Birmingham age-herald., 1894-07-11
TIE STATE OF UTAH Is the Latest Acquisition to the
 Sisterhood. b- 7-. PETER ON RAILROADS nloe of Tennessee Declared Entitled to the Seat.
 Public Lands.
PETER ON RAILROADS

| WASHINGTON, July 10.-The senate | spent three hours today in debate upon the resolut ion offered Monday by the populist senator from Kansas, MT. Peffer, looking to government control of interstate rail- roads, the regulation of their freight and passenger rates, the fixing of the wages of railroad employees, the acquisition and | opsration, either by the federal govern ment or by Ike .stats governments, of all the coal beds of the con6tSy, and to many of the other peculiar ideas ofssaA l party. AS was expected the great rafs
 strike at Chicago was the chief topic in the | debate. In speech of over an hour and half MT. Peffer stated the case from the Debs or the strikers point of view, and laid all the blame for the outbreak on MT. Pullman, whom he characterized as soul- less, constituencies and tyrannical.
 The cause of law and order and of the maintenance of free and unobstructed intercourse by railroad communication was championed by Messrs. Davis of Minne- sota and Gordon of Georgia, both of whom | denounced in eloquent and patriotic lan- | guage the position taken by the Kansas | senator and the lawless acts of Debs and his followers. :. substitute for the Peffer resolution was | offered by MT. Daniel of Virginia, uphold
  | the president and his cabinet, and then, after some remarks by MT. Daniel and by | MT. Stewart of Nevada, the whole subject | weEt over until tomorrow. In the last two hours of the session the | postotfice appropriation bill and the house | bill for the admission of Utah as a state were passed, the former with very little friction and the latter without any at all, | even without the yeas and nays being called | upon its passage. The senate then, at 5.45 | D. m. adjourned until tomorrow. | IN THE HOUSE. Several private relief bills were passed, | and then Mir. Patterson called up the con- tested election case of Thresbar vs. Enloe, l from the Eighth Tennessee district. The | resolutions declare Mir. Enloe entitled to | the seat. MT. Patterson stated thet the | majority of the committee were of the opin- Non that Mir. Enloe was elected by no votes afsd thnuIsaipQrity that he was elected uhx- thirty H!gA. The resolutios agreed to without division.
 Among the bills reported from commit tees was one by Mir. Powers, republican, of Vermont, from the committee on judi ciary, which, he said, was intended oaly s.to improve the health and morals Of the members of the house.'' Laughter. 1t provided for the repeal of section 40, re- vised statutes, under which the sergeant at-arms is deducting from the salaries of members per diem for absences for other reasons than sickness. A minority report will also be filed.
 MT. McRae, chairman of the committee on public lands, called up the bill to re- peal the act exempting public lands in Ala bama from the operation c the law of 1853, relating to mineral lands, and it was passed.
 According to the arrangement made by him with the committee on rules, MT. Mo- Rae, chairman of the committee on public lands, called up the bill reported from his committee to amend the railroad land grant forfeiture laws of September 29, 1890, by in- m CT hat il a extending the scope of it's operations. By the provisions of the new act about 54, 000, coo acres of land would be forfeited and fe-< stored to the public domain. The bill was Cobb of Alabama, who favored it's passage, and by Messrs. Lacey of Iowa, Gear of Iowa, Wilson of Washington and Her mann, republican, of Oregon, who opposed it. The bill was not disposed of. MT. McRae had brought in and displayed on a gigantic easel in the area fronting the speakers desk map showing the location and extent of the lands granted 10 the varl- ous lines Of railways, earned and unearned.
 MT. McRae contended that the govern- ment had right to forfeit such of these lands as were unearned, and that such for feiture was not a contravention to the de- cisons of the United States supreme court. According to this map, the states of Iowa and Minnesota have been given over wholly to the land grant railroads.
 After presenting the arguments in favor or the Dlll, MT. Ddcltae presented a table showing the estimated amount of land that would be forfeited by the passage of the bill, in which is embraced the following items:
 Gulf and Ship Island, 652 ,sOo acres; Coosa and Tennessee, TAO 160; Coosa and Chatta- nooga, IA ,000; Mobile and Girard, 651 ,264; Selma, Rome and Dalton ,25S, ,6g4 Atlantic, Gulf and West India TraGsit, 676, 900; Pen- sacola and Georgia, 679 $50; Vicksburg, Shreveport and Pacific, 364 ,800
 At 5:10 the house adjourned until tomor- row.