The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-04-07
HOUSE PASSES BILLS
MANY MEASURES GO THROUGH
 LOWER. BODY.
Sunday, April 24, Set Aside as the Day for Pronouncing of Eulo-
 gies on MT. Thomp-

Washington, April 6.--In a i've hour session the House today passed seventeen bills relating to the District of Columbia, including one incorporating the Carnegie Institute. It also passed the Bowman omnibus claims biliss carrying approxis' mateiy s22s,000 for the payment of small claims; agreed t0 the conference report on the Notifications bill. and Insisted on its disagreement to an amendment on that bill providing for the purchase of submarine boat
 The Alaska delegate bill was taken up and MT. Cushman of Washington made a long explanation of the measure, set ting out the necessity of the territory in the way of representation in Congress.
 After the claims bill was passed, the House took up and agreed to the partial conference reportson the fortihcations ap- propriation bill. Two Senate amendments to the bill were left out of the report, one making an appropriation of $250O0o for a submarine torpedo boat and one appropriating $S3,000 for a disappearing gun carriage.
 MT. Hill (Conn.) moved that the House concur in the amendment regarding the submarine boat. MT. Littauer tN. Y.) opposed this motion. The appropriation, he said, properly belonged on the naval appropriation bill.
 
 placed :he appropriation on the bill by d vote of more than two to one, and that 1t was properly on the bill He urged the necessity for boats to lay submarine mines in harbors. where there was a swift current, for which work the boat had been recommended, he said, by a board of army engineers
 MT Rixey (Va.) interjected that the Secretary of the Navy had said before EA 4t.aA A1.e hind the boat provided for in the fortifica- tions bill had not offered to put their boat in competition with other submarine boats
 Well, the Secretary of the Navy Is mistaken, that Is all." declared MT. Hill. "Or else the gentleman from Virginia Is mistaken" he added. MT. Rixey read from the hearing before the committee, where the Secretary said that the com petition was delayed at the request of the promoter of the new boat.
 Mir. Hill was positive that the delay was at the request of the promoters of the old boat. He could substantiate all his statements, he said by documents he had but would not take the time to read them. "All I ask for my constituents Is fair play" concluded Mir. Hill.
 Mir. Rixey followed with an cxpres- sion of surprise at the speech of Mir Hill. He said Mir. HIll had appeared before the Naval Committee to advocate the purchase of the new boat for S175. 900 Now" said Mir Rivey. "he is asking s25O OOO for the boat Why does he raise the price?'
 The motion to concur was opposed by Mir. Sulzer (N. Y.)
 Mir. Hlls motion to concur was lost
 The House voted to insist further on It's disagreement to both amendments in question and requested the further con ference on the same.
 The report of the Judiciary Commit tee, recommending that the resolution calling for information concerning an in- vestigation in the Indian Territory lie on the table was agreed 10. The bill pro- viding for a delegate from Alaska was taken up as continuing order and debate opened by Mir. Cushman CWashn) After giving detailed explanation of the bill. he declared that the people of Alaska were as much if not more entitled to rcpresentatio in Congress than the other territories There were, he said, forty bills pending in Congress relating to Alaska, all of which needed care of an interested representative of the territory lie said Alaska had population of 63,592 people under the census of 1900. Now there were between 1900 and 5000. The property value of the territory he placed at Slol,OO,OOc, MT. Cushman emphasized the provision of the bill requiring the delegate to be elected instead of being appointed by the President and confirmed by the Senate, declaring no appointed delegate should take his seat in the House.
 On motion of MT. Wiley (Ala.) } Sunday April 2t was fixed for the delivery of eulogies on the late Representative Thompson of that State.
 The House at 5:15 o'clock. with the Alaskan delegate bill still pending ad- iourneda