The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1893-01-24
THE QUARANTINE BILL
The Subject Of Very Lively Discus
sion in the House,
EVEN THE SENATE is DIVERTED
nv Mr. Chandlcr's Talk in Favor of
tho Anti.option BiIl-The Cherokee
Outlet Proposition the Subject Of
Some Interesting Remarks, Espe-
olalIy by Mr., Butler.

WASHINGTON, D. O., Jan. 2S,-Mr,
Chandler (Rep., New Hampshire) di-
yey!ed tho senate to-day by arraigping
two Republican senators (Messrs, Hoar,
Of Massachusetts,, and Platt, Of Con-
pecticut,) for putting forward against
the anti.option bill a constitutional Ut
gument that would be equally strong in
lis application to the tariff law. He
warned them that they would be called
upon to defend the tariff law in the
next Congress, If the Democrats were
true to the platform on which the
presidential ticket had been elected,
and he intimated that their contention
that taxes could only be imposed for
the purpose OF revenue, not Tor tho
purpose Of destruction, would be fatal
10 a high protective system. At the
conclusion Of Mr.. Chandlers speech
the anti.option bill went over without
action, an agreement having previously
been reached that the vote on that bill
shall be taken on Tuesday OF next
week.
In the discussion CT q proposed
amendment TO the Cherokee outlet bill,
Mr. Plat rep, Conn., referred to the
Prosident.eleCt as man whose desire
TO take care of the best interests OF the
country would get the better Of any de.
sire to serve his. friends.
Tho house bin to provide for lower
ing the height oil a proposed bridge
across tho Ohio river between Cincin-
natl and Covington by tho rapid transit
bridge company was taken from the
calendar and passed. The senate then,
by unanimous consent, proceeded to
the consideration OF tho anti'option
bill-the question being on the amend
ment offered by Mr.. Villas DEM, Wis.,
10 the George substitute.
Alr. George Dem OF Mississippi,
proceeded with the argument which he
had partly made last Saturday. He
spoke one hour and then took his seat.
An arrangement was made that at one
o'clock on Tuesday Of next week the
vote shall be taken on the George sub
ssftute, and not later than two o'clock
on the bill itself.
The bill then went over without ac-
ton, and tho Cherokee outlet bill, which
had come over from the house, was
taken up for consideration.
The bill having been read, Mr.. Platt
(Rep,), OF Connecticut, offered as sub
stiute for 1t the bill reported by him
from tho committee on Indian affairs
on July 20, 1892, An amendment to the
substitute was offered by Mr.. Berry
Dem. J, Of Arkansas. This amendment
provides for the appointment oil COM
mission iOr the extinguishment Of na-
tiOnal or tribal title to lands in the In
dian territory.
Mr. Butler Dem, OF South Carolina,}
denounced the means resorted to in
order to force the pending legislation
on Congress. The senate had been told
to-day by the senator from Connecticut
(Mr. Platt) that il the agreement be.
tween the government and the Indians
werO not carried out the thousands of
white men who were camping along the
border would rush into the Cherokee
outlet and take possession OF 1t, The
senate was to legIslate under the threat
oi mob. The senate was told that II
it did not legislate according to the Pc
Culiar notions Of these people they
would go in aud take tho land. That
was the attitude in which the senate
found itself. For himself, he proposed
to defy the threats Of the mob and to
throw the protection OF tho government
around these Indians-even If 1t took
eyory soldier 10 enforce the treaty atip.
ulations with the Indians.
Mr.. Berry's amendment wns agreed
to, and the bill went over without fur
heraction, to be before the senate when
tho anti.option bill Is not.
The senate then went into executive
session and soon adjourned.