Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1893-02-02
CONGRESSIONAL.

In criminal cases aftor providing In II that nc
person shall be excused from attending or tosti
| lying before the interstate commerce commits
sion on the ground that the testimony OF evi
/ donce may tend to crminate him,
| Tho bill amending tho interstate commerce
| net was taken up IL Is intended to obyiate the
construction which the courts placed ON the
words "tho same line" as they appear in the
| fourth section OF tho act. They have held that
| whore several railroads connect, constituting
ono line the transaction Of business Of amy Lest
number forming in, part the Same limo may
| charge, without violating tho law, q greater
| rate than is charged over tho entire line Tho
pooling section Of the act s amended by striking
| out tho word mot and inserting tho words ANY
| contract agreement or arrangement" ltfurtheI
provides that railroads may mako contracts
| agreements or arrangements for apporhOninG
| among themselves their traffic or their gross on
| net earnings under certain conditions to be In
| terposcd by the interstate commission IL fur
ther provides q common carrier who IL corpo
| ration, may be indicted for violation of any pro
visions of tho act. Senator Lind moved Ia
strike out tho section amending the pooling
| section OF tho original act, and Senator Pnttor,
son acQuesCed. After an amendment was agreed
| to, requiring all common carriers to accept
from connecting lines loaded cars or trains, ia
be hauled to the point of delivery at rate not
exceeding that charged for similar service over
their own lines, the bill was passed, The bill
was then passed making the printed and written
documents in possession OF the commission adj
missible as legal evidence.
When tlme comes to vote on the Rnti-optons
bill its opponents will not resort to dilatory
measures; although it is apparent that they do
not hope strongly to beat it.
Tho senate committee on Indian affairs in
vited discussion before it by all parties in inter
est Among those appearing, and who were
heard was q certain Hastings, a native of Ar
Kansas who is one of the Cherokee representa-
tives here. He clustered about what "our na-
ton" would do and what 'our nation" would
not do; when Senators Plat and Pettegrew
eiTectually shut off his bluff.
The result of the episode may, and probably
will be provision in the bill TO the effect that if
the Cherokees and their Arkansas representative
do not approve the bill within accrtain time, tho
president will be directed to open the strip to
settlement and the question of remuneration to
the Cherokees can be settled in the courts later,
whore tho United States treasury will have q
better showing than before congress-
In tho senate the house substitute concerning
testimony under the Interstate commerce law
was non concurred in, a conference asked and
Senators Wilson. Teller and Pugh were APP
pointed conferees,
Among petitions on Sunday opening of tho
world TAR was one signed by Archbishop Ken
rick and Vicar General Brady Of the Roman
Catholic church, Bishop futile of the Episcopal
church, and other citizens of st. Louis, Mo-, IA
voring opening after II o'clock Sundays, and
another minister of the Methodist Episcopal
church, south, of st. Louis against Sunday open
ing.
Senator Wolcott called up his joint resolution
directing the discontinuance Of tho sale of Col
umbian postage stamps. He was at loss to
understand he said, why those stamps had ever
been manufactured. lie noticed that the post
master general had suggested in his annual ro-
port that he expected to receive S5OOOOO extra
profits out of their sale to stamp collectors.
That was a trick that might suit some of the
littlo Central American states when they were
few thousand dollars SHY" but the United
States was too big country to unload cruel
and unusual stamp upon stamp collectors. Rail
ron oil plsg lntt, nod hiatt Nn
Columbian stamp was so like the registration
stamp that constant mistakes were beng made
by them, and he had letter from a physician
who said il the sale of those stamps were stopped
the stamps might be used for chest protectors.
He asked unanimous consent that the joint reso-
luton be read third time and passed. But OBJ
ection was made and it was laid over
The agitation of the omnibus statehood bill,
creating states out of the territories of Okla
homa, Utah, Arizona and New Mexico, has com
menced in earnest in both senate and house.
The quarantine bill passed the house. Its
most earnest supporters believed it did not go
far enough, and while they acquiesced in some of
the amendments made by some of the New York
members they did SO under protest, and the be-
lief that if they did otherwise the measure
would meet a lingering death through tllibus
terinC.
The bill now goes to the senate as it differs in
many points from the bill which the senate has
passed.
The bill requires all vessels clearing for the
United States to obtain from the consul or vice
consul at the port of departure a bill of health.
The president is authorized to detail Il medical
officer to serve in the office of consulate at any
foreign port tor the purpose of furnishing infOr-
nation and giving bills of health. The Marine
hospital service shall cooperate with the state
and municipal boards of health in the enforce
ment of the rules of such boards and the rcgula-
lions prescribed by the secretary of the treasury
to prevent the introduction of contagious and
diseases into the United States from
in RI n IL
other, but nothing shall be construed to war
rant a federal official from relaxing state rules.
in the arrival of an affected vessel at any port
lot provided with the proper facilities for treat
nent, the secretary of the treasury may remand
jhe vessel to the nearest national or other quar-
lntine.
Favored by an unexpected opportunity Sena-
;or Platt secured consideration of the Cherokee
strip bill by the senate. Senator Platt moved
% substitute for the house bill the Dawes bill
Is amended. After long debate, covering the
jherokee intruder question and other perth
tent matters, the bill went over for considera
ion at the next opportunity.
There was but little business done in either |
louse on the day that the death of Justice La |
mar was officially announced
Senator Sawyer, from the committee on PEN |
ions, reported bill authorizing the commits |
Toner of pensions to accept as proof of citizen
hip of an applicant for pension under the act |
# July y, 1880, the fact that at the date of his
pplication he was an actual and bona tide resi-
cnU Oh Tue Onlleu ptules, anu IL puStOu'
Both anti-options bill and the Cherokee outlet
ill, which together held right of way in tho
enato had to give way for routine matters dur
lg days session. excepting that half OF it was
pent in executive session over the nomination
( McComas as one of the judges of the supreme
curt of the District of Columbia. McComas
'as confirmed.
In the house flibusterlng against the bank
nptcy bill was inaugurated by Mr.. Kilgore of
eXas. In the first place he insisted upon the
nnulnp Then h
,cted to an approval of the document, and an
our was consumed before it was finally agreed
, as a portion of the records of the house. Mr..
ierce aided Mr. Kilgorc's every tilibusterng
lotion with another which was calculated to
revent action.
another wasted day" was the comment of re-
ublicans and their comments were re-echoed
Y the majority of the democrats. But few of
lie democrats, opposed to the bankruptcy meas
re, held firm and the house adjourned without
,tion thus exhausting the two days assigned
} the judiciary committee and the bankruptcy
ii.