Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-05-09
NAVAL APPROPRIATION BILL.
1t IL Considered by the House This
Afternoon.

Afternoon.
In the House today, after the reading of
yesterdays journal the Speaker laid before
the House certain Senate bills and resolu-
lions. Among these was a resolution for
the printing Of 5000 copies Of the euiosies
Of the late Randall Lee Gibson. Senator
from Louisiana, and Mr. Richardson asked
unanimous consent for it's consideration.
No objection was made, but Mr.. Reed and
Mr.. Burrows took occasion to express the
hope that a stop would soon be put to this
useless expenditure Of money. Mr. Burrows
thought that members Of Congress never
read the eulogies, but either gave them
away or threw them away. At least. he
knew II was so In his own case The reso-
luton was then agreed to.
Several Bills Passed,
Mr.. Brookshire Qnd) called up the House
bill to reimburse E. H. Nebeker, late treas
urer Of the United States. for the loss Of
$1,000 note, which occurred in the redemp-
ton division of the treasury The money
was sent from the subtreasury at New
York. and was marked as containing fifty
one $1,000 notes, but when counted after
pa ssiLg through the redemption division
there were only fifty notes in the package
and the treasurer was obliged to make
good the shortage. The bill was passed
Mr.. Bingham Pa.) sought to secure con-
siceration Of the House joint resolution for
the relief OF Peter Hagan. Objection was
made and 1t was temporarily laid aside.
Mr.. Forman Qll) called UP the House
bill to authorize the East ST. Louis and St
Louis Bridge and Construction Company
to build bridge across the Missouri river
at st. Louis, and the bill was passed.
On motion Of Mr.. Wilson fWAsh.). House
bill. granting to the Columbia Irrigation
Company the right of way through the
Yaquima Indian reservation was passed.
Mr.. Haugen (Wis.) called up the House
bill for the erection of a fog signal at Su-
perior Head light station, Wis.,, and 1t was
passed.
The Naval Appropriation Bill.
The regular order being demanded COM
mittees were called for reports.
At 1:05 pm. Mr.. Cummings in charge of
the naval appropriation bill, moved that the
House go into committee of the whole to
consider the bill. and pending that moved
to limit general debate to three hours
The Time for Debate.
After some discussion he amended his mo-
ton by inserting four hours instead of
three, and on this demanded the previous
question. The republicans began to fill
buster.
Before the filibuster had proceeded very
far Mr.. Cummings had consultation with
was that he agreed to extend the time of
general debate to seven hours, three and one
half hours on each side The House then
went into committee Of the whole CMr
Richardson of Tennessee In the chair.
Prior to going into committee of the whole
Mr.. Springer. chairman of the committee
on barking and currency, reported favor
ably bis bill to suspend the taxation of 10
per cent on state bank issues during the
money stringency, and gave notice that he
would call up tn. bill for consideration a
week from today.
Mr.. Cox (Tenn.), member Of the same
committee, gave notice that when the bill
was called up he would offer an amendment
to repeal for all time the 10 per cent state
bank tax.
Mr. Walker Mass.) criticised the habit of
scaling down the estimates, as has been
done by the democratic party. 1t gave a
false idea Of the economic policy of the DEM
ocratic party, for 1t was the same old
1000. 900 which was Topped OF every year
1t was particularly disastrous during DEM
ocratic regime. for the heads of the de-
partments, knowing that a democratic Con-
gross would not make large appropriations,
cut down their estimates to the lowest fig
ure