The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-03-01
BUILDING DAY IN HOUSE.
sixty-one Bills, Carrying Nearly Ten
Million Dollars.

Washington, Feb 2S.-Mr Mercer
(Rep, Neb), chairman of the commit
tee on public buildings and grounds,
called up the special order setting aside
today for the consideration of public
building bills. He explained the order
in which the committee had decided to
call I'D the bills favorably acted uDon
by the committee of the whole ten days
ago. Sixty-two bills had been acted
upon. The thirty-nine in the classih-
cation given preference provided for
buildings IN cities having hrst-clas5
postoftlces, federal courts or custom
houses, and carried S7,zS0,000. The
other tWenty-three bills carried 81, ,322,-
eco. He then called I'd the first of the
bills, that providing for public build
ing at Elizabeth City. N. c.
Mr.. Maddox (Dem., Ga.) contended
that in the present state of the treas
ury not one OF these bills could stand
alone and pass without the support of
Iog-rolling combine. The states rep
resented by the fifteen members OF the
committee, he said, got $5,700,000- The
southern members however, got only a
pitiful pittance- For every dollar they
got the northern members of the com
mittee got so. The bill was passed
without division, III to Il.
The Elizabeth City bill carried $780,,
900.
The following bills were then passed.
demands for the ayes and noes being
defeated:
Oakland, Cal, $25OOOO; EInira, N. Y,
s1S5,Gg0; Hot Springs, Ark, $4,000;
FitchDurs, Mass. $50, 900; New Bruns-
wick, II. j., 100000; Joliet, Ills, $780,
coo; Brunswick, Ca, 800 eco; Cleveland.
o., s., coo; Topeka, Kan. $4,000.
After the passage of this bill. Mr.
Maddox admitted the inability Of the
\ R.fr7 To r11a
record. He had done his duty, he said,
and so far as he was concerned, ne was
now willing TO have the rest Of the bills
sent up in a bunch and passed.
{ Mr.. Dockery (Dem., MOI followed in
the same line. He and his colleagues
were Dowerless to antagonize the COM
| bination supporting these bills. They
I had the support Of the committee on
rules, and he would content himself
during the remainder of the day with
voting against each of the bills.
| The work of passing the bills then
proceeded as follows: Beaumont, Tex,
| 600; Dubuque, Ia, $780, 700: Omaha.
| Neb., increased limit of cost to 81, ,S00.-
] 900; Wilkesbarre, Pa, $125, 900; Jack
son, Miss, S31 900: Elgin. His, $780, 900;
Minneapolis, Mimi $4,000; Butte City.
Mont, 5000, coo; Salt Lake City, $780,
900; Seattle, Wash, 700; Canton.
| O., S15 000; Hastings, Neb., 500 600; New
York City, custom house, $3.50, 900; Fer
gus Falls, n. D.. $4,000; Brooklyn. N.
Y. $4,000; Kansas City, Kan, s150,000
J When the New York custom house
bill was reached, Mr.. Lowe (Rep., n.
W criticised Mr. Quigg, his colleague,
for his alleged action in arrogatinE
credit for the DILL when it was before
the committee of the whole He char
acterzed his bill as "adamantine
cheek"
S100, 900; jamestown, N. Y, $4,000;
Fla, 100000: Aberdeen. $4,000; Abb
fIene, Tex, $75, 600: Newport, VT, $780,
900: Eau Claire, Wis, $4,000; Macon,
Ga. $4,000; Columbus. Ga, $4,000
When the New iberia postoffiee bill
had been passed, Mr.. Loud (Rep., CALI
interposed a partial conference report
on the postofHce appropriation bill It
left unsettled the question of fast mail
service added by the senate, the con-
| ferees reporting that they could not
agree on that item. A motion to con-
cur in the senate amendment as to
special facilities was then agreed to,
116 to 81. on a standing vote, and the
yeas and nays were taken.
The vote resulted 142 to Sc, thus fin
aIly adopting the special mail amend
ments of the senate and also making
a complete agreement on the postoffice
appropriation bill The amendment
added by the senate provides for neces-
sary and special facilities on the trunk
lines from New York and Washington
to Atlanta and New Orleans, S171. .23S,
at the discretion of the postmaster
general. and for similar facilities from
Kansas City, No., to Newton, Kan,
S25, 900.
The house then returned to public
building bills. The following were
among the additional bills passed: New
Stockton, Cal, increase, $S1.900: Salem.
Ore, 100000.
The only bill defeated was that pro-
viding for building at Bluefeld. w.
Va Sixty-one bills in all were passed,
CARRYING So. .S50,0 ,000 $750.O00 of which.
however (the amount appropriated for
the New York custom house), is to be
ranaid from the proceeds of the sale
of the old building.
The steamship Gaelic. from China and
Janan via Honolulu. brought 400 cases OF
prepared opium, consigned to Chinese