Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-01-23
Finished in Committee and, Reported
to the House.
Two AMENDMENTS VOTED DOWN.
After a Parliamentary TangIe the
Bill is Passed.
THE ANTI-OPTIONs BILL.
A Vote on the Measure to Be
Taken Nexr Tuesday.

Taken NeXr Tuesday.
SENATE.
Certificates OF election OF Senators Cockrell
(Mo.) and Davis (Minn. for their new terms.
on file. Also the certificate Of presidential
electors for the state of Louisiana
House bill to provide for lowering the height
Of a proposed bridge across the Ohio river be-
tween Cincinnati and Covington by the Rapid
transit Bridge Company was taken from the
calendar and passed.
THE ANrI-oPTIoN BILL.
The Senate then (at 12:40) by unanimous
consent proceeded to the consideration OF the
anti-option bill, the question being on the
amendment offered by Mr.. Villas wis
to the George substitute. Mr.. George
(Miss) proceeded with the argument
which he had partly made last Saturday.
he commenced by saying that he was informed
that Mr.. Washburn expected to ask the Senate
to continue in session today until the vote
reached. He had also heard from various
Senators their great anxiety that the matter
be finally disposed Of. In view of those facts he
proposed to occupy only a few minutes in
addressing the Senate this morning. He went
on to argue against the objections made by Mr..
Gray (Del. last Saturday and to quote authori-
tiles in support of his own view
Mr.. George spoke for exactly for one hour,
and when he took his seat a proposition was
made by Mr.. wsshburn (Minn.) to have
the vote taken on Thursday next. This
was objected to by Mr.. White Qa-),
who said that the Senators from New
York and Delaware Chill and Gray de-
ent today, and he suggested Tuesday of next
week as the time for taking the vote.
After some colloquy Mr.. Washburn
consented to Mr.. Whites PROPOSE
ton, and the arrangement was finally
made that at o'clock on Tuesday OF next week
the vote shall be. taken on the George substi-
tute and not later than 2 O'Clock on the bill
itself.
Mr.. Chandler On. H.) expressed himself as
prepared to vote for the George substitute. He
should prefer to have dealings in futures and
options prohibited by the direct method pro-
posed in the substitute rather than by high
taxation, as proposed in the bill, although he
believed that either method was constitutional
The anti-option bill was laid aside at the con-
clusion Of MI. Chambers speech and the Cher
okee outlet bill was taken up.
HOUSE.
The House, in continuation Of Saturdays
session, met at IL o'clock this morning. This
had the effect to continue the special order
under which the quarantine bill is being con-
sidered, and the House Immediately proceeded,
in committee of the whole, to further discus
sion of that measure
On motion of Mr.. Warner (N.Y an amendment
was adopted extending the provisions Of the bill
to immigration and Importation across land
boundaries well across sea boundaries
The object Of this amendment, as explained by
Mr.. Warner, is to protect the Canadian and
Mexican frontiers.
Mr.. Mallory (Fla.) offered an amendment
providing that nothing in this act shall be con-
strued to authorize the Secretary of the Treas
ury to prohibit or the President to restrain or
prevent the passage from one state to another
of persons not immigrants and not engaged in
commerce.
Mr.. Mallory said that the object Of the
amendment was to bring the bill within the
Constitution. For instance, il New York was
an infected port persons living in Jersey City
who were employed in New York could not, If
the Treasury Department so desired, return to
their homes after their daily labor. This was
an infringement Of personal right. He was in
favor Of restricting the power of the depart
ment to immigrants and to persons employed
in commerce.
Mr. Patterson CTenn.) spoke in support Of
the proposition. basing his argument on con-
stitutional grounds. There no necessity,
he commended, to restrict the locomotion Of a
citizen from one state to another, and it was no
part OF the power OF congress reRulatln2
commerce to make such a restriction.
Mr.. Milliken (Me.) }, in opposing the amend
ment laid down the proposition that no person
had the right to go from one state to another
and carry nuisance or-worse than a nuis-
ance-an infection with him.
THE AMENDMENT LOST.
Mr.. O'Neill Pa had hoped that the
bill would pass in the shape in which it had
been reported by the committee on COM
merce and he expressed his surprise
that the opposition to it should come
from Louisiana, Florida and New York |
He believed it to be unnecessary to adopt the |
pending amendment. Congress should do its
full duty and pass law for the protection of |
the country from dread disease The amend |
ment was lost-33-6l.
Mr. Brosius (Pa.) offered an amendment |
providing that all quarantine regulations ex- |
listing by authority of state law or municipal |
ordinance at any place where the federal |
government shall establish quarantine regu-
lations shall be of effect so far as /
they may be in conflict with this act |
His sincere conviction, he said, was that this |
should be as near national bill as Congress |
could make it. The defense of the people of |
the United States against plague and pesti- |
lence was much a duty their defense |
against an invading army or navy.
The amendment was lost-yeas. IS; NAYS, Is
The bill was reported to tine House from the |
committee OF the whole and is now involved in |
a parliamentary tangie which becomes more |
complicated and involved the more its loosen |
ing is attempted.
Mr.. Cummings On. W moved to strike out |
the marine hospital service section of the bill.
He had received a letter from a member Of the
national board of health (who did not
wish his name used) which would show
''the niger in the wood pile" In
this letter it was stated that the chief pro- |
motors and advocates Of the pending measure
were officers and employees of the marine hos |
pital service; and it was suggested that the act
Of June 2, 1879, ''to prevent the introduction Of
contagious diseases into the United States" be |
substituted for it. |
Mr.. Cummings then withdrew his motion.
The House is now voting a motion made |
by Mr.. Reilly (Pa.) to recommit the quaran- |
tine bill to the committee on commerce with |
instructions to report back in lieu of it the |
Senate bill as modified by the House committee
Of the whole, with the exception Of the Cochran |
amendment forbidding national interference
with state guarantees.
Mr. Covert (N.Y.) offered an amendment that |
nothing contained in the bill shall be construed
to authorize the establishment or MAIN
tenance Of any quarantine station in |
any locality where proper constitu- |
tional authority shall officially deter |
mine auch action TO he danUerous 10 the livos |