The herald., 1896-04-19
IN CONGRESSIONAL HALLS
Last Tributes Paid to the Memory OIL
Cogswell
The Lsst Appropriation Bill Reported to the
touse-rhe Goat Island Training
School Provided For

WASHINGTON, April 1S.-The house
today paid tribute to the memory of the
late Representative Cogswell of Massa-
chusetts. Gen. Cogswell was one of the
most popular members of the house.
He was generous, big-hearted and lov-
able, and all who came in contact with
him were charmed with his personality.
The tributes to his memory today re-
Elected the high esteem in which he was
held and departed from the stock eulo-
gies customarily delivered on such oc-
casions. His career as a soldier and a
statesman and the nobility of his char
acter We're eloquently and warmly por-
trayed.
Before the eulogies began Mr.. Cannon
reported the general deficiency, the last
appropriation bill, and Mr. Hilborn of
California secured the passage of a bill
to establish a naval training school on
Goat island, San Francisco harbor.
Delegate Catron of New Mexico. from
the territories committee. reported a
bill providing that upon the convening
of the territorial legislature of New
Mexico any one member of either house
may administer the oath of office to the
presiding oaicer-elect, and he shall ad-
minister the same to the other men,
bers and officers.
''The object of the BILL" says an ac-
!, companying report, lis to modify the
existing laws SO that the secretary OF
the territory, an appOintee of the presi-
dent. shall not have arbitrary power to
organize the legislature by ignoring the
legal certificates of election, as was
done at the organizatio of the last leg
islature, at which time certificates of
election given to members elect by the
county boards of canvassers, as re-
quired by law. were ignored and per-
sons were sworn in on trumped-up GER
tif1cates, or on pretenseS in no manner
provided for by law. so that the politi-
cal complexion of the Legislature was
changed in both houses
a bill passed to establish training,
station for naval apprentices on Goat
Island, San Francisco harbor.
Talbert Is. c., who had previously
Blocked private bills, objected to the
pension bill presented by Cannon Oil. }
Cannon made personal appeal to the
gentleman from South Carolina. He
said it was the first time in twenty years
he had asked for unanimous consent
He reviewed the pathetic history of the
soldier. a constituent of his, shot to
pieces and almost totally blind. Tai
bert, plainly touched by the recital
withdrew his objection. At l o'clock
under special order eulogies upon the
late Representative Cogswell of Massa-
chusetts began.
Mr. Catchings (Dem., Miss.), Gros-
Iowa) and Dockery Dem., MOI were
among those who laid their tributes on
his bier.
Then at 2:5O as further mark of re-
spect, the house adjourned.
THE DEFICIENCY. BILL.
The house committee on appropria-
tions today reported the house general
deficiency BILL the last of the regular ap-
preparation bills of this session The
@oI i 1. Oh
$40. The principal deficiencies for which
it provides are: Treasury department,
$1,074.0O0; District of Columbia, $4,000;
war department, $607 900; navy depart
ment, S199,000; interior department. 1904, :
900: department of justice. $251, 600; gov
ernment printing offices, $4,000 house
of representatives $104 900; Judgements
courts of claims. $143,0O0; Indian depre-
dation claims. $4,000; audited claims
$169,000; out of postal revenue, 81 1,42l.-
000 In addition to this bill the urgent
deficiency act passed early in the ses-
sion carried $66,305436, making a total
for deficiencies this session of $11 .O96,-
776. The total of all appropriations is
$500, ,027 .405.
appropriations as they passed the house,
with their units:
Agricultural $3,2l5,3 ,342; army S23,
275, 902; diplomatic and consular, 81 $50,
O5S; District of Columbia So AIS $50: for
tifications. s5,s42,337: Indian, SIS 420.445:
legislative. etc. s21 $50. .765; military
academy, S44S III; navy, sS1 ,647. .239; pen
sions, $l41, ,S25,S20; postoffice. S9,S15 557:
river and harbor, 0,351 $50; sundry
civil, 500, S36 992.
In addition to these bills the two de-
fceiency bills. miscellaneous accounts.
carrying $315024. and the regular annual
appropriations amounting to $119 054 16O
have been passed by the house. making
the total appropriation bills during this
session $500 1927 ,405, and in the deficiency
bill reported to-day there is a clause
authorizing the secretary of the treas
ury to transfer to the city of Atlanta
the buildings erected for the government
exhibit at the Cotton Safes exposition.
There is an item of $4,000 to be paid
to the Italian government for indemnity
TO the heirs of three of its subjects who
were killed, and two Others injured. by
mob violence in Colorado. In making
the appropriation for Indian depreda-
ton claims. the committee provides
that none of the judgments be paid until
the attorney-general has certified to the
that he has caused to be ex-
amined evidence heretofore held to the
court Of claims, and such othr evidence
as he shall be able to procure as to
fraud has been done to the
United States of exorbftant sums allow
ed. and finds no grounds to support
new trial.