Show I the House WASHINGTON Dec 15McKinley from the ways and means committee reported and the House adopted a resolution call ing on the secretary of the treasury for the names of banks in which public money was deposited the reasons for making the deposits and the rate of interest if any given in return for the use of public funds Also for information as to the authority by which and the law under which such deposits de-posits were made The speaker stated pending pend-ing business was a motion made by Hermann Her-mann of Oregon to suspend the rules and pass the bill for the adjustment and payment pay-ment of claims arising from Indian depredation depre-dation After advocacy of the measure by Hermann Lanham Townsend of Colorado Colo-rado Sayers Mills and Perkins and criticism criti-cism upon it by Holman and Kilgore the motion was agreed to and the bill passed The bill provides for the appointment by the President of three judges to constitute a court to adjudicate all claims for prop prop erty taken by Indians without just cause Spinola of New York moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill appropriating 100000 for the erection of a monument to the victims of the prison ships at Fort Green Brooklyn Allen of Michigan while adding his praise to tho patriotism of the men whom it is designed to honor opposed the bil These men had suffered untold horrors but there were all over this country men who had suffered horrors equally atrocious at Libby Audersonville and every prison south of tne Potomai These men had come time and again asking Congress to give them a pittance So far their prayer had been refused and the leading papers of New York city bad been engaged in bring ing their powerful battries to bear upon public sentiment in order to turn it against granting pensions of any kind whatever At the same time representatives of New York city came here and asked government t build a monument to the commemoration commemora-tion of tho men who needed no monument to tell the story of their patriotism Sweeney of Iowa said the present was no time for making appropriations of this character The gentlemen who urged the passage of this measure were the very ones who day after day declared there would be a deficiency in the treasury Cannon of Illinois said he was informed the library committ had reported favorably favor-ably thirty monument bills There was estimated an increase of expenditure for the government of 750000JO and an esti mated decrease in the revenue of 0000 000 Congress must choose between giving relief to the living and erecting monuments J D Taylor of Ohio and Kerr of Iowa twitted the New York members with the fact that their city had not erected a monument monu-ment to General Grant but nevertheless asked Congress for monument to the victims vic-tims of prison ships Spinolas motion was lost 103 to 0 McKinley of Ohio reported Flowers resolution extending the bonded period to July 1 next There being a disposition on the part of Culberson of Texas to debate it McKinley withdrew it Adjourned |