Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1899-02-14
have spoken at the Lincoln banquet
Tonight ut Williamsport, Pa.

have spoken at the Lincoln banquet
| tonight at Williamsport, Pa.
Some of the members had ludicrous
| experiences in their efforts to get to
the Capitol. Mr.. Cannon. of Illinois.
the veteran chairman of the Appro-
| prlation Committee. was tumbled out
of Il sleigh into u snow bank as he was
| coming up Capitol Hill.
ATTENDANCE SLIM.
At 1905 Clerk Mcdowell called the
House to order. There were about six
~ members on the floor. Mr.. Payne
moved that the House adjourn, but
there were cries of mo, no" from the
little circle of members, most of whom
held in their hands bills which they
hoped to pass by unanimous consent.
The motion was voted down. 9 to A.
On motion of MIR. Grosvenor, (Republi-
can. Ohio, MIR. Payne. of New York.
was elected speaker pro TEN, amid an
outburst of applause.
District day was postponed until
Thursday and the House, on Mr.. Can
mons motion, then went into commit
tee of the whole, Mr.. Hopkins, of H.
lirois, in the chair, and resumed the
consideration of the sundry civil BILL
RECEIPTS AND EXPENDITURES.
y resumption of the discussion of the
receipts and expenditures of the Trea-
sury which attracted considerable at
tention last week was again precipi-
York;, who offered some figures as to
the cost of the steamship subsidy bill
Mr.. Cannon reiterated his statement
OF last week regarding the ship subsidy
bill and the Nicaragua canal bill.
Mr.. Payne. chairman of the commit
tee which reported the subsidy bill, said
he welcomed any information that
would throw light upon the bill, but he
protested against alarming statements
as to the deficiencies In advance. Es-
Inmates did not always coincide with
appropriations. AS an illustration he
cited the fact that the estimates for
the army bill had ranged as high as
$145. 900 900. whereas the military COM
mittee had prepared a bill carrying less
than $S0,000.000. He asked why MIR.
Cannon had not thrown his influence
against the public building bills a few
days ago.
Those bills, ne said. would take more
money from the Treasury next year
than both the subsidy and canal bills
| together.
| Mr.. Cannon declared that if the army
bill carried but sS0.OOO.0OO, there would
be a deficit on that account of $4,000
900.
| Mr.. Hay (Dem.. of Virginia,) made a
similar statement.
why are not the si5,ooo,Ooo placed in
! the army bill?" asked Il member
Because the supporters of big
| standing army fear the effect if the
country understands the real cost" re-
piled Mr.. Hay.
ECONOMISTS SCORED.
| Mr.. Berry (Dem., of l(entucky,) made
spirited speech scoring some of the
economists of the House, who were
shouting for economy and reaching
their hands into the treausry at every
opportunity. He attacked the steam
| ship subsidy bill. charging that the de-
cay of our merchant marine was at
tributable to the ruinous protective poll
Icy of the Republican party.
| Mr.. Williams (Dem.. of MisSissippi)
declared that the dream of Eastern
empire was already a failure. With
the ratification of the treaty of peace,
peace and commercial expansion were
TO come. Instead there was war, the
prospects OF long. bloody and expen-
sive war and now owing to the great
expenditures involved in the East, the
construction of the Nicaragua canal
which would furnish u successful basis
for commercial expansion, was to be
| postponed.
On motion of Mr.. Adamson, (Dem..
of Georgia,) $4,000 was placed in the
bill for fish culture station at Cold
! Springs, Ga.
After having completed 50 pages of
the bill the committee arose and at
4:45 p. IN. the House adjourned.