The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-03-23

for it, urging members to uphold ths President and the House.
 The resolution was then adopted on roll call the vote being 175 to 156.
 The republican vote against the rule gained Messrs. Brooks, Darragh, Minor, Otjen and Reeder and lost Tyndall and Welborn over the. vote on ordering the previous question.
 While the speaker was appointing Messrs. Hamilton of Michigan, Brick of Indiana and Moon of Tennessee as con ferees, MT. Williams was shouting loud- ly for recognition.
 When recognized MT. Williams present ed a motion instructing the conferees to accept the Senate amendment emitting Arizona and New Mexico from the bill.
 Both Messrs. Payne and Dalzell made the point of order that this motion was not now in order, the rule having been adoped and the conferees appointed. The speaker sustained this point after MT. Williams had argued briefly against if. He then took an appeal from the decision of the chair MT. Dalzell moved to lay the appeal on the table, which motion was sustained on a rising vote, 146 to 91. This ended the statehood procedure. The special order to consider war claims was postponed until Friday of next week and the legislative bill was taken up.
 MT Underwood of Alabama took the floor in criticism of the lack of opportun ty of members to properly exercise their functions
 Hepburn Criticises Librarian.
 When that portion of the bill providing for the library of congress was reached, a somewhat intense debate was indulged in. MT. Hepburn of Iowa took the floor in criticism of its management and cost of maintenance which amounted to near 8000 a When tho interest the cost of the building was figured the total would aggregate s1, 100000. At this point he diverted to critlcise the efficiency Of the librarian. An animated defense was made by Mir. Burton of Ohio, by MT. Perkins of New York and by Mir. Little fief dof Maine,
 In mentioning the rare books possessed that works of Thomas Jefferson, which contained not only his book marks but his thumb marks, were there.
 Does the gentleman take any pleas ure," retorted MT. Hepburn, fin ascer- taining the fact that Thomas Jefferson was not as cleanly in his habits as he ought to have been? Does that improve the public mind?'
 MT. Hepburn maintained he was not opposed to the library but to the useless expenses incurred by this man Putnam bfti hiiOli AiO Oilt ii1b hPNAfi'ACii.
 Hardwick Has New Kick.
 When the section of the bill appropriat- ing for the executive offices and salary of the President was reached MT. Hard wick of Georgia, inquired what para graph provided for the salary of the social secretary for the wife of the Pres ident. MT. Littauer replied that he did not know that any such salary was pro- vided. It had always been the custom of the appropriations committee to take as law the suggestion from the White House regarding the number and salary, of clerks required and nothing was known as to what any of these clerks did.
 Mir. Hardwick said he stated he wished to make a point of order against the provision if he could not locate it. Not being able to do this, he offered an amendment providing that no part of the appropriation should be used to pay the salary to a person to perform the duties of social secretary to the wife of the President or any service of that nature He read from a New York newspaper which indicated that such a provision was contained in the bill and that it would be questioned when reached. The latter statement caused laugh.
 Grosvenor counsels Withdrawal.
 MT. Grosvenor counseiled MT. Hardwick