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Show Sl ITE IM) IIOISI-. rbe snndrjr 4 iell appropriation lllllnnil other Jlatlrr. Wasiiisgtos:, July Is. In the Senate, after uidmisirtant busim-s consder"tlou of th sundry ilil appropriallon bill was re-umed, the lending question being on the ameudment repealing thn irrigation provision in a like bill of Octobtr, 1SSS, jrovlding that reservoir and canal sites htntofore located and selected shall remain segregated and reserved from tutrj or settlement. settle-ment. Keu!,'au contluuisl his argument, legunetiterda,agalnst the amendment amend-ment aud in favor of the irrigation scheme initiated by thu act of Is-;,. It was because he cou'J not bo used bj simulators In pul lie lands tiiat war had been made uiwu lum. Stewart Does the senator from Texasa-cribo that motive to me? Beagan I have not said a word about tue senator from Nevada, nor have I bad him on in. mind. I was referring to the general sul jett,and to tin fatt that duriug the early I art of thL Congress rej resentallves of fnuicattd and coirorations wire here urging a reeal of this law, aud threatening to bring their power to bear on meinliers ol Congo.-. stiwart Will tht senator name tome agtnt of some ndicate.' Bcagan I have no doubt tht senator from Nevada Know s as m ilj of them as I do. I hive no disposition dispo-sition lo engage in jtrsoiaiIities either with agents or claimants, or senators btewart No representative of anj syndicate or of an icrtlou tf the laud has mentioned the suhjcit to me at this se-siim. Theuulv thing that II is ishlkm-M) Ml has li n my ow n obstrvation and protests tint have come from the tx-ople against hiving public land withdrawn from the market. lleagan These laud sharks may liavt thought me weak, leu Hire, !e-sde voted to the p.ib!ic inttres, tlinn tbt benator from Ntvuda, and ma) therefore have approached me whin tlit did not deem the dared to iiproatii him. When ni talk of iiulilic sentiment wcouhht to have tin senlimtut of tin cultivators culti-vators of the soli aud not of the 1 tnd s-cuIators who coiubiut their Influence, In-fluence, nelivit andwealth to make members of ( ougre-ss believe their own Inlin-sts and theirown feeliugs am thost of till ieo If. Mien said that vi nhin the count r designated as and region tin re v as a opulatioii of betwetll two and time millions. The-se great coin munitlesha I tlieguaruiteuof laws which had ixu'ed up to this time, but sudden! and vi ithout a note of warning two-fifths of the are-a of the United Males had been reserved from settlement. In ordir to consummate con-summate that pohc Mati lined mid Ttnllorlal lines would have to be obllterateil and ve'sted rights alo-lutel alo-lutel iuore-d lit irnesll ro-tctesl ro-tctesl agiiust -ucli le-gi-latiou eiLi-siN svil hi ns-Miu i to put hinistlf on recird igaiust any apjiropriatii u being maile in tlie din-e Hon of tiintiuuiiig tho irrigation irriga-tion surv, v Hi was firmly convinced con-vinced that an immedlati stop should be put to thatsurvev. The result of its continuance will It to involve the government III moral ousexs.uditun-s and entangle .nent. fter fuitliir discusslun b Plumb, toekrell, Tellerands-teuart tlio a.nendmcnt was agreed Ib An item of S;M W0 for the imga-ting imga-ting sum. s,i(rji) for tngriving maps and Jhm for ollicv rent in Washington was stricken out and the billhtidas le Mlis.n giving notice tint he woul i ask tliu Senate to rtmaiii in session tomorrow until it was completed. A confenme wasonltreil on the lanu forfeiture bill Adjourned IInt.sr. W'VSI'IM.TON, Julv IS Till House couimitit on ruh-s reported a resolution providing that the Home shall Immediate! proceed to the consideration of the original package bill The previous question to lie onsidtred oniereii Aloud i after the reading of tht journal, that tho 11 oust shall consider the bankruptcy bill, thu previous ques tion to !e consMtred onlircd Wcdnoda after tho leading of the journal Breckinridge Uv ) raised the question of e-oie-idention. Tilt Hou-edecidesI eaa 1 1 j, nays 53 lo cousidtr the resolution. (Jut hundred hun-dred and tw entv four members we re anuoiiiice-d as airs. Hie resolution was modified siis In provide that approved ap ropria-tion ropria-tion bills shall not interfere with consideration of tht two bills adopted adopt-ed TIIKOUIC.IN L I VCKAC.l mil was thin taken up I.. B Tn lor said that never had sueh a blow lietn givtn State rights as thcasxirtaiumiiit that under the Constitution citizens of a foreign State might take into another State any prois.rt that via- sulject of commerce aud thiruselllt without liabillt or taxation W liile he preferred pre-ferred the Hou'e substitute, he fi-.insl that its adoption would in danger legislation, eojiiscquently ho advocated Hit Senate I ill Culberson (Tex ) said that if Iowa coul 1 prohibit tlie imjiortatioii of intoxicating liquor, it could exclude tnbacco.aud it con id go further than guaranteeing the health and morals of itsiitlzeus. It could protect Its com productions against tliosu of other states It would be belter to amend the Constitution til ill to maugli Itby uiikeshift. dams (III ) did not believe a reined for the original lackago sa-I sa-I ion could be found in either of tht proposed measures. Hi argues! in fivorof tnt siiU-titutt, defining au original package of intoxicating liquors as a cast containing not Ifs than a dole n bottle-sand not containing contain-ing less than five gallon.1 Ileed (la ), whoso decision as judge was overruled by tht decision of the Supreme Court, "noke in favor of the ropostd legislation. If any rtllef was to lie given the I eople from the wrong aud evil to society growing out of the decision of tlie supreme Court, It la in the direction of the penulng bill. The delegated no powir to the btati. The merely exercl-ed a pontr delega'ed to Congress to reguL to COMMERCE AJlONGST THE STVTIJ. Henderson ( la.) sai J that no decision de-cision leudered by the Supreme Court since that court had decided that a human soul was a p-optr article of merchandl-t had so excited ex-cited the people of the couutry as the original package decision. No good citizen would fall to sutinlt to tho decision of the court, but be (Henderson) wuuld not fc't down with folded bands and wait until the Supreme Court made ldm another an-other decision. W bile he was will-ing will-ing to recognizu the decision as law, he was unwilling to sit still one moment mo-ment and submit to the operation of that decision If there was a lawful remedy, and hu believed there was. Let tbe gentlemen not forget that the Supreme Court, lu throwiug this thunderbolt into the republic, dli Dot fa'I tosendwith It a cure. It cried out lo Congress "While we believe this to if our duty, we Is leve it yoar daty to rimed the evil." Ibe people of the country appealed to C.ongres for actloil Pending further dt-bate the Home tookarece. Nothing w as done at tbe evening session, Euloe raising the pclnt ol no quorum. |