Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1907-01-19


house, FRIDAY afternoon, was a rather
fiery debate, precipitated by John "A.
Sorley Of Grand Forks, through a reso-
luton presented by him and based on
newspaper reports from Washington
on the matter Of annual subsidies to
be paid certain favored steamship
lines under the terms Of the new sub
sidy bill which was reported out from
the committee in the house Of repre-
sentatives at Washington Tuesday,
and alleged to have been by extra
ordinary tactics. n .s VI 81. s}s5
Mr.. Sorley q wanted the house.
through his resolution to express its
disapproval of the giving away Of such
enormous sums of money to few
favored ones, amounting in all to-
$3.50, 900 and to urge the states
representa- tives in congress not to sup
port the measure. Mr. sorley moved
it's adoption. III &5S st
Mr.. Buttz ridiculed the idea and
intfmated that the house was not in
position to judge. The matter of
subsidies had been before the people,
for years and he was willing to leave
the matter in the hands of representa-
tives in congress who understood and
were in close touch with the matter.
He was in favor of reasonable sub
sides and more especially when they
meant the increasing of our trade with
South America Mr. Buttz moved as
an amendment that the Sorley resolu-
tion be sent to the committee on state
affairs. n d 4; 3 s48. sat IL II
MT. Sorley passionately supported
the resolution and bitterly attacked
Speaker Cannon and Watson OF
Indiana because of their alleged
methods as he had read of them in
the newspaper reports. s'5 4 II
Mr.. Stevens with all the expressive
oratory at his command defended the
honesty of purpose and pure republi-
canism of 4 Speaker Cannon and
Representative Watson of Indiana and
bitterly attacked the purpose of the
resolution presented by the gentle
man from Grand Forks, that it was a
mere playing to the galleries and that
there was nothing in the world to
guide the members of the house be-
You'd mere newspaper reports. f
f# Mr.. Stevens moved substitute
amendment that the part of the reso-
luton taken from newspaper be
stricken out B 81 a .s5.S5 !.
Mr. Shirley moved to place the
resolution on the table, but it was not
seconded s 4 I: 81 IA I,5&
..g Mr.. Casey, with marked vehemen-
,ence showed his disagreement with
the gentleman from .Burleigh. He,
commended that the members of the
house ought to be free to discuss the
matter and express opinions just as
well as the men in congress. The lat
ter were selected from the people just
as the Legislators were and they were
no better qualified than the members
of this house. The subsidy scheme
referred to in the resolution gives
money into the hands of a few men
and he knew the people of the north
west We're against any such method
Mr.. Buttz said it would be dis
grace to have the matter of the reso-3
luton in the record, it had no business
there and he was present to say that
the members from Grand Forks and
Walsh counties had not discussed the
question at issue on the merits Of the
case. 5 Il Ri
u Mr.. Streeter disagreed with the gen.
tlemen from Grand Forks as to the
reliability Of the newspaper author
ity which he had taken rs basis for
his resolution. AS for himself he
wanted to see the flag of these United
States over the merchant marine as it
was half a century ago. He called at
tention to the deep interest taken by
President Roosevelt and Secretary
Root in securing trade from South
America. While the statements
made in the newspaper report might
be facts in that particular case, he
considered the resolution as offered
a blow at the entire subsidy system
and he for one, would not vote to
commit the house to any such thing.
There were cries for the question
and a roll was called on the sub
stitute amendment Of Mr.. Stevens and
there were ayes, 81; nays, 25: absent
and not voting Ia.
Those who voted aye were: Messrs.
Adams, Bernt Anderson, o. r.. N.
Anderson, Andrus. Burdick, Blake.
Buttz. Carter Chapman, Church. Col
Inns, Crawford, Cunningham, Dean.
Duncan. Elhard, Evans, Flamer. Free
man, Ganssle. Gibbons, Giedt, Graz
ham Grant Csriffifl. EJaJaar Has fayd A