The Indianapolis journal., 1899-02-28
WORK OF THE HOUSE.
Army and FOrtifcatiOns Appropria-
ton BiIIs Sent to the Scnnte.

| WORK OF THE HOUSE.
Army and FOrtifieatiOns Appropria-
tiOn Bills Sent to the Senate.
WASHINGTON Feb. 27-The House was
| in session seven hours to-day and sent TO
| the Senate two more appropriation bills, the
| army, which has been under consideration
for several days, and the Notifications. The
| former carried about $79. 900. and the lat
| ter approximately $4.7OOCOO The final con-
| ference report or the Indian appropriation
bill was also adopted. The only amendment
| of Importance attached to the army bill was
| one giving two months extra pay to enlisted
men iii the regular army served beyond the
limits of the United States during the war
with Spain and one months extra pay to
| those who served in the United States. The
| discussion of the Administrations policy rel
| ative to the Philippines, which has been oc-
| cupying the attention of the members to. the
| exclusion of almost everything else during
| the consideration of the appropriation bills
| for the last two weeks, was continued to-
day, several speeches being made on the
subject. Mr. Dockery, the leading Democrat
on the appropriations committee, asserted
| that the appropriations for this Congress
would reach 81, 900.
| When the House convened bills were
tions on the War Department as to the pur-
| chase Of certain materials; attaching Clay
bourne county, Mississippi to the western
| division of the Southern district of Mssis-
sippi; extending the time for the construc-
| ton of the Arkansas Northwestern Rail-
way through the Indian Territory.
| Considerable of the army appropriation
| bill was then resumed Mr. Cox Dem,
! Tenn) made short, sharp, general speech,
! saying II will never vote a cent to put a
| bullet into a gun to shoot down those peo-
pie over there (tbe Filipnos) who are try
! ing to establish their home government"
| He could not understand, he said why we
| had started out to free the Cubans and
| should end by shooting the Filipinos. What
| a remarkable notification. he declared was
! that of General Otis that had killed
and wounded four thousand of those people,
! part of them naked natives armed with bows
| and arrows. As an American, he asked.
| Mnere was the glory OF this achievement?
| Who had declared war on these people, who
| had cone us no harm?"
! Mr.. SulZer CDem., n. W offered an
| amendment to increase the number of major
! generals to four and to provide for filling
/ the vacancy by the appointment of General
| Wheeler. Mr.. Hull raised point of order
| against the amendment and the point was
/ sustained by the chair.
SULZER CALLED TO ORDER.
Speaking later to pro forma amendment
| Mr.. Sulzer called attention to the fact that
| no point of order had been raised against
the amendment of Mr.. Moody last week to
| create the rank Of admiral for Rear Admiral
| Dewey. Mr.. Sulzer was repeatedly called to
| orGer by Chairman Hopkins, who finally
summoned the sergeant-at-arms and threat
ened to enforce order in that way. There
upon Mr.. Sulzer retired to his seat.
Mr.. Fitzgerald CDem. Mass.) offered an
| amendment to pay all soldiers in the regular
| army who served during the war beyonG the
limits of the United States two months
| extra pay upon their muster out and who
| served within the limits of the United States
| one months extra pay. A similar provision,
| he said, applied to volunteer troops and he
! saw no reason why a distinction should be
| mace. The amendment was adopted This
| was the last amendment. The committee
arose and the bill as amended was passed.
Mr.. Hager (Rep Iowa. asked unanimous
| consent for consideration of the Senate joint
| resolution authorizing the President to ap-
| point Osman Deignan one of the heroes of
| the Merrimac, a naval cadet at Annapolis.
Mr.. Underwood Dem, Ala.) said; he had
| no desire to object, but he desired to call
| attention to the fact that each of the crew
| of the Merrimac had received his reward for
| the daring displayed in the heroic exploit
| at Santiago harbor, save the man who took
| the ship in, Lieutenant HObson. A bill was
| sleeping in the committee to transfer him to
| the line ana promote him. He thought 1t un-
| just that it was not acted upon. The reSo-
/ luton was adopted.
Mr. Henderson then presented a special or
! der agreed upon by the committee on rules
setting aside tomorrow until o'clock for
| consideration of public buildings those act
| ed on by the committee OF the whole to he
| first acted on, after which such as might be
designated by the committee public build
! ings and grounds, those reported from the
| committee of the whole to be considered
| in this order: First, those in cities where
| there were postoffices of the first class; sec
ond, where there were federal courts
DOCKERY'S BIG FIGURES.
Mr. Dockery opposed the rule on the
| ground that neither the condition Of the APP
| preparation bills nor the treasury would war
rant the use of tomorrow for this purpose
and the appropriation of money which would
| result He figured out total appropriations
| for the session of $678.000O00. This did not
| include the $115O0O,OOO for the Nicaragua
canal, which might become law, nor the
| $25, 600 coo Of claims which we had assumed
by the treaty of Paris These aggregated
| the appalling total of SSOO.OG0 OOO Yet it
! was now proposed to give day for public
| buildings and add Sill, 600 more TO these
! staggering liabilities. He figured out that
| the total appropriations for this Congress
would reach $1,600,O0o0G0. The rule was
! adopted-97 to "a.
A bill was passed appropriating 5000 for
| the Investigation of leprOsy in this country
under board to be selected by the sur
geon general. Mr.. Corliss (Rep.. Mieh)
stated that there were about 300 cases in the
Mr.. Hemenway Rep.. Ind.) then called up
a substitute for the Notifications appropria-
ton bill and moved its passage under sus-
pension of the rules. Mr.. HemenWay ex-
planned that the substitute was in reality
the bill reported from the appropriations
committee with few minor amendments.
1t was necessary to offer the amended bill
as q substitute as no amendments were in
order under suspension OF the rules.
Mr. Cochran Dem, Mo- declared that the
country would never cease to regret the
administrations policy toward the Philip
pines The war against the horde of semi
barbarians laundering at the gates of Ma
Mia would never cease Our heroic soldiers
sent there were doomed. Disease and death
would ravage our army during the rainy
season.
Mr.. Grosvenor (Rep., Ohio delivered
thirty-minute speech generally replying to
the charges ennanating from the opposition
during the past few days that there had
been an alliance between the United States
and the insurgent forces in the Philippines
He carefully went over the official records to
show that there never had been an alliance
The official documents and their dates were
produced in each case. He defied the other
side to produce a single official utterance
authorizing or recognizing any alliance.
SIMPSON BREAKS IN.
MIR. Simpson (Pop Kan) interrupted to
ask whether Mr.. Grosvenor was speaking
by authority OF. and in defense Of the Presi-
dent
Mr.. Grosvenor-No man can be tried ex-
oert nv n iurv Cf hS ppers