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THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION. ATLANTA, GA.. TUESDAY MAY 25 1886
CONGRESS.
Proceedings of the Two Houses
Last Week.
With the President and His Ad
visers—General News.
Forelg n Kail Service,
Washington, May 18.—In the house. Hr,
Blount, of Georgia, from the committee on
peatofficca end poatroads, reported beck the
appropriation bill with the senate amend
ments, and It haying been referred to the com
mittee of the whole, the honse went Into such
committee fo r the purpose of considering theae
amendments
Hr. Blount addressed bis remarks to that
clause which is known as the “subsidy"
amendment, and made an argument in opposi
tion to it. The appropriation of (SOOjOOO, he
contended, would not secure any advantage in
the way of obtaining additional mall trips, but
would indeed have a contrary effect. Un
der the clause the postmaster general would
be required to contract, if he contracted at
all, for not less than three nor more than fire
ear*, and this would act as an absolute lnhl-
ition upon any other company than the ono
holding the contract attempting to traverse the
same line. The increase in the number of
lines would be stopped, and while the con
tract was in force any Increase of the foreign
postal service would be prevented. He denied
the correctness or the declaration that the
decline of American commerce was due to the
fact that the United States refitted
to pay subsidies to the steamship
companies, and asserted that the decline
waa attributable to the narrow-minded policy
which forbade American citizens from pur
chasing ships abroad.
Hr. Borrows, of Hichigan, in supporting the
amendment, drew a comparison between the
pay for mall service to coastwise companies
and that allowed to foreign mail companies,
and instanced the bet that last year the gov
ernment paid for mall service between Tampa
and Key West $23,000, while it only paid $237
for service between Key West and Havana. The
senate amendment only authorized the post
master-general to do with the foreign service
exactly what he did with theater route and
coastwise service, and all this talk about sub
sidy was simply an appeal to the prejudice,
instead of an appear to the reason of reasonable
men. The United States paid more for mail
service between Tampa and Key West than
was paid to all American lines engaged In
trans-Atlantic commerce or In commerce be
tween the United States and South and Con-
tral Americas
Mr. Biggs, of Illinois, opposed the foreign
mail service amendment, and contended that
the figures cited by Ur. Barrows instead of
showing that too little was
paid for foreign naval service showed that too
much waa paid for eoastwiso service.
Hr. Guenther, of Ohio, said that the apt
priatlon did not rise to the dignity of a sal
dp. It was neither fish, flesh nor fowL It
waa
waa a gift, pure and simple. Ik was a charity
to the Facile Hail Steamship company—a cor
poration which congress should not touch with
a ten-foot pole. Were the members of congress
really so verdant as to be deludod
and deceived by shallow pretenses?
Would they always take thus baits
of corporations? Were they really what were
called ‘‘snekera?" [Laughter,]
Ur. Guenther argned that the subsidy clause
would not give the United States vessels or
lines. 1 f a line was subsidized for five years,
monopoly would be created and no other
line would start because It could not compete
with the subsidized lines, so that Instead of
promoting commeroe the reverse would be the
result. He would not be lndooed, under any
circumstances, to vote for this misappropria
tion of (he public money. If it was pro
posed to make the dose of the session
conditional on the adoption of this
amendment, if it was proposed to make it a
question of physical endurance, he for one
waa willing to stay here,
yield, rather than be coerced into submission
to the dictation of subsidy hunters, he was de
termined to stay here, and in the language of
an Immortal boro, “Fight it ont on this line, if
it takes all the summer.” [Applause.]
In the oonrae of the discussion, which con
sumed the remainder of the aeeslon-Hr. Dock
ery,of Hlieouri.announced his opposition to the
amendment because it was coercive legislation;
because it assumed to aid commeroe at the ex-
icnse of the foreign postal service; because it
teld ont the persuasive idea of competition,
when in fact there was no competition except
on two lines; because it would operate as a
hindrance to the restoration of American com
merce; because it was a positive violation of
the international treaty of Berne: because it
was a gift of public mon-
2 to nrlvato coroontlom.
e larger part of which would go to tkaPncifie
mail steamship company, offleend, owned and
controlled by Bussell Bags, Jay Gould and Sld-
noy Dillon. Criticising theamendment In de
tail, he called attention to the (act that cron
England did not restrict the transportation of
her malls to English vessels, but plaoed many
of them upon ships of the North German
Lloyd company. He also commented severely
upon the action of the senate in adopting the
amendment In violation to its own rules. Was
not, he asked, the amendment strong enough
to commend itself to congress and
the country, without having behind
the pressure and power of an appropriation
bill. This proposition came here from the
■enate as its smaller twin brother had come
(torn the senate last year. Glad as he would
be to go home to the free air of grand old Hia-
■ouri—not, however, to look alter his fence:;
they wen in good repair—he waa willing to
stay hero until the snow of winter should
mantle the heights of Arlington before he
would be coerced in accepting legislation of
this kind. [Applause on the democratic side ]
He then oroceedad to arxue that
the subsidy would not have the effect of build
ing up the commerce of the country, and in
support of hia argument be quoted statistics to
show that from I860 to 1877 (which he termed
the “subsidy period") the tonnage and com
merce of the country steadily fall off. Much
of the subsidy proposed would go to the Pacific
Hail steamship company. He had heard it
laid that this line waa owned by
feed different
waslargi
Sidney L , ....
ton. These were the men who were to get this
appropriation which assumed to go to the build
ing up of the commeroe of the country and
the merchant marine. No man would go far
ther than he in restoring the merchant ma
rine, but if this could only be dene now by
means of contributions to the Pacific Hail
Steamship company, he wanted to wait and
look out for come other remedy. Under this
amendment the Pacific Hail company, of un
savory record, wouldget $332,1118, nearly half
tthe appropriation. Ha called upon his party
friends to halt and hesitate before they
gave their sanction to a measure which did
not advance or enhance the interests of the
lerchant marine, but which put into the cof
fers of this corrupting corporation $328,308
more than it had received last year for the
tame service. In consideration of this ques-
Ition, he stood on the doctrine of equal rights
tto all and exclusive privileges to none.
