The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-04-17
IMPORTANT BILLS PASSED "Suspensiqs Day'' in the
 youse. DEnArY-DAlo0Hol MEASURE Goes$ trough After Some Discus
 sion of Its Merits. One Speaker Says Makers of the Wood Product Need Not Be Alarmed as To the Effect On their Business. 
DENATW.DALccHol MEASURE

Suspension day" in the House and d number of important measures were passed. notable among them being the bill permitting the withdrawal from bond. tax free, of domestic alcohol, when rendered unfit for beverage or liquid medicinal uses by mixture with suitable denaturing materials; the bill Amending the national trade mark law, and the bill forbidding the importation and carriage In interstate commerce of falsely stamped articles of gold. etc.
 Bills passed include one to extend the time when the coastwise shipping laws shall go into effect,and another to increase the limit of loans by na-' tional banks by allowing national banks to loan ten per cent of their cap-l ital and ten per cent of their surplus to any person. firm or corporation.
 The denatured alcohol bill was taken up on motion of Mir. Payne (N. Y.) Mir. Payne said the bill provides tbet three months after it's passage domestic alcohol of such degree of proof and subject to such regulations as the Commissioner of Internal Revenue may prescribe. may be withdrawn without the payment of an internal revenue tax for use not only in the arts and indus tries. but for fuel, light and power. The bill provides for its denaturing. that is. making It poisonous, so that it cannot be used as a beverage and rendering 1t unfit for liquid medicinal purposes.
 The people of the country wore in dulging in vast transformation, false hopes and profound optimism. accord ing to Mr Young (Mich), over the ben effts to be derived from the pass sge of the denatured alcohol bill. He. said that. notwithstanding the overwhelm- ing majority for the bill he would be untrue to his constituents if he dii not oppose with all his power the passage of the measure. In his districs alone 15,0eO people are employed in tho man. ufacture of wood alcohol and s20 o60,000 arc invested In .manufactories. | It was Mir. Clarkss (Mos) opinion that | the proposition to remove the tax from 1 uses, was the only one of which his-
 tory furnishes an authentic record on which distillers and prohiD:tionists s, manufacturers and farmers. capitalists | and the Federation of Labor, producers | and consumers all agree.
 Last year the entire output of wood alcohol in this country was about B. 100000 gallons. The enthusIastic pro- ponents of the pending measure pre- dict that in a short time we will be consuming denatured alcohol at tho | rate of 200,000,000 gallons per annum. AS the pest uGndIuTlHE Dluu IS to use 10 per cent. of wood alcohol. that would necessitate the use of 20.000,000 gallons of wood alcohol annually-doubls our present output-which demonstrates that the wood alcohol people are scared without cause"
 MT. Grosvenor (ohio) announced his opposition to the measure. A vote be- ing taken, the bill passed. 224 to T. MT. Crumpacker (Ind.) called up the House bill extending until April II, 1909, the date for applying the coast wise laws of the United States to the Philippines. Under the present condi- tions these laws will apply July 1 next Opposition to the bill was made by MT. Humphrey (Wash.) who said there was ample American shipping on the Pacific coast to take care of the com 1 merce between the United States and the Philippines. and If the time was not extended. the American ships would get the business.
 MT. Cooper (Wis) asked if 1t would not then be necessary to vote for the ship subsidy bill to get the desired extension. He followed this with q statement that with tariff of seventy five per cent. of the Dingley act impos- ed against the Filipinos 1t would bo a further injustice to prohibit their use of the tramp steamer and other availa- ble cheap freight rates.
 MT. Crumpacker stated the bill met the recommendation of Secretary Taft The bill was then passed by a vote of 217 to 27.
 The bill authorizing the Secretary of Commerce and Labor to investigate and report upon the industrial, moral and educational conditions of female and child workers In the United States was made a privileged order in the House.
 The bill amending the existing law relating to the registration of trade marks was passed The bill creates classes of merchandise for the purpose of trade mark registration.
 Mir. Ryan (N. Y.) called up the bill forbiddng the importation and car- riage in interstate commerce of false ly or spuriously stamped articles of merchandise made of gold or silver, or their alloys. He explained that the proposed legislation was In line with former acts of Congress and broadly stated. requires persons manufacturing articles out of the precious metals to stamp these articles for what they are
 The bill was opposed by Mir. Sherley (Ky) and Mir Adamson (Ga.) They contended that 1t placed on the gov ernment the burden of performing po- lice duty.
 Mir. Adams said the bill brought the postoffice department in direct compe- tition with tho express companies which never was contemplated by the constitution. vote being taken, the bill was passed, 13S to 30.
 Mr. Davey tLa.) called up the na- tional quarantine bill, seeking to sub stitute the Senate bill for the measure, which recently passed the House in or der to get the measure Into conference.
 Mir Bartlett (Ga.) began a mild ffli- buster against the bill by demanding that 1t be read. which was done
 Seeing that debate was inevitable, Mir. Payne (N. Y.). in order to continue the suspension day over to another day, moved that the House take a re- cess until 1880 a. m. tomorrow. On a vote the absence of a quorum was dis closed.
 For an hour or more the wheels of legislation were at a standstill Finally, after sending for members at their ho- tels. a quorum was secured.
 Speaker Cannon surprised the House by holding that 191 members consti- tuted a quorum and had read pre- pared statement in which he took the ground that after the House Is organ