The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-02-09
WAS IN AN UGLY HUMOR
Building Bills Delayed by Fill
clustering Tactics.
THEY CARRIED THEIR POINT
Only One Bill PasssdlThe Butte Meas
ure Must wait@Routine in the SEN
~ ate : The Indian Appropria-
i I ton Bill Passed

Washington, Feb. s.--The net result
of the work during the two days al
lotted for the consideration of public
building bills in the house was the sub
ject of single bill providing for the
erection of building at Newport
News, Va, at a cost of $4,000. Sixty
five bills in all, carrying or authoriz-
We're favorably considered in committee
of the whole when the committee rose
to-day, but because II other bills re-
ported had not been acted upon III
committee, filibusterlng tactics were re-
sorted to and all efforts to advance the
bills favorably acted upon IN commit
tee were blocked. The second bill APP
propriating $4,000 for a building at
Blair City, Neb., got as far as the third
reading, when a demand for the pro-
duction of the engrossed bill prevented
it from being placed upon it's passage
The previous question had been ordered
on the Altoona, Pa, bill, carrying $685.
00O when the house adjourned. SO that
it will be the unfinished business to-
morrow All the other bills, however,
lose the privileged status they had in
virtue Of the special order. Another
day, therefore, will have to be allotted
to secure action upon them, and as
surances have already been obtained
for another day as soon as the appro-
priation bills are out of the way.
Twenty-four bills were favorably acted
upon by the committee to-day. /,
Some unanimous consent business
was transacted before the consideration
of public buildings was resumed. Mr..
Corliss, rep, Mich; called up the SEN
ate bill to amend the law requiring bal
lots for members of congress to be
written or printed SO as to permit the
use of machines where authorized by
the laws of the state. The bill was
passed. The house then went into COM
tnittee of the whole and took up the
remaining public building bills in their
order Mercer gave notice that he
would move the committee rise at 4
o'clock.
u The first bill considered was for the
site for a public library in Washington,
for which Andrew Carnegie contributed
$250,0O0 The site selected by the bill
was Mount Vernon square, at present a
government reservation. No appro-
priation consequently was involved
The bill was laid aside with favorable
recommendation.
& Favorable action was taken for pub
lie buildings for a large number of
towns in the southern and middle states.
including also 100000 for Salem, Ore.
At $3.50 p. m. Mr.. Mercer moved that
the committee arise. AS II bills still
remained Enacted on, there We're loud
protests But the motion prevailed. 10
to 81. The opposition was in an ugly
humor and after the passage of the first
bill on the list for a public building at
Newport News, Va, to cost $4,000, the
opposition was massed against the
Blair City, Neb, bill, which carried $43,-
900. 1t was advanced to third read
ing, however, but was then blocked by
a demand from Mr.. Loud, rep, Cal, for
the reading of the engrossed bill. AS
the bill was not engrossed it was laid
aside.
Mr.. Dockery, DEM, Mo-, then moved
an adjournment and forced roll call.
The motion to adjourn was defeated,
102 to 121. and the senate bill for a
building at Altoona, Pa, to cost $125,-
900, was taken UP, but the filibustering
tactics of the opposition was continued
and at last, at 500 p. M, ten minutes
before the special order expired, the
house adjourned.