Ur. Springer, of Illinois, favored the policy
■of compelling vessels that carried the Ameri-
leak flag to carry the mails of the country at a
treasonable rate, and against the proposition of
noting subsidy Into the pockets of Jay Gould,
Kidney Dillon and Bussell Sage.
Ur. HcAdoor of New Jersey, opposed the
proposition to subsidies American ships, and
put forward the idea that if tbs United States
wishes to compete with other nations by the
granting of subsidies, it must, owing to the
difference in the price of labor, pay 25 per
cent higher subsidies than any other country.
Hr. Bandall. of Pennsylvania, called atten
tion to the curious spectacle presented to tha
senate amendment, which involved an expen
diture of $100,000, bat which-had not one
word of executive suggestion or approval to
d different persons, but he declared that It
i largely owned and officered by Jay Gould,
ney DUlon, Bussell Sage andC. P. Hunting-
commend it. There was no estimate for the
appropriation. It eminated from the senate—
a body which had been contending for yean
against putting any general legislation on the
appropriation bills In voting upon this
amendmenthe wanted a member to range him-
aelfon aide where he expected to stay to the
end. [Applause on the democratic side.] Last
S iar a senate amendment similar to the trend-
g proposition had been put through inthe
house by reason of absenteeism, buthe invoked
every man to so record himself on this propo-
sition now that be would not find it necessary
to absent himself hereafter.
Vri Bioant, In closing the debate, ssld that
under a threat of an extra session,
the house had concurred in the senate amend
ment appropriating $100,000 tot tho foreign
mall service. The democratic administration
came Into power and put the bon of its con
demnation noon the proposition. The policy
of the administration on this subject could not
bp mistaken, and when the United States sen-
ate, in violation of its rules—in violation ol
the principle that general legislation should
not Be placed upon appropriation bills—sought
to force this proposition upon the adminiatra-
Mon, there was an audacity and boldness ex
hibited that needed to be met with courage.
The issue was plain and clear cut, and for one
he waa willing, as a democrat, to take the re
sponsibility for hia action.
Vr. Barrows's amendment was rejected—80
to 142—and Hr. Hewitt's was rejected—82
torn
The amendments ofibred by Hr. Taylor, of
Tennessee, and Hi. Dougherty, of Florida,
were rejected without division.
The senate amendment waa non-concurred
In without division, and the committee rose
and reported its action to the house.
The recommendations of the committee
were aU agreed to without division, with the
exception of the foreign mail service amend
ment, which was non-concurred in by a vote
of-yeas 178, nays 80.
Following lathe vote in detail:
. keas—Alien of Mississippi, Anderson of Kansu,
Anderson of Ohio, Arnot llallantlnc, Barksdale,
Barucz Berry.Beach, Belmont. Bennett, Bland,
Bibs, Blount, Boyle, Brcckcnrldge of Arkansas,
Breckenridse of Kentucky, Browne ol Indiana,
Brownof Pennsylvania, Cabell, Caldwell, Felix
Dawson, _ Dibble, Dockery, Douahcr-
•7.. Dowdney, Dunn, Eden, Edridge,
.berry, Ermenthrout, Fisher, FordJFocney, Ful-
ler. blass, Glover. Green of North Carolina, Green
o( New Jersey, Guenther, Hall, Halsey, Hammond,
{tents, Hatch, Heard. Hemphill, Henderson ol
Jowa Hcnderron of Illinois, Henderson of Nortb
Urollna, Henley, Hepburn. Herbert, Hewitt. Hill,
Holman, Howard, Hudd, Irion, Johnston of North
Carolina IJonea of Alabama, Jones of Texas
King, K reiver, Laffoon, Ufolletto, Laird
Lanham, .Lawler, Leblbach, Loottlt,
Lowry, Mahoney, Martin, Matson
Naybury, McAdoo, JlcComas, McCrary, McHul-
Nn, MeBae. Merriman, Miller, Mtlls..Mltcbell Mor
gan, Morrill, Morrison, Mutter, Morph
Necce, Ostca, O'Donnell. OTerrall, bo
Parson, Parry. Pldrock, Pindar. Randall,
Reid,Reese, Richardson, Riggs, Rowall 11)-u,
ler,Savers ScotLiSeymour, &haw,Singleton,Skin
ner, Ifewdin, Spriggs, Springer. Btaplnccker.
Stewart ofTexsa, Stone oT Kentucky, Mono of
Mtaaouri, storm, strait, suable, Swope,
Taney, Taulbce, John Taylor of Tennessee,
Thomas of Wisconsin, Throckmorton. Tillman,
ownahend. Trigg. Tucker, Turner, Van Eaton,
Vllle, Wakeueld, ward of Ullnola, Ward of Indians.
Warner of Ohio, Warner of Mlseotiri, Weaver of
Iowa, Weaver of Nebraska, Wellborn, Wheeler,
WhUtof Mississippi, Willi? wilion, Wol
ford and Worthinjrton-178.
