The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-12-07
KEEPING CLOSE WAlCh
CLAYTON INSISTS ON SCRUTINY OF
 ACCOUNTS.
proposed Daily Reports on Amount of Cotton Ginned Meets With Favor -Reese Seems Again in
 Favor.

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 1 wasbinrton Dec, 6.--(Special. )--The | Presidents sermon in his message yes- ] terday concerning the close scrutiny 1 of public official and accounts seems to
 hove given the house scare. l This afternoon the debate on the l bill to vote an emergency. fund for the Panama canal was one of the most
 animated that ever took place so early | in session of Congress. Representative Clayton of Alabama | took an important part in the very l interesting discussion which so con- fused the Republicans and set many of them to thinking whether or not it would not be better to investigate the situation before voting away the peo- ple's money in such large sums. MT. Clayton vigorously criticised | the majority for bringing forward this bill for consideration without first having had 1t referred to a committee
 to ascertain and report the exact na- ture of this case specified under the 1 head of ''mfscelleaneous expenditures" He repeatedly asked the Republii- cans for definite information and they were unable to tell how the money had been expended and how 1t was to | be expnded.
 He said that during his experience | in the House the proposition to spend | prior investigation by a committee | was unheard of except in the case of
 the fifty millions appropriated for the Spanish War. and that was war l emergetc1, when every one was will | ing to trust the great heart in the White House but now forever stilled with the duty of the proper defense or our country.
 Mir. Clayton said that the Democrats
 were heartily in favor of canal that it was an original Democratic proposi- I tion. but that the House ought to sec | to 1t that the peoples money was not | wanted and that no scandal shou'd , arise He said that there was matter | !a the estimation of the country more ! urgent in the minds of the people than ] this bill Yet that matter under the pleasure of the majority party,is wait | ing for the regular course, waiting un- | til after the committees are appointed. | to consider 1t. Mir. Clayton contin- l ued.
 T refer to the demand of the l country for the regulation of transpor- tation companies engaged in interstate | traffc, the duty dovolving upon Con- gross to prevent the inequalities the | injustices the rebates. the discrimin-
 atfons and private evils practiced by the great transportation companies of | the country against consumers, ship | Mir Gardner of Michigan, Republi- | can, join in with MT. Clayton in warn | ing his party against the danger 1t was encountering in appropriating public funds without knowing the exact purpose for which the money | would be expended.
 Bills and Resolutions. Director North Of the Census Bureau addressed a letter today to Congress-
 man Webb of North Carolina favofing | the bill introduced in the House by him providing that daily instead of semi- monthly reports be issued by the bu- | reau of the amount of the ginned cotton | in the United States.
 The American Cotton Manufacturers | Association was known to be strongly I in favor of the daily reports on the | ground that they would lessen wild and reckless speculation in the staple. Director North can do nothing, of course. unless some such measure as MT. webb's Is passed by Congress- Alter reading carefully the Presi- dents message, Representative Clayton | reached the conclusion that Mir. Roose- welt has greatly weakened on the rail- roai rate question as compared with | the position taken in his speeches on the subject, particularly with reference | to the time that rate when once fixed | by the commission shall remain in | force.
 In hiS annual book of estimates sent l to Congress today the Secretary of the l Treasury recommends two appropria- l tions fer the Bla K Warrior, Warrior | and Tombigbee Rivers. One for S60,000
 Is fos' construction of locks and dams 1, and in the Tombigbee and Warrior | rivers and the other is $543,465 for con tinuing imp ,ovement by construction | of lockS and dams Nos. and ? in the Tombigbee and completion of lock and dam No. [ In the Tomhigbee. near De- mopolis. and those numbered 2 and 8
 in the Black Warrior next above, by the construction of dredge and lock houses as authorized.
 Representative Burnett will tomor- | row introduce a bill appropriating 1 $75.000 for the erection of a public building at Gadsden, Ala He says Gadsden being the largest town north | of Birmingham ought 10 have a Gov ernment building. but fears Speaker Cannons opposition may prevent the | proposed omnibus" bills passage this | session. In the last Congress in spite | of combined effo-t of over 300 House
 members who signed a petition for ac- | ton. the Speaker blocked the plan. Senator Pettus introduced the fol- lowing today To amend the law re- | lating to tie public building at Selma. to authorize the Secretary of the Treas
 ury to construct it on land heretofore | purchased so that the appropriation of
 June G. 1902. may be used in its con | structiop. For relief of heirs of late Simon Howk of Jackson County and to pav
 them $2.545 for property taken by the l Union Army:
 To pay the Mobile Marine Dock Com | pany $S6,000 for damage to the com
 pany's prorerty by the Union military | forces in 1865.
 | To refund to creditors of the De- 1 posit Savings association of Mobile about $13,000 claimed to be due them
 rom the Government.
 Looks Good for Reese
 There Is excellent authority for say
 Ing that Attorney General Moody has
 informed several prominent Republicans
 that District Attorney Reese will be
 reappointed
 It is learned that in addition to fin-
 ally having the endorsement of Judee
 Jones. Mir Reese has been vigorously
 hacked hv eX-Scnator Chandler of New
 Hampshire.
 Mir Chandler has strong influence at
 the White House on account of the act
 i've part taken bv him in favor of
 railrnad rebate bill
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