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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Mar 04, 1905
Page
66
The Fifty-eighth Congress wanes with few major measures left. Conferees reached agreement on the river and harbor bill after late wrangles, while the general deficiency and related appropriations were nearly settled. The Capitol crowd grew as inaugurations drew thousands, with spectacle and debate as lawmakers rushed to finish business before adjournment.
Merchants visiting Washington are invited to a Banquet of the Travelers and Merchants Association of Baltimore on Thursday night March 9. Invitations are available at Baltimore wholesale houses. Special excursion rates are $1.60 round trip and tickets may be extended to March 18 by contacting 1202 Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington.
The Senate adjourned late after passing most appropriation bills while debating the Panama Zone law and a naval officer appointment. The House, crowded and orderly, approved final conference reports on river and harbor and general deficiency bills, with a late night vote and a 11:54 PM recess.
The sundry civil appropriation bill, one of the largest supply measures, cleared Congress with final votes in both chambers and heads to President Roosevelt for signature. Highlights include district site funds, harbor and lighthouse projects, Alaska education, and military post improvments, with changes in district attorneys, park commissions, and hospital administration.
Yesterday the Senate approved the House anti smoke bill after midnight, with Senator Gallinger noting a House misapprehension over a conference. The measure, backed by Commissioners as an experimental year, moves to concur in Senate amendments before reaching the President. Tariff inquiry and a monument bill for Fort Stevens at United States Battle Ground Cemetery in Washington also advance.
The House approved numerous bills including authorizing allocation of Indian funds by the President and transfer of Arsenal property from Kennedye Augusta to Maine. Additional measures cover road and school maintenance, care of the insane in Alaska, railroad bridge construction in Alabama and Mississippi, and setting district duties. Hawaii representative Kalaniwale opposed a leprosarium plan for a national facility. The session recessed at 6 03 p m with a bill raising criers and bailiffs pay to three dollars a day.
The Senate voted 69 to 0 to keep the Spooner law for the Isthmian canal and refused to abolish the canal commission, arguing the President should not bear sole responsibility for canal construction. Debate highlighted limits on presidential authority and tension with the House over who governs the canal zone.
H H Darneille submitted the district excise board annual report to Speaker Cannon for the year ended October 31 194. The district granted 513 barroom licenses and 136 wholesale licenses with 22 barroom and 3 wholesale applications rejected. There were 649 licensed liquor establishments, 138 in First precinct and 184 in Sixth. only four barrooms in Tenth precinct. Since 1904 515 barroom license applications were filed with 604 allowed 3 rejected and 8 pending. Wholesale licenses had 136 applications with 133 allowed. Since March 3 2003 thirty one persons were convicted of excise violations, four licensed dealers. Fines totaled 7800 dollars with 950 paid leaving 6850 uncollected due to workhouse sentences.
The House debated the river and harbor appropriation bill with fierce exchanges over Delaware River improvements and Savannah survey. Conferees later reached a compromise, boosting Delaware funding to 1.25 million while striking out preconditions, and Senate actions trimmed several harbor projects amid broader appropriations totaling about 37 million.
Conferees on the naval appropriation bill agreed early yesterday and the report was promptly approved in Senate and House. The House debated after Mr. Foss moved to concur in amendments raising Marine Corps by 1200, opposed by Mr. Rixey and Mr. Williams, with a 100 to 88 vote to concur. Senate and House also eased costs on vessels and shops, kept armor plate study, and completed post office and Indian appropriation bills with receded amendments. Additional measures authorized river bridges and county issues, and set out funds for Indian land sales and irrigation deeds in the Colville and Pima projects.
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