The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-02-28
Senate Committee Adds
Fifty Thousand.
FOR STREET CAR MEN
Pou's Bill For Their Protection is Pass.
ed. Mr.. Pou Wipes Up Several
Planets With Gardner of Mich
igan, Leaving the Remains
Gasping FeebIy.
Especial to News and observer.)

! Washington. Feb. 27.-Senators
Overman and Simmons were before
the Senate Committee on Commerce
today in tho interest of Senator Over
mans amendment to the River and
| Harbor bill to appropriate fifty thou
sand dollars cash and authorize a
continuing appropriation of three
hundred thousand dollars additional
for the Improvement of the Cape
Fear River from Wilmington to Fay
etteNille.
The committee adopted the amend
mcnt for the fifty thousand dollars
cash appropriation and left the con-
tinuinG appropriation to the next
Congress. Our senators are very
hopeful that the necessary funds will
be appropriated from time TO time,
to, carry on aud complete this great
Improvement. which it is estimated
will eventually cost about n million
and II half dollars.
Our Senators voted guilty today
ON almost al tho counts against
Judge Swayne. Twice these voted
mot guilty..
up and passed his bill TO require the
street railways Of Washington TO pat
in yestibules on their ears during the
winter months 70 rthc protection of
their motermell These vestibules
must he Oh bA #Saa first day of next
November or the companies will have
to pay heavy fines for every day until
they are put on.
MIR. Pou made a. short statement in
explanation of his bin, and 1t passed
without objection. Immediately after
the passage of the bill, Representa-
tive Baker, of New York, asked and
obtained permission to thank Mr..
Pou in behalf of the organized labor
OF the country for the passage Of the
bin
The introduction and passage of
this bill .made our Representative
very popular with the laDoriug peo-
ole Of the District of Columbia.
Postmaster McCaskill. of Fayette-
VILE, is here. presumably to. look after
his re-appointment.
General ". r. Cox. of Edgecombc.
is here. He was formerly secretary
of the Senate and has hundreds of
friends who are glad to see him
again.
Senator Frye. chairman of the Sem
ate Committee OF Commerce, is
strongly opposing Representative
Smals bin 10 increase the appro-
priation for a light house off Cape
Hattcras from $1,000 600 10 $750,000
and the passage OF the bill in the
Senate is doubtful.
Representative Gardner. Hepubli-
can. ot Michigan. today made
speech i'm tho House. in which he
said the South should be proud of
what the Republican party had done
for her.
Representative Pou, replied to this
statement of Mr.. Gardner, ana when
he got through with him h" -
the Michigan statesman lCoI like
thirty cents,
Mr.. Fou showed ttrat the Repub
lican party had taken only two or
three Cabinet officers from the South
since the war and that a Southern
Republican did not dare to aspire to
the presidency or icc-presidency.
He showed that the tax laws Of the
country under Republican laws were
against The interest of the Southern
people as much as possible, and i'll
favor oe the Northern people; that
for every dollar Of government ap-
preparation given to the South. twen-
ty dollars were given 10 the North.
and that for every dollar in dppro-
priatiou spent by the South. ten dol
lars were wrung from the hard
earnings of our impoverished and
war-lerastared people in Federal
taxes and tariff fostercd bountics TO
protect Northern manufacturers.
MIR Gardner viii not soon forget
the drubDinG Mr.. Pou gave him, fhen
Mr.. Pou concluded there was storm
of applause. some of it coming over
from the Republican side