The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-02-18
WOULD TELL THE
TARIFF STORY
Republicans Kill Congressman
HitChcOck'S Amendment to
Appropriation Bill.
MEASURE FINALLY PASSED
LITTLE CHANGE IN FIGURES RE-
PORTED BY COMMITTEE.

Washington. Feb. 1.-THE legislative,
executive and judicial appropriation
bill, one of the large supply measures
of the government. was passed by the
house today after several days discus
sion. The amount carried by it is prac
tically as reported by the committee
$32. 1876, $40.
There was a lively debate over the
provisions giving discretion to heads of
departments to remove or reduce inca
pacitated employees of the government.
| When the provision was reached, MI.
Goulden. New York, made a point OF
order against il.
The chair sustained Mr.. GoUlden's
point of order. The provision accord
ingly went out of the bill, but imme-
diately afterward the house adopted the
following provision by way of substi-
tute:
1.-THE appropriations herein made for
the officers. clerks and persons employed
in the public service shall not be avail
able for the compensation of any per-
son incspacitated for performing the
service for which such person has been
employed"
Pensions Ruled Out.
The chair ruled out as not legislation
an amendment by Mr.. CLANCY, Indiana,
providing for the payment of pensions
at 80 per cent of their salary to all per-
sons discharged under the substitute
provision adopted and an assessment
of one-half of one per cent per annum
on the salaries of employees retained, TO
constitute a fund out of which pensions
are to be paid.
Mr.. Langley, Kentucky, created a stir
r, Of ~ Il
ing from ihe provisions of the law "em-
ployes who served i'm the army or navy
of the United States during the war of
the rebellion or who. IS members OF
state militia organizations, aided in sup
pressing the rebellion, and the widows
of such persons"
The amendment was lost by the
chairs ruling that it was offered too
late.
information Not Wanted.
The reading of the bill was concluded
and il was about to pass when Mr.
Hitchcock Nebraska, moved to have il
recommitted with instructions to re-
port it back with an amendment re-
curing the secretary of the department
of commerce and labor to cause TO be
included in the reports of special agents
investigating trade conditions abroad
information showing the prices at
which American-made goods are SOLD
abroad to merchants and at retail.
A point of order was raised by Mr.
Tawney, and that led to a discussion of
the parliamentary phase of the ques-
ton. Speaker Cannon sustained Mr..
Tawney's point of order. whereupon Mr..
Hitchcock appealed from the decision.
Mr.. Tawney moved to lay the appeal on
| the table. The motion prevailed. 119 TO
| los. and the bill was passed.
Following the passage of the legisla-
| tive appropriation bill, the house re-
sumed consideration of the resolution to
| refer the presidents message TO con-
| gress to the respective committees
| General debate was declared closed
| The resolution was passed after Mr.
/ PAYNE had agreed to report at an early
date another one similarly referring the
presidents recent special message 10
| congress.
The house at 4:23 p. m. adjourned.