Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1900-03-21

II,
erecting no works which Threatened
our rights. The committee recon-
mcnGed that the resolution lie upon
the table TIL House sustained tn
committees recommendation by Il vot,'
of 10 To 81.
When tha House met, Hull. iowa.
chairman Of tho committee on military
affairs. reported lack from thu COM
mittce the followin" resolution intro
duced by suIzcr. Dom. y. ~:
"Eesulved, That thu secretary Nc MAR
il hereby directed Ia inform the House
uf Representative, as early as possible
what fortilications Great Britain is
erecting constructing anu completing
along the northern frontier Of tn"
United States. especially ut Puget
Sound and other places on the Pacific
ocean contiguous to the state of Wash
in%tnn and Tho district of Alaska
The committee, rccumm, ndcd mat il
lie upon h" table.
The resolution had been referred t.
the war department, Hull said. and
came back with the following endorse
mrnt:
l. t iillbI Ilii JpH tilt tf.tlil tIltlll
posse sses On this ana like eases has an
ways been held ID ~ confidential ana
for good ana sufficient reasons has not
been made public 1t IL remarked,
however. that 50 far as tho department
is informed Great Britain is in no in
stance erecting Qualifications trcSpIss-
ing on our rights. oSigneD H. c.
Corbin. adjutant general
Acting Secretary of the War Meiklc-
john submitted an endorsement calling
attention to the report of the adjutant
general.
Sulzer and Richardson demanded
time t. debate the motion, but the
Speaker ruled that it was not debat-
able. Thereupon Sulzer requested HUI
to yield five minutes to him.
II have no objection" replied Hull.
"if the House desires to hear the gen
tleman, | do not
AT the conclusion of Suffers remarks
on a rising vote the motion to lay the
resolution on the table was carried
"a to 50. Thereupon Sulzer demanded
the yeas and nays. which We're ordered
The resolution was laid on the table.
10 to 81.
NJ. |. Corliss. Mich, asked unanimous
consent for the consideration Of the
Senate joint resolution recognizing the
gallantry Of Frank n. NeWcomb. COM
manding the revenue cutter Hudson,
and retiring Captain Daniel Il. Hodges
don Of the revenue cutter service, for
and meritOrious services i'll
command Of the cutter Hugh McCol-
loch at Manila Wheeler, Ky. said it
was the duty Of all our officers to be
gallant and he objected to such reso-
buttons
The special order, the Loud bill, rela-
ting to second-class mail matter. was
then called up. 1t was arranged that
general debate should continue. today
and tomorrow and on Thursday until
, o'clock. when the bill should be read
for amendment under the 5-minute rule
until o'clock, when the final vote
should be taken.
Loud. chairman of the committee on
post offices and post roads, who had
charge If the measure, explained its
provisions. which are practically tile
same as the bin which passed the
House, in January, 1897, ana which
failed in the last Congress. Its main
provision cuts from the privileges Of
sccond-class mail matter which pays
one cent per pound. publications pur-
porting IT. be issued periodically and To
but which are books or re-
prints of books and defines the condi-
tons undcr which a publication shall
re admitted to the mails as second
class matter.
Loud said that when the bill failed
in the last Congress he had said that
he would never again press This meas
urc. But when h had returned 10 the
present Congress he had been urged hy
members. who said They had voted
against it under 4 misrepresentation in
the last Congress to bring il IN again.
IT was not an eXagacratiun To say that
200 members had appealed to him.
Loud said there was but one vote in
the committee against the measure ana
50 DAYS ago there was practically no OPP
position to it on the floor Since that
time a concerted fight had been made
against it, Every member had received
uctitinns and letters from his constitu-
ents. Loud asserted that the campaign
into which many country editors had been
innncentlv drawn was being urged by
what was known as the American pub
fishers committee. which, he said, was
composed Of three men.
I.oiId detailed numerous misrcpreSenta-
lions which. he said, had been made bv
bnIa who were conducting the campaign.
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