The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-06-12
coRLIss BILL KILLED.
Enacting Clause Stricken Out by a
 Decisive Vote.

Washington, D. O., June 1.-The House today dispatched the Corliss Pacific cable bill by the same method 1t adopted yesterday in the case of the forest reserve bill, It struck out the enacting clause of the measure by vote of 116 to 17, thus giving no opportunity to test the strength of the DaIzeli substitute which authorized the President to contract with private company for the laying of able. The sneakers were Messrs Shackelford (Mo.), Mann Ulls), Morrell (Pa.), and Tomkins (ohio), for the bill and Messrs Richard son( Ala.), Newlands (Nev.), Loud Call and Cannon Ulls.) against 1t.
 MT Richardson in opening, called at' tention to the speech. of MT. Csnnofs yesterday in which the latter showed thai the appropriation for the next fiscal yeai already exceeded tho estimated revenues by s51, ,oOo. .OOC and urged this as the first reason why the government should not enter upon the extensive work Of build ing a cable to the Philippines. He re- ferred at some length to the possibilities in the development of wireless telegraphy and argued that it would bc unwise. or the threshold of the development Of the new system for the government to expend S15. .O00. 900 to $20O00.000 for a submarine cable which might be valueless in few years.
 In his arguments submitted yesterday MT. Corliss asked If the Attorney Gen eral had not refused to consider the con tract which the Commercial Cable Com pany had offered to make.
 Answer to Corliss.
 MT. Richardson replied that tho Attor- ney General |. and other government officials had declined to interfere with tho prncaadine to lay the plan under the post roads act
 The objection to the project of the Com merciaI Cable Company because the cable was not built by American labor he said would not stand investigation. He pro duced figures to show that only l2 pei cent of the cost of a cable was expended in wages.
 He read letter from John w Macka, of the Commercial Cable Company. ad dressed to Mir Hepburn. guaranteeing the company would build an all-Americar cable and would not touch upon foreigr soil, the cable to be completed during 1904
 MT. shackelford Mo) argued that s Government cable was necessary to pro tect the Government from private mo ncpoly MT Newlands ,NevA defended John W Mackav President of the Commercial Gable Company, from the aspersions cas on him yesterday. He said the cable t' be built to the Philippines would be the service of the Government In time 0 | emergency.
 MT Loud 1CaI1 opposed the bill on tn ground that Government operations telegraphs in Europe were not success MT. Morrell Pa) spoke against tne oiii and Mfr. Mann Glls.) closed the deoat faV tEp measure. Mir Adamosn (GaJ moved to strike ou the enactinC clause of the bill. | To nrove that the Commercial Caol l compsnv was proceeding with the worl | of constructing tho cable 1t proposed U Iay. he read a cableSram rom I@onuon | dated today and signed by G. D. War l Vice. president. certifying that 1,O6S nautl | cal miles of the cable to be iaid betWeel | san Francisco and Honolulu had bee i, completed, and that tho work was pro | ceedlng at the rate of twenty-siX miles
 day. .,
 The cablegram said that steahe | would leave with the caole TOT oah ran l cisco before August l.
 | Mir. Hill (Pa.) advocated the adoptloh | Mir. Adarson's motion.
 l MT. Tompkins (Oho), member or tn
 Cable Committe, made an earnest speec
 in favor of the bill. If the cable could b
 bu,It he insisted that it be built here. l Mr Cannon Olls), chairman of tn
 nprcpriations Committee. declared tha
 he had always favored the cable. but h
 had always believed private compan
 would come along and lay it without ex
 nense to the Government. His objectio
 to the Dalzell substitute was that it de | layed the cable.
 MT. Corliss declared the Attorney-Gen
 eraI had delivered an opinion to the ei fe(t that the United States had no powe
 without Congressional action Go enter in to n contract with the Commercial Cabi
 Company. The United States had n
 power to make rates or exercise supervI | sion. .,, , the cnacting clause on yea ana ma vote was carricd-ll6 to 1''
 A Senate bin was passed to authorlH
 the town of T.awton. Okla. to use SEQ oo--rrom inc sale of town lots for munict nal improvement. Anadarko. Okla sbo o0o and Hobart. okla, spo,oOo
 At $40 p. ID. the House adjourned