. Naya-AdemsofniiooU, AdamaofNew York, At
kinson, Baker, Bingham, Blanchard, Bound. Boil,
telle, Brumm, Buck, Bunnell, Burrows,Campbell of
ennsy Is ante, Davenport, Dingier, Dorsey, Dor*
ism, Brans, Everhart, Farauhar, Felton, Findlay,
Fleeger, Funstono, GalUngcr, Gay, GlliUUn,
Goff, Grosrenor. Grout, Hsubeck, Harpies,
lerman, Illestend, Hlscock, Hitt, Jackson, James,
obnson of New York, Johnston of Indiana, Kelley,
hetcham, Lindslay, Lora, McConna, McKinley;
Millard, Millikan? Moffitt, Marror, Neeley,
O'Neill of Pennsylvania, Oibome, ”—-
ivttlbonc, Plumb, Price, Ran net.
Sawyer, Scran too, Sessions, Smalls, Spooner, Ste
phenson, Stewart of Vermont, Martin, Swlnbu~ ~
Bymones, lk* Taylor of Ohio, Zach Taylor of 1
notice, Thompson, Wade, Wadsworth, Waite,
ber. Whiting and Woodburn—ao. _
Washington, Hay 20.—[Special.]—Though
tho defeat in tho house of tho Mnate amend
ment to the postoffice bill was omit
terday, itwaa thought that the vote
close. The result wu a surprise, even to tho
opponents of tho proposed $300,000 for improv
ing ocean mail facilities. A sharp debate of
five minutes' speeches continued until ttiree
o’clock. Hr. Bandall urged the opponents of
theamendment te make np their minds to
stand firm, and they would an rely defeat tho
proposed appropriation. Hr. Morrison spoke
with great spirit against the amendment, and
the debate waa concluded by Ur. Blount,
chairman of the committee, who said that the
country now had for $80,000 a year a eervloe
for which it waa proposed to pay $800,000. On
the vote in the oommllteo of tho whole tho
senate amendment was defeated by fifty-six
majority. The announcement of this rota
elicited round alter round of applause from the
opponents of the amendment and evidently
rattled its friends. When they came to tha roll
in tho home many of them changed and the
vote showed nearly eighty majority against the
amendment. This caused another bunt of
applause. Twenty-four republicans voted
against tho amendment. Horn than twin as
many as wars expected to do so. On the
other hand tho number of democrats support
ing tha amendment waa unexpectedly small.
Georgia voted solidly against it. Tho only
votes it received from the couth wore those of
Tillman and Small, of South Caroline.
Blanchard and Gay, of Louisiana. Messrs.
Blonnt, Dockery and Borrows will
be appointed conferees on the
part of tho boose to runt tho senate
congress to consult on tho difference between
the two honacs on this bill. A deed lock of
considerable duration is looked for. Tho
leading opponents of tho amendment say
tho bouse will never yield after Its decided
expression today. Tha senator! who support
ed the amendment apeak with equal confidant
of their own staying powers.
Tension Dills.
Washington, Hay 21.—[Special.]—'Tho
house dashed off its usual lot of petition
bills tonight. Friday nights are act apart for
thtebuslneu, and the looseness with which it
la transacted would be ridiculous won it not
constant waste of tho people’s money. A
regular pension fever la spreading throughout
the north and west. Aa tha result of such ex-
.._o cannot make a living and who have
been dlaebled since the war.tbia will coat $30,-
000,000 a tear in addition to tho Inoroaasd
pensions to wldowaand dependant relations,
which will caU for $8,000,080 or $10,000,000
more annually. Tha ordinary pension bill
for tbe next year Is about $80,000,000 besides
these additions. Such a rash for pehaiona waa
never before known and it is natural sines
gnu la constantly widening tho range of
bounty and about ell that appeals to be
necessary to the securing of a pension 1a tho
application. Northern congressmen are
becoming alarmed at this indiscriminate raid
on the treasury bat da not dare to raise e
voice or cast a vote against it for tear of the
soldier vote. Southern men cannot effectually
oppose this extravagance and their slightest
iroteat is misconstrued late enmity to tbe sol-
lien of the union. President Cleveland's re
cent nice of warning on this subject bu fall
en on deaf cars in con grees, but it is said te voice
e strong and growing sentiment among the
people who may we that their wishes an
obeyed.
The senate then proceeded to the considera
tion of favorably reported pension bills
standing on the calendar. After the passage
or a number of inch bills, Ur. Beck suggested
that once in awbile-onee in ten times or.se—
it might bo well to have tho committee report
beating on tho case read, Jut to shew that
somebody bad looked at tho cases. Tho ax-
preasion, “Bead the thud time and passed,”
R vo veiy little information. Wo
d had two or three vetoes end at rural
J. M. HIGH,
The Regulator and Controller of Low Prieee.
Will mall samples of ellclassucf fiffOmhud
pay expresaaga on all orders store! OMA Tten
ijf, .-s mi twtur variety to select 1
suggestions that nobody knew anythim;
thing about what waa being done. Ho (Book i
certainly did not know ana bo did not beliove
any member of the senate did.
Hr. Blair replied that there wu a fall and
careful printed report on file of each senator,
showing the facts of each case. Tho facta had
been there a month, and senators who wanted
information had only to read It.
Hr. Allison remarked that tha cases had all
bean examined by tho pension oemmittee and
reported by that committee.
Ur. Sawyer remarked that the bill un
der* consideration had been reported by him
It waa a Just bill, he said, though ho eonld not
give tho details without reference to the re
port. He bad not reputed to tha aenats •
(ingle cue that he had not believed to ho
^ Ur. Beck mentioned a bill that had been
vetoed bccaeac i$ gave a pension to the wrong
Hr. Blair said the only effect of peaalng
that bill would have been that nobody would
get the penalon and the bill would have to be
reintroduced with the right name.
