Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 June 1890 — ORIGINAL PACKAGE MEASURE. [ARTICLE]

ORIGINAL PACKAGE MEASURE.

Points That Trouble the House Judiciary Committee. There seems to be a very wide divergence of opinion held by members of the House committee on judiciary respecting the propriety of adopting the Wilson original package amendment to the interstate-com-merce law. Some of the stanchest prohibitionists in the House are notsoeager for the amendment as they were some time since, believing that its adoption will result in the final overthrow of the prohibL tion law, and then the high-license principle appears to be gaining ground sq rapidly that the amendment may fail in the House, even though it should bo reported. The most weighty objection laid, against the Wilson amendment is that it carries the State back to the days of confederation and gives them too much Stale’s rights power; that if it should be adopted there would bo a constant centralisation of power in the States, eventually resulting disastrously to the federal interests of tb« country.