Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1901-03-14

HTSt opportunity " PACSOA1 LIN
to the house was on committee Ii S
pension day, which was Monday, Feb
ruary IS. The special committee au-
thorized its chairman to a sus-
pension of the rules for this purpose,
which was done, and which permitted
only forty minutes debate and for
tunately afforded no opportunity for
amendment. On the roll being called
there were 100 years and only AZ
nays.
Course in che Senate
THE bill then went to the senate,
where it was looked upon with as
much favor as it was in the house and
for the same reason, but, neverthe-
less, its passage in that body OF IN
| terminable debate, where many OF the
largest appropriation bills were pend
ing. was regarded with apprehension.
But in tina body it had two most val
liable and able champions, Senators
Cockren and Vest, whose influence
and experience in the senate enabled
them finally to get the bill before
| that body almost as soon as 1t was
favorably reported by the senate COM
mittee on industrial expositions. The
! senate committee having reported the
bill as it came from the II ana
without amendment, and also having
adopted the house report. the passage
of the bill was thereby facilitated by
removing the necessity for the DIS
cussion of any amendments. 1t also
obviated the necessity for any confer
o,o lo+,raan tho two houses
unfortunately, there were sena-
tors interested in eNposltlons IN
other parts of the country that de-
sired government aid, but a ecure
no pledge from congress for the same.
They saw their opportunity to secure
such aid by attaching their bills as
riders to the Louisiana Purchase eX-
position bill. They took advantage OF
this opportunity at a time when those
in charge of appropriation bills would
not permit any delay in the consider
alton of their bills by any discussion
whatever on any amendment to the
ST. Louis bill, so thai the friends OF
the latter bill were obliged to accept
these amendments, and did so in the
hope that they might be disposed OF
in conference.
The Long Fight Over.
1.-The bill was then reported to the
house with the amendment directing
that a government exhibit be made
at the Charleston exposition, and APP
propriating S250,O00 to defray the ex
pense of the same. This being new
as we'll as general legislation, it wa:
l regarded by the leaders of h hous,
as a violation of the rules of boil
house of any opportunity to consider
t or amend this proposed new legisla
: ton and consequently excited thell
hostility.
: Fearing that. in their desire to Sc
= cure the passage of the bill, thu
friends of the ST. Louis exposition
: might acquiesce in this method of sc
. curing an appropriation for the Soutl
. Carolina exposition, which the com
e mittee on appropriations had refused
to report to the house, it was not un
4 til positive assurances were given tina
the sneaker could be induced to recog
: nize the chairman of the special com
mittee to ask unanimous consent tina
the senate amendments be nOncon
n Cured in and the conference aske
y for by the senate agreed to.
0 "'When this was done, an objectlo
d was i]nterposed first by one of tn
II members from South Carolina. See
e ing his mistake on the following day
l. his objection was withdrawn, whe
objection came then, unexpectedly
l. from a member from Texas. Ihi
e threw the matter over until the mex
: day. which was the first of the las
d six DAYS of the session, and individu;
e suspension day. When unanimor
consent was asked on this day tina
the senate amendments be noncoI
d Cured in and the conference aske
J. for by the senate agreed to, an oi
r. lection came from a member frol
d Tennessee. Whereupon the chairma
e of the special committee moved
It suspension of the rules and noncol
, currence in the senate amendment
e and again the bill practically passe
e, the house by more than a two-thIrt
Il vote.
d ''This gave the bill the parliamen
1t arv status hat enabled it's friends
w secure its final passage. The mome1
1t was pldccu uluSI thC Juhi
Il of a conference committee it BEGAN
lie privileged and it was no longer wit
If in the power of any individual meI
&c Der of either body to defeat its pas
y age, except by talking it to death.
al Deadlock of the Two Houses.
", The conferees were unable
agree on the Charleston amendmer
st Their disagreement was first reports
lie to the house. Again we encounter
in the fears of the leaders of the hous
is including the speaker, that the Sou
re Carolina amendment might be co
Cured in. 1t is only just to say tn
these fears were not founded up'
e. any hostility to Charleston or Z
be Charleston exposition, but rather
ny the hi~gh-handed method that was el
ployed to secure the passage of t
of Charleston bill through the house
of a rider upon a bill to which it w
" not germane.
cir With much t~repidation the cha
of man of the special committee was,
ter several days Of delay, recogniz
in to call up the conference report, al
rs, on the motion to recede and con
Id the Charleston amendment was {
Sc. feated and the St. Louis eNpositl
bill again passed the house by, pr
"a tically, to two-thirds vote, the eX;
nd vote being 1913 10 81. This action