Hr. Hawley, referring to the president's
atatement that the pension office had rejected
a large number of cases for which congress had
passed these bills, admitted that thaatetemi
wu tine. It wu remembered, he
■aid, that 30,000 caaea were granted in the pen
sion office every year, sod e luge number re
jected. The commissioner of pensions wu
obliged to go according to positive law, which
eonld not reach all equitable caaea. It must
be seen, therefore, that he
obliged to reject many caaea In
which the commissioner himself and every
body about him, and every impartial person,
could tec that the applicant wu honestly
entitled to the peuion. It was aim-
ply an illustration of the elementary
principle cf Blackstone—that there should
be aomawhero a court of equity, for “equity
supplies that wherein the law by reason of its
universality it deficient.” If the peuion
office bad 50,000 cases a year to examine, wu
it unreasonable to expect that 1,000 or 1,200
cun should coma before congreu u a
evlewing court of equity. But the president
hu luggeated that if the present law were not
•officiant to afford relief under ail equities of
the cue, congreu should amend the law.
Wall, every lawyer knew that the more yon
amended or executed a law, the more likely it
was that there would be exceptional caaea that
the law eonld not reach. There would, there
fore, always ha a considerable number of ca
tes that would come before congress. It wu
not impoaalblc to suppose that there
might he two thousand earn
year coming there—caaea that
every man would uy were perfectly honoat
and Just cases. That wu a small number In
comparison with a million and Quarter soldiers
now Uvingand many hundreds of thousands
who died, leaving widows. There
were many points of the preeident’e
veto, Ur. Hawley added, that eonld be
readily answered if the preu hod taken the
trouble to answer them. The preu had given
ont the idee that we passed pension bills by
the wholesale, and that the penalon offloo
eonld have settled everything, if it
wanted te. It wu not
•o, end inch statements did
great injustice to the senate. Hr. Hawley
hoped that some formal explanation of the
matter would be made by either the hunae or
The Ed □ cation at BUI.
Washington, Hay 17.—[Special.]—The last
hopo of the educational bill for this session, if
not for thia congress, expired today. Its
friends were active last week and at one time
thought they uw their way clear. They in
tended to hare the labor committee uk the
honse to ut e day for the consideration of thia
bill, and were confident that it would be done
and that the bill could be passed on the day so
act. The fatal difficulty wu met in tbe com
mittee. In congress, u everywhere else in
the country at this time, the labor trouble*
constitute the ebeorblng topic. The statesman
studies them with an anxiety for their eola
tion on right principle*. The demagogue
leaps to the front whenever the
autjjectie introduced end proclaims himself
tha friend of the people. So mild e measure u
the educational bill stood no allowing in a
committee where heroes of labor's legislation
are apron ting every day. The committee re
fused te consider anything which did not look
■ “ r in the direction of the labor trouble*,
ng the house to act apart a day for snob
bills u it might cell up, the chairmen distinct
ly stated that the educational bill would not
be offered to the house, but that the day would
be devoted aolely to bills touching tbe labor
ition. The 3d ef Jnne wu granted for
parpen, and it la hoped that tha wisdom
Of the committee will by that time prodnee
something worthy of the consideration of the
This statement of Hr. OWelll'a had the
effect of arousing the antagonism of tome
of the friends of that meeaura and this an
tagonism wu hardly appealed when Hr. Wil
lis, of Kentucky, (peaking u e friend of the
bill, acid that u a matter of fair play to the
committee on labor, a day should M given to
tha consldaration of lta bills. He woold trust
to the generosity of that oommHteo to give
tbe honse an ouportanlty in due time to con
sider tha ednoation bill.
Hr. O'Neill thought that it wu nnfrlr and
unganarona In man who pretended to be
friends of tbe educational bill, which had
bean referred to a committee to which It did
not belong, to put their lege around the neck
of that committee and throttle everything
else, unless tho educational bill war* cauadnp.
Mr. Bandall, of Pennsylvania, wu opposed
to making the labor accessory to carry the
educational bill through. The day for which
tha labor commlttea sued abould be oonfined
to tbe consideration of matters that related to
the laboring Interest.
Hr. Cabell, of Virginia, thonght that if a
majority of the hoos* wu In favor of the edu
cational HU it ought to be allowed to vote
fbr it.
Hr. Dunn, of Arkansas, energetically af
firmed that tha educational biU had not had
fair play. He had navar before aeon a great
measure throttled by such unwarrantable
m earn aa bad been resorted to in order to atifio
that MIL
Hr. O’NeUl—Tha gentleman dou not apply
that to onr committee.
Hr. Dunn—I apply it to theae who have
governed this house.
“And," broke In Hr. Horriaon, tapping him
self on hia shoulder, “whatever responsibility
attaches to taka.'' [Laughter].
Mr. Oowlea, of North Carolina, axpwarad hi*
sorrow that, notwithstanding tbs declarations
of national and state democratic convention*,
be should find himself among so few who ware
ipion tha cause of public
Hr. Horriaon suggested that the gentleman
forgot what party lie *■• 'n. The educational
lank bad bean fntbert iMibUeen platform, net
i the democratic.
Ur. Dunn opposed the reeolntloa on account
ef whet he considered in nnfkir discrimina
tion against tha educational bill. The oppo
nents of that measure were afraid to let the
house vote upon it. The meet remarkable end
extraordinary fortifications had been erected
against it. Ha had found among hie ill* of
report* a report on the bill extending the
bended whisky period. That wu the same
old bill that had been kicked ignomlnloutly
ont of tbe bouts during taro or three eongnm-
et. Some gentlemen seemed willing to vote
million! for whisky, bat not one dollar for
education. [laughter.] That wu not hia
platform.
Hr. O’NeUl, of Missouri, from tha committee
on labor, moved te suspend the rates end
adopt a resolution setting apart the 3d of Jon*
rabeeqeent days) for the consideration of
xeu presented by that committee. Hr.
O’NeUl stated that the bUb wbieb would be
thou prohibiting the employ-
end convict labor oo pnbuc
works, to protect servants and mechanics in
their wage*, and other like muenrro. The
educational bid weald not be called np under
thia order, _______
Pacific Railways.
