The record-union., 1899-03-02
With Many Measures Yet in a Critical
State Of Consideration.
Causes Considerable Excitement
- Among the Representatives In
the Lower Branch of the Ma
tional Legis1ature-The Confer
ence Report on the Omnibus
= Claims Bill Agreed to After an
Animated Debate.

WASHINGTON, March There
. was considerable excitement in the
House to-day growing out of the ap-
preach of adjournment and the criti-
cal state of various measures. The
conference report on the omnibus claims
bill was agreed to after a lively debate,
in which the French spoliation claims
were sharply attacked. The confer
ence reports on the census bill and the
Indianapolis public building bill were
also adopted. The river and lnarbor
bill was sent to conference, and the
massage of the general deficiency APP
preparation bill moved under suspension
of the rules.
=. After the reading of the journal the
sundry civil bill was sent to confer
eltce. Messrs. Cannon (R) of Illinois,
Moody (R.) of Massachusetts and Dock.
cry CD of Missouri were appointed
ccnferees.
Mahon (R.) of Pennsylvania, Chair
man of the Committee on War Claims,
presented the conference report upon
the bill to pay certain judgments of the
Court of Claims under the Bowman and
Tucker Acts. The Senate placed upon
it what is known as the omnibus claims
bill, increasing it to S9.O30000. The
conference report reduced the total car
ried by the bill to 49, 100000.
Loud (R.) of California attacked the
conference report and the claims it car
ried. He saw no reason why the claims OF
California and Oregon should have been
eliminated from the bill, but even those
claims, he declared, had no foundation
IN Nv 10 +l,4 ,aI, :;
claims, he said no one could read the
veto message of that great man, Mr..
Cleveland" without recognizing this as
a fact
The mention of Mr.. Cleveland's name
provoked some jeers from the Demo
cratic side.
Gentlemen may jeer,' said Loud
turning upon them, ''but Mr.. Cleveland
had the courage of his convictions, the
greatest factor in making great man. "
Richardson CD of Tennessee, one OF
the conferees. defended the conference
report All the State claims had been
rejected, and the conferees, he said, pre-
scented clean cut bill, which dealt
justly with both sections
bow much for the French spoliation
claims?" asked Hopkins (R.) of Illinois
"One million, fifty-five thousand
L hope they will be voted down
There is not an honest dollar" observ-
ed Mr.. Hopkins.
Il agree with the gentleman" said
Mr.. Dockery. They are one hundred
years old, musty and stale with age
and if there was billion of surplus
1 would not vote for one of Them
Evans Of
report and the French spoliation claims
Inc conference report was adopted
lis to 49,
Inc conference report upon the naval
personnel bill was adopted.
burton, Chairman of the River and
-Harbor Committee, then secured recog-
milton, and under suspension of the
rules moved to non-concur in the SEN
ate amendments to the River and
II arbor bill and request conference.
The motion was carried without d.
vision
Messrs. Burton Qe.) of Ohio. Reeves
tR) of Illinois and Catchings CD of
mississippi We're appointed conferees.
Inc conference report upon the CEN
sus bill was adopted
The Senate bill was passed to set
aside certain lands in the Pacific forest
reserves in the State of Washington for
the Washington National Park.
The conference report upon the bill
10 reimburse the Governors of States
Tor money expended in organizing
troops for service in the late Spanish
war was adopted.
Cannon, Chairman of the Appropria-
fi0nS Tom NIT
and moved to pass the general def
CLERGY appropriation bill under sus-
persion of the rules. Under the rule
aweEfy minutes debate was allowed on
each side
Allen CD of Mississippi, the wit of
the House, who controlled the time of
The minority, declared that while he