Show ANTi SCALPING BILL Passed the House After Strenuous Strenu-ous Opposition HAD OVER TWOTHIRDS SEVERAL OTHER IMPORTANT BILLS PASS THE HOUSE Conflict Between Labor and Capital Occurs in the Senate During the I Morning Hour Postoffice Appropriation Appro-priation Bill Calls For 95835 388 Allison Grows Facetious I the Expense of Dubois and Hill Washington Feb 21The anti scalping bill was passed by the house this afternoonafter the exhaustion bIt b-It opponents of everyXparllamentary device of which the rules permitted the exercise The majority in favor II of the bill more than twothirds was sufficient to overcome all obstacles and I finally triumphed The bill was called up by Mr Sherman e1 r fioe I f man Rep N Y by instructions of the committee on Interstate and foreign I for-eign commerce and he offered to limit I the debate to two hours This was not acceptable to the opponents I oppo-nents of the bill and the result of their refusal was that Mr Sherman secured i the ordering of the previous question i the operation of which restricted debate de-bate to 20 minutes a side The bill was advocated by Messrs Sherman and Hepburn and opposed by Messrs Patterson Pat-terson Dem Tenn Mahaney Rep N Y Northway Rep 0 Ellett i Dem Va and others I The bill passed by a vote of 142 to 51 Among the other bills passed were I these Vacating Sugar Loaf reservation reserva-tion located near Leadville Colo and ton I restoring it to the public domain to be sold at auction directing patents to settlers on lands in the eastern penin setters sula of Florida establishing an additional addi-tional land office in Montana extending extend-ing for one year the period within which yearly final proof of desert land entries may be made The house concurred con-curred in the senate amendments to the curre Indian appropriation bill and I was sent to conference and the house at 540adjourned until Monday |