Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-02-16
SENT BACK TO SENATE
Action of the House on the
Agricultural Bill.
ONLY FIVE OPPOSED
RESOLUTION ADOPTED BY OVER
wHELMING VOTE.
Alleged Violation Of the Constitutional
Rights of the Lower Branch
of Congress.
ONLY FIVE OPPOSED

A resolution introduced by Chair
man Payne of the ways and means
committee, sending the agricultural
appropriation bill back to the Sem
ate because it contained original
legislation affecting the revenues,
was adopted by the House this at
ternoon by 26I to S.
Shortly after the session Of the House
Of Representatives opened To-Day MT
Payne of New York, rising TO queslion
of privilege, offered 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: 2OS,
added by the Senate to the House bill, II.
r. 1899, in the opinion of tho House, con
travenes the first clause of the seventh
section of the first article Of the Consti-
tuition of the United States and Is an IN
fringement Of the privilege of the House.
and that the said bill with the amend
ments be respectfully returned to the sen
ate with a message communicating this
resolution.
AS soon as the clerk concluded reading
the resolution it was greeted Win gen
In explaining the Senate's action Mr.
Payne said the amendment abol1sned the
drawback clause in the D1nsiey OH vi,
wheat imported into the United states ana
afterward manufactured into -four ana ex-
ported. He said he did not intend 70 dls-
cuss the merits of the amendment. whether
it was wise or unwlse
Applauded by Both Sides.
He was loudly applauded by both repub-
leans and democrats when he asserted that
the main question was whether that clause
in the Constitution which declares that an
bills for raising revenue shall originate IN
the House of Representatives shat! De cne!-
ished by this House as one OF us piiVi
leges"
The question, he said, also was Whether
we will resent any infringement from any
source of that clause of the ConStltutiol-
Mr. Payne called attention TO the TACT
that the House uniformly had insisted on
it's rights as guaranteed by the Constl.u
ton and read number OF precedents III
proof of his assertion
Mr.. Payne declared that the right TO orig
mate revenue legislation was sacred one
of the House, that none could be orig
mated none should be, and, ne aodeo,
none will be originated in the other pooy
If the House stands by its rights and priv,
Ieges as guaranteed by the Constitution.
Attack on Dignity of the House.
Mr.. Williams CMiss.), the minority leader.
referred to the action of the Senate IN
engaging in a strenuous effort to prevent q
real or supposed attack by the executive. a
usurpation in the opinion of the Senate
upon its function and dignity and SAID
it was a peculiarly inappropriate time Tor
the Senate to attempt Ito make a PLAIN,
palpable obvious and aggressive attack
upon the dignity of the House.
Except in connection with legislation az
fecting the revenues, Mr.. Wllilams Saiu
the House stood today as body composed
of a great many House committees, ana
that all it did was to prepare legislation IN
some shape or other and send it over TO
the Senate, as was done with the rate Dill,
"to be put into the shape that even a ma
jority of the House desired.
Mr. Williams charged the republicans
with being afraid to touch the Dingley law.
Instead CT making charges through legisla-
ton, he declared, 1t was being done py
executive construction.
He got into an argument with Mr.. Adams
CWis), but it was cut short by Mr. Payne
who said he did not yield the floor for
tariff discussion.
Mr. Payne denied a statement by Mr..
Spalding of North Dakota that there had
been many violations or mfr ngements of
the privileges of the House by the Senate
in the matter of revenue legislation.
The Resolution Adopted.
The resolution was adopted on a yea and
nav vote. 261 to 5, those voting against it
being Messrs. Davis and Volstead (Minn.),
Adams (Wis.), Marshall IN. ID and Jones
CWash.), all republicans.
bill was passed making applicable
to the Panama canal zone all laws af-
fecting imports and the entry of persons
into the United States, after. which the
naval appropriation bill was taken up.
It was brought out during discussion OF
the paragraph providing for the purchase
of torpedoes that the navy had on hand at
this time only sufficient number OF tor
nedoes To hermit of but one shot to each
torpedo boat.