| Show In the House WASHINGTON July 10 McKae of Arkansas Introduced a ioint resolution directing the secretary sec-retary of the interior to suspend the issue of patents for lands to the Union Pacific until the adjustment of the debt due the United States from aia company and authorizing the attorney attor-ney general to institute such legal proceedings as may be in his opinion necessary to subject tlje lands granted to and held by said company to the payment of the debt due the United States Referred to the committee on public lands The House resumed consideration of the oricinal package bill Thompson of Ohio said that i was contended the bill would violate the constitution and was an attempt to delegate t the states power conferred con-ferred upon Congress He did not so understand under-stand It He regarded it as a simple regulation of euimnerce of the power of Congress to regulate regu-late commerce among the states not a delegation delega-tion of that power I did not interfere nth interstate commerce but provided that an article ar-ticle imported Into a state when offered for sale should become subject to the law cf the state Lshlbach of Xew Jersey said that intemperance intemper-ance never hadbccn rooted out by legislation JiYom his own personal observation he was satisfied that intemperance was on the decline This was largely due to the use Of that mild beverage beer To prohibition fanatics however how-ever this was the aeiesicd of all stimulants He btlieved the substitute propeily administered adminis-tered would meet requirements There was one sure way In which the people of Kansas and Iowa could get rid of original package Sioresandthativas not to pay or recognize them Hayes of Iowa opposed the legislation pro lemming a little liberty to a great deal of sentimental senti-mental state rights He contended that the prohibition law of Iowa was not enforced and hence from observation made from a recent visit made to his state there were not any original pckae saloons in Iowa at least he had not seen one nor had he heard of one being there until he returned to Washington Perkins of Iowa believed In the constitution ality audpropriety of the proposed legislation This was not a quctionof prohibition orof high license or low licenser it was a question whether the people in their state organization had the right to protect their home friends and families famil-ies from unlicensed unrestrained unrestricted mm traffic The original package decision might affect Republican slates alone at resent but in a little time all thc states would be infested in-fested by lawless characters who thought that with original package stores license laws and local option laws would be violated There ought not to be a vote cast against the proposed legislation After further debate the House took a recess The evening session is to be for debate only Holman introduced in the House a resolution calling upon the secretary of the interior for a statement of the amount of land patented or certified to each of the land grant corporations of the Union Pacilic system and requesting him I I to suspend the issue of patents and certificates pending further action by Congress Representative Henderson of Iowa from the committee on appropriations reported to the I House a general deficiency appropriation bill I the last of the regular appropriation bills |
