| Show REED WAS LATE I I FIRST TIME IN THE HISTORY OF THIS SESSION e Hot Debates Characterize the Pro ceedings in the Lower Rouse of Congress Appropriations and Expenditures I Ex-penditures the Theme WASHINGTON April 20For the first time this session Speaker Reed was lae in arriving at the capitol Clerk McDowell called the house to order and announced that a speaker I pro tern would be elected Hull of Iowa was unanimously elect ed He had been seated but a few minutes min-utes when Reed appeared and amid much laughter said The house will be in order Although this was suspension day under the rules Cannon chairman of the committee on appropriations insisted in-sisted on proceeding with the general deficiency bill The house went into committee of the whole for its consideration This is the last of the regular appropriation bills billsWhen When the items relating to indemnities indemni-ties to be paid Frederick O Dawson wife and daughter for the loss of property prop-erty and injuries inflicted in Nebraska I came up Mercer Rep of Nebraska called attention to the great vigor with which Great Britain pressed this case 40000 having been claimed from Nebraska Ne-braska He commended the vigilance of the British in the Blish government protection pro-tection of her subjects and said it wasIN I IN STRANGE CONTRAST with the action of our government He I thought the tpntimnnv showed that the J Dawsons were a much to blame as the I II McCartys in this particular case I was a brawl on the highway Rift chairman of the foreign affairs committee said the testimony showed that the women Had been outrageously mistreated As a result of the injuries the daughter was today suffering from chronic epilepsy Hopkins Rep of Illinois thought tought that inasmuch as the Dawsons were in Nebraska with a view of making it their permanent home although they had not been naturalized they should not be permitted to invoke the protection protec-tion of the British government after becoming involved in a brawl Cannon said that the claim was raised rais-ed by the state department I was a matter of international honor We had exacted heavy Indemnities from China Livingston Dem of Georgia called attention to the fact that we were now preparing to make A CLAIM AGAINST SPAIN for the imprisonment of Bishop Diaz in Cuba Hainer Rep of Nebraska who said he had thoroughly investigated the circumstances cir-cumstances thought the indemnity should be paid The item was passed without amendment Willis Rep of Delaware offered an amendment authorizing and directing directng the president to invite the commercial nations of the world to meet in international inter-national conference for the purpose of fixing an international ratio for the coinage of gold and silver Cannon interposed a point of order to cut off debate and he was sus tained He said that substantially such legislation already existed but it had not been executed THE DIFFERENCE I Willis called attention to the difference differ-ence between the existing and proposed I legislation A prolonged discussion of appropria tions and expenditures was precipitated precipi-tated by Mr Hopkins who asserted that it cost 734000 more to collect 169000000 from customs last year than it did to collect 192000000 from customs in the last year of the Harrison son administration A deficiency of 850000 for the collection of customs was reported in the pending bill Hopkins thought the change of the 1 = c < system from specific to advalorem duties du-ties made oy the repeal of the McKinley Mc-Kinley law and the enactment of the Wilson bill might be responsible for the great increase in cost of collecting the customs Would you prefer the McKinley law with its 10000000 sugar bounty asked Mr Sayers As against the present law yes one thousand to one replied Hopkins amid Republican applause Dockery Dem of Missouri asked the Republican side what effort they had made with 150 majority to repeal the socalled WilsonGorman bill against which they denounced He taunted them with having done nothing noth-ing He recalled the campaign book of lank pages circulated by the Republicans Re-publicans in 1894 entitled WHAT CONGRESS HAS DONE comparing that record with the do nothing record of this congress He suggested that the Democrats could effectively circulate a similar book in the coming campaign What has this congress done he I asked What has been done to bridge the chasm between inadequate revenues I reve-nues and increasing expenditures Where is the Dingley bill Pigeonholed Pigeon-holed by the votes of five Republicans How many Democrats voted to put It there asked Brumm Rep of Pennsylvania All O them of course replied Dockery Democrats are opposed to increasing taxation Proceeding Dockery ridiculed the majority for making no effort at currency cur-rency legislation which the business interests of the country demanded The policy of this congress he said was one of delay That policy had been declared de-clared by the speaker at the opening of the session when he announced himself him-self against crude and hasty legislation legisla-tion Dingley chairman of the ways and means committee was STUNG BY DOCKERY into a reply The charge that nothing had been done he said must be looked at in the light of the sun The house and senate and president together made legislation Unless they concurred no legislation was possible The house alone of those three factors in legislation legisla-tion was under Republican control In the house the Republicans were responsible re-sponsible They were not responsible for a Democratic and Populistic senate sen-ate and the influence of a Democratic executive We did everything we could do under un-der the circumstances said Dingley and here and at the other end of the capitol met the united opposition of the Democrats and Populists The only thing to do is to APPEAL TO THE PEOPLE and let them say whether we shall have a president and a senate who will block our way or who will < cooperate co-operate with us in giving > the treasury sufficient revenue and restore prosperity prosper-ity to the country Republican applause I ap-plause The gentleman says the Democrats and Populists killed the socalled Ding ley bill in the senate Was it not pigeonholed by Republican votes asked Sayers The Republicans were not in control con-trol replied Mr Dingley But were not some of them partly responsible c Yes partly admitted Mr Dingley Will the Republicans ask the states i represented by these senators to repudiate repu-diate them I Those states can take care of themselves them-selves replied Dingley Did not the Republicans and Populists Popu-lists make a dicker by which they ob tamed control of the senate put in Mc Millin The Democrats and Populists control the senate replied Dingley Is not Tom Carter chairman of the Republican McMillin national committee asked A QUERY Do you claim that Wolcott Dubois and Teller are Populists I you do you cut off a good deal of the respectability of your party Have not the > Democrats and Populists Popu-lists a majority in the senate asked Dingley who now became in turn inquisitor inquis-itor McMillm adroitly parried this query which Dingley thrust at him repeatedly by dwelling on the four recalcitrant Republican Re-publican senators and the swap of the biggest committee in the senate for the loaves and fishes that float about the senate sen-ate waters McMillin concluded by referring to the necessity for a bankruptcy bill a Pacific roads refunding bill a currency bill etc and charged the Republican side I WITH COWARDICE in not meeting these questions instead of preparing to adjourn and run away Hepburn Rep Ia Cooper Rep Wi3 Grout Rep Vt Terry Dem Ark and Cannon Rep Ill also participated par-ticipated in the debate Lewis Rep Ky offered an amendment amend-ment to pay Taylor county Kentucky 16000 and Meade county 1000 for the use of the county court house during the war as barracks Lewis declared that refusal to pay this money to those counties coun-ties would be an act of dishonesty and shameful repudiation The amendment was voted down Evans Rep Ky offered an amendment amend-ment to pay the state of Kentucky 22OuO for the cost of raising troops during the rebellion The amendment went over on a point of order The bill was passed amid some applause Pickler Rep S D moved to suspend the rules and pass a resolution setting aside tomorrow Wednesday and Thursday Thurs-day for the consideration of the general pension committee with a provision for a pension bill reported from the invalid vote on Friday The vote on the adoption of the resolution resolu-tion stood 62 to 5 Allen Rep Miss made the point of no quorum and at 605 the house adjourned |
