The Indianapolis journal., 1896-02-19
MORTON REBUKED AGAIN.
Agricultural Appropriation Bill, with
It's Seed Clause. Passed.

It's Seed Cluuse. f'usseu
WASHINGTON, Feb. 1s.-The House to-
day passed the agricultural appropriation
BILL 1t carries s3,15s.19 The section of the
Revised Statutes for the purchase and dis
tribution of rare and common seed. which
Secretary Morton declined to execute in the
current appropriation law. was repeated.
the appropriation for seed was increased
from $4,000 to $4,000. and it's execution
was made mandatory on the Secretary. Mr..
Cousins. of Iowa. introduced his amendment
to reduce Mr.. Mortons salary from 5000 to
s25 until he expended the appropriation in
the current law, but the amendment was
ruled out on a point OF order. Several
amendments to the meat inspection act OF
1891, recommended by Secretary Morton,
which would have given him additional
power to enforce regulations and have
strengthened the law by the imposition of
penalties for violations, were stricken out.
Bills we're passed to permit the Kansas City
& Fort Scott railroad to extend it's lines
into the Indian Territory. to dispose of the
Fort Klamath Hay reservation and to grant
the Columbia e. Red Mountain railroad a
right of way through the Colville Indian
reservation. resolution adopted di-
recting the committee on ways and means
to investigate the effect OF the difference OF
exchange between gold and silver-standard
countries on the manufacturing industries
of the United States. Notice was also given
that the contested election case of Van Horn
VS. Tarsney would be called up next Tues
day.
Mr.. Newlands, who presented the ways
and means investigating resolution, stated
that the Chamber of Commerce of San Fran
cisco had called the attention OF the country
to the invasion of products from Oriental
countries. especially Japan. California had
already felt the effect of this competition.
He recalled the invasions of the Chinese
and their absorption of every industry
which they had attacked, which has led to
| their exclusion. The Pacific coast, he said
products of the cheap labor of the Oriental
| countries. He gave some information re-
garding the cheap prices at which Japanese
| were being sold in the San Francisco mar
kets. Even bicycles. he said. were being i'm
! ported and sold for s12 apiece. He described
how bicycles could be manufactured in
| Japan for So in silver and sold here for s12
in gold The Increase in the price Of silver:
| countries the advantages they now pos
sessed.
The House then went into committee of
| the whole and resumed the consideration of
| the agricultural appropriation bill. Mr.
| Couzins, in criticising Secretary Morton's
course. characterized 1t as the "grossest
| that the Secretary had suborned referees
| with salaries of 500 each, and had actually
| used 800 OF the appropriation of last year
| to defeat that legislation. He stated that
| these corrupted and suborned officials had
already let the cat out OF the bag by writ
| would be no distribution of seed this year
! The Secretary" said he pats the House on
the head. strokes the gray beard Of the
| there will not be any seed distribution this
| year OF our Lord. not II he knows himself
darghtero ugh , This Us is no Sn! Longer g9ver1ment
| was a government by J. Pierpont Morgan
and J. Sterling Norton
Mr.. Payne made a point of order against
| ords of the tests of dairy cows at the Co
| iumbian exposition. and to prepare the same
| for permanent preservation
Mr. Richardson intimated that this pro-
vision was TO boom certain herd of dairy
| cattle.
Mr. Connolly. on the other hand. intimated
that there was attempt to smother the
results OF these tests in the interest of yari-
Gus breeds of cattle which were afraid to
The chair sustained the point of order
and the provision was ruled out. The
amendments to the act of 1891. for the in
products thereof. which had been incorpo-
rated in the bill, were stricken out on mo-
ton of Mr.. Baker. The amendments refused
clearance to vessels exporting meats not
found sound on inspection. and provided for
the certification and stamping of cattle
sheep and swine found free Of disease. and
made counterfeiting of such certificates or
stamps punishable by fine of 81, 900 and i'm
pris0nment not exceeding one year. The
Secretary OF Agriculture was authorized by
one amendment stricken out to make regu-
lat.ons 10 prevent the transportation of con-
demned carcasses or meats from one State
to another to foreign countries. An
amendment to print $1,000 copies of the re-
port OF 1892 on diseases of cattle was ruled
out VI TIE niii las as amended mend was as passed pas
fer five years the time for bringing suits
TO vacate and annul patents TO public lands
under the railroad land grants. The bill ex-
tends the time five years. Without action
journed.