The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-03-04

Sumed us session at / clpGh LilS al7
 ternoon with the galleries packed to the
 doors with inaugural visitors. A ma
 joritI of them were soldiers in uniform Although several hard fights over items fin the various appropriation bills loom
 ed up on the horizon, the leaders were
 confident that all the disputes would be
 amicably settled bafore noon tomorrow,
 when congress expires by limitation The House was still in the legislative day of Friday and the members came prepared for a siege through the night
 if the conpica tions made an all-nisht session necessary.
 MT. Grosvenor, of Ohio, from the com mittee on rules presented special or
 der providing that after ten minutes | debate it should be in order to move
 non concurrence in the Senate amend
 ments to the river and harbor bill and
 to agree to the conference asked for by l the Senate Twenty minutes on a side
 were allowed on the rule. No democrat desired to speak and MT. Richardson, of { Tennessee, yielded his time to MT. Hep
 burn, of Iowa, who aroused the House
 with a passionate speech denounolng the measure. He taunted the demo"
 crats for not opposing 1t, saying that | the $60, 100000 carried by the bill ac-
 counted for the lack of opposition. If ! the democrats had stood against this
 bill, he said, enough members on his
 side of the House would have joined with them to defeat it.
 Docs the gentleman think this legis ! latlon is vicious?" asked MT. Wheeler,
 of Kentucky.
 1 T have no word to properly charac-
 terize it," answered MT. Hepburn.
 When there is pork in the barrel the
 voice of the opposition is stifed. It Is
 always prating about virtue. I now
 appeal to i&'
 Does the gentleman think there is a
 nigger in the wood pile?" asked MT.
 Fitzpatrick, of Kentucky.
 T do not know" replied MT. Hepburn waving him aside. 'The gentleman
 knows more about 'niggers' and wood
 piles than I do.'
 MT Hepburn continued his excoria-
 tion, saying he hoped he would be able to attract the attention of the country to the measure While a few of the ap- propriations in the bill might be meri- torious, he said, millions were frittered away.
 MT. Hepburn mentioned several in- stances, notably in the case of the Force bill, where important legislation had been abandoned in order that con- gress might be able to get at the river and barbor bill When bill was such factor 1t became a real danger and a menace to the country. He declared that not over twenty of the four hun dred items in the bill could pass if they stood alone and he sad he hoped the constituents of members would notice that for the s50,0o0 or $6O,OO0 they se- cured millions of the peoples money were sacrificed. In conclusion MT. Hep burn raised a laugh at his own expense by stating that perhaps his own virtue in regard to this bill was protected by the meteorological conditions in his dis trict.
 MT. Carmack, of Tennessee, called at tention to the fact that MT. Hepburn had been forced to appeal to the demo- cratic side to protect the treasury. For himself, he said, he thought the govern ment could expend money on the rivers and herbors of the country with more profit to the people than in spending 1t 7c00 miles beyond the sea in subjecting people who wanted to be free. (Dem- ocratic applause)
 Mir. Reeves. member of the river and harbor committee, resented Mir Hepburn's charge that the individual items in the bill could not stand alone upon their own merits. He said the bill as it passed the House contained 359 itoY1G Tho al i,nra irat had rejected but four of them.
 The special order was adopted.
 MT Burton, of Ohio, chairman of the river and harbor committee, then en- tered the motion to non concur in the Senate amendments and after brief statement the motion was adopted and the bill was sent to conference. Messrs. Burton, Reeves. of Illinois, and Catch ings, of Mississippi, were appointed conferees.
 MT. Dalzell, of Pennsylvania from the committee on rules, presented a resolution for the appointment of q special committee of seven members of the committee on insuar affairs, not more than four of whom shall be of one political party, to visit Cuba, Porto iNi,' di'b tiic liliipPihNS eti'd iNpOit OiI ] there
 MT. Richardson. the minority leader, | the resolution. He thought if | was to legislate intelligently 1t | should have the information which this | could get 1
 Mir. Powers, of Vermont, declared ! that this resolution was the boldest and | most inexcusable junketing trip he ever | saw presented.
 MT. Cooper, of Wisconsin, chairman | of the committee on insular affairs, said If congress was to legislate it should have information at firts hand If he was appointed on the committee, MT. Cooper said, he, for one, would attempt f to get at all the facts in Porto Rico, Cuba and the Philippines. Debate up- On the resolution was interrupted by ! Mir. Cannon, who presented a partial conference report upon the sundry civil appropriation bill
 The item agreed to comprised all the minor issues, leaving still in dispute the items for the purchase of the old Corcoran art gallery in this city, $S32,- 100; the appropriation for the memorial bridge across the Potomac at Wash ngton; the payments to Mexico of $412,- )00; the appropriation for the Buffalo, Charleston and St. Louis expositions md the amendment touching the irri- ion pf 1an5c Tho rppOrt