| Show = PAY FOR AL L SERViCE Senate Considers Postoffice Appropriation Bill NOT FINALLY ACTED UPON I I Committee Amendment for the Pnexi matic Tube Service Created Some I Debate and Was Under Discussion I When the Measure Was Laid Aside II I I for tho Day Senator Wolcott Chairman of the Committee Attacked At-tacked the Proposition to Appropriate Appro-priate 8750000 for the Purpose Washington May 17Tho postomce appropriation bill was considered in the I Senate today The committee amendment amend-ment for the extension of the pneumatic I tube service created some debate and was under discussion when the measure was laid aside for the dnj I TTr Wolcott chairman oC tin Committee Commit-tee on Postofllres anil Post Roads vjg orouslv attacked the committees prop 1 jsliion to appropriate 5750000 for pneumatic I pneu-matic tube service declaring the cxtcn i elon of the service waD unnecessary ind the appropriation a waste of money I Mr Mason quite us I vigorously supported I sup-ported the proposition An amendment of Mr Butler to reduce by 10 per cent I the amount to bo paid the railroads I for Uio transportation of malls was rc Jcctod 11 to Jl I CONFEREES APPOINTED The Senate agreed to a further conference con-ference on the District of Columbia appropriation bill A conference was agreed to on the naval appropriation hilt and Mr Hale Mr Perkins and Mr TlUman were named as conferees A bill was passed granting a pension I to Gen Robert G Dyrenforth of 30 a month JONES WANTS INFORM OX Mr Tones Ark offered and had adopted a resolution railing on the Secretary of War to inform the Senato how many Filipinos have been killed and wounded slnn the beginning of hostilities and also how many have hpon captured and arc now in our pos sosjion TO REFUND MONEY TO UTAHNS A bill was passed to provide for the refunding of certain moneys Illegally assessed and collected In the district of Utah UtahWILL WILL REPLY TO BACON Mr Platt Conn chairman of tho Committee on Relations with Cuba paid he would seek an early opportunity opportuni-ty I to reply to the speech of Mr Bacon fJa delivered yesterday not In opposition oppo-sition to the resolution hut to correct some statements made by l Mr Bacon I POSTOFFICE BILL CONSIDERED Mr Wolcoti called up the postofTicc appropriation bill and Its reading for amendment was begun A committee amendment was agreed to providing that In case the PostmasterGeneral shall rent canceling machines and motors o mo-tors hu shall pay therefor as an annual an-nual rental a sum not exceeding 15 percent per-cent of the cost thereof OPPOSFD TO FAST MAIL SUBSIDY When tho Committee amendment appropriating ap-propriating 750000 for mall transpor l4tatlon bv pneumatic tubes was reached Mr Wolcott asked that it bo passed I over as it was certain to create much discussion He said he differed from the committee on the proposition Mr 1 Wolcott also said he opposed the Southern fast mail subsidy and the subsidy for the carrying of mall be tweon Kansas City and Newton Kan No PostmasterGeneral he said hug recommended tlu subsidies A committee amendment struck out tt part of the paragraph relating to the railway mall service and provided for 1G12 clerks at 1200 each MOr clerks at 1000 each and 13S7 clerks at S 900 each COMMISSION OF INQUIRY The final section of the hill was a Senate committee amendment providing I provid-ing for the continuance of the commission com-mission to Investigate the question whether or not excessive prices arc paid to the railroads for the tranamlH slon of the malls I Mr Pettlgrew questioned the advisability I advisa-bility of continuing the commission as I tt had not yet mado a report upon any eubjecLWOLCOTT WOLCOTT EXPLAINS r I Mr Wolrott chairman of the commission I com-mission made an explanation of the I difficulties encountered by 1 the commission I com-mission In obtaining tho Information desired Ho said more than 2000 printed 1 print-ed pages of testimony had been taken by the commission In all parts of the Country and much of if was very valuable An effort had been made to jFet at a fair basis of compensation for f tho railroads 1i ONECENT LETrER POSTAGE It had been said by some that one I cent letter I postage could be reached but ho did not think JO nor cent of the mall matter of tho country could be I carried at a small per cent of the costs I and onecent letter postage adopted at I the same time Ho thought by the end I of the presout year the commission