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Bill Also Passed Providing for Dip1o-
matte an ~suIar Repre-
sen s in Cubn.
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SPIRITEJ !$s BATE IN SENATE
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RECALLED BY PRITCHARD.
How Republicans Were Intimidated
in the "Tar Heel" State-TiIt
with Mr.. Simmons.
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Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
WASHINGTON, May 2-Three impor-
tant measures were passed by the House
to-day. The anti-conspiracy bill was
rushed through in haste. The District of
Columbia bill, with a rider that provides
for enforcing the personal tax act, and the
bill providing diplomatic and consular off,
GERS for Cuba also were adopted.
The personal-tax rider will provoke much
hostility. It's passage was the result of a
joke played by Mr. Mcmillan, of the Senate
District of Columbia committee, on the ultra
selfish residents of Washington who think
the whole country exists for the conven-
fence of Washington. There are no personal
taxes assessed in the District of Columbia
and many of the residents here say that is
good civic policy, as it makes of Washing
ton an asylum for retired business men
who want to settle down for the remainder
of their days in a place where taxes are at
the disappearing point. This selfish view
has greatly retarded the development of the
District, because it provokes Congress into
doing nothing. Early this session Senator
Mcmillan began trying to secure agree
ment on just personal tax law. He did
not urge a drastic law, but even his mild
measure could not be endured by those who
consider the main of the rest of the
country to provide for cheap living at the
capital. They caused him so much annoy
ance that he finally turned the whole mat
ter over to Uncle Joe" Cannon in the
House.
Uncle joe" chairman of the committee
on appropriations. believes the citizens of
the District of Columbia should be taxed
to pay all the expenses of the government
He has no patience with the airs of the
District His very name is enough to make
a Washington taxpayer choke with anger
There was dismay and CONSERVATION among
the selfish residents when they learned that
Mcmillan was tired of bothering with them
and had turned them over to the tender
mercy of that awful barbarian, Uncle
joe" He is in favor of a personal tax law
that is searching in its methods as a
New York customs inspector. He wants to
tax incomes, bonds mortgages, personal
effects and everything that has value. He
coolly announced that the necessary amend
ment to secure the enforcement of such a
law would be tackled on TO one of the big ap-
preparation bills and passed by the House.
Coming in this form it will go through the
Senate. The local residents of the ultra sell
fish type were in a state of mind, but they
could devise no way to move the stony
heart of the chairman of the appropriations
committee.
ANTI-CONSPIRACY BILL.
The anti-conspiracy bill reported from
the judiciary committee passed without a
word of debate. 1t came up rather unex-
pectedly and Mr. Little1eld, of Maine, who
had filed a minority report on the bill and
had intended 20 offer some amendments,
came in just as 1t was put upon it's passage
and the vote was taken before he under
stood what was going on. The bill follows:
THAT no agreement, combination con-
tract by or between two or more persons TO
do, or procure TO be done, or not to do, or
procure not to be done. any act in con-
temptation or furtherance of any trade dis
pute between employers and employees in
the District of Columbia or in any Terri
tory of the United States, or between en-
ployers and employees who may be engaged
in trade or commerce between the several
States, between any Territory and an
other, or between any Territory or Terri
tories and any State or States or the Dis
tr1ct or Columola, or with foreign nations,
or between the District of Columbia and
any State or States or foreign nations shall
be deemed criminal, nor shall those en-
gagged therein be indictable or otherwise
punishable for the crime of conspiracy, IL
such act committed by one person would
not be punishable as q crime, nor shall such
agreement, combination or contract be con-
Sidered as In constraint OF trade or COM
merce, nor shall any restraining order or
injunction be issued with relation thereto.
Nothing in this act shall exempt from
cepted. any persons guilty of conspiracy
for which punishment is now provided by
ar act of Congress, but such act of Con-
gress shall, as TO the agreements, combina-
tions and contracts hereinbefOre referred to
be construed as If this act were therein
contained"
At the opening of the session the speaker
laid before the House a letter from Secre-
tary of the Navy Moody notifying him that
he had sent his resignation as a represent
ative from the Sixth Massachusetts district
TO the Governor of Massachusetts.
The House then resumed the considera-
tion of the District of Columbia appropria-
tion bill. The amendment TO provide for
personal taxation in the District which
adopted prior TO entering upon the consid-
Grafton of the bill, was offered by Mr.. Nc
Cleary, of Minnesota, who was in charge
of the bill. II provided that, beginning
July /, 1902, the personal tax law of 1878
should be operative, and created the ma
chinery for the assessment and collection
of the taxes.
In the course of the extended debate
which followed on the amendment Mr. Bel
lamy, of North Carolina, said that Wash
ingtOn was becoming the mecca for tax
dodgers. He said the millions of dollars
worth of property outside of Washington
escaped taxation because the owner
claimed residence in Washington The
amendment was adopted without division
The bill was then passed.
The bill TO provide for diplomatic and
consular service in the Republic of Cuba
was passed. 1t carries the following sala-
ries: $4,000 for a minister 5000 for a first
and $3.50 for a second secretary of lega-
ton. 5000 for consul general at Havana
and 5000 each for the consulates at Glen
fuegos and Santiago.
The bill 10 provide for the issue of pass
ports 10 the residents of the insular pos
sessions of the United States was made a
special order after the disposal of the omri-
bus territorial bill. Objection was made to
consideration of a bill 10 authorize Can't
b. II. McCalla TO receive the decoration of
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many.
Mr.. Ray. chairman of the committee on
judiciary, called up the bill TO define the
meaning OF the word Conspiracy in in