Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1892-02-24
The Federal Legislature.
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WASHINGTON, d. G., February 49,
SESATE-After the three days recess OF the
two houses the sen ators were not very pnnctuhi
In their attendance, for not one fourth OF them
we're present when the opening PRAYER was
offered and tho Journal OF Friday read. Mr.
Vest gave notice that he would, Thursday next,
call up Mr.. Hales reciprocity resolutions ior
the purpose Of submitting some remarks upon
fhot. Mr.. Call gave a Ike notice Tor MONDAY
next on his resolutions as to railroad corpora
tons IN Florida influencing senatorial cleo
TONS
The calendar was then taken up. and the
Senate bill appropriating 100000 Tor pubic
building at
NEWPORT NEWS, VA,
was passed. The bill to FIX the compensa-
ton of keepers and crews Of life-saving
stations was also passed. The Keepers OF
lighthouse stations, except stations Known
5000 per year, and members OF the crews OF
stations are 10 be paid a65 per month during the
time the stations are manned.
The Rouse bill to provide an additional mode
OF taxing dispositions Of witnesses In cases pend
ing in United States courts ALLOWING deposit
tions TO he taken under State laws was passed..
The Senate bill 10 provide for commission on
the subject OF the alcoholic liquor Ianic was
read ut length and was passed without dissent,
whom Mr.. Vcst made a remark "a 70 the inpro-
priety of such an important bill being passed
with only some half dozen senators present. At
tcntlon being thus drawn 70 the bill 1t was laid
aside for the present
The Senate JOINT resolution tor an interna-
tionel bimetallic agreement was next taken up.
and Mr.. Stewart made some remarks upon IT,.
but, as the morning hour had already expired, 1t
went over without action.
THE PuRR-YOOD BILL
The bill to prevent the adulteration and mis-
branding OF iooi and drugs was then taken up
AS the "unfinished business" and Mr.. Pad
dock, who has charge OF 1t, made some brief re-
marks In its support. All that tho bill aimed to
do, he said. was In the first place TO deal with
the subject In the interest OF commerce. All
that IL aimed 10 do was 10 make 1t impossible $50
far as legislation might DO so) for any article OF
food or drink or any drug TO be sold for what IL
was not. That WAS ell there was In the bill IL
was unnecessary for him TO say word on the
cons Institutional questions involved, as all such
questions had been swept away last session by
the passage OF the meat-inspecton act, which
was correlative to this bill. That measure had
been drown on limos less literal than the pond
ing measure In regard TO the constitutional auN
thority OF Congress 70 lcgistato on interstate
commerce lines Whatever might be said
against tho bill on constitutional grounds. he
(Mr. Paddock would make no answer TO IL, aud
hoped that no other senator would. Inc oiii
was aimed at no honest product-at no honest
article OF food or drink. 1t Disseminated
against nothing. II treated everything alike.
1t simply asked that everything should be
branded and sold Tor just what II was. AS 10 ODD
tectlons that might be made 10 the bill in the
interest OF cotton-sced OIL he assured senators
that that interest would be helped, not injured,
by the passage OF the bill
Messrs. Bate and Coke argued against the pas
sage Of the bill.
Without any action on the bill the Senate went
into executive session, and at 4:45 adjourned.
House Of Representatives.
There we're not 100 members present when, at
noon, the House was called TO order by Chief
Clerk Towles, who stated that owing 10 the con-
tinuod absence OF the Speaker on account OF
hal
elect a Speaker pro ten. On motion Of Mr..
Catchngs, OF Mississippi, Mr.. McMillin, OF Ten
nessee, was elected 10 perform the duties Of tho
chair. and resolutions were adopted providing
for a notification Of the President and the Senate
OF this action
Mr.. Brown, Of Indiana, gave notice that he
yonld call up tho Pennsylvania contested-eiec-
ton case Of Craig "a. Stewart Thursday no1t
A few reports were made from committees and
placed upon the calendar, and the House then
adjourned.