Evening star., 1915-01-19
Paqe to Ask Unanimous Con-
sent to Disagree to All Sen
ate Amendments.
MEASURE PROBABLY WILL
BE SENT TO CONFEREES
Carries $12, ,342, ,324.45 as Passed by
Upper Chamber, Which Allows
Only Two Changes.

The District appropria ton bill, which
passed the Senate yesterday, was ofh-
cialIy received in the House shortly
after the converting of that body at IL
o'clock today. Representative Page OF
North Carolina, chairman of the SUD
committee in charge of the bill. in
tends ia ask unanimous consent this
afternoon that the House shall dis
agree to all amendments to the Dill
pla ced there by the Senate. This will
necessitate the appointment OF con-
ferees, after which the papers again
will be sent to the Senate, where con-
ferees also will have to be appointed.
Owing to the fact that Representa-
tive Page must necessarily leave Wash-
ington for a day or two this week, 1t
is hardly to be expected that much
work in conference on the bill can be
done until next week.
The total amount carried by the Dis
trict bill as it passed the Senate yes
terday afternoon was sl2,S4z ,oz4,ao' an
increase of $500 over the amount re-
ported to the Senate by the approprla-
tions committee and an Increase over
the House bill of $1,029,276
Only Two Changes Allowed.
Several attempts were made to amend
the bill just before Its passage in the
Senate, but only two were successful.
One of these was Senator kerns
amendment providing that brick or
other building material made in the
District workhouse and reformatory at
Occouuan, Va, should not be sold or
used in competition with Dicks mace
by free labor.
Or
the amendment by Senator Gallinger
of New Hampshire, who declared that
he saw no reason why the bricks made
in these institutions should not be used
to erect buildings in the Dlstrlct OF
Columbia. The point of order was not
Sustained by the chair. and after a
debate. in which Senators Kern and
Swanson supported the amendment
vigorously, it was agreed to.
Senator Lane of oregon sought to
have adopted an amendment provloins
that the owners of abutting property
should pay for the extension of water
mains where the District did not re-
ceiye a revenue from the sale of water.
A point of order was made and sus-
tanned against this amendment.
Norris Amendment Successful.
Senator Norris of Nebraska was the
author of the other successful amend
ment, which is as follows:
Hereafter any balance remaining
after the purchase of the site for the
Eastern High School may be applied
for the purpose of putting said site in
condition suitable for the uses for
which it was purchased"
Senator Lee of Maryland offered the
following amendment:
provided, That in the expenditure of
these appropriations for manual training
high schools there shall be no discriminat-
ing charge made against pupils from any
state or territory of the United States,
who shall be admitted and taught on the
same basis as pupils residing. or whose
parents reside, in the District Of Colum-
EIa-"
Vice President Marshall sustained a
point of order made against this amend
ment, and on an appeal from the decision
of the chair, sixty senators upheld the
ruling of the chair, and only one. Sen
ator Lee, voted to overrule the chair.