The Washington weekly post. (Washington, D.C.) 1878-1916, 1900-02-20
Saturdays Proceedings.

The House yesterday passed tue leElsia'
tive. executive. and judicial appropriation
bill. 1t viii go TO the Senate without ans
important amendment. As soon as ths
bill hal been reported from the Commit
tee Of the Whole q yea ana nay vote wa
demanded on the striking out OF the ap-
preparation for the Civil Service Commits
sion. This Clause. which was stricken out
in the Committee Of the Whole. where nc
record il MADE. was reinserted by a vote
of 10 to r.
Early in the day an effort was made q
strike out the clause which provides that
the District of Columbia must pay s27.i51
part OF the expenses for caring for tn
public parks OF the city. Representative
MUdd. of Maryland. made motion that
that clause was improperly in the bill, and
& long argument resulted as 10 the mean.
ing OF the organic act OF 1873 Chairmar
Babcock of the District Committee, up
held Mr.. Mudd's contention. but Chairman
Cannon. of the Appropriations Commit.
tee, argued that Congress had full power
TO legislate regarding the distribution OF
expenses, and that such legislation as
was proposed about the public parks was
not in contrayention of the organic act
Mr.. Mudd called attention to the large
deficit in the revenues Of the District, and
declared that the park provision was not
only hardship. but departure from the
precedents OF the last one hundred years
Representative Cowherd. OF Missouri. a
member of the District Committee. stated
that he thought the clause in the bill was
entirely fair. Representative Moody. OF
Massachusetts, spoke of the fact that per-
sonal property is not taxed in the Dis
trict, and told of an incident that came 70
his personal notice here recently where
an estate having s309,O0o Of personal prop
erty had not paid any tax for many
years. The public parks were almost
solely for the benefit of District people,
and accordingly the District people, he
though, ought to bear half OF the expense.
Representative Cowherd said that per-
sonai property escaped taxation because
it was thought the people were raising as
much money as Congress would vote for
expenses here.
representative Sherman, of New York.
VINO was presiding overruled the point
or order made by Representative Mudd.
The latter then offered an amendment TO
strike out the park provision, but that
was lost on a vote.
In order TO present his views upon trusts
and the financial bill. which is now in
Representative Miers. of In
diana, offered an amendment to the bill.
lie antaSonized the provision of the finan-
cial bill which authorized national banks
10 issue currency, and denounced the fas-
tening of the gold standard upon the peo-
pie as glaring iniquity. He declared that
the retirement of this greenbacks and the
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government was the completion of the
most wonderful blunder of the age.
Organization of Trusts.
Representative Miers declared that after
the passage of the Mckinley tariff law
thirty-four new trusts were organized.
and since the Mckinley administration
had assumed power and the Dingley law
had gone into effect, 200 of such mon
sters" had raised their heads in the coun-
try. with capital aggregating seven bill
lion dollars.
Representative Bromwell, of Ohio, offer
ed an amendment providing that the head
Or any department upon whose rolls the
name of any employee or clerk permanent
ly incapacitated from performing serv-
Ice appears shall repurt those names to
the Civil Service Commission in order
that an employee of proper capacity may
be designated for the service. The amend
ment was adopted.
An amendment was offered by Repre-
HIT, of Illinois, providing that
permission be given to j. D. Richardson,
Representative from Tennessee, to COM
pile, edit, and publish the state papers
and diplomatic correspondence of the late
Confederate States, and it was adopted,
after an explanation that no expense at
tached to the government.
The committee then rose and the bill
was favorably reported to the House
The amendments were agreed to with the
exception of that striking out the appro-
Driation for the civil service. On a rising
vote the amendment was defeated-93 to
Is. The yeas and nays were ordered.
Analysis OF the Vote.
The Republicans who voted to strike
put the appropriation and accordingly
against civil service were thirty-five in
number Their names follow: Baker, Bar
ham, Boreing, Brown. Calderhead. Crump
Samuel Davenport, Dick, Faris, Gardner
GrosvenOr Hepburn, Hoffecker.
Joy. Kerr. Lands. Linney, Lybrand. Nc
Pherson, Metcalf, Mudd, Pearce of Mis-
souri,, Pearre, Pugh, Roberts, Rosenburg,
Sheldon. Showalter. Southland. Sulloway,
Van Voorhis, Wachter, Warner, and Wea-
YER.
The Democrats who voted TO retain the
and accordingly for civil
service numbered fifty-one, including Pop
ilists and Silverites, as follows: Barber,
Bell, Brantley, Clayton of New York,
Cochran of Missouri, Cowherd, Daily, De
Almond. Denny. briggs CT New York.
Fitzgerald Of Massachusetts, CASTOR,
Tynn, Green Of Pennsylvania, Hall, Jones
If Virginia, Kleberg. Lamb, Lloyd. Nc
culloch. McLain. May. Miers of Indiana
Mayhem. Neville. NeWlands, Noonan. Nor
on OF South Carolina, Pierce of Tennes-
Zee, Quarles, Richardson. Robinson Of In
llama, Robinson of Nebraska, Ryan of
New York, Ryan OF Pennsylvania, Scud-
Ter. Shackleford. Shaforth, Sibley, Sims,
'layden, Snodgrass, Spight, Stark, Ste
)hens. Sulzer, Sutherland, Taylor, OF Ala
lama, Terry, Wilson of New York, anc
Lenor
The bill was passed without division
Ind, at 800 p. M, the House adjourned.
The Republican members OF the confer
nee committee having charge of the
nance bill held a prOtracted session yes
erday, beginning at II a. m, and lasting
'AtA SltDtb iS bfAOiF D u. III DuTlH2 part
4 this time Secretary Gage was present
Iavipg been invited to give his views uuon
ertain features Of the measure. Al the
lose OF the days session IL was stated by
members OF the conference that no con-
fusion had been reached on the bill as
whole or any single proposition, the en-
ire time being given 10 preliminary DIS
ussiOn on the general principles involved
Secretary Gage was called in 10 give in
ormatiOn concerning administrative feat
Tres OF the bill. the issue Of notes. and
ther matters Of technical nature relat-
ng TO carrying out the provisions OF the
iii when IL should become Law.
The confsrees went over both the House
nd Senate bills. and it was found that
differences exist all along the line. The
House conferees insisted that their meas
Ire best met the requirements Of the eitu-
ton and the Senator's were equally firm
n standing by their bill Strenuous Or
ecJiOn Is made BY the House conferees o
he bimetallic section OF the Senate bill.
nd they also oppose the resundlng Sec
ION OF the measure.
The conference did not reach a stage
where any proposition 20 adjust any Of
he differences was fayoKably considered.
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