The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-01-17
MANY SUBSTITUTES
REVISION or PENAL LAWS CALLS
 FORTH HEATED DEBATE.
substitute OsTered for Williams Amend- mept Resardfng Payments te Any Person for Ills Endorsement
 In Publtc Service.

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 washington Jan. 1e.--At the outset of the debate in the House of Repre- sentatives on the bill to co6ify and re- vise the penal laws. Mir. Hardwick of Georgia offered a substitute for the Williams amendment pending yester- day. when the House adjourned, re- garding payments to any person for his endorsement or assistance In the pup lie service.
 phrh hseology with the Williams amend ment arrives at the same end. except that it disquaiifies from any ofiice Of trust or profit under the government all persons receiving such pay. MT. Hardwick said that five years efforts had been made to enact such legisia- tion and that few years ago tre- mendous scandal had occurred in his own district in Georgia in connection with some postoffce appointments. He challenged any one to oppose his sub stitute on it's merits.
 The challenge was at once accepted by Mir. Gardner of Massachusetts, who maintained that any one who came to Washington with his expenses paid to interest himself in behalf of some ap- pointment, would violate the law. He said he was tired of humbug legisla- tion and inquired:
 DO you think we can square our selves with our constituents by legis- lation like that pretending to virtue when there Is not man within the sound of my voice that can not evade these statutes if he has mind to? You may be able" he added. sto catch un- fortunate members of the House or a member of the Senate some time who has not covered his tracks properly"
 Mr. Payne of New York urged that the Williams amendment and the Hard wick substitute be voted down. He wanted the Committee on Judiciary to carefully consider such propositions before they are enacted into law.
 Mir. Williams retorted that MT. Payne and others had made a party question out of the amendment and substitute whereas, he said 1t was not party question but one dealing with corrup- tion. He was aiming at real crime and if the amendment was not satisfactory to the eRpublicans. Then in Gods name" he said, draw one for your- selves.''
 Noticing the untisual Republican at tendance Mir. Williams sarcastically re- marked that he had heard that once or twice during the discussion of the bill the party whip had been resorted to to muster enough votes to vote down Iegislation recognized as needfuE The suggestion of Mir. Payne to refer to Committee the proposed amendments was supported by Mfr. olmstead of Pennsylvania.
 Mfr. Hardy of Texas offered as sub stitute for the Hardwick substitute a clause sexempting from guilt the em- ployment of political officeholders as attorneys in the presentation of any claim against the government regularly and openly filed This was voted down, as were the Hardwick substitute and the Williams amendment.
 The original section was then amend ed on a motion by Mir. Burke of Penn syIvania, so as to apply the penalty im- posed by Section IA only to those cases where the purchase and sale of endorsements or support for officers af- fects "appofhtiye" offices.
 An amendment in the shape of new section was offered by MT. Gaines. ot Tennessee. designed to prevent lobby ing before Congress.
 Derisive laughter on the Republican side greeted the amendment, followed by the query from MT. DalzeH, of Penn sylvania, You are not in earnest, are you?"
 I always am. when I attack the ramparts of the Republican party" was tie quick report. and 1t provoked Democratic applause. Mir. Gaines con- demned the practice of lobbying as
 
 welfare and morals
 MT. Payne asked if the amendment would reach the people of Tennessee sent to Washington by the tobacco growers.
 No" replied Mir Gaines, and ought not. because they are perfectly clean, honest people.
 came here for nothing?" Inquired Mir
 
 No" said Mir. Gaines. but they got nothing"
 The laughter which followed. in which Mir. Gaines joined. prevented the completion of his sentence, but when 1t subsided. he said:
 The lawyers got nothing because the Republicans in the Senate squelch- ed the legislation they sought to have enacted"
 The amendment was lost.
 An amendment by MT. Ansberry of Ohio. which sought to prohibit any Senator or member acting as an of- ficer. director. attorney, counsel or engaged in interstate transportation was lost. In addressing the House, MT. Ansberry said he offered the amend ment ito the end that prison doors may open to that class of citizens who disregard their plain duty to the people" He touched on the Browns vile affair" and declared that no voice on the Republican side had been raised when President Roosevelt, disregard ing his plain duty. absailed the sub stantial rights of the colored brother"
 The Ransdall amendments which went over from yesterday and which prohibits the giving to Senators and members by public service corpora tions of free transportation or the ac-. eeptance of the same by Senators or members again went over until tomor- row at the request of their author and