Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1901-03-02
NO FIREARMS FOR ISLANDERS
BAILEY RAKES UP WHISKY AND
F1REARM SALES IN PHIL
IPPINES AND HAWAII.
LAST OF THE APPROPRIATIONS.
General Deficiency Bill Finished the
Last of the Long and Costly
List.

Washington, March 2.-The house re.
convened at 9 o'clock after the recess
taken last night. It had been agreed
that the two hours from 9 to II, should
be devoted to unanimous consent legis-
lation. Owing to the unusually early
hour Of the meeting the hall was almost
empty when the speaker dropped the
gavel, but the fact that members were
tc have an opportunity to pass bills by
consent was a great inducement and
within a few minutes they began arriv-
ing, each with bill in his hand. After
bills had been passed to amend the Chi
nese exclusion act, the authority for
the striking of medals to Spanish war
heroes and to authorize the appoint.
ment Of Thomas Lutz Stitts as an Of
ficer in the navy, Mr. Bailey of Texas
objected to action on all bills by unani-
nous consent. He was appointed on ap-
peal not to block proceedings. but he
refused to yield. The speaker then rec
ognzed Mr.. Sperry of Connecticut TO
move the passage under suspension Of
the rules of senate bill to prohibit the
sale of fire arms, opium and intoxicat-
ing liquors in certain islands of the
Pacific.
Mr.. Bailey demanded a second, and
then brought matters to a complete
standstill by making the point Of no
quorum. A call of the house was or.
dered and the sergeant-at-arms was in
structed to bring in absentees. 1t was
1920 before enough members We're
brought in to make up the quorum. Mr..
Sperry then proceeded to explain that
the bill was designed to prevent the sale
by Americans Of firearms and intoxi-
cants to the aborigines of the new Heb
NiI NfN Dot1
men behind the pending bill were not
entirely sincere in their trying to pro-
tAct savages from the baneful influences
of Intoxicating liquors. Why were not
the Philippines a. the Hawaiian ISL
ands included? He understood that since
the American regime began there over
1000 saloons had sprung up in Manila,
In Hawaii where saloons We're unknown
until we "benevolently assimilated'
there We're now over 400 saloons. Mr..
Bailey contended that offenders under
the bill could not be punished They
could not be tried in any federal court
in America in spite of the fiction in the
bill that such offenses should be con-
sidered to have been committed on the
high seas.
Mr.. Gillette, (Mass) in reply to Mr..
Bailey's suggestion regarding the legal
phase of the bill, said that the fiction
was carried out N the Guiana
islands which had been sustained by the
supreme court
The bill was defeated. III to 70, two
thirds not having voted in the atfirma-
tive. 1t was 11:10 when the roll call
was completed and the result was an
nounced AS the regular hour for meet
ing Q1 o'clock) had already passed the
house could not adjourn SO the legis-
lative day of Friday continued. AS the
house will not adjourn again until the
sine die adjournment at noon on Mon
day, there Will be no Saturday in the
house proceedings. Mr.. Mercer, (Neb.),
chairman of the committee on public
buildings and grounds, was recognized
and moved the passage undec .suspen-
sion of the rules of the omnibus public
building bill.
The omnibus bill was finally passed
by the house.