Omaha daily bee., 1903-03-03
CONFER on BUILDING BILL
Nebraska, Iowa and South Dakota May
Benefit as a Result.
ALLISON BREAKS SENATORIAL RECORD
starts I'm ON His Thirty-First Year in
M senate March determination
Of narrows IL Com
Armed.
(From a stan correspondents

gram. Under special rule brought In this
morning by the committee on rules, the
omnibus public building bill was taken up
and the conference asked for by the SEN
ate was granted by the house. The tug
OF war now comes between the conferees
Of the two houses over what shall remain
and what shall go out Of the, bill, the differ
ence in appropriations between the senate
and house measure being upwards Of
81, 900, 600. Under the. house bill York and
Grand Island are given $40, 900 each for the
purchase of a site, while Lincoln Is given
$3.50, 900 for the erection Of a new building
back of the present old structure, and the
Treasury department is empowered to sell
the present postofice building for a sum
Of not less than $50, 900 TO the city OF Lin
coin. This particular item was also car
ried by the senate bill and is not in con-
ference. The items regarding York and
Grand Island, however, are subject to con-
ference and II will be interesting to watch
the outcome. In Iowa. Mason City and
Webster City are favored by the house bill,
but omitted from the senate bill, and are
therefore subject to conference. In appro-
priations for South Dakota, Yankton and
Pierre have been cut in both senate and
house bills, but II is understood that the
house conferees have been instructed by
the committee on public buildings and
grounds to increase the amounts appro-
priated so that they will conform to the
recommendation made by the secretary Of
the treasury. While there are a great many
items in conference on the omnibus bill.
It is confidently believed that the conferees
Of the two bodies will be able to reach a
conclusion within, a very short time, the
senate in a number Of cases having already
intimated a desire to meet the house
wherever possible.
Hepburn Committee Busy.
Colonel c. w. Hepburn, chairman Of the
committee on interstate and foreign COM
merce of the house, stated today that his
committee had acted upon and had passed
during the Fifty-seventh congress more
important legislation than had any COM
mittee within his recollection. He called
particular attention to the isthmian canal
bill. reform, in revenue cutter service, pure
food bill, safety appliance bill, which an
army Of railroad men throughout the coun-
try demanded, department of bill
and anti discrimination and rebate bill.
These he said were among some of the very
important measures which the committee
had acted favorably upon and which were
now laws. There is no committee In con-
gress,' he said, that has such a record
and during the eight years that ] have
been chairman of the committee l have
yet to. hear an amy, OF nl-natured word
exchanged between, members of my COM
mittee." +s.... t=-
Allison Breaks n Record.
Senator Allison was "a years old today
and on next Thursday, on the converting Of
the extraordinary session of the senate
will enter upon his, sixth consecutive term
| In tho Inpar branch nf p0n0raQa a rdCOrd
held by no mag since the foundation Of
government. John. Sherman had six terms
in congress, but they were not consecutive.
and he and Benton are the only men who
came anywhere near Senator Allison In
point of continuous service. At noon Of
Wednesday Senator Allison will have COM
pleted thirty years as q United States sena-
tor and he enters upon his sixth term with
all his splendid faculties about him and
with an experience Of thirty years In the
upper branch to aid the republican party
in working out its high destiny.
Interest in Coupon Bill.
Judging by the number of letters and
kilograms which Speaker Henderson has
received, interest in the often anti-coupon
bills is on the Increase. There have been
charges made that the speaker was OPP
posed to the often bill because of interests
antagonistio to the measure. In order there
fore to ascertain the feeling throughout
the country on the measure the speaker has
had the letters and kilograms tabulated
and this tabulation shows that he has re-
ceived three letters and ninety-one tele-
grams in favor of the bill and seventy
nine letters and 1893 kilograms against the
bill. These letters and telegams came from
dealers in cigars, manufacturers and whole
| .oIa -rooaEg Tho Iaffard and fa1aOrana
for the bills came from ten states. espe-
ciaIly from Michigan, New York, Virginia
and Wisconsin, while the kilograms against
the bill came from thirty-one states, ex-
Vending from Maine to California, from
Minnesota to Texas, the larger number
coming from California, Illinois, Louisiana,
Michigan, Missouri. New York, Ohio and
Pennsylvania. Iowa dealers sent six tele-
grams for and eight against the bill, while
Nebraska sent a lone letter in opposition
to the measure.
Print Dietrich Docamehts.
Senator Dietrich today secured the per-
mission of the senate to print as a docu-
ment 500 copies of some matter compiled
by Truman G. Palmer, giving a history OF
the Hawaiian treaty, with a report to ter
inmate the treaty signed by Senators Nor
rill, Voorhees, and Aldrich, also a history
of the agitation for Cuban reciprocity with
the United States and opinions as to the
probable result Of Cuban reciprocity, by
Charles H. Dietrich.
Personal Movements.
Representative Robinson, accompanied
by Mrs. Robinson, will leave for Nebraska
tomorrow.
Representative and Mrs. Neville will
leave for a tour OF Old Mexico next Mon
| day.
; Congressman ,shallenberger will leave for
/ home on Thursday.
Representative and Mrs. Burkett hope to
leave for the Antelope state on Thursday