The call of crania I ttau (hr motion* to ana-
wlllsere money end gat tetter varleW to uteet
put by writing ue about what,yon want,and get- ^ the rate* Mating with the committee on
^^raSStSid SJwtwSTte SLdUtfhlto Pacific railways, Mr. Richardson of Tenneeeee,
gT Muacothlkpapu. I vabehalf-f that committee, withe,. / sa.
molten made by him on tbe last committee
•ntpenaion day to anspend the mica and pat
on Its passage the bill requiring the Northern
Pacific to pay the cut of conveying and sur
veying its land grant, and in lien thereof,
moved to suspend the ruin and adopt resolu
tions setting apart the 5th and 8th of June for
the consideration of business reported by the
committee.
Mr. Richardson explained that more impor
tant measures that would be called up were
tho Joint resolution providing for
the investigation of tbe aooounte
«( .,„*he Paciflo railroads, end
the bill providing for the tending of the debt
* of those roads.
Hr. Crisp, of Georgia, said that the action of
the committee in reporting the tending bill
had been greatly misrepresented in soma
quarters, ter some purposes, and while he
knew that this wu not the time te diaonu the
queatlon on ite merite, yet ha took the oppor-
(unity to put on record the anhstanee of that
Important meawtre. At the present time the
raeifiecompxnie* owed the government $102,-
eOgjOOOJbut thb debt would not be due until
!?!L33! edel * w “ ffrtrtrinff »t the rate of
$I,000,000eyeer, end in 1698 would amount
to $128,500,000. Before the government could
be paid, the co-npenlca must pay an ontatand-
ing debt—which wu * prior lien—
which, added to the government
debt, would amount to $193,000,000. The prop
erty, from the hut information tho committee
could get, eonld he bnilt today forfone-half tho
money. Iftherewu default In payment of
thelrflrrtmortuge bonda, what would be the
remit? The franchises woold be sold and the
government would get literally nothing. For
many years there had been suggestions made
In regard to nroteoting the intonate of the
governmental these greet corporations. In
1878 the Thurman act had been passed, bat
the results expected from It had not been re
alized. By reason or th* building of compet
ing liner, tbe recelpte of the reeds had fallen
offend while there had been noincreeiein the
percentage paid into the sinking tend, there
had been no great increase in the
amonnt. Something most be done
to protect the' government Tbe
committee bad i thonght thet the first
thing to do wu to try to benefit tho govern
ment security. It bad thonght that tho ques
tion wu not to mt oh a question of when the
S jvernment shonli I he paid, u it wu a qnos-
on of certainty of payment IIe wu awnre
thet when looking to tbe prejudice which hod
been excited by tl e bed practicu of the com*
panics In tbe put' rare not nlwsya able to take
a burincu view of bo question. Tho commit
tee, he thonght, hi d token inch a view. It
had provided that Ihig debt which would be
due in 1898, ehonh be divided into one hun
dred end forty porta, two of whloh should be
paid each year, beginning immediately. Thb
wu twelvq yearn before the government
would receive earthing under tbe exist
ing tew, Undi r this plan, instead
ef waiting 12 yean before receiving a dollar,
toe government wi nld begin at once receiving
$3,500,000. Before 1888 the government
would hove received about $11,000,000. The
bill provided for s partial extension and a par
tial anticipation of the debt If the comps-
niu refused to accept the provisions of the
act, toe Thurman act woula be so amended as
to increase from 25 per cent to 40 per cent the
amonnt required to be paid into the sinking
tend.
A motion to suspend the rates end adopt the
resolution wu agreed to without division.
The Interstate Commeroe BUI#
VTasuinoton, Hay 18.—[Special,]—Tho
Cnllom interstate commorco bill wu taken
up in the honse committee on commerce to
day, bnt no quorum wu present end no action
wu taken. Judge Beagan, of Texas, chalr-
of the committee, and the moat diatin-
gniahed champion of the intenteto railroad
regulation, stated te the members present that
he would prefer that both hit bill and the
Cnllom bill, u passed by the Mnate, should go
to the house together without uy recom
mendation, so that both may be telly end free
ly dteeusud IB that body. This see ms to bo
too general desire of toe committee. The
purpose of tote action will be to get on ex
pression of tbe house, if poaaibla, in favor of
the Beagan bill. If tote can bo done the
senate bill will be amended by strik
ing out ail except toe enacting clanae
and apnending thereto the Beagan bUL
The bill tons changed will be returned to
tbe senate for agreement to Ite amendment.
In tote programme, which I hare reason to ba-
lieve has been determined on by Judge Boa-
gan and his frianda,lies the danger of defeat to
all efforts at intenteto regulation by thia con
gress. Tbe senate will never agree to tha Reagan
■111. If the friends of that measure will adopt
tho Cnllom bill juatu It passed the Mnate they
can cully put It through the home.
