The herald., 1898-03-01

guilty N I jury.
Mr. Handy <Dem.) OF Delaware made a
point OF order against the provision relat-
ing to the Paris exposition. The point was
debated at some length. and when Mr
Payne, who was in the chair, Intimate
that he was inclined to sustain 1t, several
members appealed to Mr.. Handy to with
draw It
Mr.. Handy declared he was actuated by
a patriotic purpose in insisting upon q
point of order. Thereupon the point Of or
der was sustained and the whole provision
went out of the bill.
Mr. Hartman (Sil. Rep.) Of Montana Of
fered an amendment. offering all the en-
ployes Of the house an extra months salary
for services during the present session.
Chairman Cannon of the appropriations
committee made a point of order against 1t
and vigorously antagonized it. The
amendment. after some debate. was agreed
to.
Speaking to pro forma amendment. Gen.
Shattuck of Iowa, Republican, who was
for thirty years connected with the man.
agement of railroads, took occasion to
answer an attack made upon tho railroads
some time ago. He had never known a
railroad manager. he said, who was a
calamity howler
"Why should railroad men be calamity
howlers?" asked Green of Nebraska. Pop
ulist, when they plunder the whole coun-
try?"
THAT statement is absolutely false" re-
torted Shattuck land the gentleman who
makes 1t knows 1t is false"
Continuing, Shattuck said he would be
ashamed to come to the forum of the peo-
pie and continually grumble about the mis-
erable condition of the people he repre-
sented.
1.-THE district from which I come con-
tains the best people in the world,' said
Green.
Shattuck-Well, it does not send them
here Great laughter.)
Fox Of Mississippi, Democrat, to whose
speech Shattuck had replied, denied thai
he had assailed the railroads. He had him.
self, he said, represented railroads as an
attorney for many years, and waht he had
said was that the people of the south had
as much right to exercise legitimate in
fiuence over tn colored voters of their Sec
tons as the railroads. the manufacturers
or any other corporations.
DENY 1t as you WILL" said Fox, cit is a
fact that the railroads and other corpora
tions controlled the votes of their employees
for Mckinley by intimidation, threats and
bribery. If the laboring people of the coun-
try had been allowed to vote according to
their convictions, William J. Bryan would
now be president of the United States.''
Consideration by the committee of the
whole was completed and the bill was re-
ported to the house.
Mr.. Cannon demanded separate votes on
two amendments-one striking out the ap-
preparation of SIS 900 for payment of those
who informed the authorities of violations
of revenue laws, and the other granting a
months extra pay to the employees of the
house.
Cannon urged the house to restore the
appropriation for the detection of Illicit
stills. The appropriation was absolutely
necessary, he contended, to protect the
government revenues in many states, es-
pecially in North Carolina and Georgia.
Cannon said that $500 illicit stills were
seized last year, the large majority of them
in Virginia, North Carolina and Georgia.
1t was natural, he said, that the repre-
sentatives from those states should fight
this appropriation.
By a vote of 13 to 63, the provision was re-
stored to the bill. The friends of the motion
to strike out the appropriation were too
weak to secure the ayes and nays. The
committees action giving an extra months
pay to the employees of the house was re-
versed on record making vote, the amend
ment being defeated, 63 to 153.
The sundry civil bill was then passed, and
the house went back into committee of
the whole and took up the bill reported by
the ways and means committee to author
ize the transportation of distilled spirits
to general bonded warehouses and to regu-
late removal therefrom.
The bill gives the owners of distilled spir-
its the privileges as to transportation now
enjoyed solely by the distiller. The bill
was passed.
A bill was passed granting the Nebraska,
Kansas and Gulf railroad a right of way
through the Indian Territory.
A bill was also passed granting right
of way through the Indian Territory to the
Dennison and Northern railway.
At $40 the house adjourned.