Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1905-12-23
PASS PANAMA BILL
Senate Appropriates Sll, 0oO,-
600 For Isthmlan Work.
PRESS BUREAU HAS BEEN ABOLISHED
saIarics and General Expenditure ON
Great Waterway sas5ect 60 Crifs-
cism--ssMiIIions spent, Nothing
Dome" said Culberson.


WASHINGTON, Dec. Is. The senate
passed the Panama canal emergency
appropriation bill, but the result was
not attained until after the debate on
| the bill had been continued the greater
part of the day to the exclusion Of
practically all other business. Set
speeches were made by Mr.. Bacon In
advocacy of his amendment requiring
estimates for canal commission sails
ries: by MIR. Allison. who devoted him
self largely to the details OF the bill; by
MIR. Culberson. who criticised the EN-
ployment of Mr.. Bishop as press
agent" by Mr. Stone. who criticised the
purchase of American ships to carry
Panama supplies in the face OF the an
nounced determination to 90 abroad for
vessels under the conditions then exist
Ing, and by Mr.. Newlands, who ex-
pressed the opinion that the coustruc-
ton Of the canal should have been In
trusted to the geological survey.
A substitute fc~ Mr.. Bacon's amend
ment offered by MIR Hale was accept
ed. 1t specifically requires that con
gress shall be supplied with regular es-
Inmates of all salaries except those
paid to laborers, skilled and unskilled.
Otherwise the bill was passed as re-
ported from committee.
Mr.. Hale made the authorized an
nouncement that Mr. Bishops duties as
a 'press agent would be discontinued.
The president will issue Instructions
that the duties of Joseph r. Bishop
shall be merely administrative.
Senator Hale gave this assurance to
the senate, and Mr.. Culberson with
drew his amendment prohibiting the
payment of any money to maintain a
literary bureau.
In guaranteeing the abandonment of
the press bureau Senator Hale said
that every senator recognized the evil
any bureau of the government, be said.
to exploit whatever is being done In
that branch of the service
AIR. Hale said he could not give an
assurance that the salary of Mr.. Bish-
OPP would be reduced. That matter
must be adjusted by the proper com
mittee.
Senator Gallinger said that $4,000
for the chairman Of the canal commits
sion and s1T500 for the governor OF the
canal zone are very large salaries aud
that the $4,000 salary OF Secretary
Bishop should he cut to $1,000. tie sum
paid Mr.. Murphy, the former secretary.
Mr. CulUerson said the means em-
ployed by ibe administration to obtain
control OF the canal zone were "lndc-
feasible ia law and infamous III
morals" The original estimate for
the canal was STs4G00.Og0, yet. he said,
alrea1y S7G,5000Q0 has been spent and
nothing accomplished STILL be said, he
would vote FOR the then pending canal
appropriation bin,
Orderly Mob Sang the ~MarscfIinlse.-
LONDON, Dec. -London's unem.
ployed made demonstration at ST.
Paul's cathedral in half hearted,
hopeless and unusual manner Oaly a
few hundred of them, with appropriate
banners, went in procession from
Trafalgar square TO the cathedral,
where they arrived during the progress
of the service and UP the steps Of
which they marched singing the Mar
seillaise." Here the motley crowd was
joined by contingents from other quar-
tiers, and all, to the number of some
1900, began filing into the cathedral
silently and respectfully, making an
incongiucus picture in contrast with
the fashionable worshipers.