The fatal difference between toe two houses
on toe toeoriu of railroad regulation aoetni
about to bring about a failure similar to that
which kept the lut congreu from pawing
Mtne measure on tote subject. The Keegan
bill establishes no commlaalon bnt opens
both state end federal oonrta to com
plaints again it discriminations by rallroedaud
irovldta bun penalties for the violation of
te provisions. JtsdM Beagan said tonight that
IS greatly prefkrred [hte bill. He thonght It a
better protection te the railroads u wall as to
the people. He regdrdt toe eenato'e former ef
fort* at regulation it entirely too week, and
not calculated to bring about any oontUera-
blo reform. Hr. Bckgan said further on tote
•nhteet:
"The Matte's bill bf this session te a gnat
improvement on the bill of last aeuion, and
•hows that tha Mnate la at teat brought to a
realization of the neternity of real legislation
upon this subject. Itk fourth section, u It now
stands on the aubjcdt of the long and abort
ban], la simply without meaning, u will be
demonstrated when it cornea to bedlaenaaad In
tta honse. While thia provision means noth
leg, it also contains a proviso authoris-
bo commlaaiop to determine causes in
thia rule (bail not apply, and itmaku
other ruling to have tbe force of law. It te a
matter of doubt u to whether it te not a dele
tion of legislative power to tho commission,
bar* art ateo provisions In tha bill in rala-
ablleity of ratal
The committee disclaim any intention of in
terfering with the civil service law In making
toe change above noted, while admitting that
toty would, if adopted, require changes in
rales laid down by the commissioner. It
,-rali .
makes no provision for the pay of
clerki to senators, and makes atotalredne.
tion ef 225 in the force of employu In the
government Mrvlce at the present time. The
appropriation for toe collection of internal
revenue is decreased $100,000. There are a
number of other changes of a minor charac
ter in the bill, including rednotlona in toe
■ateriea of a number of anb-tnaanrer* and in
those of the United Statu Judges in Louisi
ana and California.
Tariff Talk.
The long looked for tariff event meyoocar
next week. At any rate, that is the present
plan matured after long deliberation between
Meter*. Carlisle, Monteon, Hewitt, Mills and
other prominent tariff philosophers. When
the home la asked to consider toe biU ite op
ponents may make the lone at once, and the
tariff discussion which threatened to consume
weeks, may he ended in a few minutes. If the
question of consideration la raised a majority
of the honM will in all probability vote in tho
negative. Some of the opponents of the bill
My that sixteen majority against It te as
sured. They My that they
see no use in a long and useless
discussion which will result In striking ont
the enacting cteme of the bill. It ia better to
kill It at the start and let congress proceed
with to* other hutinees before it.
The Bouse Attacks Polygamy.
Washington, Hey 21.—The houM commit
tee on toe Judiciary today instructed Chair
man Tucker to report favorably an amend
ment to tbe constitution declaring polygamy
unlawful. There waa but on* member of the
committee who did not agree to the notion of
tho committee end he only desired farther
time to comlder it. The following te the fall
text of the amendment aa it will bo reported:
Resolved, etc., That it la aetmed necessary by
tho two houses of congreaa to propose an amend
ment to the constitution, which shall be valid to
*11 Intents and purposes as part of tbe constitution
when ratified as hereby proposed, by the teatsla-
ameodment to bo numbered and to read as fol
to-wlt;
ABTICLE XVt,
1. The marriage relation bycont
byoneperson of cither sox or mor
either sex shall bo deemed polyi
polygamy nor any polygamous sir
habitation between tne sexes ah
lawful in any place within the Jar)
United States or any of the states.
2. The United statu shall not. nor shall any
•tale, make or enforce any law which than allow
polygamy or any polygamous association oreo-
hahltallon between he sexes, but tbe ~~
Statu end every state, shall prohibit tha
tew within their respective Jurisdiction.
a. The judlelal power of tbe Uniter
or tn fact
i oneot
neither
Ited states
crimes of
the like services by the seed it tho »m* time.
The Mnate committee, daring toe recess of
congrua, collected a greet deal of valuable In
formation, and bev* given ns a bill with aoina
valuable provision* in it, bnt toe biU in tha
main will not effect the parpen required
end will not remedy the evils complained of.
ItietobebmiedthatwewiUhesbte te rem
edy these defects whan the bill cornu np in
toe honse. Thee* are sqmo of the mein fu
ture* of tola bill. Than are many othara to
which Ido not care to call attentien Just now.”
Appropriation Billa.
Washington, Hay 10.—LagialaUva, execu
tive and Judicial appropriation bill as agreed
upon by boon committee on appropriations,
and aa it will ha reported to the home by Ur.
Holman tomorrow, appropriates $20,658,119,
being (813,(85 ten than the appropriation for
currant fiscal year and $8t8JM0 leu than eati-
matea. The appropriation for civil service
commioion rauuni Qnebundf Is $21,•
400 ia appropriated for salaries, bnt it I* pro
vided that the appropriation shall be available
only when the rate* of the civil aervte*
commission an to framed it that
toe nan of ell applicants for official appoint
ment from any ont atate found duly qualified
on examination, and without regard to age,
■hall beaent to the heed of tbe department,
or other officer charged with making aa ap
pointment.
There wu no contest In the committee over
thia clatne, or the elans following later. In
regard to penaloa examiners, ten it ia under
stood that toe republican members of the
committee will oppose them on the floor of
the booMs
The provisiou of last yur’s bill making an
appropriation for one hundred and fifty
special examiners in the penalon eflaais ro
an acted with aa amendment providing that
thayahaU he appointed by tha seereterrof toe
Interior on toe recommendation of tha com
missioner of penalon*. Under the existing
tew toty are mkjtet to civil Mrvico rules.
and congreu shall have power to dorian bv tew
tbe punishment therefor.
4. Nothing In tbe constitution nor In tola
article shall be construed to deny to any Mate tbe
nclnslve power, subject to tbemrovtsloni ol this
article, to make and enforce all laws concerning
marriage and divorce within Ite Jurisdiction or to
vest In tbs United Statu any power respecting tho
•erne within any state.
The Marine Hospital Doreen.
Washington, Hay 19.—Themnrin* hospital
bureau has received reports showing that toe
cholera, In a violent form, has appeared In the
riltegu of Bretagne, France, where flahermen
aaaamble In large numbers in the spring time
end live together nnder unfavorable condi
tions. Haraaillu it ateo laid to be in ado-
plorabie aanltera condition, and toe mortality
record for toe first three months of the prea-
•nt year te greeter than for any preceding
year, being at the rate ef forty-eight In every
1,000 of population. The cholera te reported
to have made its appearance in that city.
