The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-04-01
BY SULZER
PREVENTS PASSAGE OF sUNDRY
 CIVIL BILL.
Forced a Roll Call and a quorum Fails to Appear-Amendments to the Measure are
 Adopted.

Washington, March 31.-Consideration
 of the sundry civil appropriation bill was concluded in the House to-day and the bill was about to be passed when MT. Sulzer forced a roh call and motion to commit the bill with instructions to strike out the paragraph appropriating S135, 900 for rents of the New York custom house. The vote showed a quorum was not present. and adjournment was taken E until tomorrow.
 The right of boards of directors of State homes for disabled volunteer soldiers to retain certain portions of pension money received by the inmates was discussed 5 lat length. MT. Bell, of California, as- sailed his own State for permitting a canteen to be established in the Califor- mia State home, and charged that the
 old soldiers were allowed to draw their
 pension money from the home in most
 instances only through canteen checks. Alter extended debate an amendment by Mr. Bell to correct the evils complained
 of was adopted
 lMr. Hitchcock Dem.) made an uneuc- { cessful attempt to amend the bill by pro- 5 viding that no salaries shall be paid United States district attorneys who, in six months after the passage of the bill, shall fail to proceed by suit in equity or criminal prosecution against persons. Il s trust law.
 MT. Benton Oem., Mo) interrupted the reading of the bill to call attention to
 the remarks of himself and Mir. Hemen-
 way yesterday, regarding the appropria-
 ton for furnishing the White House. He
 said he did not want to be put in the
 attitude of having suggested that $60,
 D0o White House stable was desired when there was no foundation for the state
 IU1 kAA~. "A. AI.1n n-At, NA Of f the Secretary of the Treasury, which in
 cludes s60,000 for a White House stable, and read from the testimony of Colonel zT. ". Symons, superintendent of Public j Buildings and Grounds, calling attention Ito the deplorable condition of the pres
 ents sale. He also referred to a supple
 mental estimate of $30,0OO for the pur-
 chase of land upon which to erect the Hstable.
 E The President. he said, may have not Eknown there was movement on foot to #build him a $60000 stable on $500o0 lot,
 but there was foundation for his (Ben- Xton's) question put to MT. Hemenway yes Eterday.
 \ Mir Hemenway said the President in Eformed him he did not want stable and 1.-the speaker also referred to the fact fthat Colonel Symons had withdrawn the Eestirnate.
 1 MT. Mann made a point of order. which
 Twas sustained, against the last paragraph Hin the bill, providing that government 1 {carriages used for public purposes shall Zhave painted thereon ne name of the & department to which they belong. Mir Hemenway got around a point by l offering a substitute slightly different & in language, but preserving the require
 ment of the original paragraph. The # substitute was agreed to.
 The service of the carriages for the
 private purposes, Mir. Baker charac-
 terized as Craft He wanted the let E ters put on carriages to be two and a *half inches in length.
 A new section was adopted to the bill,
 providing that the annual compensation # of officers, agents and employees of United * States after June 30 1904, shall be divided #jnto twelve equal installments and that Reach month shall, be held to consist of thirty days without regard to the actual
 humber of days in any month. It speci-
 fcally provides that February shall be $ treated as if it actually had thirty days.
 The House then reverted to the portion
 of the bill which was temporarily passed
 over relating to the Coast and Geodetic
 survey.
 MT. Robinson openly charged malfeas-
 anee in the conduct of this office, which, | he said had approached a scandal. He
 declared that the allowance for commuta-
 tation of subsistence to officers in this
 service had been abused simply as a
 tmeans of increasing salaries He cited
 instances where some of the officers re-
 csived $2 per day in communication of sub
 3sistence, where others fin the same com
 raand received nothing. He also men
 tioned by name men on vacations who
 had drawtt the allowance. He said that
 Ia, system had grown up in this service,
 which was vicious in principle and promo