Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-08-04
TO ALLOW 35 PER CENT
Conference Report on Special De-
fciency Bill Considered.
AUTOMOBILE ITEM RETAINED
Salaries for Customs Court Judges
Goes Over-Traveling Expenses
for President.

The House got busy touaE With the re-
port of the conferees on the urgent de-
ficiency bill.
made a thirty-minute recess necessary,
however. by objecting to consideration of
the report until it had been printed and
had gone over a day.
This, under the rules of the House, he
had a right to do. But the all-powerful
committee on rules squelched him by
ting the report to be taken up al once.
Representative Tawney OF Minnesota.
chairman-that- and chairman-to-be OF
the House appropriations committee,
which is yet in a state of suspended ami
nation, won big victory in the Dig
gest fight between the Senate and House
conferees.
The House had adopted the Tawney
proposition prohibiting bonded employees
of the government from paying more for
their sureties than the old rate In 1orce
prior to January 1. 1909. Since that date
the so-called bond trust has trebled the
rate.
The Senate knocked out this provision
The conferees finally agreed, as result
of the determined stand Of Mr.. Tawney
and his colleagues, to agree with the
House paragraph with an amendment
permitting an increase Of 3J per cent IN
stead of 800 per cent.
$4,000 for Automobiles.
The item of 500 for automobiles for
a., nd %
House is retained by the conferees.
Instead of 100000. $4,000 is placed al
the disposal Of the President for inquiries
into foreign tariffs.
travelling expenses.
/ 1t was agreed by the conferees that ir
view Of the fight over the salaries OF the
court this whole matter should e
over until the regular session in Deccm.
ber. At that time full inquiry will be
made into the subject and the amount OF
the salaries fixed. At this time $25.oOO Is
appropriated to cover costs of litigation.
Senate Amendments Dropped.
The Senate recedes from the following
amendments, with others:
To pay for plans for workhouse build
ing in the District of Columbia.
Appropriating $500 for repairs for the
pension Office building.
Authorizing the Secretary of the Treas
ury to report on bills for public buildings
-Appropriating $4,000 to complete the
classification and appraisement Of the
land of the Yhaimi Indian reservation ir
Washington.
Other Amendments Accepted.
The House conferees recommended
agreement in the following Senate amend.
ments:
Appropriating $4,000 instead of 100000
as proposed by the Senate, to enable the
President to secure information and to
assist the officials Of the government iT
the administration of the customs laws
relating to the maximum and minimum
rates.
Appropriating 100000 under the De-
partment Of State for foreign trade and
treaty relations
Approprating $4,000 instead of $4,000
| for the expenses OF the meeting OF the
| International Union for the Protection oi
| Industrial Property, to be held In Wash
| ington in 1910.
| To accept the franchise granted by New
York city for the installation of pneu-
ma tic-tube service between the New
York appraisers stores and the custom
house.
Appropriating 100000 specifically 70,
collecting the corporation tax instead OF
divertinG from other appropriations Tor
Condemnation for Prison Sites.
Authorizing condemnation proceedings
to secure land for a workhouse and re-
folrnatury for the District.
Authorizing the use of an uneXpended
! balance for the erection Of portable
| schoolhouses in the District
.Appropriating $3.50 for work in the
CAPITOL: $1,000 instead of 81. $40 for repairs
| 10 the Senate restaurant: $500 for addi-
| ional elevator service in the Senate wing
and S36,EU for maintenance of the Senate
| office building.
Limiting the compensation of not ex-
ceeaing twenty agents in the census Office
10 not more than s. day instead OF so.
as proposed by the Senate.
Amendments rela ing to the Senate, i'll
cluding one months extra pay to en-
ploves of the House and Senate for extra
services during the session.
Appropriating $4,000 for the Alaska
Yukon exposition.
Authorizing contracts for the Is llnia n
canal to the extent of the total amount
of bonds authorized for the construction
lof the canal.
The conferees' report was offered in the
House after the rule had been brought in.
Representative Tawncy explained the
agreement reached, laying particular
stress upon the victory won by the House
conferees in reducing the bonding rate
from a 900 per cent increase to :J par
cent increase.
Mr. Tawney wanted to have only brief
debate on the bin and an immediate vote.
Representative Underwood of Alabama
objected 1t was finally decided to vote
at half-past 3.