Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-06-11
VICE PRESIDENT - IS OUT
Appropriation - own Without
Nc Debate.
UNCLE JOE LEAVES THE FLOOR
Quits Chamber Just Before Question
Rises for Vote.
NAVAL FUND REPORT APPROVED
Recommendation of COnferees Ac-
cepted Covering Construction
Work of Battleship--COlIier to
he Built ON Pacific Coast.

WASHINGTON, June 1O-Without de-
bate the house today voted further to in
sist upon its disagreement to the senate
amendments to the legislative. executive
and judicial BILL making appropriations for
the expenses of automobiles for the vice
president and the speaker OF the house.
Other portions of the conference report
were agreed to and the conferees will again
endeavor TO come to some understanding
upon the provisions for automobiles.
When these senate amendments were
taken up Speaker Cannon left the chair
and Representative Olmstead OF Pennsyl-
vania presided over the house. Taking a
seat on the republican side of the cham
ber, Mr. Cannon, with cigar poised be-
tween his lips in characteristic fashion,
watched the proceedings.
BY a vote of Al to SO the house refused
to agree to the appropriation of $500 for
the vice president, and when the amend
ment providing fer similar allowance for
the speaker was taken up Mr.. Cannon left
the chamber and, going into the lobby,
lighted his cigar.
BY u vote of 4S to II the house then
again refused to appropriate money for
the speakers automobile, Representative
Scott of Kansas, chairman of the commit
Tee on agriculture. voting with the in
surgents and democrats against the appro-
prlation. The report was sent back to the
conferees with the Instructions to insist
that the senate withdraw its amendment.
Approve Naval Report.
After overruling the recommendations of
its conferees on the naval appropriation
bill by agreeing to senate amendments that
one battleship should be built in a navy
yard and not more than one of them should
be constructed by the same contractor, and
agreeing to have 100000 collier built
in u navy yard of the Pacific coast. the
house today approved the report of it's
conferees ON that measure.
Further disagreement was ordered upon
the senate amendments authoritizing four
submarine torpedo boats to cost 5000. 600,
five submarines to cost S2,500,000 and six
! torpedo boat destroyers, to cost $4,000
| each.
| The senate provision, that but one bat
tleship may be built by one contractor and
that one of the battleships must be con-
structed in a government navy yard was
agreed to by vote OF 11S to GO.
This action was taken in fact of opposi-
| ton by Chairman Foos of the committee
on naval affairs who insisted tina 1t would
add a couple of million dollars to the cost
OF construction Of a single battleship.
Advocates OF the provision claimed that
better work could be obtained in navy
yard and that such work would keer
skilled men in readiness for construction
and repair work in emergencies.
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Several democrats of the house are pre-
pared to wage another fight against a de-
flciency appropriation to defray President
Taft's travelling expenses for the present
fiscal year. Much dissatisfaction was ex.
! pressed today with the action OF the senate
i'm adopting an amendment to the sundry
civil bill yesterday, making available foi
the present year the item of $4,000 to be
appropriated for the coming fiscal year
The house rejected this proposition on May
&c, by an overwhelming vote.
/ The action taken by the senate yesterday
/ passed unchallenged and probably was no
noticed by more than a dozen senators.