The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1894-03-14
OLNEY'S CORPORATIONS.
MIR. Cannon Asks Questions About
the Interstate Law.
SENATOR HALE ARGUES IN FAVOR
OF A DUTY ON LUMBER.

General Washington News-Cigar Manu-
facturers Move on the Capitol in Force
to Protest Against Increased Taxes
Yesterdays Installment of the Debate
on the Bland Seigniorage BilI-Mr.
Cummings Wants to Know About the
Armor from Carnegie's Works
Washington, March IS. - MI. Cum
mings, Democrat, of New York, asked
the unanimous consent of the House to-
day for the consideration of the resolu-
ton calling for information from the Sec
retary of the Navy as to Carnegle's de-
fective armor plates. On objection by
Mr.. Stone, Republican, of Pennsylvania,
the resolution was referred to Mr. Cum
mings's committee on naval affairs.
The House, at l, resolved itself into
committee of the whole on the sundry
civil appropriation bill, with Mr.. Lester,
Democrat, of Georgia, in the chair.
Mr.. Coggswell, Republican. of Massa-
chusetts, called attention to the fact that
while the bill carries total appropria-
ton of $9.4O9.928 less than the bill for
the current year, the decrease is wholly
due to the disappearance OF certain ex-
traordinary items of expenditure which
this Congress- will not be called upon to
provide for.
On motion of Mr.. Sayers, Democrat, of
Texas, an amendment was made, appro-
priating $64, 900 for a post office at Buf-
falo.
Mr. Dunphy, Democrat, of New York,
offered an amendment giving $50, 900 for
repairs and improvements to the New
York post office. He said that as re-
suit of the unsanitary condition OF the
building, daily average of six men who
go to work there in good health, are
stricken down with illness. After dis
cussion the amendment was agreed to.
When the appropriation for the inter-
state commerce commission was reached,
Mr.. Cannon, Republican of Illinois asked
Mr.. Sayers, who was in charge of the
bill, whether the facts that the present
Secretary of State had, while Judge of
the Circuit court for the northern dis
trict of Illinois. delivered an opinion
which took the vitals out of the inter-
state law, and that the Attorney General
had been criticized by the Democratic
press for his relation to corporations
which may be interested in the execu-
tion of the interstate law, had anything
to do with the transfer of the control of
the appropriation for the employment
of COUNSEL to aid III enforcing the law
from the department of Justice, where it
was usually placed, to the commission it
Mr.. Savers responded that the
language in the bill followed that of the
estimates furnished by the Secretary of
the Treasury. He could not say what
motives actuated theSecretary in making
ovlb
intended to carry out the law of the
last Congress and enabled the commits
sion to employ just as skilful and able
LAWYERS to enforce the law as the rail-
road companies did to defeat it.
Mr.. Morse, Republican of Massachu-
setts, moved to strike out the appropria-
tion for the commission. He said the
law had given the business to through
lines of roads and discouraged the COM
petition which formerly existed to the
general advantage of all the people. I'm
der recent decisions, the law was
rendered practically imperative, the only
live thing about it being the salary and
expenses of the commission.
The amendment was discussed by
Messrs. Milliken, Republican OF Maine,
Grosvenor, Republican of Ohio, and
Daniels, Republican of New York. The
latter said the recent decision of Judge
Grosscup, in Chicago. was in direct an
tagonism with the declaration of the
Supreme Court of the United States.
MIR. Wise, Democrat of Virginia, chair
man of the committee on interstate and
foreign commerce, said that Mr.. Morse's
opposition to the law was based upon
personal grounds as affecting his busi-
ness as a manufacturer, rather than his
zeal in behalf of public interests. In
support OF this charge, Mr.. Wise had
read from the clerks desk letter un-
signed.
point of order against its going into
the record.
Mr. Wise said he would adopt it as his
speech, and he was responsible for it
here or elsewhere To one statement in
he did NOT represent his state in antag-
onizing the bill. He desired to incor-
porate in the record clippings from
newspapers of Massachusetts, to show
that the state was opposed to the law.
Consent was refused and Mr.. Morse's
amendment rejected, SO to 5.
Mr.. Haines, Democrat of New York,
raised the point of no quorum and the
committee rose after disposing of
twenty-four pages of the bill and adding
$2O6, ,361 to its total.
MIR. Cummings, Democrat of New
York, from the committee on naval
affairs, reported back the resolution
asking Gne oecreGdry OIL Gne Navy Ior all
information in his possession respecting
the reported failure of the Carnegie
Phipps company to furnish armor plate
in accordance with their contract. 1t
was agreed to and the House adjourned.
ADVOCATED BY MR.. HALE.
The Finance Committee Urged to Place
Some Duty on Lumber.
WASHINGTON March 13-The Deno-