The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-02-05
NATIONAL BANK CHARTERS.
Bill Passed to Extend Them Twenty Years Re-
yond 1902.
(By the Associated Press.)

tBy the Associated HFeSS.J
Washington. Feb 4.-The House today
passed the Senate Bill to create COM
mission to adjudicate the claims OF the
United States citizens against Spain
which the Government OF the United
States assumed by the treaty of Paris,
after having amended the bill so as to
refer the claims to the Court OF Claims.
This action conforms to the action Of
the House at the last session when the
bill was recommitted with instructions TO
report back such an amendment as was
adopted today strong effort was made
to vote down the amendment and pass
the Senate bill but the advoctes of this
course were Detected by majority of 30.
bill was also passed to extend the
charters of national banks for another
period of twenty years after 1902 when
the present extension expires The bill
occasioned no debate and was passed
without division.
Mr.. Haugen (Wis) in charge of the
Spanish Claims Commission Bill asked
the House to vote down the amendment
ana pass the original bill. This course
led the opposition under the lead of
Mr. Underwood (Ala.), last week to charge
that the consideration CT the bill had
Mr.. Grosvenor CO.,, today argued in ia
vor of the passage of the original Senate
bill. He said that not more than $29
900 900 of claims were now on file at the
State Department.
Mr. Underwood urged that the amend
ment should be adopted, first because
the House, after full discussion on a
previous occasion, had instructed the
committee to bring in such an amend
ment and secondly, because the Govern
ment already had a well equipped court
for the trial of just such claims. Mr.
Underwood declared that the corridors
were full of lobbyists urging the adoption
of the Senate bill They believed their
clients would fare better before such
tribunal than before the Court of Claims
After considerable debate the committee
amendment was adopted 1913 to So.
Mr.. Maddox tGa.), and Mr.. Cannon
uIsD. were among those who opposed
the bill to ratify the agreement with the
Crow Indians of Montana. The lands
which the Government was to purchase
from the Crows, Mr.. Cannon said, was
not worth 500, 900, much less $1,10O, OO9,
which the Government avs to pay. The
bill was defeated, 81 to 40.
Mr. Knox. Chairman of the Committee
on Territories moved the passage un-
der suspension of the rules of the bill
to redeem Hawaiian silver coins no.,
ahraded below lawful value at par and
recon them into standard silver coins of
the United States; abraded coin to be
receive bullion value.
Mr. Wilcox, the Hawaiian delegate, was
asked to explain the relative value of
native and American silver in Hawaii. He
said that both circulated at par but that
gold commanded per cent premium. He
was offered time to give his views in
extefso, but declined to do So
The bill was defeated, 70 to 50, two
thirds not having voted in the affrma-
tive
The Indian Appropriation Bill was sent
to conference. Mr. Sreman IN. W, Mr..
Curtis (Kan.), and Mr.. Little (Ark).
were appointed conferees. The House
then went into committee of the whole
and resumed consideration of the Post
office Appropriation Bill. Mr. II. c.
Smith (Mich.), spoke in favor of reduc-
ton of railway mail pay. No action was
| taken.
At 5:25 p. m. the House adjourned.