The age-herald., 1898-01-22
THE STORM SCENES FOLLOWED BY CALM A Comparatively Quiet Day in
 the House. BILL WAS PASSED TO GRANT The Dale County Commissioners the Right
 to Contract Two Bridges. CANAL COMMISSION AMENDMENT Which Came From the Senate Was
 Non-Concurred In.
Which Came From the Senate Was
 Non-Concurred In.
DISCUSSION OF THE SILVER QUESTION
Main Fight Occurred Over Provision in Ur- gent Deficiency Appropriation Bill Re- quiring Depositors of Bullion to
 Pay Transportation to Mint.

of the last few days in the house were followed by comparative quiet today. At the openig of the session bill was passed to grant the commissioners of Dale county, Alabama, the right to construct two bridges acros the Choctawhatchie river. Under the rules this was private bill day, but MT. Cannon, chairman of the commit tee on appropriations, antagonized with motion for the consideration of the senate amendments to the urgent deficiency ap- propiation bill. His motion was carried, 125 to 31.
 The senate Nicaragua canal commission amendment was non-concurred in.
 One of the senate amendments was con- cured in with an amendment to appro- priate $15000 for the repair of the national cemetery at Fort Smith, Ark. This amend ment was offered by MT. Little (dem) of Arkansas, who explained the necessity for it owing to the devastation caused by the recent storm in that section. The main fight came on the senate amendment strik- ing out the provision in the bill requir- ing dspositors of bullion hereafter to pay the cost of transportation from the assay offices to the mint
 MT. Ball (pop.) of Colorado, moved con- currence in this amendment. The question was debated extensively when the bill was originally before the housa-
 The Silver Quessfon.
 The debate soon drifted into discus sion of the silver question as it did on for mer occasions. MT. Cannon finally sub mitted modified proposition providing that the depositor of bullion should pay the cost Of transportation t0 ehs "E><saf< mint" It was defated, 9S .s 130.
 The senate amendment to strike out the whole provision was then agreed to with out division in committee of the whole. MT. Cannon gave notice he would demand a yea and nay vote in the house. The vote was later confirmed in the house on a yea and nay vote, 122 to 145. The bill was sent back to conference.
 The vote was considered significant, as there was to a certain extent an allgn- ment of the silver forces in favor of the motion to concur in the senate amendment. The following republicans joined the dem ocrats and populists:
 Bartholdt, of Missouri; Beach, of Ohio; Frederick, of Kansas; Hager, Ellis of Ore gon; Joy, of Missouri; Linney, of North Carolina; Lowering, Low, of New York; Mccall, of Massachusetts,; Mahany Miner, Morris, Olmstead, Pearce, of Missouri; Pearson, Shannon, w. A. Smith and Spald- ing
 The bill to extend the public land laws to the territory of Alaska and to grant a gen. eral right of way to railroads, was then passed after being amended in minor par ticulars.
 Private Bill Calendar.
 The remainder of the day was devoted to bills on the private calendar. The house then went into committee of the whole, where the pending question was point of order raised against the motion of MT. Cooper (dem.) of Texas, the substitute for the senate bill to refer the claims of the Book Publishing company of the Methodist Episcopal church, south, to the court of claims, the house bill to adjust the whole claim by the payment of s28SOO0.
 Mr. Payne, in the chair, sustained the point of order.
 After a parliamentary struggle by the opponents of the measure to delay action, the house bill appropriating s2SS.O00 was taken up on MT. Cooper's motion. MT. Cooper immediately moved to lay it aside with a favorable recommendations
 Mir Dalzell denounced the bill as an att tempt to loot the treasury. Twenty-Five years ago, he said, this claim was pre- sented to the house, and in a careful and exhaustive Investigation by the present secretary of agriculture (Mr. Wilson,, then a distinguished member of the house, and by distinguished democrat. now mem- Der of the interstate commerce commission Cw R. Morrison), the claim was thrown out as unworthy of the attention of the patriotic representatives sent here not to ,I fI,a was considerable parliamentary sparring, and finally, at 4:55. the house adjourned without action on the bill.
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