The San Francisco call., 1898-06-10
Call Office, Riggs House, Washington. June g.

w dSIIlIIS IOII, J uue J.
 After five hours devoted to the con- Liberation of the bill to enable volun- teers to vote in Congressional elections, the conference report on the war rev enue bill was presented to the House to-day. Consideration was interrupted by recess to 8 o'clock this evening, at which hour the report was taken up again and after three hours debate, in volving a wide range of subjects and some sensational features, it was voted upon and adopted, 154 to 107. The cleo tion measure will be disposed of to- morrow, immediately after the meeting of the House. The Hawaiian annexa- tionists made strong fight to get the election bill out of the way, to prevent its going over to tomorrow as priv ileged and likely to postpone another day their intended effort to force con- sideration of the annexation resolutions in the House.
 A very strong effort will be made to secure a vote in the Senate tomorrow before adjournment on the war revenue bill so that it may go to the President this week. Many Senators believe that the effort will be successful.
 When the House met after the recess Dingley, addressing himself to the re- port, spoke of the urgent necessity for the passage of a war revenue and the resulting necessity for @ speedy action in conference and that of compromise. He said the great ends which the House has set out to accomplish were the raising of approximately $175 900 900 from taxation and from $400, 0,000 900 to $500 900 from other sources. These ends would be se- cured through the bill as reported from conference, and while the concessions made by the House conferees were in some instances personally distaSteful to him, he felt that they had been, without the violation of any great principle. advo- cated by the House and without mitigat- ing against the accomplishment of the great ends originally contemplated by. the Inauguration of the war revenue legisla- ton. Dingley said the House conferees made no effort to eliminate the tax on tea, owing to the decisive vote by which the Senate had incorporated it and be- cause the new crop was just about to ar rive; stocks on hand were very low and the consumption in the country amount ed to 100 GOO, 900 pounds annually. Relative to the coinage of silver bullion Dingley explained that the provision would re- suit ultimately in an increase of circula- tion outstanding by the amount of the present Seign1orage, or about S42 2,0O0, 900. the provision declaring explicitly that the coinage should proceed at the rate of not less than $1,5O0,OO0 per month, if the dol lars should be used for the redemption of silver certificates, which, when redeemed, should be cancelled. The provision was not materially different from the law of 1880.
 Further Aggression from the bill was in- dulged in by Swanson (D) of Virginia, who very vigorously dissented from any inclination to turn the war into one of ag gression to end with this country holding great colonial possessions. He attacked then the bond and other features of the bill, notably the tobacco bill. Swanson took occasion to criticize the administra- ton in its conduct of the war and partic- ularly did he antagoniZe the pending bill conducive to interests of monopolists and the very rich.
 The speech brought from Grosyenor (R) of Ohio an impaSsioned and highly sensational response. He said: Had Sagasta, had Blanco, had Cervera been given an opportunity to make a speech on so incendiary an appeal against the prose cution of this war as the gentleman from Virginia has uttered. l denounce his un- patriotic purposes, I denounce his un- patriotic and untruthful utterances.
 Swanson, in a two-minute reply, said: ''The only reason 1 can give for the un- fair, unjust, unpatriotic and untrue per- sonal attack upon me is that the speaker is in such a condition that he does not know whether he is fighting the Confed- crate or Spanish forces" He then pro- ceeded with an eloquent defense of his district Later Swanson again secured the floor and declared his belief that the Ohio member would never have made the brutal attack had he been sober"
 clared he had attacked the sentiment of the Virginian's speech and not the per sonality of the member. He denied hay ing referred to the .latter's district as "contemptible" and said he had used the word "contestable. This declaration