Show congressional HOUSE washington march 1 the house military committee has agreed to accept the senate army bill without amendment v the river and harbor committee has disagreed to all senate amendments to the river and harbor bill including nicaragua canal amendment the committee also decided to report the bill to the house today and under suspension of the rules move non concur rence with the senate and reference to a conference chairman burboa says the motion to concur in the nicaragua canal amendment is not under suspension of the rules and he expresses the belief that all elements will allow the bill to go to conference sir burton chairman of the river and harbor committee has moved in the senate amendments to the senate river and harbor bill under suspension of the rules there was considerable excitement in the bouso today growing out of the near approach of adjournment and the critical state of various measures the conference report on the omnibus bill was agreed to after a lively debate in which the french spoliation chalm i were sharply attacked the conference reports on the census bill and the indianapolis public building bill were also adopted the river and harbor bill was sent to conference and then passage of the general deficiency appropriation bill moved under suspension of the rules great interest was manifested in the meeting of the house military committee as it was felt that a complete acceptance of the senate bill largely it not entirely removed the chance of an extra session the session of the committee was very spirited and at one point representative marsh of illinois withdrew on the ground that the couric of the committee adopting au amendment would open up the whole controversy and precipitate an extra session after his withdrawal the amendment was reconsidered and withdrawn and mr marsh returned to the commit tee the final vote on agreeing to the senate bill was 10 to 3 three democrats sulzer cos and jett voted with the seven republicans in the affirmative two democrats leatz and hay and one republican brownlow Drown low voted in the negative SENATE washington march 1 one of the first acts of the senate when that body convened at 11 today was the consideration of the bill carrying 20 with which to paw spain tor relinquishment of the philippines la accordance with the treaty of paris mr allason All lson of iowa reported lh measure 0 the committee on appropriations and asked tor its immediate consideration the bill was laid before the senate and in bait a minute was passed without a word of debate washington march 1 senator frye of the committee on commerce has reported additional amendments to the hanna payne shipping bill the amendments place additional restraints on the bill and are intended to meet the criticisms that have been made upon the measure the as bertlon has been made that it the bill should become a law it in time would require an annual expenditure of to meet this criticism a provision was inserted limiting the aggregate bounties to annually the language to this new provision being as follows the total compensation to be paid out of the treasury as provided in this section shall in no ascal year exceed the sum of and the secretary of the treasury shall make such regulations for the payment of said compensation as will cause any excess in the total amount of compensation earned under this section for and above any one year over to be deducted pro rata from the total compensation due each individual entitled to such or corporation compensation here during said fiscal year reported extended the bill as originally its proposed benefits to foreign built vessels under contract tor american citizens on jan 1 last advantage it is asserted has already been taken of this provision and a number of contracts are said to have sprung into existence for the construction of ships abroad As now reported that language Is changed so as to require that ships coming under this provision shall have been in actual course of construction on jan 1 the bounty to be paid to foreign built vessels is also reduced to 50 per cent under the addition to the new bill |