The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-12-13
THE HOUSE.

Washington, December l2-Ane Aouss transacted quite a large aihouas ot -a.A eellaneous business today, slai 'lis TIt,i fIsii pension bills, and considering 'ie ,-... ----. financial bill later in the day. nuli.oS lHsls of bills of local character were passeu and an adiournment was forced for lack of a quorum when an attempt was mace to pass the joint resolution granting the use of the Washington monument TOT the American railroad appliance eNhlpillon' eNh
 The bill transferring the forest reserves from the department of tne interior to tne agricultural which has been pehulns for several years, was passed.
 After the reading of the JouIhal lne ie house went into committee of the Whoie for the consideration of the pension bills with MT. Currier, New Hampshire, Ill the chair. The committee arose at l p. III. when the house passed the l4o prlVaee pension bills favorably reported py the committee on the whole.
 A bill amending the law preventing the carriage of obscene or immoral literature into any state or territory, so as to pre- vent the importation or eXportatlon or such matter, was passed A bill author- izing the county of ltawamoa, Mlssls- sippi to construct bridge across the Tombigbee at Fulton was passed.
 The house passed the bill providing a p1lidAlJ llol u CACCtu 9lVNV NS Imprisonment, or both. for any one who knowingly pastures stock on any forest reserve of the United States without proper permit.
 The house on motion of Mir. Hill of Connecticut, and over the minority op- position, took up the bill of which he Is the author entitled ITO improve cur rency conditions"
 Must Return to Gold Standard.
 MT. Hall said we must get back to the gold standard, which he learned from very high authorities had been 'frrevoc ably established He quoted former At torney-General Knox as giving an opin ion that the power of the secretary ol the treasury to purchase silver for sub sidiary coin under the act of March 1902, was without limitation.
 MT. Williams, of Mississippi said ther was an influence at work to displace gov ernment privilege money and thereby en able the banks to make the profit on 1t Tt is no wonder" he said, that nine tenths of the bankers are republicans, adding that some were Repositories an others were hoping to be. During heat ed colloquy with MT. Hill, MT. William said the bill under consideration woul double the possibility of the perpetra ton of the "iniquitous wong He predict ed that it simply would lead to socialism The bill then was laid aside, after havin been made a continuing order, with tn Swayne resolution the special order o tomorrow. The house then took up tn house joint resolution, granting the tenn porary use of a part of the governmen reservation in Washington. D. C., to tn American railroad appliance exhibition The resolution met opposition, som a1afy f, what they termed a money exhibition. MT. Williams of Mississippi favored tn exhibition, saying it's promoters ought t have chromo, because it was the frs bill from railroad which did not talk money out of the public treasury.
 Mir Mann demanded a quorum on tn project of the railway exhibit on resC 1 lutlon, and forced an adjournment a 1 5:30 ?. m. until tomorrow.