Show FORrYNlNTH CONGRESS SEXAIE WASHINGTON January 20Jones Arkansas Ar-kansas from the committee on Indian affairs reported the two Senate bills granting the right of way to the Spokane Spo-kane Helouse and Washington Idaho Railroad Companies through the Ccetlr DAlene Indian Reservation CHlendar Hoar called up the conference report which was agreed tg without discussion and without division and then on mo tibn of Edmunds went into executive session Alter the secret I1 session the Senate adjourned V HOUSE WASHINGTON January 20 At 2 oclock the House resumed consideration considera-tion of ihe conference report on the interstate commerce bill and an understanding un-derstanding was arrived at whereby a session was ordered for tonight for the discussion of the report at the clpse of which session the previous question shall be considered as oraered and a vote on the adoption of the report re-port be taken tomorrow morning after reading the journal The House passed the resolution call on the secretary of the Treasury to inform in-form the House of the sums of money which were owing to the United States on the 1st of January 1837 from Pacific railroads The object of tIm resolution is to get at the Opinion of the Treasury Department as to the effect of the passage pass-age of the House funding bill In its report the committee says legislation is pending to secure to the United States all indebtedness ofjthe companies alluded to in the resolution No information can be obtained from any reports made by the department as to the amounts owing the government from the companies later than June 30 1886 It is very desirable and almost necessary that the House be informed as to the true state of their accounts Brought down to as late a date as may be had in order that there may be a fair and intelligent consideration of such a measure The judgment of theSe the-Se retary of the Treasuryas to the effect and result of the provisions of the bill should it become law isalso greatly to be desired so that the House may have the same before it previous to acting on the measure The following committee reports were submitted and referred By Hill from the committee on Territories Ter-ritories the Senate bill for the admission admis-sion of the State of Washington House calendar By Cox North Carolina from the committee on foreign > > affairs for the suppression of the opium traffic House calendar By ONeil Pennsylvania from the committee on library for the completion comple-tion of the monument to Mary mother of Washington at Fredericksburg Committee of the whole By Wmans Michigan from the committee com-mittee on agriculture authorizing the commissioner of agriculture to make a special distribution of seed in the droughtstricken sections of Texas Committee of the whole I In tile debate on the intersbte tom mercecbill Long Massachusetts spoke in favor of striking out the fourth section sec-tion of the bill Its meaning was uncertain un-certain and its effect would be injurious inju-rious To strike it out would not harm the bill in fact it would be just as strong without it Crisp inquired whether the provision of the fourth section was not the law in Massachusetts LoTg Itis practically Crispu Practically you forbid discrimination dis-crimination in Massachusetts 1 C LongUBut we do not have the interest in-terest of the coast at stake Warner Ohio and Holman Indiana I supported the conference report and then the House took a recess until 730 pm AT THE EVENING SESSION there was a very small attendance i Morrow California protested against the enactment into law of the provisions of the long and short haul section as being inimical to the interests of the people peo-ple of the Pacific Coast McKenna California could not consent con-sent to the patsage ofthe bill without protesting against legislatIOn which was so detrimental the interests of California Cali-fornia as the legislation which was proposed pro-posed in the fourth section Mr Anderson Kansas said that the railroad system of the country was under un-der the control of a few men who had the power and last year exercised that power of collecting from the people of the United States 75G000000 some two or three times as much as the government gov-ernment collected These men had been beyond any control except their own general cussedness The question presented was whether government should put itself by law between the people and the rapacity of the railways Mr Rowell Illinois replied to many of the criticisms advanced against the bill and argued that the courts and commission would have little difficulty in placing a proper interpreta upon the provisions of the measure Mr Henderson Iowa conceded that some injury might be inflicted upon his section by the long and short haul clause but he did not believe the commercial com-mercial interests of 60000000 people should be controlled and regulated solelv by the dividend interest en a few men If any of the features of the bill proved hurtful it could be amended when Congress met in December next He would vote for this bill without a moments hesitation without faltering and without fear After debate the House adjourned at 1040 pm |