The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-03-01
ARMY BILL IS UP
MILITARY AND APPROPRIATION
 COMMITTEES CONTEST.
Tn Some Cases the Victory Is With Hull, and in Some Tawney Comes or Winner--PortO
 Rican Makes Speech.

Washington. Feb 2S.--The details of the provisions of the army appropria- tion bill occupied the attention of the Representatives throughout the day. Several provisions of the measure re- main to be considered. Throughout the day members of the Appropriations Committee headed by Chairman Taw- ney were in controversy with Chair man Hull and the members of the Mill itary Committee. Each contest was an effort either in the direction of reduc- ing or restricting the amounts car ried in the bill. In some cases the Appropriations Committee was sue oessful and in others the Military Com mittee The House soon after being called to order passed by unanimous consent the following bills:
 To provide for sittings of the United States Circuit and District Courts at Miami. Fla: Senate bill extending for one year the time for bridging the Cumberland River at Carthage, Tenn; to authorize the Cairo and Tennessee River Railroad Company to bridge the Tennessee and Cumberland rivers.
 The army bill was then taken Up. By sustaining a point of order made by Mir. Tawney, Chairman Bodtell rul- ed out the bill a provision for prac- tical1y the entire clerical force amount ing to more than 300 clerks. messen- gers, watchmen, char women, carpen- ters and one gardener, employed in the office of the chief of staff and at headquarters of divisions and depart ment of the army. The points of or der was made On paragraphs of the bill containing increases in the clerical force and by the ruling of the chair not only the increases but the whole force were declared to be without au- thorization of law. Chairman Hull re- marked that an effort would be made elsewhere" indicating the Senate, to get the appropriations replaced in the bill.
 Commenting on this action, Minority Leader Williams said the point of or der had developed the fact that there was between $10O,00O and. $SO0.OOO in the bill without any authorization of law It also revealed that notwith- standing the army had been decreased from 100000 to 57,000 men. the clerical force was continually increasing. He predicted that the bill would come back from the Senate with all these clerks back in 1t, besides others.
 Mir. Williams saw cause for criticism in the proposition for a gardener. He had just been told he was for the mil lion dollar war college with it's seven students. Why should we not provide barbers and boot blacks for the army. he asked
 A point of order by MT. Underwood was fatal to an amendment proposed by Mir Kahn (Calif) to pay $5 900 to the widows of Captain Charles Dakon and T. J. Hennessy, fremen who lost their lives in the recent fire on the army transport Meade at San Francis co.
 MT. Grosvenor denounced the "parsi mony" which prevented this appropri- oI ind catcd that MT Grosvenor had In his twenty years service shown partisan ship regarding that character of appro- priations. Mir. Grosvenor hotlY rejoinei ] that If one case could be shown he would at once resign his seat
 A plea for the Port Rican regiment, provided for in the bill, was made by Commissioner Larrinaga. of that island which constituted his first speech in the House. It would, he said. be {" great mistake to abolish the regimen First, 1t was regarded with sentimen- tai affection by Porto Ricans, who telt that they had not been. treated lustH in the organic law which the United
 Since his criticism of MT. Rockhi, made in the House last week MT. Huli said he had bee2 informed by l., the the State Department that the Cninesc os newspaper statement on which It was wa, based had been denied by MT. Rockaiill'
 It seems was mistaken GIa, Gonlia, any criticism of Minister Rockhill oa this proposition. while might be lis. posed to criticize him for many others
 Mir. Hulrs criticism was that MT Rockhfll had in effect offered the Chi nese a bribe of S20, ,OOO, 900 which he said was the amount Of the Boxer lndelnnl- ty. to counteract the Chinese boycott
 At 5:o3 o'clock ;he IIoase adjourned until tomorrow.