The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-10
House Practiced RctrcnclI- | mcnt.
MIR. BAKER IS APPLAUDED
Criticlsing Investigating Con-
 mittees' Work.
Legislative Juaicial ana Exssstsvs Ap- Drpriatiess Pssss6 Praetssaily As < TAem Cane Essn Cs.nsttse-- C
 AsJsur.sa Until Msnaay.

day passed the legislative, executive and judicial appropriation bill practi- cally as it cae from committee and ad- journed until Monday.
 The civil service commission provis- ions disposed of. there was no long de- bate on any item. Throughout the sss- sion the policy of retrenchment held full sway and all attempts to increaso salaries fsfied. The appropriatioa of $36.o08 for work in conntction with the publication of naval records Of tho re- bsIlion was severly criticized by Wr. Perkins. (N. Y,) who asserted that @ long as the appropriation is mada tho work would never be finished. He be- lieved a time limit should be set for completing the publication. An amend ment by him to cut off the appropria- tion was voted down. On a point of order by Mir. Perkins (N. Y..) the pro- vision appropriating s1o.0oo for com- pensation and expenses of specialists to make investigation into the depart- ment of commerce and labor with the object of securing economic and busf- nesslike methods was stricken out
 In criticizing the paragraph relating to the bureau of corporations. Mr. Baker. (N. Y.) said his complaint was not that too much money had been appropriated for the pay of special at- torneys. special examiners and special agents but that no use had been made of the money. W
 There had been. he said. a demand to investigate what had come to be known as the 'trusts.'
 What is the result? Absolutely nothing" He had been assured by a friend In the department that an iS,- vestigation had been made of one cor poration whose books were 90 kept that it could not be ascertatned whether that corporation had made sio0 ,0oo.oo0 or $1,o00. 900. From this he drew the deduction that either there was lack of competency on tho part of the men detailed by the bureau of corporations 10 make Investigations or else no at tempt to get at the facts. was. ho said. notorious fact that tho house Judiciary committee would report ad- versely on his resolution to investi- gate that association on the ground that 1t was a rumor.
 He declared amid Democratic ap- plause that 1t was "a rumor SO stren- uous, so terrible that it can take the American people by the throat and exc act an under tribute of $30. .000. .00o," :" He ridiculed the idea that any one did not know of such an association. T never heard of 1t until the gentleman men, tioned it," interjected MT. oimstead. (Pa-.) T am surprised" retorted Mfr. Baker. "that such ignorance Is dis- played by the gentleman from Harris burg when Pennsylvania gave 500.000 plurality for a man who Is supposed to be a trust buster" This result, con- tinued MT. Baker would not have been accomplished if the men of Pennslyva- mia had not listened to the siren song of the few monopolists that were run ming the recent campaign.
 On a point of order by Mir. Maddoz (Ga.) the salary for the position of the chief of the bureau of manufac- lures of the Department of Commerce and Labor, was cut out. The bill and the several amendments were reported to the House. As amended the bilI then passed. s
 Mir. Palmer (Pa.) from the Commit- tee on Judiciary. submitted supple mental report of the majority of the Committee on the Swayne impeach- ment case.
 The minority were given until Mon- day to file their report. The House then at 5;25 p. m. adjourned until Monday.
 When the House met today a concur rent resolution was adopted providinm that when the House and Senate ad- journ on Wednesday. December 21. it will be until January 4. 1905.
 Monday next was SuDStftuted 1Ur to@ day for the consideration of private pension bills.
 The House then in Committee of tho whole further considered the legisIa- tive, executive and judicial approprfa- tion bill. Mr. Dalzell (Pa.) presiding. When adjournment vas taken yester- day the discussion was on the amend ment of Mfr, Hepburn Cla.) cutting cR appropriations for the civil service commission. By a viva voce vote tho amendment was lost.
 The further reading of the bill had not proceeded far when Mir. olrnstead (Pa) placed one obstruction in the path of the> provision providing for .. rural carrier examining board. by de- claring 1t to be new legislation ans not properly in the bill.
 Messrs. Littaur (N. Y ) member Of the subcommittee. and Bingham. its Chairman, advocated the adoption Of the paragraph.
 The contention of MT. olmstead was sustained by the chair, and the para graph was sticken from the bill as was also the paragraph declring 1t to be unlawful to detain clerks or other en- ployes in the departments at Washing ton for duty with the civil service conn | <