The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-03-01
PASSED WITH RAP|D|TY
Sixty-One Public Building Bills
Go Through the House.
BUTTE, WILL GET 100000
The 81 Bills Carry 90, $50, ooo-The OPP
position Adopted Filibustering
Tactics. but Was Unable to
Accomplish Anything.

washington, rep. 2S.-Ine house
spent practically the entire time of the
seven hours session to-day passing the
public building bills favorably acted up
on by the committee of the whole 10
days ago. The opposition sought in
vain to consume time by rolls calls and
oth1 filibustering tactics, but their
numbers were so slim that in no case
could they secure a roll call. At last
their efforts to impede the passage of
the bills were abandoned and they were
passed with great rapidity. Sixty-one
bills in all were passed, carrying So
100000; $75O0OO, of which, however.
(the amount appropriated for the New
York custom house, is to be paid from
the proceeds of the sale of the old
building. The general deficiency appro-
priation bill was reported and will be
considered Tomorrow. 1t was the last
of the budgets to be acted upon by the
house and will probably be passed
under suspension of the rules.
Mercer, rep, of Nebraska, chairman
Of the committee on public buildings
and grounds, called up the special order
setting aside to-day for consideration
of public building bills in the house.
He explained the order in which the
committee had decided to call up bills
favorab1y acted upon by the committee
OF the whole ten days ago. Sixty-one
bills had been acted upon. Thirty-nine
In the classification, given preference.
provided for buildings in cities having
first-class postofiees, federal courts or
Wi cd
The other % bills carried SLOPE, 000
The following bills were then passed,
demands for ayes and noes being de-
feated: Oakland, Cal. $4.25O,0OO: Ell
mira. N. Y, $1s5.0O0; Hot Springs, Ark,
$4,000: Fitchburg, Mass, $50,OO0 New
Brunswick. N. j., 100000; Joliet, Ills.
Cleveland, Ohio, s2,25OOo Topeka,
Kan, $4,000.
Maddox, DEM, Georgia. contended
that in the present state of the treas
ury not one of these bills could stand
alone and pass without support Of
log rolling combine. The states repre-
scented by Is members Of the committee,
he said, got $500, 900. Southern mem
bers, however, got only pitful pit
lance. For every dollar they got. the
Northern members of the committee got
$40. Maddox then admitted the inabil-
ity of the minority to place members
upon record. He had done his duty and
so far as he was concerned he was now
wiling to nave the rest of the bills sent
up IN bunch and passed.
Dockery, dem, MO, followed in the
same line
The work of passing bills was then
proceeded with as follows: Beaumont
rex s'b.ooo; Dubuque, $100,0O6. Omaha,
increased limit Of cost to 81 800, GOO; Will
kesbarre, Pa, $125,OoO; jackson. Miss,
S5l 900; Elgin, Ills. 100000: Minnea-
polls. Mimi, 5000; Butte. Mont, $780,
900; Salt Lake City, 100000; Seattle,
Wash. 100000: Canton. Ohio. Sic, 900;
Hastings, Neb.. 100000 New York city
customs house) $750,000; Fergus Falls,
N. D.. $4,000; Brooklyn. N Y, $40, 900;
Kansas City, Kan. $150000: Baltimore.
Mo-, $1,000; Lawrence Mass, 100000;
jamestown. N Y, $4,000; Tampa, Fla,
10000: Aberdeen, s. D.. $4,000: Abb
lene, Tex. $4,000; Newport, VT, $780,
600; Eau Claire Wis. $4,000: Macon,
Ga. $50,000; Columbus. Ca, $4,000