The Senate This Week.
Washington, May 23.—Tho morning hours
of the Mnate during the week will probably
be occupied In work upon toe miscellaneous
calendar. The bankruptcy bill lathe unfin
ished business, and will be laid before tho
Mnate at two o’clock tomorrow. Some time
during toe day Senator Plumb will ask that
Ue pending business be teld aside and the Dis
trict of Columbia appropriation bill be taken
np and patted. Probably too military acad
emy appropriation bill, already onoe reported
and recommitted, will again be reported end
ptaeed before tho end of the wook. If the
cancua committee’s order of buaineM te fol
lowed toe Du Moinu river end tend bill and
toe open executive session resolutions will bo
taken np In turn after to* bankruptcy bill la
disposed of. Senators Sewell and |VanWyek
win, however, make attempts to Mt aside thia
order of boalneaa., toe former te call np the
Fitgjehn Porter bill and tha latter to ask con
sideration of to* bill for taxing railroad lands.
Tha Dunn free ahlpe bill, end toe general
appropriation billa will occupy toe attention
orthebonM during Ue present week. The
legislative appropriation bill wilt be taken np
tomorrow after the call of atatu for toe proa
duetlon of bUte, bnt Ite consideration will be
interrupted Tutoday and Wednesday by da-
bate on the free ship bill. Thursday will bo
contain ad In general dbenaalon of the legisla
tive bill, bnt It te probable toe week will
expire with tote measure atlll before the
house. During toe morning bents, if tools
there should be, toe strength of the biU pro
viding for the new naval eatebltehmant will
ha totted Indirectly in tha disposition made of
the resolution to fix certain days for ite eon-
■Mention.
The report of toe committee on civil Mr
vlce reform, on the Jeffersonville levM Inves
tigation, may be ceiled np for action about the
middle of to* week, bnt will be quickly dis
posed of. .
GRANT A "S TUB PICKETS.
A New Story Tolu by the General Himself
. Concerning estrange Adveotnra.
From Gnat's Memories, Second Volume.
After we had secured tot opening ol s line
ovtr which to bring our supplies to tbe army I
mad* a personal inspection to sac tho situation or
tha plekata of to* two armlet. Aa I havo staled,
Chattanooga creek oomts down tbe center at tbe
valley te within a mite or seeb e nutter of the
town of Chattanooga, than basis off westerly, then
northwesterly, and enter* the Tennessee river et
the foot of Lookout mountain. Thia creak, from
Is month np to where It bears off west, ley between
to* two lints of pickets, and the guards of both
armies drew their water from tho aante stream.
Aa I would be under short-range fir* and In an
open country, I took nobody with me, except, I
believe, a boiler, who stayr
rear. I rode from out rift
ousldal*burd t |haeauf > 'rrpreM>i
tbe commanding gntaral.” I
mind tha gnard," and they we
went bask to their tenta. Jnsth
on their port call]
the guard for tho I
I believe, added "d
mi meat front-foe
r«tc a salute, nl.
I The most friend!
twftn tho pickets
there wax a tree
stream, and which waa Hi
armies In dnwiog water foe
i need by the mid lam of both
.It dlOffiKi* am eat
uniform. Seeing a aotdlar In Mm on tote teg, I rod*
up te him, commenced convening with him, end
poUtej^tenStegLa hatfome, laid* hebeloo?
«d to General Longstratt'a corps, leaked him a
few qwesioni-bofnot with a rtew of gaining any
particular information—all of which he enawar-
ed, end I rod* off.
Why toe Cats We* Dismissed.
From the Washington Critic.
A youni man had boan arraatad for kissing
• pretty ilib end aha waa onto* wilwtts Hand.
“You ray,’’said tha attorney ter too flefoniiani.
n Timed yon against yoor
“Wil>, now. kit not trot that yuo also kimad
him Coring the affrayr
Objct tad to; rijectlon overrated.
"Few. answer my question," continued tod
tttnrsey,
CONSTITUTIONALS.
We sat on tot conrtJionse steps, in tha gloaming
of an April day. There were beside* toeontor.a
Judge, a railroader, and old murder. The conver
sation tamed on fish sad fishing, and right there,
in toe softened gloam of too shadowy twilight,
etch truthful narrator gave free rein to hia remi
niscent imagination.
Bald toe Judge; "The sweetest fish In tola world
telkeblM bream. They are a fine fish lor sport,
too. I know how wo naed te bait them. We
would take a handle ol wheat, ran a long pole
with* sharp end into; toe band, add with toe
heads downward we woold sink the wheat to toe
bottom of an eddy where we knew to* bream In
habited. The sharp end lot toe Stake wonldbe
forced Into the earth at toe bottom, ao tost toe
wheat waa confined In oao place end eonld be re-
movcd>rt pleasure. After It bad sprouted and toe
fish became attracted by It, we would go there
very quietly and removing toe stake with toe
wheat attached, and drop In our hooka. Yon
never taw such biting In all your lift.|
‘T like trout fishing toe beat," said the railroad
er, “and toe finest sport I ever had waaon toe
noride takes. Just get a doxen food-alxed gonad*
and ebnndle of stout oord. Ordinary fish lino la
not strong enough for Florida inters. Knot toe
end of the cord, boro a small hole In the gourd and
poke the knotted end of too cord In too hole, end
then drive a peg In light, so aa to earinde too
water and keep tha cord attached to the gourd. Of
oourte your hooka must bo stout,
and when all la ready, book on a good-sited
perch or roach, always book nnder too back fin,
Just above toe aplnal column If you want them to
live long and play nicely, and then rtart around,
throwing out a tourd every forty or fifty fleet. By
toe lime your rirolo la completed, you will sec two
or three (ourdsbobklliia about riabt lively, and if
you can get there ahead of toe alligators yon will
soon have yoor boat loaded with trout It Is mag
nificent sport, and you may keep It up until yon
ere tired. I don't believe the flab are an good aa
ours, bnt toe (tin te Just aa good, and that's what
fishermen go In for."
