The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-01-20

port service shall be disposed of with out the consent of Congress. MT. Hull secured the adoption of an amendment in these words:
 Provided that no part of the $12,- 100000 hereby appropriated shall be paid to any steamship company for
 the transportation of supplies or en-
 listed men ofA officers of the United
 States to the Philippines or from the
 Philippines to the United States" MT. Humphrey offered an amendment l striking out the provision for ex- penses of sailing Government troops.
 He said the transport service was cost ing $1,600,000 a year more to maintain than would be the case if the service
 should be performed by private ship ping.
 When Mr. Root was Secretary of War he had recommended its abolish
 menf, as had General Davis when he was Governor of the Philippines and
 MT. Humphrey said Secretary Taft was of the same mind.
 The transport service so far has cost the country between $s5,ooo,ooo and $40, ,000, ,000. f Everything is rotten in this trans
 port service" hotly declared Mir.
 Humphrey. from the hulls of the old Iforeign-built vessels to the wonderful system of book keeping adopted by the
 quartermaster's department It is a na- | tional disgrace and I hope this House will stop it,"
 MT. Hull defended the service. He said if for no other reason the service ought to be maintained for the com fort of the soldiers. especially the sick who were brought home from the Phil | ippines. He denied that the. service
 was more expensive than private ser vice would be. J The amendment of Mir. Humphrey
 was defeated on a viva voce vote. As President of the American branch
 of the Interparliamentary Union of In-
 International Arbitration, and Chair
 man of the Reception Committee which entertained the international organi-
 zation, Mir. Bartholdt (Mo.) secured the floor to make a report on the recent convention at St. Louis. He read a
 history of the organization in order that | 1t might become part of tho Congress sional Record.
 The reading was concluded and as a separate vote was demanded on the
 amendment relating to the pay of re-
 tired officers. it was agreed to take this vote tomorrow.
 The House adjourned at 5:25 o'clock. The Senate.
 Washington, Jan. Reconsideration | of the Statehood bill was continued in | the Senate today and Mir. Stone spoke | for two hours in opposition to it. The bill for the remuneration of American \ fur sealers who suffered losses be-
 cause of their suppression, also was
 debated at some length, but no action
 was taken on it. A resolution by MT. | Cullom, requesting the International | Prison Congress tO hold itz aiCht h
 Congress in this city, was adopted. | When the joint Statehood bill was taken up MT. Stone addressed himself l especially to the landed interests of the Indians in the Indian Territory | He proposed an amendment providing
 that all allotted lands shall be subject | to taxation. He said that if all the | Indian lands are to be relieved of tax l ation for twenty-one years, as pro- | posed, the State treasury would be se- | riously embarrassed. Unless the State
 was to be given the means of self | support, MT. Stone contended, it should
 be kept on a state of vassalage as it Is | now. He said the bill as it stands confers on the Indians of the Indiap Territory the rights of citizens, while relieving them of the duties of citi- | zenship.
 Mir. Bailey took the position that Congress had no right to impose con ditions affecting the taxation of the people of any State. The Indians of
 Indian Territory already have been
 made citizens,. he said, "and it Is not
 competent for Congress to provide for
 the taxation of one citizen of State
 and relieve another citizen from tt.' The Senate at s:52 p. m. went into
 executive session and i've minutes la ter adjourned,