The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-03-22
FOR COMPLICATIONS
1@s Consfdcr~ffen Caused A Hot
 HOUSE.
1tn 6ennsderatien Csusd Hotiy u<h1fe and Charges Were M1d< That Government Was
 Wanfing Its Money.

washinrton, March 2i.-when con a1derafion of the Qualifications appro- uriatfon bill was resumed in the houre today, MT. Keller. Ohio. mem bcr of the committee on approprta- fions charged that large sums mad been wasted sn attempting to provide aafenses on the Atlantic and Pacific coasts.
 Ese believed, however. in sufficient nppropriation for Pearl Harbor for navy base. By properly fortifying Pearl Harbor, he said. the country could dispense with a very consider able number of battleships proposed to be constructed. MT. DeArmond, Missouri. congratulated the country on fhe fact that the Philippines were to be fortified. The army engineers had at iast determined that Cavite was the place.
 The government. he declared. had poured millions into the morasses Of the Philippines and he was glad the money was now to be properly spent.
 Discussing the expenditures made for military and navy establishments Of the government, Mir. Tawney. Minne- sota. chairman of the committee on appropriations. repeated his warning of a deficiency made earlier in the ses- sion. MT. Sherley. Kentucky, offered an amendment removing the restriction on the secretary of war to buy abroad war materials in "limited' quantities.
 The amendment was lost 53 to 64.
 An amendment by Mir. DeArmond Missouri. to give the secretary of war ~temporary.. authority to pur- chase war supplies also was lost. MT. DeArmond declared that by limiting the secretary in these purchases his hand would be partly stayed against robbery.
 .~a...n. h,, Mr na Armond to allow the secretary of war to buy abroad war materials in any quantity" was adopted despite the ef- forts of republican floor leaders to marshal sufficient votes to defeat it. Al division showed 75 yeas to 70 nays, Mfr. Kustermann, Wisconsin, Vot- ing with the democrats. Teliers were demanded by Mir. Smith, Iowa, and under the recount supporters of the amendment ran tn cir tally up to eigh- ty five and applauded themselves. As roon as the republican leaders began to pass between the tellers the other mfda Uncovered them in their alleged rfratery--lagging in the file march and as one expressed it playing the nafna of Alphonso and Gaston to Kill lime and permit the arrival of the floor absentees for whom hurry calls had been sent out"
 The artifce failed. and when the rhmir announced the adoption of the amendment by a vote of eighty i've to eighty two the applause turned .tself loose.
 Mr. Hitchcock offered an amendment providing that no money appropriated in the bill should be expended for American made goods when 1t should he established to the satisfaction of the secretary of war that those goods were purchasab1e at lower prices abroad, but it was lost l0S to 77.
 Mr. Smith. Iowa, promptly took ad- vantage of the displayed republican minority, moving a substitute para . graph restoring to its original form the provision regarding war supplies which was amended. MT. Sherley, Ken lucky. raised a point of order against s.ti1is circular proceeding, this juggling with words to put back what the committee has just declared shall be changed"
 Mr. Mann. Illinois, insisted that 1t vas not within the province of the shair to determine the intent or mean Ing of an amendment. The chair adopted this view and declined to sus- tain the point of order-Mr. Smiths amendment was adopted by viva voce vote and the minority called for a division which resulted: Yeas, 1l4 Nays.s1.
 Mr. Sherley demanded tellers by whose count the amendment was re- affirmed I0S to S4.
 The bill was then passed.