The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-03-01
IN THE HOUSE.
Snndry Civil Appropriation Bills Passed
After Four Days Debate.


| Washington Feb 2S-The house
passed the sundry civil appropriation
| bill to-day after a four days debate.
| The most important action to-day was
| the elimination of an appropriation for
| representation at the Paris exposition
| on a point of order. The sudden change
| of sentiment in the house, which Is
| often witnessed when members go on
record, was twice illustrated to-day.
| On Friday last the house, in commit
| tee of the whole. where there is no
| record of n vote. knocked out provis-
ion in the bill for an appropriation to
| pay those who furnish the government
| with information leading to the con-
| Niction of the violators of the internal
| revenue laws. and to-day in committee
an extra months pay was voted to the
| employees of the house. Both these
| propositions commanded a very re-
| spectacle majority in the committee,
but when the members voted on roll
| calls in the house both of them were
| Overwhelmingly defeated. Several
minor bills We're passed after the sun
| dry civil bin was disposed of
| The sundry civil appropriation BILL
/ consideration of which was resumed in
the house to-day displaced the regu-
| lar District of Columbia day. which.
| by consent, was postponed until next
| Monday. Before the house went into
| committee of the whole Bull. rep.
| Iowa, chairman of the military affairs
| committee. asked unanimous consent
for consideration of joint resolution
providing for an investigation by
| joint committee of the house and SEN
ate of expenditures for river and har-
Dor work at savannah since Jan. l.
| 1892. Cox. dem, Tenn, called attention
| TO the fact that the subject was being
| investigated by a court martial now
| sitting in the ease of Captain Carter.
| Until the court martial returned it's
| findings he saw no necessity for a con-
gressional investigation. He therefore
objected and the resolution was re-
| ferred to the military affairs commit
tee.
Mr.. Lewis. dem, WASH, offered an
| amendment which was ruled out on
point of order, designed to prohibit the
Imprisonment by United States judges
of persons charged with contempt of
court until such persons sha1T have
been adjudged guilty by jury.
MIR. Handy. dem, Del, made a point
of order against the provision relating
to the Paris exposition. The point was
debated at some length. and when MIR.
| Payne, who was in the chair, inti-
| mated that he was inclined to sustain
| it, several members appealed to Mr..
Handy To withdraw it. MIR. Handy de-
clared he was actuated by patriotic
purpose in insisting upon point of
/ order. Thereupon the point of order
| was sustained and the whole provision
| went out of the bill
| Mr., Hartman. silver rep. Mont.s Of
| fered an amendment offering all the
| employees of the house an extra months
| salary for services during the present
session. Mr. Cannon. chairman of the
appropriation committee. made a point
/ of order against IL and vigorously an
tagonized it. The amendment, after
some debate. was agreed 10.
Speaking TO pro forma amendment,
/ General Shattuck, rep, O., who was
for 80 years connected with the man
agement of railroads. took occasion 10
answer an attack made upon the rail-
| ways some time ago. He had never
! known a railroad manager, he said,
who was a calamity howier.
why should railroad men be calam-
ity nowlers?" asked Mr. Green. pop.
Neb., when they piunder the whole
country"
THAT statement liz absolutely false"
retorted Mr.. Shattuck. and the gem
tleman who makes it knows it is false"
| Mr.. Shattuck. continuing. said he
/ would be ashamed to come to the
forum of the people and continually
grumble about the miserable condition
of the people he represents.
The district from which | come con-
i
said Mr.. Green.
Mr.. Shattuck-Well. 1t does not send
them here. tGreat iaughter.1
Mr.. Fox, dem, Miss. to whose speech
/ Mr.. Shattuck had replied. denied that
| he had assaiied the railroads. He had.
/ he said, represented railroads as an at
| torney for many years. and what he
| had said was that the people of the
/ South had as much right TO exercise "A
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voters of their sections as the rail-
| roads the manufactures or any other
| corporations.
Deny 1t as you WILL" said Mr.. Fox,
/ 1T Is a fact that the railroads and
other corporations controlled the vote
/ of their employees for Mckinley by in
| timidation, threats and bribery. II the
laboring men of the country had been
| allowed to vote their convictions. Will
/ lam ]. Bryan would now be president
/ OF the United States"
Consideration by the committee OF
| the whole was completed and the bill
was reported To the house.
Mr. Cannon demanded separate votes
| on two amendments. one striking out
/ the appropriation OF $4,000 for the pay
ment of those who informed the au-
thorities of violations Of the internal
revenue laws. and the other granting
months extra pay 10 the employees Of
the house.
Mr.. Cannon urged the house To re-
store the appropriation for the detec-
tion of illicit stills The appropriation
was absolutely necessary, he contend
Cd. 10 protect the government revenues
in many states. and especially in North
Carolina and Georgia. Mr.. Cannon
said 2.5c0 Illicit stills were seized last
year, the large majority Of them in Nlr-
ginia North Carolina and Georgia. II
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