Tbe old rounder tilted bis chair back and Ob
served, “Well, gentlemen, If I were to rtat* my
preference, I would say bobbing for red finned pike
wu the rarest sport. They don't do much till
June, but whan they do get In toe humor there la
more genuine amusement In a pike than any I
ever tried. And they'll blto to anything. Jut
eboOMS laay, hot day, and find a little creaked
stream wl'h lota of deep pools and eddies In (ho
ben da, and go down about ten o’clock in toe day.
Gel* stout book with e long shank and light
•inker, and shorten your line until yon can reach
the little black pools where toe vine* end busbu
bang lowest Almost any sort of bait will do to
rtart with,* few “sawyers" or aometolng of tho
•ort. You will catch one after a white, and toon
yon are all right. BUceoff s largo pteoo of toe
white belly, with toe little abort red flu attached.
Insert your book In toe and of it, and then troll It
•round, either skimming toe tnrfsce or babbling it
along about afoot deep, units toe humor of tho
flab. There is no apart so exolUng, and tbe fisb are
food fit for eking. About two o'clock they will
cum rising, but by tost time yon will hare had
•port enough fbr one day. Plenty ot
books and a steady band and
your luck ia assured In plko fishing,”
“Speakingof game fitoi” remarked too Judges
he swapped tobacco with too railroader, "tbowaw-
mouth perch beats all for biting. When I wu a
young follow I used to bunt deer in south Georgia.
Down about too Waveriug ponds, below Albany,
wu fine ground for still hunting, and I naed to In
dulge myself In some rare sport there. Ono after
noon I bed killed * little buck, and, allnging him
across my shoulder, I Muted for home. For too
sake of a abort cut I decided to wade
through cue of too ponds. My breeches
tegs had becomo tattered and fringed by
tbs wild roM bushes, and u tha water begun td
get about knee deep I kept fooling something poll
ing and twitching at my trousers. I paid little at
tention to it until I emerged from toe water, whan
looking down I beheld with amassment Haifa
dozen large waw-moutb perch clinging to too tat
ters on either leg. They had got splashed with
blood from toe daar, and too fish had bit at them
and were so hungry that they held on, waw-moutb
like, until I carried them high and dry to toe
shore. Beat any flih over I uw for grit and detor-
mlnatlon.''
The and lance wu electrified by tote yam, but the
railroader and toe rounder saw that toe gauntlet
bad been thrown down, m they eccoptod the chal
lenge. Bald too railroader; “I tell you what’a t
fact I wu building a railroad In south Florida,
and tha provision wagons, tn bringing ntloiui bom
the Utile town had to erou a UUte croak. Tbe
water wu u clear u crystal, and you could almost
count to* grains of aandoo tha bottom. Now, you
may balltvo it, or not, bnt I'U be hangad If too
trout didn’t team toe wagons ao well that
thay woold .rang* thcmMlroa in Una
either tide of toe ford and
when a wagon passed aerou they would tali In
behind u thick u your fingers, end if * grain of
com dropped, they would fight like wUdoataoru
If
“Did yon ever bear how old John Knight said
bla father camo to Georgia?" remarked toe Judge,
parenthetically, “Old John told that bit fa'.bet
lived In toe backwoods of North CaroUna, and the
first Iwo-bone wagon he ever uw be took eitet It.
He became m abaorbad In the question of bow far
H would rdn before tot big wheels overtook too
little ones tost be followed It clur to Augusta,
Georgia, before.be gars out and bad to stop. He
dld'nt knew toe way keek and bed to ttey."
This ureatm bad tta effect, but toe old
rounder must be board, failing a mediteUvo
glance toward where to* ran bad gone down, bo
began: “Well, gentlemen, 1 bad * Ultl* experi
ence of my own, onco. I went down on toe Chat
tahoochee river, In Decatur county, to visit an old
Mend. He bad often teld me of toe splendid (lab-
leg there, and 1 wu anilous to try It, It was Into
In to* evening when i got there, end I retired
early, to u to be reedy for tbe (tan neat day.
I naked bow far it wu to tbe creek, and toty told
me It wu only a raw hundred yards; Just beyond
toe fence. By light, next morning, I sna np, and
secured a good tackle and a few sawyers, I started
off toward to* creek. The fngwu so beery, for it
wu wood's burning time, that I could not many
distance ahead of ma, and so I groped my way as
heat I eonld aerou toe Utile clearing. Reaching
to* fence I climbed over, and Picking my way
carefully, for I did not want
to fall In tka creek, I prooetded alowly down the
slop* until I thought I most be near the water’*
edge. Baiting my book I threw It forward, sod
Jest about lima enough for It te strike toe water I
foil a poll, and with a Jerk tbrooght In a Una fel
low. For ten minute* I stood there end polled
them te, end then, tearing that I woold spoil
one day’s sport, I regretfully retired, and
by acctdanl I rear' ad tho be«M through toe log.
After brrrkfkrt to* fog lifted and wo got ready
for a day's ■ ujoyatnl. Yon may lmtgtao my sur
prise, whan, ongolug to the place where I had
caught M many early in the morning, I found that
Uwu a foil hundred yard* from the bank of tho
creek. The troth to, I had not touched the water,
bnt lost stood there and caught them out of too
fog.”
A deep silence fell on to* audieoee, and without
a word tha tuamtiy disputed. M.M.F.
LEMON ELIXIR.
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