The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-02-18

 CONFERENCE Houses Resolution Facili-
 tateS Action. LINES STRICTLY DRAWN Statue of Frances Willard
 Accepted. Appropriate Exercises in Honor of Illinois Fayorite Daughter, Who
 rounaed womnn's Chris-
 tian Temperance Union.

facilitate action at this session on the statehood bill the House today passed resolution sending the measure as amended by the Senate directly into conference without an opportunity be- ing afforded to debate it. With the exception of Mr. McIachland, of Cali fornia. who voted with the Democrats. party lines were strictly drawn.
 After several hours discussion the naval appropriation bIlI was laid aside and the House entered upon exercises appropriate to the reception and ac- ceptance of the statue of Frances E. Willard. presented by the State of Illinois.
 The House met today at the usu . hour of Roun. Through a misunder standing of the order for debate on the naval appropriation bfll the mem berB assembled at II o'clock as on yes- terday and the day before, but 1t was discovered too late to apprise them that the order did not contemplate an early convening beyond two days In his prayer the chaplain, referring to the exercises incident to the accep- tance of the statue of Frances E. Will lard. to occur later In the day. said that "by purity of her soul, the breadth and scope of her intellectual attainments, the eloquence and chas- LAkI Ol nCT SUGGGh anu hEE 1hoOaAkoh devotion to the purity of the home, the state and humanity she had won for herself, the splendid and just encouium --the uncrowned queen of purity and temperance"
 Strictly Party Vote.
 The House ordered a yea and nay vote on the previous question to con- slider a resolution from the commit tee on raieB to disagree to the Senate amendments to the statehood bill and ask for a conference. The previous strict party vote.
 m discussing the resolution MT. DalxeIl (penn.) Who offered 1t, said that ie leeislation was to Do had at all ft was necessary at fhie late day ii nave seae bill go Go conferences a speedily as possible.
 Mir. DeArmond tAGissonri) protested against cutting off an opportunity for the House to expressed It's own mind.
 Mir. Lloyd (Mo.) charged that thirty | i've Republicans who were in sympa- thy with the Democrats on the state- hood question had been coerced by rules and leadership.
 l Mir. Powers (Me.) said he was not aware that there were thirty-tive Re- publican recalitrant or that Mir. Lloyd was delegated to present a statement of thier wrongs.
 The rule likewise was criticized be MT. williams (Miss.) who said that both New Mexico and Arizona desired separate statehood. T challenge the RenetIemen now. dare the majority of this House to let us have a vote on
 that question: ne said.
 Referring to the so-called Republi- can reoalcitrants, who had been whip
 ped into line. Mir. Williams referred to | them as blanket Indians" He said if they had been let alone and not been
 bound in writing hand and foot, the minority, plus those men, would have
 been able to adopt the amendment as
 to New Mexico.
 WIIIIama's Hit. He provoked laughter when he com pared the Speaker with a noted Indian | named old Man. Afraid Of- His Peo- ple" and said the Speaker would go | down into history as "Old-Man-Afraid-
 f-His-MinOrity."
 l The resolution wa sadopted, 161 to | 127, Mir. McLachland (Cal) Republi-
 can, voting with the Democrats in op-
 position.
 l The Speaker announced as the House
 conferees Messrs Hamilton (Mich.), | Powers CMe), and Moon (Tenn.), and | the House then resumed consideration | l An extended debate was precipitated
 over an amendment by Mir. Fitzgerald | (N. Y), to require the Secretary of the | Navy to furinsh at the next session of l Congress an estimate of the cost when l counpleted, of the reserve basin for war
 vessels at the League Island navy
 yards, Philadelphia, Mir. Fitzgerald, as-
 sertinR that at no time within the past
 ten years had modern worship been
 laid up in the Basin although s1,2s0,-
 9O2 had been spent on 1t. He charged | the Committee on Naval Affairs with having gone on blindly and said they
 were now opposing an amendment to | find out what was in the minds of the | beauroerats regarding the scheme to build this beautiful fresh water pond ! at Philadelphia" The amendment was defeated. 3s to 7s.
 l At { o'clock the bill was laid aside, | the extensive business suspended and l exercises began for the reception and | the statue of Frances E. Willard in statuary hall.
 In anticipation of the ceremonies a
 vast number of women and school chil- dren, mostly girls. thronged the House corridors during the day. The gallaries
 were packed.
 The proceedings were opened by the | reading Of letter rom GoVernOr Deneen of Illinois presenting the statue | to the United States. Mir. Foss (Illi- nois) offered a resolution of accept ance. Pending it's adoption speeches extolling the life and deeds of Miss Willard were delivered by Messrs. Foss, Graf and Rainey of Illinois, and Littleheld. of Maine.
 MT. Foss, in whose district Miss Will | lard resided. made the first address. He feelingly referred to her useful life | and her labors In the cause of temper | ance as the founder of the w. c. T. U. i She was. he said, universally mourned
 as one of the greatest wome nof her time. People might ask why did not Illinois send a statute of Lincoln, Douglass or Grant. but he contended that those men were SO great they | belonged to no State, having been | Given long since to the Union. | The closing remarks were made by
 MT. Rainey (nL) In beginning his
 speech Mir. Rainey alluded to the fact
 that until today no state had contrib
 uted to statuary hall the statue of a