Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1898-02-02
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,

WASHINGTON, Feb. 1.-The House
ueNoSea most OF the session today to
aae District OF Columbia appropriation
OH. out had not completed it at the
'.mlre OF au1ourntrent Some politics
were injected into the debate lust at
the close s''
me military academy appropriation
oll was reported The anti-civil SER
wee re;orneEs won a slight victory
Wien MY Perkins Republlcan. OF
t"N't, presented a resolution for prinlt-
'HS one hearings before THE civil se,ry-
ace committee Mr.. Grosvenor antar-
pft:2ed the resolution. He said the hear
;iSs had taken an eXparte turn and he
:>s''red to submit some facts in refuta-
.1"h or certain statements before the
n aamsS We're pTSnted. 'Mr. Perkins,
however. refused to Withdraw the resu-
iutlcn until the Hous:. by a ysfte of
So-9u had refused the previous question
He thea yielded. a resolution w7as
adopted which requested the secretary
o! war TO submit to THE House the re-
OF engineers, dated December 49, 1897.
concerning certain proposed improve
manis of st. Joseph and Benton Har-
bpr. NJ -:igan
The Hruse. alt 2:30 P. NJ, went into
S'!hai.aiee or the whole. and resumed
ccfisi"it'a ton OF the District of Column
bia appropriation bill! which was begun
on Ssp;urd2y. AT O'Clock the debate
drtfted into politics. Mr.. Simpson (Pop-
uESO, of Kansas. attempted TO show
from clippings from Maine papers that
there had been no return of prosperity
i'm THE lumber industry in that State
He also attacked New Jersey as THE
home of trusts.
MI DinS!ey. in reply declared that
the Maine papers We're full of evidence
~ the Improvements in the lumber i'm
dustry. The clippings quoted We're the
hA y >i,,,l,,
proof that gentlemen on the o1her side
could see the Spetk onslthe barn door
but could not see the door.
Mr. Pltney (Republican). OF New Jer-
sey. defended his State. H" declared
THAT New Jersey was trust ridden be-
ca use for years it had been under Dem
ocna;tc dom;na:icn- The Democratic
legislature had knocked down iegisla-
ton 20 the highest bidder. Laws were
to be had by those who had the price
The last GROWING infamy OF the Demo-
cra'Ic legislature was an attempt to
carry out the mandates of the Goa, com
blne by which the price or coal was
TO he advance 81 per ton. But at last
sa'ha MIR. Pitrey. the wise, patriotic
people of New Jersey had risen in their
might and swept THE Democrats from
power. They had repudiated utterly
The Infamous doctrine preached by
Bryan in 1896. and had elected as gov
ernnr last year a gentleman (Attorney
General Gu1EES) WHO had been to-day
jailed to u larger sphere of usefulness
IN President McKiniey's cabinet Gre
publican applause.)
Mr.. Handy (DamocraiD. xf Delaware
as an evidence of THE lack of prosperity
read a letter from "a friend in tPhilardel-
nhla, who said he :lad counted 24O I'M
employed persons Who on a sin gle day
visited a Ghar.ta Bile Soup house in Ken
singt0n. Mr.. Adams (RepuhMcan), OF
Pennsylvania. in reply, declared THAI,
the report OF the factory inspector OF
Pennsylvania showed that 125 900 more
persons We're employed in the factories
row tiia AIT this time last year. As
70 the soup houses I'm Kensington they
FED ACE ,irs-friTs sszsd under the rec
sGtade tariff
Mr.. Mahany (Republican), of New
York, presented in open House ,the pro-
tests of 10000 German Amer.tan voters
Against THE Lodge immi grafton bill. He
made an impassioned speech against
che indifference of these who desired To
close the gates of immigratacn and
when Mr.. Stone (Republican, OF Penn
'2yivan'a, interrupted him he turned
upon the 'Penns ylvaninn and denounced
ann as one who desired to precipita,e
q race question. as one who had a,.tack-
Il the IRISH, the Germans, the Pores
and every ether nationality Il COM
mend YOU" he shouted, ito uhe v0lers
c'f PENIS ylvanil as one whose Amer-
ca;nism ctlnnot stand the test"
rs the sergeant -at-armts present? 2"
was The only comment of Mr.. Stone
when Mr. Nahany concluded
At 4:40 P. NJ. the House adjourned.