Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1902-02-04
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War Tax Reduction Measure hep'''
ed to the House.
HENRY PRESENTS oLEo BILL
s.,.,. Di.cusses the Phihpp'"
a. o.e.,,ou. Mr.. Carm"ck opp'
,,w the Administrati"n's ro''
In Regard to the is'""

In
Friday the house entered "pon .,;no
consideration Of the oieoiiiai "a, 49,,
lin BEFORE il was taken up MI Dun
~ n who has been i'll since consi.''
convened was sworn in. anu MI
PAYNE. from the committee oh ""'
and means. reported the bill 10 rel'e"'
the war revenue taxes.
Earlier in the day the commute
ordered q favorable report Oh WIS
measure. 4 surprise occurred Mhei'
Ranrespntativc Babe ok. Repupllcah
member. offered his bill. largely reo"e,
;n,t a,t;e. on the steel schedule ana
placing some articles On the Tree ''s''
as an amendment to the tea repeal sec
lion. The amendment was deiea'eo-
m + Messrs. BalcOck ana laWhe!
and all the Democrats voting III Inc
affirmative.
The Cuban reciprocity question aiso
came M Unexpectedly. Representative
Steele lnd., moving 20 per cent con
cession on Cuban sugar. The molioh
was withdrawn. h wever, after hrlei
exchange OF comment.
The closeness of the vote on Mr.. BAD
cocks amendment reducing the steel
schedule caused much comment.
Messrs. Newlhnds and Cooper QDem)
and Long and Hopkins Rep) were
absent 1t was explained on behalf OF
the absent members that they were
either ont of the city or detained at I'M
portant committee meetings elsewhere
and that the Babcock motion was en-
tirely unexpected
The motion of Mr.. Steele for %
per cent reduction on Cuban sugar was
regarded as rather facetious and as a
rejoinder to the unexpected motion on
the steel schedule.
OleO Discussion Begins.
The opponents of the oleomargarine
bill in the house resisted the motion to
go into committee of the whole to con-
slider it. and when the division was an
nounced-62 yeas and As nays-Mr.
Clayton (Aa.l made the point of no
quorum. The speaker was able to count
only 152 members not quorum.
whereupon MIR. Underwood ALA NOV.
ed that the house adjourn.
Mr. Henry Conn. who was in charge
of the oleOmargarine bill made the
point that the motion was dilatOry, but
the speaker Overruled the point, and
the roll was called upon the motion to
adjourn.
The motion to adjourn was lost-65
to 1SS. Another roll call followed on
the motion to 20 into committee of the
whole.
1t was carried-l75 to 73-and the
house went into committee of the
whole, Mr. Lacey in the chair. Mr..
Henry Conn, in charge of the meas
ure, made the opening presentation in
its behalf. following closely the argu.
ments of the committee which report
ed the bill
The Day In the Senate.
Soon after the senate convened to-
day Mr.. Hale me, reported the ur-
gent deficiency bill and gave notice
that he would call it up in a day.
Consideration of the bill to increase
the salaries OF judges Of United States
courts then was resumed. The mend.
ing amendment was that offered nv
MT stewart Increasing the salaries of
senators and members of the house of
representatives to $500 Annually ha.
ginning March A, 1903. After brief
discussion The amendment was reject.
ed-15 to A.
An amendment then was offered nv
Mr. FORAKER extending the proposed
increase of the salaries of circ,it
Judges to the circuit Judge of Porto
Rico. ~
Mr. Clark wy moved to amend thu
amendment by extending the pronosad
increase in salary to the district ipdao
of Hawaii JUICY
MT Iillman inquired of Mr.. Fora,o,
''"N''iNi va W AtlCU WAS In tho Ifnttn,l
States or not. "
i Will say to the senator" ren,ied
Mr. Foraker, that Porto Rico helonos
to the United States :
The matter of belonging to- and
being in is entirely different" snn
gested Mr.. Tillman. ''s-
Mr.. Foraker thought this was not .
proper time to discuss the stains 80
Porto Rico. VI
considerable opposition was dave,
oped to the amendment, and Mr. Eona
ker Withdrew it rather than ieonara
ize the bill. 'eopaid-
Inc Philippine tariff bill was t.,o
up ana MT Carmack crennl sno s.'
upon the general conditions J., spoke
rmlipplnes and in opposition to t the
policy of the administrator ana ~ 'ne
9orlty party in congress regara na
these islands. 'es"ruihg