The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1898-12-20
MR.. BAILEY OF TEXAS.
He Wants TO Know If Officers Holding
Commissions Can Retain Seats in House

He Wants TO Know If Officers Holding
Commissions Can Retain Seats in House
Washington, Dec. 19.-This was sus-
pension day in the House, and several
bills were passed, the most important
of which was the bill appropriating
$3.50, 900 for the Philadelphia exposition
of 1899. The vote was exceedingly
close. Bills We're also passed under
suspension of the rules, to authorize
the distribution Of the assets of the
Freedman Bank, to enlarge the scope
of the fish commission to include game
birds. for the relief of the Fourth
mounted Arkansas infantry, and for
the relief Of John w. Lewis of Oregon.
Mr. Bailey of Texas introduced a res
olution in open House, directing the jul
dietary committee to investigate and
| report on the question as to whether
the members of the House who accept
| ed commissions in the army, had for
feited their seats in the House. He
made the resolution the text for some
remarks, in the course of which he Bit
terlv denounced a newspaper state
ment to the effect that in his attitude
upon this question, he had been made
a catspaW of by certain prominent re-
publicans in the House, He denounced
the republican who had instigated the
statement, as an infamous liar and
challenged him to father it. There was
no reply to Mr.. Bailey's statement, and
the resolution was referred to the com
mittee on rules.
The resolution offered by Mr.. Bailey
Of Texas reads as follows:
Resolved, that the committee on jul
dietary be and is hereby instructed to
q al a, m OF
whether any member of the House has
accepted any Office under the United
States and, second, whether the ac-
ceptance Of such office under the United
States had vacated the seat of the
member accepting it"
Mr. Dingley, from the committee on
ways and means, offered the resolution
for holiday recess from Wednesday.
Dec q, to Wednesday, Jan 4, and it
was adopted without division A spe-
cial order was also adopted setting
aside Ian. for the consideration of
bills reported by the Judiciary commit
tee.
This being suspension day, Mr.. Wag-
| ger (rep.) of Pennsylvania moved the
passage under a. suspension of the rules
of the bill for the proposed Philadel-
| phia expedition of American products
under manufacturers in 1899. Twenty
minutes on a side for debate were al
| lowed
Mr.. Wagner took the floor in support
Of tie measure. over half million
dollars, he said, had already been spent
| in the establishment of the museum,
and the city Of Philadelphia had appro-
| priated 5000 600 additional. This bill, he
said asked for an appropriation of
! S3500O0, provided a similar sum were
raised from other sources.
TOQCI<alrV f6pp0 } of ATiesa11,,i i,,
terrupted to say that the bill was with
out precedence, in that it was designed
to establish permanent institution to
! which the United States treasury was
to contribute $4,000 annually Mr.
/ Wagner replied that it was in the per,
manent character Of his institution that
/ it's value lay.
MIR Bingham rep.) of Pennsylvania
reinforced Mr.. Wagner's argument
/ with a 10-minute speech, in which he
| dwelt upon the great benefits which
would accrue to the country as q whole
4 from this exposition.
| Mr. Burke (dem) Of Texas opposed
/ the bill. He called attention to the fact
| that last spri1ig some of the promi-
nent members Of the majority opposed
a bill to allow even the free importa-
/ ton Of exhibits from Mexico designed
4 for the Dallas fair.
/ Does the gentleman see any analogy
/ between a state fair and the exposi-
/ tion provided for in this bill?" asked
/ Mr.. DalzeH rep.) Of Pennsylvania
/ "A state fair is worthy of more con
siderauon than a city fair" replied
Mr. Burke. Continuing, Mr.. Burke ar
gued that the appropriation of money
for local eXpositions was against good
( public policy
Mr.. Dockery (dem.) of Missouri con.
I tended that the bill was without prece.
dent in legislative annals. II was sim.
ply a naked proposition for the gov.
eminent to enter into a partnership
with a private corporation for the
purpose of collecting samples of manu-.
featured products designed for export
Mr. Bailey declared that the bill was an
evolution.
Mr.. Underwood (dem) Of Louisiana
supported the bill. We had outeroyvr
the home market, he said. and we must
reach out for foreign trade. If this
was to be done intelligently, our peopIc
must understand the class Of goods re.
quired abroad.
Mr.. Adams Crep) OF PENNSYLVANIA
said the Philadelphia exposition was
supported by every board of trade in
the country.
A rising vote was then taken II re.
suited 30 to so, but before the result
was announced, the ayes and nays
were demanded and ordered. The RAJ
call resulted 142 ayes, 70 nays. Two.
thirds are required to pass a bill under
suspension Of the rules, so that the
measure had a. margin of two votes