The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1902-12-07
HUSTLED ON PENSION BILL.
HOUSE VOTES NEARLY $40, OOO.-
OOO N ELEVEN MINUTES.
Musicians Union Wants Congress Ia stop
the Marine hand From Making Money
Lively Tilt Over the QuestiOn-Bills
Passcd-HOliday Recess Resolution.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 8.-The House wound
up it, first week of the session to-day with
tho accomplishment of an unusual amount
of Legislative business. The great PEN
sion Appropriation bill. carrying $780,
81 600, was passed after consideration
of Just eleven minutes in both Committee
Of the Whole and the House proper. Under
the call of committees large number of
measures were agreed TO.
The days sitting came TO close with
the demand for quorum TO pass a joint
resolution intended to prevent army and
navy bands from engaging in private must
cal performances. 1t il measure de-
manded by the Musicians Union and the
Federation of Labor. and had its inception
in the fight made by Washington musicians
against the Marine Band. The proposed
legislation was denounced by Mr., Under
wood dem, Ala as un-Democratic, un-
Republican and un-American, and based
upon Socialism. The vote upon its adoption
was 40 to 20. and . a quorum being demanded
the House at 3l5 adjourned. leaving il
The unfinished business when the Com
mittee on Labor shall again be called.
Under the call of committees House bills
were passed providing for term of the
United States Court az Austin, Tex. con-
ferring jurisdiction upon The Circuit and
District Courts over crimes committed on
Indian reservations in South Dakota, and
prescribing the same penalties as are inn
posed by the laws of III" state for the com
mission of crimes: making court records
public that they may be- examined and
copied without paving clerks for "a" privi-
lege; making the counterf ting in of the
obligations of IA foreign State within the
United States a felony; 10 organize the Ma
tional Association Of Military surgeons
making the maximum peri, Il which rail
roads NAV carry i've stock without UNI
loading them for water forty hours, inst cad
of twcnt weight, as now required; autiOi IL
ing + " Fair \ Son 20 build IA bridge across
| the Savannah River AZ savannah; author IL
| ing the construction of bridge for an
electric railway n"aI Kansas City. granting
right. of any over ALASKAN parks or ieserN Il :
tons fuI tergral Ii and telephone lines,
incruas ~ the maximum Ot hO'ncsteads IN
Alaska to 40 acres, authorizing the State
OF Minnesota 10 select indemnity school
| lands from any pubic lands immediately
after SURVEYS IN the field shal have been
| made; making the maximum deviat ion in
adjusting the weight rf silver coins ono
and ouc-hai gains making the punish
mont for theft f horses or cattle In the In
dim territory uniform. providing that as-
Scssncnt work upon oil iandS NAV lie done
| upon any one oi group oi Gains not
| exceeding five.
The House also pa, sed Senate bills con-
stituting the Southwestern division Of the
| Western judicial District Of Missouri;
authorizing the feucral Railroad Company
to build a bridge across the Missouri River
AT OaComa, = ID. establishing the Wind Cave
National Park in South Dakota about
1900 acres; providing substitute school
lands for the State of Washington in certain
cases where the usual school sections are
deficient
MIR. Bar,holdt. CRep., MOI, introduced
resolution calling upon the Secretary of
War To send to the House the reports of the
department commanders and other officers
of the army upon TIE operat ions of the Anti
Canteen law. An effort will I've made to in
corporate in the Military Appropriation