The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-03-13
MELANGE OF HOUSE
CONGRESSMAN DISCUSSED MANY
TOPICS.
SORE ON CENSUS BILL.
CoRLIss AND RICHARDSON JAW
ABOUT CABLES.

The Michigan Man Attacked the Al
Albanian. Charging Him with
| FavOrinE Monopoly in His Pacific
Cable Speech-The AIabaminn Pre-
ceeded to PnrnIyxe the Michigan
der by Showing Up His Method of
Furnishing His Speeches to the
Newspapers Before Their Delivery
I'm Congress.
Washington. March 12.-General de-
bate upon the postofice appropriation
bill continued in the House to-day, a
number of topics being discussed. The
proceedings were enlivened by a clash
between Mr. Corliss Of Michigan and
Mr.. Richardson of Alabama on the
subject of the Pacific cable. This is the
second time these two members have
locked horns on the cable question.
MIR. Sims of Tennessee devoted some
time to showing how the House had
been "buncoed' in connection with the
permanent census bill.
MIR. Dougherty of Missouri discussed
rural free delivery: Mr.. Jackson Of
| Kansas spoke on the government own
of Pennsylvania on the Philippine sit
uation.
The latter argued that if we would
proclaim our purpose to grant indie
pendence to the Filipino the insurrec-
ton would instantly cease The House
adjourned at 1850 out of respect to the
memory of Doorkeeper Glenn, who died
to-day.
still Sore on Census Bill.
|
| bill, Mr.. Sims of Tennessee, reviewed
the facts in connection with the enact-
ment of the permanent census law, and
| asserted that the House had been
| grossly deceived by the action of the
| conferees. 1t had been the intention
both of the House and of the Senate,
he said. to enact a provision which
would cover all the employees of the
| census bureau into the classified SER
vice and make them eligible for trans
| fer. but the conferees had substituted
| a provision which defeated this OBJ
ject.
Mr.. Talbert of South Carolina sug-
gested that committee should be APP
pointed to investigate the whole sub
ject,
Mr. Grlffith of Indiana, Who was one
of the conferees on the bill, called at
tention to three decisions of the SUI
preme Court. which would have multi
fed the provision agreed to by the
House and Senate. For himself he
said it was far from his purpose either
to deceive or mislead the House.
Mr.. Sims accepted Mr.. Griffith's ex-
PLANTATION and acquitted him and his
colleagues of the deliberate purpose to
deceive, but said the effect had been
to mislead the House.
Mr.. Corliss of Michigan launched an
assault upon Mr.. Richardson of Ala
the sincerity of Mr. Richardson and
intimated broadly that there was some
Interior motive behind the latter's
speech, which he said had been IN
support of the gigantic cable monop-
oily
Mr.. Corliss read a resolution which
he said he would ask to have consid-
cred later. 1t recites that an officer of
| the Commercial Gable Company has
made a combination with other cable
companies in violation of conditions
| imposed upon the lines and in VIOLA
ton of the Sherman antitrust act,
and directs the attorney general to in
stitute proceedings to destroy the al
! legged monopoly.
| Richardson Is Sarcastic.
Mr.. Richardson in reply proceeded
| to make some very caustic comments
| upon the remarkable and exclusive
|
from Michigan for the advance delivery
of his speeches throughout the coun-
| try. He expressed his opinion that
| the speech made by Mr.. Corliss earlier
in the day had been typewriter and
lying in soak" for two weeks There
upon he drew from his desk a copy of
| a synopsis of Mr. Corliss' speech liber-
ally interlarded with editorial COM
ments, and proceeded to read some OF
| the characterize tions it contained.
| Mr.. Corliss denied that he had writ
| ten the advance newspaper articles
describing his speech which had been
| circulated.
What is this proposition" said Mr..
Richardson, that we have to discuss?
The gentleman from Michigan and his
friends propose that the government
Of the United States shall lay this ca
BILE from the coast of California to
Manila at cost on a conservative es-
innate of $15.000.OO0. The annual out
lay for it's maintenance will be 81, $780,
900. The reasonable annual income
that the government can expect to re-
ceive viii not exceed $150,000.
What is the proposition for which
we are contending? 1t is this: The
propose to build this cable from the
coast of California to Manila by jan
uary, 1905, without single dollar of
cost or subsidy from the government
They have entered into a contract to
build this cable from San Francisco to
Honolulu and to complete it by the
first day of January, 1908.
These are the questions that we
PROFOUND to those who raise this cry
of monopoly and octopus"
MIR. Richards said the real track of
the octopus and monopoly could be
found in the Corliss bill, and read from
the testimony of Mr.. Clark of the
Western Union Telegraph Company the
statement that a government cable
would give his company its share of
business, while if the Commercial Cable
Company constructed the Pacific cable
it would get nothing.
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VISITED AUSTRIAN CRUISER.