The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1897-03-26
TARIFF BILL DEBATE.
THE FIRST BAY WAS FULL
OF G NIGER.
Mr.. Bland Took an Active Part-The
Bill to he Rushed Through-Day and
Night Sessions Veto

Bills Rushed Through the house.
| WAsHINGToN, March 20.-Yesterday
was a stormy day in the House of Rep
resentatives. The Republican leaders,
before adjournment, had secured the
adoption of special order fixing the
limits of the tariff debate, and two of
the regular appropriation bills, which
failed to become laws at the last ses-
sion, had been passed and sent to the
Senate. The other two will be passed
to-day, so that, as Mr.. Cannon re-
marked, all the driftwood of the last
Congress will be swept away before
the struggle over the tariff bill begins.
Mr. Bailey of Texas, who made his
debut as the leader of the minority,
was favorably received by his side, and
announced it to be the policy of the
minority not to delay the passage OF
the tariff bill. Mr.. Dingley, the floor
leader of the majority, recalled the
fact that dire prophecy of the result
of the Mckinley bill had been made
by Secretary Carlisle, then the leader
of the minority, on the occasion of the
passage of the Mckinley law. The
people, he said, had listened to the
SIRENS song, but their experience dur
ing the last four years had made them
wiser.
Mr.. Dalzell, Republican, of Pennsyl-
vania, from the committee on rules,
presented the special rules under
which the House was to operate dur
ing the tariff debate The rule pro-
vided that general debate should be-
gin on Monday at 10 o'clock and con-
tinue to and including Thursday,
March %, with night sessions, after
amendment under the five-minute rule
committee amendments to- have prec-
edence), until 3 o'clock on Wednesday,
March 81, when the bill with the pend
ing amendments should be reported
from the committee of the whole and
the previous question should be consid-
cred as ordered on the third reading
and final passage Of the bill. The rule
also gave leave to print for twenty
days,
Mr.. Bland of Missouri arose for tIe
first time this session, and his Demo-
cratic colleagues cheered Justify. He
insisted that the House might as well
swallow the bill as it was presented.
because in this shape it would be
forced through. When he recalled the
methods of the extra session, ''called
to cprtail the circulating medium $780,
600. 900 a year" the Republicans
greeted this first reference to the sill
YER question with jeers and groans,
but Mr.. Bland dld not seem to be per-
turbcd
In the last campaign he said,
''you contracted debts with trusts and
monopolies; labor was outraged and
inundated as it never was before in
our history, and you are here to-day
eager to discharge these debts Dem
ocratic applause.) Do your best. We
know it means the worst
The vote on the rule was taken by
yeas and nays, and it was adopted, no
to 1872.
Mr. Henderson, Republican, OF Iowa,
from the committee on rules, then
presented the other special order for
the immediate consideration of the
four appropriation bills whicA failed
to become laws at the last session.
The previous question was ordered
lO7 to So.
NJ, lIa1,ran thn fn4tl
bills as the most eXtravagant ever
passed. Mr. Northway, Republican,
of Ohio said that if the President had
signed the bills there would be lie oc-
casion for passing them.
Mr.. DeArmond. Democrat. Of Mis-
souri, said that this policy was to pro-
tect such Jobs" as the appropriation
of 5000. 900 for branch soldiers home
at Danville, ILL.,, the home of tho chair
man of the appropriation committee.
The first bill taken out under tire
order was the sundry civil bill, twenty
minutes for debate being allowed Oh
either side.
The bill was then read. The read
ing of the TT pages of the bill con
sumed almost two hours The bill was
passed-157 to IS.
The general deficiency bill was ther
taken up. Again forty minutes were
allowed for debate.
1t required one hour and ten min
utes to read the eighty-three pages o
this bill The bill was passed-l3l t.
so. The sundry civil bin carried S5s.
147, 55l and the general deficiency bill
IS, 1924. At $40 the House ad
journed.
GRIM REMINDER REMOVED