The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-02-22
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read, "For work at the naval station at New Lon
FIELD said that the Committee on Appropriations
had considered the question OF navy yards, and
that in regard to League Island not only was d sne
but It was required that $50 900 OF the sum should
be expended In the actual
REMOVAL OF THE PHILADELPHIA NAVY YARD
to League Island. 1t was not the purpose OF the
Committee on Appropriations to create new sta.
ton either at paiadepna or New aonasn Put
with the expectation that when the work was suf-
fciently advanced the Brooklyn Navy Yard would
yard and the Representatives. from New York and
Brooklyn were Of the opinion that the YARD should
be removed. ll.
that the Representatives from New York favored
tine removal Of the Brooklyn Navy Yard. He, him
SELF was decidedly opposed to It,
Mr.. GARFIELD's amendment was adopted.
Mr.. FARNswORTH, In the absence Of General
Banks, offered an amendment prohibiting, after
the 1st or July next. the printing Of books by the
government for gratuitous distributions; but with
the right to the Secretary OF the Interior to order
government to be furnished to the departments
and members OF Congress, and also to allow copies
to be sold to individuals
Mr.. BUTLER OF Massa chusetts, moved an amend
ment that no part OF the appropriations in the
bill shall be used to defray the expenses OF the
civil service competition.
In order to cut or debate on these amendments
aud to pass the bill the committee, on the motion
OF Mr.. Garfield. rose, and the speaker having re-
sumed the chair, Mr.. Garfield moved to suspend the
rules and let the bill and amendments come before
the House.
Pending the vote, Notwithstanding the order for
an evening session, Mr.. SARGENT, OF California,
moved that the House adjourn.
The SPEAKER declined to entertain the motion,
as the evening session had been ordered under q
suspension Of the rules. He suggested to Mr.. Sar-
gent that the evening session was for debate only.
Mr.. SARGENT remarked that he understood very
well what 1t was for 1t was to advertise the SutrO
Tunnel.
The House then, at six O'Clock, took recess
until half-past seven O'Clock.
Evening Session.
The House met at half-past seven o'clock Mr..
kcKee, OF Mississippi, In the chair as Speaker pro
There were not q dozen members present
The subject OF the discussion was the Sutro Tun-
mel. The discussion was opened by Mr.. MCCOR-
NICK, rep Oh Arizona with an argument In favor
MI; MER.iA., (rep) ofN.Y., followed with .
Sutre the most skiliul lobbyist Of modern times
whose sole aim was selfaggrandizement, and
whose brazen enrontery had no equal in this age
Mr.. GARFIELDE, rep.) OF W. T., argued In sup
port Of
THE suTRo TUNNEL,
and said that the opposition to IL came from the
Stock Board Of San Francisco. He had seen the
thing operating in San Francisco, not only as to
gold mines but as to silver mines, He could un-
derstand the opposition to Mr.. Sutr0 or to any
other man that was likely to succeed in opening q
tunnel to the COmstock lode.
Mr.. KENDALL, (dem.) OF New, followed with an
argument on the same side. He eulogised Ad0lph
Sutro, and declared that that man-adventurer
lobbyist and enthusiast as he might be-had done
more Tor the great laboring interests OF the West
than all the Representatives from that section in
both houses OF Congress put together. 1t was not
subsidy from the government that was asked In
the bill; 1t was a loan, with the ampest and best
security for It's payment principal and interest.
BANKS ON CUBA.
Mr.. BANKS. OF Massachusetts, wound up the ses-
sion by speech on Cuba. He knew how interesting
was the question OF penetrating the earths secrets
BEFORE but there were some questions the sur
face OF the earths crust connected with the opera
Such question was that Of the relations Of cuba
with the United States This country sympathZed
with Cuba and with spain in their efforts to estab-
lish republican forms OF government. The recent
movement in Spanish politics had been suggested
by the abdicatlOn of Amadeus. 1t was impossible
Withdrawn, possibly in good time. fhe abdcation
being unexpected, the Spanish people had to fall
back upon republican form. but 1t was MOTTO be
supposed from that that majority OF the people
were republicans or democrats. soon 1t would be
found that the mOnarchists OF Spain would develop
The event was scarcely beyond doubt that Prince
Alfonso would soon be called to rule over Spain
and that the republican leaders would be over
thrown now as they were OverthrOwn in 1868. The
purpose of the present government Of Spain had
been declared to be to ignore the past to under
on other nations their own ideas Of the tradi.
tional right OF Spain to rule on both con
Mnster CASTELAR, should saw to the
Spanish-Amercan States that they must not
show any sympathy for the revolution in Cuba
doned her traditional policy Of dominating in both
hemispheres. Why should the South American
%y se
express sympathy for themY 1t was because he
held tnat no infringement on the rights or power
OF Spain should be tolerated by Spaniard. But
what was
THE INTEREST OF THE UNITED STATES
in the question: The few SpanIards in Cuba were
ruling with more relentless, intOlerable and bar
barous system than ever the American colonies
had to complain OF. The Cubans for five years past
had fnnU nat hai an fhat
rulers. They had fought more than two hundred
battles with various results; they had lost nearly
yet the President Of the United States had sent q
message to Congress year ago speaking OF that
struggle a. being limited to an occasional shot
only, AZ II 1t was the shot Of an assassin.
The massacres OF prisoners-of-war and the bar
barism with which the struggle was carried on at.
tractsd attention all over the world. The United
States were constantly affected by that struggle.
American citizens were being constantly arrested
In Cuba and ill-treated American trade with
Cuba was affected in the same way. That trade
went to Europe instead OF to America, to which 1t
naturally belonged. American merchants and
own government Of the exactions and wrongs in
icted on them In Cuba, but the Secretary OF state
had to confess that his government could do
nothing for them. II there was any thing which
the American states were entitled to 1t was i'm
munlty from the dangerous position and pos
sessions Of European governments In the waters
between the two American Continents, especially
when such possessions were controlled by gov:
eminent like Spain, which ignored the past and
1t would be wise to make any
VIOLENT DEMANDS UPON THE SPANISH GOVERN
MENT
but he believed that when an evil exists the state
ment OF that evil should be presented to those
from whom we suffered, and the remedy for the
evil, II possible should be demanded. But the
obstacle in the way was the position OF the United
States government IL was the American govern
ment which INSTRUCTED the way OF progress and
reform In the waters and islands of Cuba. We're 1t
not for the assertion that the United States had the
right to control all questions for this Con-
ENGLAND would this have protested
against the policy OF Spain and prevented the re-
currence OF these barbarOus executions that have