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Show HOUSE GIVES HARD RAP TO THE UPPER BRANCH WASHINGTON. Feb. 17. The naval appropriation ap-propriation bill further occupied the attention at-tention of the House for a major portion por-tion of the session, but the bill was without with-out particular Incident and no material amendment was adopted. Its consideration considera-tion had not been concluded when ar-lournment ar-lournment was taken. The bill to ratify and nmend an agreement agree-ment with the Indians of the Shoshone or Wind River reservation in Wyoming was pased, after eliminating the provision provi-sion granting a preferential privilege to Asmua Pay son to select 640 acres of mineral min-eral and coal land within that reservation. Rising to a question of privilege, Mr. Payne. New York, offered a resolution re- gardlng the action of the Senate In adopting adopt-ing an amendment interpreting the Ding-ley Ding-ley act with reference to drawback on wheat. The resolution was as follows: Resolved. Thaftiie amendment No. 20S. added add-ed by the Senate to the Hoiue bill 1S.329. in the opmion of the House, contravene, the first clause of the seventh section of the first article of the Constitution of the t'nlted States, and Is an infringement of the privileges of the House, and that the said bill, with the amendment, be respectfully returned to the Senate with a message communicating thia resolution. The reading of the resolution was greeted with applause. In explaining the Senate's action, Mr. Payne said the amendment abolished the drawback clause in the Dingley bill on wheat Imported into the United States and afterwards manufactured Into flour and exported. He paid he did not Intend to discuss dis-cuss the merits of the amendment, amend-ment, whether . it was wise or 'unwise. He was loudly applauded by both Republicans and Democrats when he asserted that the main question was "whether that clause in the constitution which declares that all bills for raising revenue shall originate in the House shall be cherished by this House as one of its privileges." The question, he said, also was "whether we will resent any Infringement In-fringement from any source of that clause of the constitution." Mr. Payne called attention to the fact that the Hous; uniformly had insisted on Its rights as guaranteed by the constitution constitu-tion and read a number of precedents in proof of his assertion. He said the right to originate revenue legislation was a sacred one of the House. Mr. Williams (Miss.), the minority leader, alluded to the action of the senate sen-ate "in engaging in a strenuous effort to prevent a real or supposed attack by the executive, a usurpation In the opinion opin-ion of the Senate, upon its own function and dignity" and said it was a peculiarly peculiar-ly Inappropriate time for the Senate tj attempt "to make plain, plausable, obvious ob-vious and aegrassive attack upon the dignity dig-nity of the House." Except in connection with legislation affecting the revenue, Mr. Williams said, the House stood today as a body composed of a great many Houue committees and that all it did was to prepare legislation in some shape or other and send It over to the Senate, as was done with the rate bill, "to be put Into the shape that even a majority of the House desired." Mr. Williams charged the Republicans with bflng afraid to touch the Ulnglcy law. The resolution was adopted on a yea and nay vote, 'Ml to 6. |