The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1902-03-15
POSTOFFICE BILL
II Was Passed by the House With
Only One Amendment.
BURLRSON RESOLUTION WAS ADOPTED
Quite Number OF Bills Were Passed
Including the Marine Hospitals at
Buffalo Savannah and Pttsburg.

Washington, March "a The house today
passed tho postofflce appropriation bill The
only amendment Of Importance WAS one 60
incorporate in the hill the provisions ~ the
hill to classify the rural free delivery ser
vice, passed few days ago
Quite a number OF other bills were passed,
including three bills for marine hospitals at
Buffalo Savannah and Plttshurg.
The RurlCscn resolution calling en- the
secretary Of state for the facts relative to
the case OF Dr. Thomas and wife who de
sired To go 20 South Africa to distribute
relief funds, was adopted after n short de-
bate Ia the course of which Nir. Hit,
chairman OF the committee ON foreign ST
fairs, introduced letter from Secretary
Hay explaining what the department of
state had done In the premises
Today was private bill day In the house
under the rule, but by agreement tho reg
ular order was postponed until tomorrow,
in order that the house might proceed with
the consideration of the postonice appro.
prutlon hill \ resolution was adopted To
authorize the secretary OF war TO loan tents
! To the Texas Confederate Reunion ussocia.
| itoh, which meets at bnllas April -. The
/ conference report on the diplomatic and
consular appropriation hill was adopted AMI
! the house then resumed consideration of the
! postotiicc appropriation bin. When the item
| relative TO the rural free delivery service
/ WAS reached, In accordance with the action
| OF the house ON Monday, MIR. Loud, in
| charge OF the bill, moved to classify the ru-
! raj free delivery service as 1t passed the
| house. Adopted
| MIR Cmmpackcr undl moved to strike
| out the appropriation of Sl42,12S for special
| fast mail facilities from Washington to
/ New Orleans His motion was lost 80
| to 56.
without further amendment the hill was
/ passed
| ll~ were passed to appropriate 5000 for
! lighthouse ut oyster BAYOU, La. aud to
| authorize the III Dorld, and Ba>trop Rail
| road company TO construct bridge across
| the Ouchita river Arkansas.
The committees were then called. Mr.
sherman IN. W, from tho committee on
/ commerce. called up bin to prevent the
/ false branding ana marking at food prod
! ucts entering the Interstate commerce. The
| bill was passed
| Bills were passed to permit the issue
| Of school bonds In oklahoma; to ratify
| the act OF the Arizona legislature pruyiG.
I ing a fund Tor the University OF Arizona
! Tor the refuuding of the debt Of NAVAJO
| county, Arizona. at Il lower rate Of interest,
! aud 20 change the boundaries between the
! Southern and Central districts of the In.
| dian Territory.
| Mr. Burleson trcxasl declared that Mfr.
/ Hits defense Of the refusal OF thN state
! department TO ACcede TO tho request to
| urge Great Britain to grant Rev. and Mrs.
| Hiram Thomas passports to enter the Bocr
| lines aud distribute relief funds was
| ''Rme,"
The state department In declining the
! request, he said, did not pcad the viola
! ton Of intcruatN 1al comfy as Mr.. HIT
! Ena done. Mr.. Burlcson denied the ne.
! tusHl to allow Confederate SympAthiHcrs
| To 60 through the lines during the civil
| war was historically correct. lie read a
| letter from Union surgeon stationed nj
| city Point, Va. during the war who told
! how the Union forces alowad relief ia
pass through the lines.
! III General sherman" he asked. "had
| concentrated Southern women and children
| in camps did any one imagine that the
! North would not have allowed relief to
| he sent to them
Mr. Bureson called attention to a BERLIN
| dispatch announcing that Great Britain had
| granted permission for the distribution oi
| charitable gifts collected In Germany for
| Boer prisoners.
| When Mr.. Hit. chairman Of the foreign
| relation committee. presented the Burli.
| son resolution, rs reported by his commit
| tee, he said his remarks OF the previous day
were made I'm an onhand way. The reso-
lutlOn calls IN The secretary Of state for
| the facts In the case of the application
made TO the state department in behalf Of
Dr. Thomas and wife. The resolution was
adopted without debate.
Bills were passed Ia authorize tho con
structiou of marine hospitals at Buffalo,
y, Y, savannah, Ga. and Pittsburg Pa.
and placing the limit Of cost In each 90 -
At Sl250NO to include the Colyilc Indian
reservation, Washington state, under the
general free homestead act aud for the
relief Of hons dde settlers IN forest re.
serves.
The house. at $50 n m adjourned