The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-05-08
SUNDRY CIvII BILL
HOUSE COMPLETES C0NsfDEHA-
 TToN OF THE MEASURE.
wh.u the House Convenes Today, the BilI Will Be Put On Its Pass
 age-Many New Pro-

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 Washington. May 7.--Rspid progress was made by the House today with the sundry civil appropriation bill Consideration of the measure was comnIeted. and 1t will be put on US massage when the House convenes to- morrow.
 cr,tic,sm was indulged In by MT suizer. of New York. against the pro vision authorizing the Supreme couFt of the United States to employ TOT lie work any printer 1t may see fit.
 .r tbink', said he, "that on account of sone of the decisions Of the couIe rendered recently against laDor. per hana they cannot get organized iapoi CTS to print their decisions.
 MT. Tawney replied that the coul had not been driven to the necess.s nS going outside the ordinary routine o l sor,,,,ng because of any decision tt had rendered in accordance with law. .rred tbe House that the Typographicai un- ion never had and never would reiuse to do any printing which the soVeIn ment or any department or r mish' require. .h.. tbe
 x1.. .aiaries paid on the Isthmus or Pan- anna for skilled and unskilied laoof ahall not exceed by more than twenty Ave per cent the average wages anu salaries for similar work Tn the ohis ted States, was objected to oy severai sa members Mir. Boutell, or Ililhois' raised a point of order against u. Mr Tawney explained that the laoor cost on the canal was seventy-nve per csnt more than the labor cost of sim uar work in the United States, al though there was no reason fer n.
 "Are the men now in charge or tnis work honest7" Mir. Underwood m quired. L.,
 "rhey not only are absolutely bon n.t Mir Tawney replied, 'sbut the most capable men ever In cnarse oi The chair sustained the point of or der against the provision and II went out of the biih There was also strlch-- s,A : en from the bill on point or oraef hv MT. Underwood, of Alabama. the rroyIs,on reouiring that all expendi- lures from the appropriation or Hza- 500 900 for the Panama canal shan pc maid from the proceeds Of the sale or Panama bonds. X..
 AvaInst vigorous arguments oy Messrs. Boutell, of Illinois. and Hughes, of New Jersey. the wage provislons
 
 as Arlransas. had re-offered 1t as pro- yiso to inc first paragraph of the bill
 Mir Routeu declared that the pro y,aion sought to tie the hands Of the canal commission in the employment CT labor. The speedy building or the canal he contended. was more impor- tant than that it should be punt cheaply. .h o Y,ait.A states was being put in the nosttion of being the first employer aS iabor to cut wages because of the panic. ,,a not understand how anybody could want more favorable working condl- t,ors than exist on the isthmus, and he thought an increase of twenty-five ner cent in wages. in addition to the Advantages offered on the isthmus ought to be sufficient. Men. he said were clamoring for those places now snd would jump at them at an in- crease of twenty-five per cent over wages paid in the United States.
 The provision also was opposed by Measrs Dawson, of Iowa: Sulzer of New York, and Wilson. of Pennsyl- yania. ,., Bv changing it's phraseology. MT | Fitzgerald, of New York, secured the re-Insertion and adoption of the pro vision relating to payments from pro ceedings from sales of bonds.
 on A point of order by MT. Gaines. of West Virginia, there went out of | the bill the paragraph authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to enter into | A private contract for electricsiY lighting government buildings in the | District of Columbia.