The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-01-13
IN THE HOUSE.
Dearmond of Missouri Makes an Attack
on Cannon of Illinois.


Cannon of Illinois.
Washington, Jan. 12.-The house to-
day passed an urgent deficiency bill
carrying S1,I41,S43 One of the items
authorizing a further expenditure of
$500, 900 for the soldiers home at Dan
Vile, ILL.,. for which $4,000 was APP
pointed in the sundry civil bill, was
used by Mr.. Dearmond tdem., MOI as
a basis for a bitter personal attack
against Chairman Cannon, whose home
is at Danville. He charged that Can
non, after using his power on the APP
preparations committee TO get the home
located in his home town was now try
ing TO take half million dollars out Of
the treasury to help those interested in
Danville town lots.
MIR Cannon replied in a sarcastic
speech, and accused the member from
Missouri Of being Il common scold, such
he said as were ducked at the town
pump in the oiden days He insisted
that additional barracks We're needed
at DanvilIe, where $4,000 veterans We're
now sleeping in corridors, cellars and
attics. Mr.. Dearmond's motion was de-
feated without division.
There was IA lively debate over the
provision in the bill requiring owners
Of bullion hereafter to pay the cost of
transporting bullion from assay offices
TO the mints. Mr. Bell pop. COLI ar
gued that If the government declined
to pay the cost of transporting the gold
would so to foreign mints. 1t was, lie
said, another blow aimed at the West
ern miner. There was no securing the
gold production of the country now
that ii had had in the past. Mr. Shat
roth tsilver rep, Col) argued against
the proviso. Not content with the gold
standard, he said this was an attempt
TO discourage the production of gold
and still further appreciate its power
and value.
MIR. Cannon pointed out that II the
law was continued until an assay Of
flee would be established on the Yukon,
the government would have to pay the
mint price for gold in the klondike,
and then pay the cost and assume all
risks incident to transportation to the
San Francisco or Philadelphia mint.
This law was a bounty on gold mining.
why should ii exist? He protested
against trying In complicate 1t with the
financial question.
Mr.. McRae (dem., Ark) argued that
the gold discoveries in the Yukon fur
nished tho best reason why the exist
ing law should not be dscountenanced.
The government should offer every in
ducement to miners to bring their gold
to its minis.
Mr.. Sayers tdem., Tex.) supported the
proposed change in the government pol
icy. There was no reason, he said,
why the government should give a
bounty to the gold miners than to the
cotton and wheat growers. No other
country, he said, paid the freight on
bullion.
Mr. Livingston tdens, Ga.) denied
that his proposition in any way affected
the financial issue. He favored it.
Mr.. Kelley tpop., ;. ID, Mr.. Dockery
idem., MOI and Mr.. Bland tdem., MOO
opposed the proviso. The latter in his
remarks said the present law was n
part Of the resumption act of 1919. It
was intended To encourage and facili-
tate gold production aud coupled with
Ii was the law for the sale of bonds for
the securing of gold. The encourage
ment of gold production was the
cheaper and better way to procure gold.
The new proviso was In the interest Of
bond sales. After further remarks by
MIR. simpson (pop., kas.) and Under
wood {dem., Ala.1 against the nroviso,
Mr. Bells motion to strike out the pro-
yiso WIS defeated 125 To 10 On mo-
ton of Mr.. Bell (col) the amendment
was adopted providing for the survey
and establishment Of the southern
boundary line of the lite reservation i'll
Colorado The hill was then passed.
Mr HIT, from the foreign affairs
committee, reported the diplomatic and
consular appropriation bill, and at 4;i5
y. nj. the house adjourned.