The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-02-17
HOUSE NOW UPON
ITS HIND LEGS
Senate Has Been Infringing Upon
It's Prerogatives.
SOME SINGING REMARKS
BILL GOES BACK WITH RESOLU
TON ATTACHED.
IkI AsHINGToN. FEB. 1s.-n the

thi AsHINGToN. Feb. 1s--m the
wv house today, following the adop-
ton of the conference report on
the omnibus claims bill, the house re-
sumed consideration of the bill to pro-
vide government for the Panama
canal zone All the committee amend
PASSED.
The bill to ratify and amend an
agreement with the Indians Of the
Shoshone or Wind River reservation.
IN wyoming, was passed. aftsr elimi-
mating the provision granting a prefer
entail privilege TO Asmus PaySen 10 Sc
lect $40 acres of mineral and coal land
within the reservation
Senate Called Down.
Rising to a question of privilege. Mr..
Payne. New York, offered a resolution
regarding the action of the senate in
adopting an amendment interpreting
the Dingley act with reference to
drawback on wheat. The resolution
was as follows:
Resolved, That the amendment No
2uS, added by the senate to the house
Dill 1929, in the opinion of the hOus7,
contraVenes the first clause Of the sew
enth section of the first article Of the
constitution of the United States and
is an Infringement of the privileges of
the amendment be respectfully re-
turned to the senate with message
communicating this resolution"
The reading of the resolution was
greeted with applause
Payne's Vigorous Remarks.
IN explaining the senate's action. Mr..
Payne said the amendment abolished
the drawback clause in the Dingley bill
on wheat imported into the United
States a rflG rT
INTO flour and exported. He said he
did not intend to discuss the merits of
the amendment. VIII Their it was wise
or unwise. He was loudly applauded
by both Republicans and Democrats
when he asserted that the main Ques-
ton was whether that clause in the
constitution which declares that all
bills for revising revenue shall origt-
nate in the house shall be cherished
by this house as one of its privileges.
The question. he said, also was
whether we viii resent any infringe
ment from any source of that clause OF
the constitution.
Mr.. Payne called attention to the
fact that the house uniformly had in
sisted on its rights as guaranteed by
the constitution and read number of
Pr cedentS in proof of his assertion.
Mr.. Payne said the right to originate
revenue legislation was a sacred one
of the house.
Mr.. Williams of Mississippi. the mi
nority leader, alluded TO the action of
the senate in engaging in strenuous
effort to prevent real or supposed at
tack by the executive, a usurpatiOn in
the opinion of the senate. upon its
own function and dignity and said it
was peculiarly inappropriate time for
the senate TO attempt Ito make plain.
palpa BILE obvious and aggressive attack
upon the dignity of the house
Except in connection with legislation
cffectmg the revenue, MI Williams
said, the house stood today as a body
composed of a great many house COM
mitteeS and. that all il did WAS To pre-
pare legislation in some shape or other
and send il over to the senate, as was
done with the rate bill, Ito be put into
shape that even a ma OTity of the
house desired" Mr. Williams charged
the Republicans with being afraid TO
touch the Dinsley law
Resolution Adopted
The resolution was adopted on a yea
and nay vote, 261 to ,, those voting
against il being Messrs. Davis and
Nolstead of Minnesota. Adams of Wis
cOnsin, Marshall of North Dakota and
Jones Of Washington, all Republicans.
When the item apprOpriating $50, Oe0
for the purchase and manufacture of
reserve guns for ships was reached. a
lively discussion ensued over the sub
guns. an amendment by Mr.. Hill OF
Connecticut to eliminate the authOri-
cation that the government manUfac-
ture the guns being responsible for the
controversy. In supporting the amend
ment Mr. Sibley of Pennsylvania de-
clared that government manufacture
of guns tended in the direction of So
cIalism. The amendment was defeated.
An unsuccessful attempt was made by
Mr. Fitzgerald of New York to strike
out the appropriation of $780, 600 for
coaling stations. Mr.. Baker of New
York declared that the proposition for
coaling stations had its inception lin
going out and looking for trouble
ON a point of order the provision for
a survey and estimate of cost for a
channel into WeIles harbOr, Midway is
lands. was stricken out.
The naval bin was laid aside and
several minor bills We're passed.
At 5;0I p m the house adjourned Un-