-
lation to the claims of Florida under the swamp
land grant and in relation 10 the alleged un-
Lawful selection of land in Florida, were taken
uD aud Call addressed the Senate.
The bulden Of his remarks was that lands
which were not swamp and 0vert0Wed, but
which were fit for cultivation, had been Sc
lect d under the swamp Land Act to the injury
o. the peoples rights. He asserted that 22G,
0,0t00 seTes had been selected AID approved
in all The States as swamp and oYefhOwed
lands while everybody knew that no such
consisted of swamp and oveIhowed lands,
over l6 0O0,Ce0 acres Of which had passed in
Florida under the swamp and Overlooked Land
Act. He asserted that 100000 acres were high
Plumb said Florida contained about 40 coo. 600
acres and more than one half of this had been
given by the United states to the State for vari-
Gus purposes. Every single acre of the land so
granted had been placed under control of the
Legislature of Florida. Some 100000 or IS
0l0.CG0 acres had keen granted rs swamp and
overhOwed land. eentaiOr Call had just told
the Senate that most OF it IVES not swamp but
arabic isnd. So much greater was the derelic-
ton OF the Senators Of the State, if it had be-
tFayed s trust. FOR himself he would resign
his seat if he were to bring forward such q
complaint against his own State, after being too
euwardly 10 proclaim it on the stump within its
borders.
Pumo went on to say that Call had some
sessions ago appealed to him ss Chairman OF
the Committee on Public Lands, 10 report bill
TO ratify snd confirm ute 20 certain railway
lands in Florida, so that the alleged frauds said
Plumb, were to be condoned under certain cir
cumstauces. In his speeches the Senator, he said,
had been always in the habit of impugning
Senators cove. tly, or openly. and he Plumb
but only TO convict him of falsehood
Call replied to Plumb. He said: Il wiz not
be moved, Mr. President, by this extraordinary
example of the Senator from Kansas to follow
his bad manners, nor his contemplate methods
He cannot have poorer opinion of me than
have for the Senator from Kansas l have not
been in the habit of violating the decorum of
debate and discussion but II the senator thinks
by his idle brav6do, by his defiance of this vast
spoistiou Of the public domain in the interest
OF those who have profited by it, that he
can intimidate me from defending the
ghts Of the people of my State, ! treat
him with the scorn and contempt that he
deserves. My position is well-known in rela-
ton TO the que es,ion III The State OF Florida. The
Senator from Kansas. By ;neir side he would
sink into insigniicanee The statements of the
Senator in relation to their violation Cf trust are
entirely untrue, and as Chairman of he Com
mittee on Public Lands (Which las jurisdiction
o. er the matter he should be ashamed MOTTO be
better informed in regard TO these special cir
cumstances. 1t is disTepugeble to the Senate. 1t
should not have as ChaiTmsn Ct that ommit-
tee a Senator who not only defends the interests
of boodlers but shows his suor nee of the sub
ject specially committed to him. All the SEN
ator has said about tre Legislature OF Florida is
utterly false and untrue, and has been said for
the purpose Of making an attack against me-"
Having made q statement as to the grants TO
Florida for railway purposes, az d under the
swamp land law, Call proceeded "If the things
he says were true, and if were as bad a man as
he is, rs vain man aS he is; even If l were all
he is himself, and all ne says am still It would
remain true that a number of people have been
deprived of their rights on these lands"
Dolph, as q member of the Committee on
Public Lands, made an explanation and
justification on the act of that committee in the
last Congress in its report on the resolution of
Calls on the same subject. ard Call disclaimed
having made, or attempted to make, the slight
eSi imputation on that committee.
Without action OF the resolution the Senate,
q ter an executive session adjourned.