The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-02-01
SHACELING
 ef MIR. WiE2amS Refers to It in Y House. ARMY BILL AMENDMENTS All of the Senate'S Changes
 N0n-C -COncurred In. Republican Leaders Decline to Commit Themselves As to the Policy to Be Pursued on Questions
 Now Pending.

Jefferson Davis, president of the Con- federacy during the time he was a prisoner at Fortress Monroe, Va. was recalled in the House today when MT. Williams of Mississippi, the minority leader tried to secure the adoption of the senate amendment to the house provision of the army appropriation bill regarding retired officers serving with the state military.
 All senate amendments were disa- greed to and the bill was sent to con- ferences Messrs Hill, tLa) Capron. (R. I,) and Hay (Va.) being appoint ed conferees on the port of the house. A protracted debate arose over mo- tion by MT. Williams, the minority leader to accept with & slight modifi- cation the senate substitute for the house amendment relating to retired officers serving with militia regiments. MT. wiiIiams\retterated his belief that the original house amendment was directed at Lieutenant-General Nelson A. Miles. inspector general of Massa- chusetts.
 Messrs. Hull and Hay opposed the senate amendment, the former dis claiming that it had special reference to General Miles. He said that If General Miles had died six months ago the amendment would have been offer- ed just the same, but he regarded u as unfortunate that "a man Of sIch distinguished career can always man age to get himself in the forefront of public opinion, so that no matter what congress may propose to do. you are always hitting General Miles" He also regretted that Massachusetts should have it's politics <evolve around this man"
 Democratic Doctrine. Declaring that the house proylsioE wsk in the interest of tlfe paople end feff..e it w as Democratic doc fiae tO- stsve money, MT. Hay appealed to the Demo- cratic membership to vote down the senate amendment.
 | MT. Williams, replying to both Messrs. Hull and Hay. said that he was not at all afraid of the covert ate 1 tack on his democracy.
 "I am not he said, afraid of my | loyalty or fealty as southerner. J dislike so much to stay under cover, that we might as well come out. l share the feeling that southern men generally entertain regarding General Miles conduct when he put shackles on the ankles of Jeff Davis, and l do not believe 1t will sound in history tc his credit, or that 1t will sound in his- 1 tory to the discredit of MT. Davis. that | he was compelled to submit to it, old and helpless and sick as he was at the time. If the legislation had been pointed at anybody else than General Miles I would have taken the same course that I have taken, except that have taken 1t much more anxious Iy and much more warmly.
 "I stand in the relationship 10 Jef' | ferson Davis that some of my critics do not. first. he was Mississippian, and 1 am one. My grandfather was the senior captain of his regiment ip the Mexican war and his favortte cap- tain, and in the third place. he was my friend, as far as an old man can be | 6 friend of a child or boy. If you want to punish General Miles, or any 1 body else for what was done Tn those days; if history Is to hold out its con- demnation. all right; but this is not 1 the time nor the place. nor the way
 co get even. The people of the soutD don't punistl in little ways like that"
 MT. Williams received loud applause on the Democratic side when he took his seat.
 The Williams amendment and motion were lost. 79 to I'll. The other amend ments were then non-concurred in, and ! the bill went to conference. After adopting the conference report on the Philippine government bill, the house resumed consideration of the postof- flee appropriation bill.
 1 As in the case of other appropriation | bills MT. Littlefeld (Me.), called atten> | tion to the vast sum called for by the 1 postofice appropriation bill. S1S0000.- 900. IT, he said, appropriations were to be kept at their present size there would be on the first of July a deficit of $61. 100000. If the amounts were | not to be reduced they would have to 1 be met by increased taxation.
 Justified by Conditions. 1 MT Overstreet. Und.). in charge of the bill, said that the various items in the bill were justified by existing con- ditions.
 How do you propose to raise the revenue?" inquired MT. Cowherd (Mo ), of MT Littleheld. If your party intends to stand pat?' adding that MT Little | field stood high in the councils of the administration and ought to know.
 The reply was that the gentleman l from Maine is not advised as to what the intention of his party is.7 Asserting that he was in favor of retrenchment in the matter of appro- priations, MT. Payne (N. Y.). the ma | tority leader. said that MT. Littlefield had drawn too strong a picture of the possible state of the Treasury July 1. next because 1t had been shown that the revenues during the last two or three months had been increasing. 1 Mir Payne would not commit himself, 1 in reply to questions by Messrs. Minor ! (Wis.) and Gaines (Tenn.), as to whether the House would pass a public ! building bill and a river and harbor bill but said tbat the present session would be brought to q close with ap- propriations for the next fiscal year that would be within the Governments | income.
 | Charging that the Republicans had 1 prohigately expended during the last 1 four years hundreds of millions of dol lars Mir. Moon (Tenn. ), declared that | if that party had been true to the peo- i pie of the United States. the deficiency l that was now threatened and which was denied just before election could not possibly have existed. The postoffce 1 bilI, he said. except in a few particu- lars. was as economical as was con | sistent with the service to be rendered, but he regretted that he could not say lths same of other appropriatsQn bins.