p would be prepared to report Of UK 515000 appropriated for the ommittte U 5000 was still on hand ron equent1 > thoro had bevn no waste t of the publiC 1 money In th i unilnlshed state of the fommissloncra work ho thought no I man could submit a fair report or a logical plan for the compensation of the railroads No man wanted lo pay I thorn more than they deserved and 1 none loss l than they oarned j OPPOSED BY PETTIGREW Mr Pcttlgrcw opposed tho continuance 1 continu-ance because he said it ztood Irt the 1 way of reducing the compensation of r the rail road n by at least 5iri00000 a 4 year Tho amendment was passed over 4 temporarily d Mr Butler offered an amendment reducing re-ducing the l amount appropriated by 1 the bill for railroad transportation of i i tho maim from 533870000 to 3S04S3000 and directing Holt PostmasterGeneral io reduce tin compensation to br paldi railroads from and after July 1 1000 for tile transportation of mails by at least 10 per cent per annum from the preacnt rate I IJ Tin amoiidmont of Mr Butler was rejected by 11 tofl The committee amendment extending the life of UK 44 postal commission was then agreed to i without division A long debate rc 7J Trnrdlner pneumatic tube a rvlcc fol v dewed when the Senate then after a V Ibricf executive session at IJO 1 p m I aOJourned SPECIAL SUPPLY BILL tn s sI 1J I CHouse Acts on Emergency River and i 1 i I Harbor Measure d IJ I Washington May 17Thc House today j f to-day passed a special river and harbor p1 bill carrying OOOOO for surveys and cnicrgcncy work and devoted the rc nIQ jnaludcr Of Urn day to the Alaskan dtlt code bill Four of the 017 pages of the = pin vere disposed of before adjournment adjourn-ment fjt1f SPECIAL SUPPLY BILL ly L lI Mr Burton of Ohio chairman of the osc rlr liver and harbor conunlsslon linked I lI unanimous cons nt for the conItlora t lion of a special rlv < tf and harhur bill gtrL4 mnklng provisions for Certain aurvcyu IS r anti for the diversion of certain aj rIl1Si proprlallonn hvretoforo timtl The mount oavrlud by th < bill 1100000 > ld o L I When will the river and harbor JJ JJJF Of I commission bring In a bill that fs a river and harbor bill asked Mr Clark I of Missouri I Early In the next session replied J Mr Burton i SATISFACTORY TO MINORITY I Mr Berry of Kentucky the ranking I minority member of the committee said the bill was satisfactory to the I I minority I I Mr Richardson asked If a provision I of the 1 bill contemplated the abandonment abandon-ment ot the proposed Improvement of I i YakIma bay Or i Mr Burton replied that It would he I Improper for him lo anticipate the action of the committee but the engl I 1 i neers had reported adversely on the I 1000000 project and personally he ra voied Its abandonment I CONSIDERED IN COMMITTEE Mr Southard of Ohio objected The bill was privileged and hereupon I Mr Burton moved that the House go Into I committee of the whole to consider It The motion prevailed without division After unsuccessful efforts to secure amendments providing for additional suiveyn the committee rose and the bill wan passed The President returned to the House a bill to pension John M Smith The I i bcnuflclary has died since the passage 1of 1 the bill ALASKAN CODE BILL I The louse then took up the Alaskan code bill an agreement having been I reached for a three hours general do hate with general 1 leave to print Mr Payne who yesterday objected to I granting general leave to print cx plalnrd that he wpuld not oolcct os I he understood that many of the members mem-bers on both sides had prepared compositions com-positions which they desired 10 embalm em-balm In the Record for political reasons rea-sons TALKED ON POLITICS The general debate wan devoted almost t al-most exclusively to political topics Many members simply addressed the House for a minute or two In order ton I to-n aIl themselves of the nrivllopn of printing mnarks in the Congressional I Record Mr W E Williams of Illinois spnko on the subject of the Philippines I After remarks by Messrs Shattuc of r I Ohio Barney of Wisconsin Rldgeley of Kansas Lloyd of Missouri Gaines I of Tennessee Kitchen of North Paijp Inn MrDowel of Ohio Knox of A1asa ihusetts McCkary of Minnesota Olin sled of Iowa and CaldwMl of Illinois general tl debate was closed and the bill was read for amendment under a livr = mlnute rule After disposing of four I of the pages of the bill the House at I 155 J p 1 m adjourned |
