| Show I liouK Washington March IJAt the openIng open-Ing oC the Pension oC the House today Mr Inglej the floor I leader uf the ma Jrrity offered the bill retorted from the wy and means cultural face providing for the free entry Into this countrs of ns nnnnnnltton unit other nnl1loul lits ond I war material purchased abroad until January 1 U19 lie explained I that the committee had tlnnnlmuI I report Id the i 1111 It wa asked for by the secretaries of war and the navy Sortie of the Democrats undertook to Poke run at Mr Dlntclej b yl asking him Ahy tht supplies I should I be admlttea t free ot duty If the J < foreign > paid the tax I toxMr Mr ingles replied rather sharply that It Ivan Perfectly tlndratond that AN here articles were purchd abroai and Imported the purt ha ear paid the duty Mls Is 0 bill 10 Indemnlly the taxpayer tax-payer observed Mr Dockery Dm MoIr air McMlllen said he believed that the government hould Always have the right to Import and he thought there should be a general statute rot that purpose The bill wa lssM IthouL dhislon Mr Hnry Dm Mls I claimed the floor lIB n question of persona 1 PrI1i1l1Feurnn1 sent to the clerks desk fr tlte purpose or having It read to the House a quotation from nn Interview fill the Spanish ambassador Dt Vienna Vien-na contained In an Associated Press dispatch In which the ambassador sail that If the United States 1n the even of war should Incite the Philippines to revolt Spain could revenge herself hI ralaring I revolts In the American South Pro States Before the reading of the Interview was conchiled Mr Dlngley made the point that It did not constitute persona privilege It contains a reflection against n portion of the people of the Untied States which I desire to repel said Mr Henrv but the Speaker held that he had not presented u question or privilege and ha was taken oft the floor The louse then went Into committee commit-tee of the mhole and resumed conI oration of the postofllco appropriate > bill It wn agreed thaI there should bean be-an hour debate on the paragraph ap proprlallng 130000000 loc inland runs portatlon of al falls ho debt WAR rather lively Mr Blood Dm Ido championed are duetto of the rte pal the railroads for tranmllUng the violin The rates on all other classes of freight had bee greatly reduced since IS7S Yet there had hen no reduction In moll Ito thought there about lie n reduction oC at least 20 per cent Mr Castle < r > em Cal offered un amendment to reduce the approprla lion to J3S120M Mr orosvinor defended the appropriation appro-priation which though vast Well wU expended In the suiendia expedition with which our malls ore everywhere hurried to their destination The chairman of the postoftlce real mllte pointed out the fact that aU much amendments as that of which M land bad given notice had been rule out on points of order In past Con gr |
