The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-07-01

 TO ADJOURN Congress May Quit BuSi- ; ness Today. WORK AT HIGH PRESSURE The House Adopts New Rules
 to Expedite Business. Agrees to Report of the Conference on the Philippine Civil Gov
 ernment Bill-Elkins for
 Annexation of Cuba.
WORK AT HIGH PRESSURE

1 journment probably tomorrow the House
 was under high pressure from noon today
 until far into the night. As g prelini- | nary. several resolutions were adopted to grease the legislative wheels, the rule providing for the printing of conference reports before consideration was sur pended until the end of the session, and a resolution was adopted making a. motion to suspend the rules in order at at any time.
 The House then got down to business. The conference report on the Philippine civil government bill which is consider ed the last obstacle in the way of ad- journment was adopted by a strict party
 vote, with the single exception of MT. Mccall of Massachusetts, who voted with the Democrats.
 A partial report on the general appro- priation bill was adopted and after pro- longed fight the House by vote of 11S to 1O1 accepted the Senate amendment to appropriate $5O0.0O0 for the Buffalo Ex- position and then sent the bill back to conference. The Senate amendments to appropriate $160 000 for the Charleston Elk position and $1, 100000 to pay the Hawaiian l fire bubonic plague awards were defeat | ed, the former by a vote of n to liS. Sub- sequentIy, at the night session. the House reserved itself and .assented to the Sem ate amendment 1 number of bills were passed under suspension of the rules, including the
 Senate bills to allow the lands in the Cherokee nation to be rented and to pro- vide corporation laws for Alaska. At the evening session the Dick military | bill, which is to be used for stop gap | for the remainder of the session while
 the House is waiting for conference re- ports was taken up. The adjournment l resolution is to be withheld until the conference report on the Philippine bill l is adopted by the Senate. While the conference report on the ] urgent deficiency bill was under consider Atisn Mir. AleXander's motion to ccnciir tn Mir. Alexanders motion to concur in the Buffalo Exposition amendment was carried 11S to 101.
 A Plea for Charleston.
 MT. Finley (S. e. then entered his motion to concur in the Charleston Ex- position amendment.
 If the members will give me an aye and no vote." said MT. Cannon T am willing to vote now I want to see whether the New York members will keep faith with their South Carolina friends.
 T desire a few minutes said Mir Fin ley. My people are greatly interested in this natter
 Debate is unnecessary" observed MT Cannon. If you have made your deal" (Laughter)
 MT. Finley made an earnest argument in support of his motion. When the people of South Carolina inaugurated the movement for all exposition. he said, they believed Charleston would be treated by Congress as other exposition cities had been. They were entitled to $250.OOO They only got $90,000 The appropriation of $160 GOO in the Senate amendment would give them what they should have had originally.
 MT. Cannon spoke sarcastically of the cohesive force of public plunder." He had lived to see the day when the State of John C. Calhoun, the champion of States rights, came in here and clasped hands with New York to get through an appropriation.
 MT Finley's motion was lost 77 to llS.
 MT. Mondell (Wyo) moved concurrence in the Senate amendment to appropriate S ,0000O0 toward the payment of awards of the fire claims commission upon property destroyed In Hawaii in the sup pression of the bubonic plague in 1899 and 1900. The total amount of the awards Mir. Mondell said was s1. .4OO.OOO Over 12,000 people he said, were interested in these awards.
 The motion was lost, g to 1OS.
 special rule was adopted to make a motion to suspend the rules in order at any time for the remainder of the ses- sion.
 The Senate bill to require the Circuit Court of Appeals of the Fifth District to hold term of court annually at Mont gomery. Ala. was passed,
 Mir. Cooper (Wis.) chairman of the Committee on Insular Affairs. presented a m bill. There were three important points of difference between the two houses, namely:
 The Philippine Government.
 The provisions in the House bill for a Legislature; another in relation to lands; another in relation to coinage. The Sen ate recedes from it's disagreement to the provision for Legislature, and agrees to it with an amendment providing that within two years after the census pro- vided for in the House bill has been completed. if in the meanwhile a condi- | tion of general peace and good order shall have prevailed, the President shall order the Philippine Commission to call a gen eral election for the choice of delegates to a popular assembly of the people of that portion of the islands not inhabited 1 by Moros and Pagan tribes, which shall be known as the Philippine assembly. | AS to lle QudllHCdllOn or voters, the l power of the Assembly and the uualifica- tions of it's members, the Senate has agreed substantially to the House pro- vision.
 "The Senate further recedes from it's 1 disagreement to the provision of the | House bill relating to public lands and agrees with an amendment reducing the | amount of land to be held by corpora | tions from 2OOO hectacres to 1.024 hect- | acres. The Senate has further agreed to the House provision restricting the own | ership and control by members of the cor porations of mining and agricultural | lands with additional stringent provisions limiting these holdings.
 Tn the coinage provision reported the | Senate recedes from it's provision for the | coinage Of Philippine dollar and the | House recedes from it's provision for the l estimate of gold standard The report