Home Titles The morning news. July 10, Image 1 The morning news. Savannah, Ga. Below is the OCR text representation for this newspapers page. It is also available as plain text as well as XML. Hemphill of South Carolina I tad made an earnest but u; successful effurl I to call up the District of Columbia business, I the house went into committee of the whole I mth Mr.
Springer in the chair on tho tariff I bill, the pending question being on Mr. I Cannon's amendment. Wilkinson of Louisiana desired to I correct what he declared to be misstate I [Dents made by gentlemen on the other side Ito the effect that the sugar industry of B Louisiana was a languishing industry.
It had been called a corpse, but if that were so It was the live- H Lost corpse the world had ever heard of. Holmes that a I gigantic sugar trust was gotten up for the Hfencfit of 1, planters of Louisiana. Rut he knew now that on a day after the original bill had been l, Mr. This agreement Mb M iUlman Falls In Idno. Stewart Advances a Monstrous Proposition in the Senate.
Washington, July 9. Stewart against the frequent exercise of the veto power by tho President. Admitting that they wore all wrong, that the committees of "both houses had been remiss In their duties and that the two houses had not been attentive to their responsibilities, still he asked whether the necessity was so great as to warrant the executive department of the j government to assume legislative power. No reason could be suggested why the form of government should be changed to save suen a pittuuce.
Vest characterized Mr. To hold anything else in respect to the veto power would be to render that provision of the constitution absolutely nugatory, and make the govern ment that which Mr. Hamilton iutended to make it, a government of unlimited con gressional power. The novel proposition that the amount involved in the bill had anything to do with the construction of the constitution was absolutely without founda tion.
