The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-06-28
TO RATIFY DUTIES
MIR. DALzELL PREsENTED NEW U RULE.
DirectIy Affects Tarffr on Exports in Phiffppfpes mt Close of the
 spnnfsh~Amerf- can War. Al

Washington. guns z7.-P Previous to further consideratfon tof the general deficiency bill by the House today MT. Dalxell (Pa) presented q ruI2 directly affecting the Amendment to the bill rat ifyfug the tariff duties on exports and imports iE the Philippines at the close ol the Spanish American war which point of order. The rule offered by Mir Daizeii places the amendment again in the bin. The previous question having been ordered, Mr. Dalzen explained the reasons for the Legislation.
 He sand that claims have been filed amounting to some s3.000.0o0. and there was necessity of ratifying and legaiiz- ing the tariff during the. Presidency of Mckinley and prior to 1902. Mir Williams explained that the rule lwould make germane to the bill an lamendrdent that was clearly not in or der and would make valid the psurpa- tory and invalid acts ef Federal off, cers.
 If this Legislation is enacted., said MT. sullivan (Mass.) it viii not only scandalize the American people but will be- looked upon as a scandal by every civilized country. s
 We are asked by the judgment of this rule to nullify a decisionSof the supreme Court of thes United States in two cases and 1t will nnilify Act 5 of the Constitution that the property of the individual yshaIl not be taken without due process of law z
 The need of this legislation is ex, plained fin a letter of Secretary Taff which stated that the duties collected between April II, 1899, the date of the ratification or the treaty of cession and March B. 1902. 1t is estimated aggregat- aI l.@~ I'M .A.t .-. was expended in furnishing govern ment for Manila and the islands and In public Improvements. It was paid chiefly. the Secretary said. by large importers and exporters who sold tieir goods at profitable prices, including the duties paid and who enjoyed the bene- fit and protection of the government. retary Taft, s'never came into the treas ury of the United States at alLT
 The yeas and nays were demanded by Mir. Williams. The rule was adopted--
 yeas 15f-nays eighty two. e
 The House then went into ccmmittes of the whole for the further considera- ton of the general deficiency bill
 The point of order made yesterday by MT. Dalzell. while the House was in committee of the whole, against the paragraph in the general deficiency
 bill reinlbursing the State of Texas for the payment of $375. AIS for State vol unteers or rangers between 1855 and fSst
 yeas sustained by Judge Crumpacker | (Ind.) in the chair. when the House
 resumed fhe consideration of the bill | Five hundred thousand dollars were l added to the bill on account of SUD- ! plies for the Quartermaster Generals
 Department of the Army.
 | An amendment was adopted appro-
 priatlng $3J5, 200 for light houses. fog | signals and other aids to commerce. | The usual t'extra month pay for all
 employees of the House and Senate was adopted. | The payment of attorneys fees in 1 the judgment of the Court of Claims af. | firmed by the Supreme Court in the 1 ern Cherokees and the Eastern and i'm | States was attacked by Mr Miller | (Kas.), Mir. James (Ky.) and Messrs
 Campbell and Reader (Kan.
 Among the attorneys who will receive | proportions of Is per cent. are former Senator Marion Butler and o. K. Jones
 and Mrs. Belva Lockwood, to whom is
 paid outright $1S.000.
 | The Committee refused to make a
 change in the item as carried in the | bill.
 I When the amendment relating to the duties collected on exports and im-
 ports in the Philippines after the Span. l ish-An1erican war was reached, it was l discussed by Messrs. Sullivan (Mass ] \ James, (Ky) Dalzell, (Pa.), DeArmord
 tMo.D and Keller (ohio), and then ] adopted and the general deficiency bill | passed.