The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-02-25
VICTORIOUS
 AFTER FIGHT Successful Attack on the Standard Oil. CUSTOM HOUSE RENTAL
 ~-e---~ Trust Has BeeR Buncoing
 Government. After Many Years Appropriation sf sIse,soo in Interest of Octopus
 Ts Given Death Blow
 In House.

%loOyou0 n AnteFest or octopus Is Given Death Blow In House.
 r Washington, Feb. 24.--In the House of Representatives today the fight of many years waged against the appro- priation of st30,600 for rental of the old New York custom house resulted in victory. Mir. Hemenway of Indi- ana. chairman of the committee on ap- propriation. being unable to muster sufficient strength to retain the pro- vision of the bill. The opposition was led by Mir. Sulzer of New York, sup ported by Mir. Williams. of Mississippi, the minority leader. both of whom des nounced the expenditure as a public Iscandal and In the interest of the Standard oil Company which, 1t was alleged, was behind the National City Bank, the purchaser Of the building from the government. Although the bank was alleged to have bought the property for $3,o00,000. and to have Icredited the amount to the govern ment. 1t developed that no title had passed to 1t. and that in consequence 1t was paying no taxes to the State of New York. The failure of the gov ernment to give deed was ascribed ] to be due to the influence of the Standard oil Company. The action tn striking out the provision was on q strictly party vote.
 l Mir, Sulxer of New York, said the renting of the custom house was "a notorious scandal. a steal and a fraud and he could not understand why the City National Bank had not been com pelled to pay to the government the 1 9a,000,00O purchase money for the building Instead of the money being simply transferred on the banks books, except that 1t was due to the influence behind the bank Every man in this chamber knows what that in- fluence is.y he said. Tt ipl the influence of the great Standard oil truBt that owns that bank and the influence that bank has had in governmental affairs of this eountry.g
 l Explaining that he was not defend- | in the contract whicr was made by Mr Gage. who was then secretary of the treasury Mr. FIeempnway contend Jed El4Et xsf fts4 afnonnk for rent Has not appropriated the bank could not so 'into court and get Judgment.
 No Deed Passed.
 Mr. Hemenway admitted In reply to Mir. Williams that no deed had passed from the government to the bank and
 that the bank was not paying taxes for the building. Mir. Hemenway in- sisted that former Secretary Gage was not being charged with having com mitted a crime, but with having made a bad contract. He has committed no crime" interjected Mir, sulser ''Why, as soon as we got an honest president he had to get out of the cabinet"
 4 plain statement of tho facts in the 1 aaA h3y MR
 who disclaimed being in the habit of lightly charging political opponents IS | with moral or financial wrongs. f.
 he said, he had wanted to do that he could have "a sewer for all sorts of charges and scandalS" He did not criticize the original transaction but The asserted 1t was the subsequent dealings that were surrounded with fraud in order to obtain campaign con- | tributIons.
 MT. Hemenway insisted that as Con- Rress has authorized the contract for | the sale of the building to the bank it was the duty of the government to comply with It's terms. The origt- nal act providing for the sale he cred tied to a Democratic congress. In the course of general debate on the bill, Messrs. Crumpacker of In- l diana, Wallace of Arkansas and Byrd l | ton in the South, the latter also deal- | ing with present cotton conditions. The House met at ii o'clock today and immediately thereafter, MT. Hull, | (Iowa) presented a further conference l report on the army appropriation bill,
 which, under the rule, was ordered to
 be printed before being taken up. 4 number of pension bills from the | Senate were considered, 125 being passed. By unanimous consent the | following bills were passed:
 Bills Passed.
 Amending the revised statutes so that the stockholders holding five
 shares of stock in any national bank with S25,000 capital may be eligible as directors; confirming the title of | H. Gibbs Morgan and others to Cat the construction of two bridges across | the Ashley River in Charles and Dor
 chester Counties, S. c.
 Also the following joint resolutions: Authorizing a change in the name of | the regular Army and Navy Union of | the United States to the Army and Navy Union of the United States of honor to union soldiers, who in 1863. after the expiration of their terms of service, volunteered for temporary ser vice In Maryland and Pennsylvania. l and who received no pay.
 The Senate amendments to the Panama Canal Government bill were disagreed to and 1t was sent to con ference. Messrs. Hepburn (Iowa), Mann Glls.) and Adamson (Ga.), be- ing appointed manager on the part of the House.
 The sundry appropriation bill was then taken up under an agreement for four hours general debate.
 CFumpacker's Contention. Mir Crumpacker admitted that large percentage of the negroes was not fitted for the privileges of the bal lot, but those who were qualified. he contended should be accorded those privileges as freely and ungrudgingly as was accorded any white man. The policy Of maintaining two standards of citizenship by which one portion held absolute control over the welfare and destiny of the other however benevolent, may be the motives is sure to bring trouble and disaster. he said
 Mir. Wallace( Ark) discussed the re- Iation sbetween the North and South and maintained each was helpful and fndispensable to the other. He quoted from speeches by the late Senator Hoar of Massachusetts and President Roose- welt in which he said the olive branch had been held out No better illuetra-