The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-05-19
Chief of Ordnance May Buy Guns
Without Advertising.
PASSED BY THE SENATE
House Bill Prohibiting Photographing OF
the Fortilcations of b United
spstes Recommitted After
q Warm Debate.

incurred by him In a contest for his seat
in the Fortieth congress.
A bill providing that officers In the reg
ular army should be eligible to stan APP
pointments in the v~olunteer army and
that governors. with the consent Of the
president. may appoint officers Of the
regular army in the grade OF field off,
GERS in organizations of the volunteer
army in the District Of Columbia and In
dian Territory were passed.
Mr.. Hawley called up the report Of the
conferees on the bill suspending the ac-
ton of certain existing laws relating to
the purchase of supplies by the quarter
masters department of the army. Mr..
Hawley explained that the senate con-
ferees had abandoned their amendment
repeating section sos of the revised stat
utes and had inserted the following:
THAT during the existing war the bu-
reau of ordnance OF the war department
is authorized to purchase without adver-
tisement such ordnance or ordnance
stores as are needed for immediate use,
and when such ordnance and ordnance
stores are to be manufactured to make
contracts without advertisement for such
stores TO be delivered as rapidly as manu-
featured"
Mr.. German of Maryland inquired of
Mr.. Hawley whether the provision insert
ed by the conferees conferred upon the
chief of ordnance unlimited Authority to
contract for supplies one or two years
hence.
Mr.. Hawley replied that the provision
conferred upon the chief of ordnance
only such power as was now necessary
for him in the circumstances to have.
The projectiles and guns and other
supplies which we must nave, SAID MI.
Hawley with some heat, ARE not to be
had in every TOW shOD. There are only
three or four concerns In the country that
make them. The chief OF ordnance KNOWS
exactly what ne mas TO pay Tor them, ana
without advertising Ior proposals. 1
could give the senator (Mr' Sormahl some
information on TINS point, put 1 90 not
think II Is proper TO do SO In open ses-
sion.
you neeo not can TOT secret session on
my account, saic MI. Sormah, nut
would ike TO know now sweeping TINS
provision is
Well retorted Mr.. Hawley, there 10
just this about II. III you nave not an nom
est chief OF ordnance nave MIN turned
OUT ana put In anothsr man. iu is essen
tlal that ne nave the authority conferred
upon him by TINS provision. can LOT a
secret executive session. MI: fresiueht-
Inc call was sustained ana at lz"z' p. M
the senate Went INTO secret session. AFTER
discussing the question In secret session
Tor half an hour the quartermasters DID
~"
me senate resumed open legislative
session at l2:lo y. m. ana began the con-
slderatloh OF the war revenue measure
Mr.. Turpie, dem. Indiana, In ADDRESSING
the senate said that the dlnerences were
direrences only IN metiou. 1here was DO
dlrerence as 10 the purpose OF supplying
all the means and men TO tnc government
to carry on the war. Mr.. Turpie said that
the pending Dill carries Il provision Tor 4
basketful of certificates of indebtedness
y In npI IN mnaN h dAAntn latGG lIlGa
by the Dlngley law. Inc democrats nan
been sharply criticised because OF the
monthly dehcit or the so-ctfed Nhscn
law, but the Dingley Jaw was showing
similar deficits without criticism now. Mr..
Turpie said 1t was prop ,se1 IN the pend-
Ing war measure to take care OF all the
Dinsley law deficits wt-i the certificates
of Indebtedness. The question presented
TO congress was how the necessary money
should be raised. The was
agreed that $50, 900. 600 should be raised by
taxation and the remaining sum. from
500. 900. 600 to $50, co., OO, by other means.
Mr.. Turpie thought the tax on success
sion was one OF the best features OF the
bill. lie said 1t was a tax on accumula-
ton, while the tax on beer and tobacco
was a tax on Mr.. Turpie
strongly urged the proposed tax on cor
porations. He estimated that this tax
would yield 500, 600. coz, and that the inner
itance provision would produce s5o.OOO.oW
more. ms would supply the amount nee
essary to be raised. The remaining $l5O,-
100000 could be raised by the coinage OF
the silver seigniorage and the issue OF le-
gal tender notes. The majority of the
finance committee, he said, had deemed II
wise to propose the coinage of the seign-
forage in Difference to the wishes or the
voters who in the last national cam
paign had made evident their desire for
such coinage.
The section of the bill providing for
the issue OF greenbacks was proposed by
the majority of the as a sub
stitute of the bond section of the bill as
II came from the house. For the present.
MIR. Turpie said, the democratic policy of
the free and coinage of silver
had been relegated to the hastings and
to the arbitrament of the ballot.
He argued at length in favor of the Is
sue of greenbacks, legal tender notes.
declaring that the policy of their issue