Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-02-28

replied Speaker Reed. dryly. but not his
RICH. to demand It's reading in public
But IT'S mighty hard to keep up with
this hog combine pleaded Mr.. Talbert-
That IL hardly Il parlia mentary ques-
ton said the Speaker.
ThereupOn Mr. Talbcrt played the last
card. the same being trump and ace high.
I demand the reading of the engrossed
pill" ne cried.
The worst which was feared had come
to pass. Time would be- required TO engross
the bills. and this meant disaster to more
than q majority Of them.
For few moments there was dramatic
silence i'm the House. Then the Speaker
took his seat. with an air of resignation,
announcing that the bill would be laid
aside There was dismay on all sides.
But Mr. Talbert was not hard-hearted
enough to insist He relented after a mo-
ment and withdrew his request. Then Mr..
Maddox did the graceful thing. He said
II was evident that the House would not
support him In this fight that the House
would have its way and further objection
would only do injustice To the bills low on
the list. He would, therefore. abandon the
fight. The House applauded this statement,
and also MIR. Dockery ) announcement that
ne would not continue useless battle.
Thereafter consideration of the bills pro-
Cecded rapidly.
4 Large Attendance.
There was a large attendance in the hall
n Hausmann of Grand Rapids, Mich. de-
livertd the Invocation.
The Senate army reorganization bill.
which came over from the Senate. was, at
Mr. Hulrs request. Immediately referred
to the committee on military affairs for
consideration.
A Joint resolution was passed TO author
ize foreign governments desiring to MAXI
exhibits at the commercial exposition 10
a af,~ fs. tn,
Into this country foreign laborers under
contract to prepare the exhibits
Mr. Mercer (NebD, chairman Of the com
mlttee on public buildings and grounds.
then called mp the special order setting
aside today for the consideration OF public
building bills.
He explained the order in which the com
mittee had decided to call up the various
bills favorably acted upon by the commit
tee of the whole ten days ago. SiNty-tWo
bills had been acted upon The thirty
nine in the classification given preference
provided for buildings in cities having FIRST
class post offices. federal courts or custom
houses and carried 81 2.s''su- The other
twenty-three bills carried $1.322UpD. He
then called up the first OF the bills. that
providing for public building at Elizabeth
City. y. c.
Mr. Maddox CGaD. who has been opposing
the public building bills, secured twenty
minutes IN which to make a general state
ment He said that he had led with sue
cess the fight against a public building
combine in the Fifty-third Congress He
ronteuded that in the present state OF the
treasury not one Of these bills could stand
alone and pass without the support of
Iog-roIling combine He called attention
to the fact that the states represented by
the fifteen members of the committee got
S37OD,~u1. The southern members, row
ever. got only pitiful piItanCe. For every
dollar tE@g got the northern NE mbers of
the cGTnroiftee got $40.
Ths bill was passed upon division-111 to
II The Elizabeth City bill carried $4,000.
The following bills were then passed. de
mands for the ayes and noes being defeat
ed. Oakland. Cal. S2J0IsEl; Elmira, y. Y.
SlS1.Wp. Hot Springs. Ark. $I>HH; Fitch
burg. Mass. 10000; New Brunswick. n j..
<1tHwn; Joliet, H., slontssb: Brunswick.
Ca. s-It0oO; CLEVELAND, Ohio, S2.2IS.'ot; To-
peka. Kan, 5000
MIR. Maddox Gives Up.
After the passage of this bill Mr.. Mad
dOx admitted the inability of the small
minority To place the members upon record.
He had done his duty. he said, and far
as IL was concerned he was now willing to
have the rest of the bills sent up in bunch
and passed
Mr. Duckery Odo) followed in the same
line He and his colleague were pcwerless
TO antagOuiZe the combination supporting
these bills. They had the support of the
committee on rules. and ne would content
himself during the remainder of the day
with voting against each Of the bills.
With the remark that if the experience
meeting was over he would call up the next
bill. Mr. Mercer called UP the bill for a
public building at Beaumont, Tex. and the
work of passing the bills proceeded as fol-
lows: Beaumont, Tex. $1,000; Dubuque
Iowa $1prtsD
Omaha, Neb.. increased limit of cost to
81 .sip.ot0; Wilkesbarre. Pa. $1oI,OO0: Jack
son. Miss. Si1.@0; Elgin ILL.,. $1O0uOO; Min
neapoiis. Mimi. $-'5.Nsj: Butte City Mont
S2pI.pD: Salt Lake City, $3'DUOO: Seattle.
Wash. S%Hl.tsn; Canton. Ohio, S1a,tsn:
Springfield. Mass. s20.0oo: Hastings Neb
S2noOo; Norfolk, Va, $2DpO: New York
city tcIIstom house, s75O,GtD; Fergus Falls
" D.. $1,000: Brooklyn. N Y, S2O.OU;
Kansas City. Kan. s1JN,G0.
When the New York custom house bill
UaE reached Mr.. Lowe On. W criticised
Mr. Quigg. his colleague. for his alleged
action in arrogating credit for the bill when
II Was before the committee of the whole.
He characterized his course as ALBANIAN
tine cheek"
Baltimore. ogo; Washington public
library bi site; Lawrence. Mass, Sl0o,ODi
Jamestown, n. Y. sI5.HO; Tampa Fla.
100000; Aberdeen. S. D.. Ss76o; Abilene,
Texas, $1,000: Newport. VT, $4,000: Eau
Claire, Wis. $JoGl0; Macon, Ga, S5S,Wn;
Columbus, Ga. $4,000.
When the bills of the second class Were
reached beginning with the bill for build
ing at New iberia, La. Mr.. Payne (N.Y),
the floor leader of the majority, made Il
tWenty-miHate speech in opposition to bills
Of this class.