Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-01-09

division vote was necessary, and the ad-
yocates of the measure barely scrapeo
through. Pages were sent scurryfng INTO
the cloakrOoms and corridors to drag In all
these members whose votes were needed IN
support of the resolution. Finally, on the
passage of the bill the opponents were SO
determined in their stand that they secured
the decision of the chair on the viva voce
vote. Then Representative Smith. IN
charge Of the bill, asked for the yeas anu
nays.
The yea and nay vote resulted in 1876
yeas to 90 noes, Speaker Cannon voting no.
The Railway Appliance Exposition.
The House this morning after spirited
debate passed the bill authorizing the Dis
trict Commissioners to permit the use OF
the unimproved portion of the monument
grounds for the railway appliance exhibit
ton to be conducted in conjunction with
the meeting of the international railway
congress in this city next May. The Dill
was brought up by Representative Samiei
W. Smith of Michigan, and supported py
Representative Sibley of Pennsylvania. MI
Sibley favored the exhibition as being e,lu-
cational in nature and as being partlcu-
larly valuable just now when railroad mat
tiers in the United States particularly with
the view of securing the maximum proper
ton of safety We're so prominently be-
fore the public. He also put forward tne
monument grounds as the only available
space for such exhibition.
ed to know if the precedent established
would be such that the next time Bunalo
Bits Wild West show came to town the
white lot or some other public park would
be granted for the show.
Mr.. Mann Opposed.
Representative Mann of Illinois, whose
refusal to grant unanimous consent re-
suited in the defeat of the measure when
it was up in Congress December 10 last,
spoke strongly in opposition to the pro-
posed location Of the exposition on the
monument grounds. He said he opposed
an appropriation for expositions and fairs
on general principles, but that he was par
ticularly opposed to the federal govern
ment granting to private parties the use
OF section of a public park in Washing
ton. He held that the precedent establish
ed was extremely dangerous, and. turning
on Representative Smith, declared that
that gentleman would remain in the House
long enough to rue the day when he had
advocated the measure before that body.
Mr. Mann produced petition addressed
TO him and signed by manufacturers of
railway appliances of Chicago, his native
city, and said that he had received commu-
n1cations from some of the most prominent
railroad men in the country, urging him to
cease his opposition to the bill. He had not
yielded, however. but he declared bitterly
that the District Commissioners had sue
cumbed to the pressure which he had resist
GU anu Hdo recommended the passage OF
this bill, when they knew that they were
doing wrong.
Representative Williams of Mississippi,
the democratic minority leader, said he was
opposed to the whole scheme of government
fairs and expositions, but remarked that he
was SO surprised and delighted at the fact
that the present bill did not ask Congress to
appropriate cent of money that he could
not honestly and conscientiously oppose
Representative Cowherd of Missouri spoke
In favor Of the bill, and a four-cornered de-
bate between Messrs. Cowherd, Bartlett.
Lands and Mann followed, which at times
was very spirited. The House finally, by an
overwhelming viva voce vote, passed the
bill.