The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-03-03
FOR FAVORITE BILLS
Congressman CIamor to be
Recognized.
FUNDS FOR EXPOSITlONS
SENATE PASSES WINSTON PUB
LIC BUILDING BILL.
WOULDN'T CcNsID,R WHEELER's CASE
The Puritan is Out Of Commission. A Large
Part of the North Atlantic Squadron
May Very Soon be Out as
Well

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| Washington, March 2-No conference
reports ON appropriation bills were
pressing at six o'clock tins evening cnd
the House therefore paid is last tribute
of respect to the memo"y of the iate
Representative Hurley, OF New FORK,
| by adjourning until tomorrow at IL
o'clock. An attempt was made to cay
to consider the resolutions reported by
the judiciary committee declaring that
General Wheeler and the three other
members who accepted commissions in
| the army had thereby vacated their
seats, but the House by an oyerwnelm-
ing vote refused to consider them. The
political division upon this vote was sig
nificant. The vote stood II ayes cast
| by II Republicans, 43 Democrats and
Is Populists and 146 nays, cast by 101
Republicans, A Democrats and l Popu-
! list.
A half million dollars each was appro-
| priated under suspension of the rules
| for the Pan-American Exposition at
Buffalo and the Ohio Centennial ut To-
| edo.
The Senate bill carrying $1,000,000
| for new building for the Department
OF Justice was passed.
| A number of conference reports on
minor bills were adopted
| There was a great scramble for unani-
| nous consent legislation when the
| House met at II o'clock. With the
end of the Congress only 4S hours off
| almost every member had some local
measure he was trying to rescue from
| death on the calendar, and they stood
| in the area in front of the Speakers
rostrum ten deep clamoring for recogni-
| tion. A number of bills were passed,
among the series authorizing various of
| iicers of the Government to accept dec
orations from foreign Governments.
Mr.. Payne (Rep., n. ". the floor
leader of the majority moved the pass
| age, under suspension of the rules, of
the bill appropriating 100000 for the
| Pan-American Exposition to be held
at Buffalo, y. Y, in 1901.
| Mr.. Simms Dem., TENN, opposed the
| Buffalo Exposition bill. He thought the
appropriation of money for this class of
eXpositions should cease. The line must
| be drawn somewhere and Buffalo was as
good place to draw it as any other
| city.
Mr. Maddox Dem., Ga), opposed the
| bill. He described the peregrinations of
the Government exhibit over the coun-
| try and facetiously cautioned the Buff
| falo member to take good care of it,
as it would be needed later at st. Louis
| Toledo, Detroit and other places.
Didn't you see it last at Atlanta %
| n SkpI Mr. Ozark (Dpn Mol
"Oh! The gentlemen is behind the
times" replied Mr.. Maddox. 1.-The ex-
hibition has been to Nashville and
Omaha since then" Haughter).
Mr.. Richardson Dem., TENN, sup
ported the bill. Mr.. Bailey, the Demo
cratic leader said he had steadily resist
ed these appropriations for expositions.
From the first he regarded the principle
as far more important than the actual
appropriation.
While he did not think this bill was
right or should pass he would vote for
| it because other cities had had such ap-
propria tions, and he did not think there
should be an invdious distinction
against Buffalo. The good feature of
| this bill was that, like its predecessors.
| it did not establish the principle that
| the Government could authorize these
eXpositions. The appropriation it con-
tanned was simply for Government ex-
| hibit.
The bill was then passed 141 to 16.
A demand for the ayes and noes re-
ceived the support of only five mem
| bers
Mr.. Southard followed this motion with
| a motion to suspend the rules and
Ia ntn CE00
the Ohio Centennial Exposition to be
held at Toledo.
when is this show business to stop?"
asked Mr. Cox Dem., Tenn.
1T ought not to stop until after this
exposition is held" replied Mr.. South
ard amid laughter.
Proceeding he explained that the To
edo exposition was to commemorate
The one hundredth anniversary of Ohio's
admission into the Union. 1t was also
to be a Northwest Territory Exposition.
Mr.. Simms also opposed this bill. He
said the South would pay dearly the
interest on the appropriations for Nash
vile and Atlanta. Together they re-
ceived $350.O0O. Here within eighty
minutes the House would vote $1,000
600.
Mr.. Burke Dem. Texas. called at
tention to the fact that the House earlier
in the session had refused to grant to the
Dallas Exposition for which the people
of his State had raised $1,200000 the
poor privilege of importing exhibits from
Mexico.
The bill was passed, 1o0 to 10.
Mr.. Henderson, fRep. Iowa., chair
man of the judiciary Committee, then