The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-12-09

teers should be held in service until
their tine of enlistment expires"
Mr.. Dockery. dem. Missouri, a men,
Der OF the appropriation committee.
differed from his colleague. Mr.. Living
ston. He did not believe that the peud-
Ing bill could possibly he construed to
modify the volunteer act.
Mr.. Fleming declared that the VOL
unteers had enlisted under the promise
that they would be discharged when
the war was over. He could not under
stand why the chairman OF the appro-
priations committee should oppose the
McRae amendment, which simply pro-
vided that nothing In the pending bill
should construe or modify the act OF
April %.
Mr.. Cannon said he saw no good pur-
pose that would be subserved by its in
corporation IL would simply give some
gentlemen on the other side an oppor-
tunity to flap their wings and proclaim
with sound and fury their friendship
for the volunteers. I.aughter)
Mr. De Almond. dem. Missouri. ad-
vocated the adoption Of the McRae
amendment. The president. he said.
would not transform the volunteers in
to uniformed policemen IL congress in
its wisdom decided otherwise The
whole question was a mere qu' bible as
to whether the universal understa I'D
ing OF the 100000 men who had enlisted
should be discharged when hostilities
ceased, was now to be abandoned, and
the volunteers held to do police duty
in different parts of the world.
General debate upon the bill was then
closed. upon Mr.. Cannon's motion. ard
the bill was read for amendment un-
der the five-minute rule.
Mr.. Cannon offered committee
amendment for an emergency fund OF
$3.000.000 for the war department. He
said IL was impossible to foresee what
contingencies might and probably
would arise i'm the next six months. An
emergency fund of 100000 was pro-
vided for the navy debt. The amend
ment was adopted.
Mr.. King. dem. Utah, offered an
amendment to limit the appropriation
for the pay of volunteers to the period
prior To March 81. 1899. He thought
IL the imperative duty of the president
to muster out the volunteers. as peace
was declared. The amendment was lost
without division.
Mr.. Allen. dem, Mississippi. offered
an amendment providing that the mon
ey appropriated IN the bill for the pay
OF volunteers should not he available
longer than three months after ratifca-
tion of a treaty of peace. II was de-
feated, SILL.
on "a mOtlOn or Mr. cannon. several
committee amendment were adopted.
The appropriation for the current ex-
penses OF ordnance service was in
creased from $4,000 to 500. 900 for the
manufacture Of metallic ammunition.
marksmen's medals. insignia. etc, from
100000 to 100000: for the purchase
and manufacture OF ordnance stores
from $4,000 to s25o,0o0; for infantry.
cavalry and artillery equipment. from
$4,000 to sl50,000. and for the manu-
facture OF arms at national armories
s275.000 10 1925. 900. These increases, Mr..
Cannon explained had been recon-
mended by the chief of ordnance. Mr..
Cannon then accepted the McRae
amendment Without further amend
ment the bill was reported TO the house
and passed without division.
Mr.. Cannon moved that when the
house adjourned to-day II be until
Monday next. explaining that the ad-
journment would give the committees
an opportunity to work. The motion
was agreed to.
Mr.. Shafroth OF Colorado asked unan-
imous consent for the consideration OF
the bill for the reclamation OF arid
lands. Mr.. Hepburn. rep. Iowa, OBJ
jected.
A conference report on the bill relat-
ing to the bonds of consuls, vice-consuls
and consular agents was adopted. At
4:20 y. m. the house adjourned until
Monday.