Kansas City daily journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1892-1897, 1895-01-09
NO SHOW FOR LEAVENW0RTH,
The Military Prison VIII Certainly Pass
From Under the War Depart
ment's control,

Washington. Jan. S.-(Specal) The ac-
ton taken in the house to-day relative to
the military prison at Fort Lcavenworth
makes 1t reasonably certain that the prison
will pass from the hands OF the war de-
partment into the hands OF the department
OF Justice by act of this congress.
The friends OF the administration on the
floor Of The house took snap judgment this
morning on those not in favor of the pro-
posed change. II had been understood ear
ly in the day that Chairman cultivate. OF
the military committee. and Chairman Say
ers. Of the committee on appropriations.
contemplated doing something relative to
the matter but they were careful not to
allow 1t to he known what they proposed
to do An effort was made to apprisc
Judge Reybourn. OF Pennsylvania. Of the
fact as he had been enlisted against the
change through his fathcr-ip-law, Judge
Crozierof LeaNenworth, who has been here
some time iishtng IL. But Mr.. Reybourn
could not be found. and In the meantime
Judge Frederick made an effort to do all he
could to defeat the plan But this failed. as
cultivate insisted upon carrying out the
programme In conformity to this. Judge
Sayers offered a resolution allowing the
committee on rules to permit the committee
on appropriations to consider the matter
and place the provision in the sundry civil
bill. When this was offered, Judge SaNcrs
insisted that the change suggested would
prove a saving to the government of over
500 0po and even more.
Judge Br0derck said that as the matter
Is In the hands Of the military committee,
he would like to have that committee
handle the matter in its own time He also
suggested that the snap Judgment plan
would not allow q careful consideration of
the proposed change, ana suggested that
it was wrong to make this disposal Of the
question.
General Curtis, Of New York. said that
the change should be made. and in the alb
sence of the proposed step the provision
could not be added to the sundry civil bill.
and If it could not. it WAS very doubtful
If the plans OF the department could be
carried ont at all at this session.
Representative GrOsvcnor. OF Ohio, also
suggested that the resolution should pass.
Representative Pickler did not favor the
resolution and insisted that the plan to
make general United States prison at
that point would prove more expensive
than TO continue the business of the de-
partmcnt as at present.
Representative Simpson got in his work
on certain hopulist politicians residing in
Leavenworth who had not taken kindly to
his plans in the past by injecting the re-
mark that the prison would he run in the
interest of the United States, and not in
the interest of the people of LeaVenworth.
He was in favor of the United States doing
its own business without reference to what
the people OF that city might want done.
The vote showed the house strongly in fav-
or of the resolution. This enables the com
mittee on appropriations to inject the plan
into the sundry civil bill, and thus get it
through the house.
Judge Crozier is not Mt all pleased with
the ambush methods employed in the mat
ter, and in this spirit he is joined by Judge
Broderick and others, who had been enlist
ed on that side of the question. 1t now ap-
pears that it is reasonably certain that
the provision will get through the senate,
despite the work being done on Senator
Martin to induce him to block it there.