Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1881-02-16
FORTY-SIXTH CONGRESS.
WEDNESDAY, February 16.

communication from the Commissioners OF the
District, In response to the Senate resolution
calling for Information in regard to damage
done TO the Long Bridge by the recent flood,
and the remedy for like inundations hereafter
Read and referred TO the com mittee on District
OF Columbia 1T is printed in full iu another
Mr.. Pendleton, from the select committee on
the CIVIL service reported bill TO regulate and
improve the civil service Of the United States.
Placed on calendar.
THB MONROE DOCTRINE.
Mr.. Eaton, from the comrnittee on foreign re-
latlons, reported the following:-ResOiUed by
the .&1idte and House Of Representatives, That
the interests OF the people Of the United States
Of America and the welfare and security OF
their government are 30 involved in the subject
OF the construction OF snip canals aad oJner
ways for the transportation or sea-going yes
SelS across the lSthmuS, connecting North and
South America, that the government or the
Inited States with the frankness which is due
TO all other people and governments, hereby
asserts that IL Will insist that It's consent Is a
necessary condition precedent to the execution
OF any such project; and also as to the rules
and regulations under which other nations
shall participate In the use of such canals or
other ways, either In peace or In war. Tabled
temporarily and ordered printed, at the sugges-
tlOn of Mir. Eaton.
Nj. Window said he would ask to submit
some remarks On the subject at some con-
Venient time in the present session.
substitute Offered By Nj. Davis wv. Va)
mittee TO sit during the recess and report at tue
next session upon defects In The pension laws,
ana what measures are necessary to prevent
frauds and facilitate The adjudication OF pan-
sion claims was discussed.
MI Blair urged the necessity for immediate
legislation On the subject, and opposed the
passage or the resolution as equivalent to a
decision that no action would be had at tuis
session.
MIR. Logan did not think the 1nadeq uacv of
existing pension laws mad been SHOWN. Their
Inf Ia
delays.
The expiration OF the morning hour pre-
vented action on the subject.
Mr.. Allison reported from the appropriation
committee with amendments, the fortiti cations
appropriation bill. Calendar.
MI. HarrlSS Dill authorizing the appoint
ment OF 800 additional District policemen Was
passed as amended, extending the period OF
service from Is TO 20 days.
Mr. Telierss resolution for night sessions
beginning Thursday. TO consider cases On the
calendar, unless otherwise ordered, and limit
ing debate thereon. was passed.
MT. Mcpherson reported from the naval COM
mittee fayOraoly the bill to regulate the pro-
motion OF midshipmen and cadets engineers,
and establish the grace OF sub-asSistant eng-
neer in the navy.
Also, from same committee, favoraoly the
joint resolution authorizing Com mOdOre Snu-
feldt to accept sword, etc.
Mr. Eaton, by direction OF the committee on
foreign relations. reported an amendment 10 be
proposed to the Sundry civil bill approprjating
the government OF Mexico, consisting of not
more than Two ambassadors. to act In con-
junction with the minister plenipotentiary of
the United States. Referred TO appropriation
committee
After briefly considering the calendar, the
Senate al i:30 O'Clock took up the funding bul
and MIR. Morrill, advocated the measure as re-
IOIted.
HOuSE.-The House met at 10 o'clock, In con-
tinuance OF Tuesdays session.
On motion OF Mr.. Carlisle, Senate bill was
passed for the remlttng OF duties on an object Of
art awarded by the Berlin intel national fishery
commission to Prof. S. F. Baird.
The post Office appropriation bill, with Sen
ate amendments, was referred to the committee
On appropriations, and then. at 1915. tne.uouse
went into committee of the whole (Nr. Carlisle
In the cha1r) Oh the river and harbor appropri-
alton bill.
The pending amendment increasing the an
prof riation for the improvement or the h !rbor
at Calumet, H., was rejected, Mr. Van Voorn
WlthdraWiIg, at Mr.. Reagan's request, the
point OF order that no quorum had voted
MI. Cpdegraf Qa) offered an amendment strik
Ing out the clause appropriating s25 900 for tue
Improvement OF the MonOngaheia river in Penn
sylyania and West Virginia. This was a bad
case, he said, OF "splatter dock' navig alton
Ii was Lot suggested that the stream was nav
igable or ever could be made Eavigable Tor any
thing under heaven except RATS and fat boats
even after money to the amount OF sl64 900 had
been expended upon it. II the United States
was to go into the business of making every
stream nav1gable for RATS, there was not
money enough represented by the national
debt, multiplied by 25, to accomplish that pur-
pose.
Mr.. Kenna asserted that the Monongahela
was navlgable in Pennsylvania and Ia some
parts OF West Virginia.
Messrs Townshend, McMilIfn ana Valentine
opposed the theory OF appropriatihg money for
the Improvement OF any river upon the com.
merce OF which any private corporation was
Permitted TO place an embargo
The anne ndment was rejected-37 to 1O5
-, MT: Fort offered amendment providing that
to be charged by the Monongahela Navigation
company over the Mongonahela river.
Mr.. Lounsbery opposed the amendment. The
clause in the Dill was bad enough since II nro.
vided that the United States should Improve a
river for the benefit OF private corporation:
out II should not be attacked by such vicious
and dangerous proposition as was contained Ia
the amendment.
The amendment was rejected.
Mr.. COX offered amendment providing that
no part OF the money appropriated for the i'm
expended until the Secretary of War shall be
satisfied that no part of the river, SO improved,
Is subject TO the eXaction OF tolls by any prI-
vate corporation for its use. He called atJen.
uon 10 tne TACT that every amendment offered
was voted down. He had endeavored TO do his
duty here On this bill Other measures might
be lost because he had been too tmpulsive or
forward In opposing it. His friend from West
Virginia (Mr. Kenna) did not understand why
he opposed every appropriation, whether 1t was
1Or his own state or not He could not vote for
them, even for his own City or state bee lISe he
knew that they tended to the corruption OF the
government His friend from WestVlrginiac came
here because he had been faithful to his con-
sllUuents. How faithful? He (Cox) would show.
He sent to the clerks desk and had read an
ed tor1al article In the Chicago Tribune OF June
30. 1880, in which Mr. Kenna Is described as
lie preventative who is returned TO Congress In
consequence OF his gift as a grabber on the
river and harbor appropriation bill
Mr.. COX here Interrupted the reading with
the remark that he did not know that the
WORD "grabber" was used, and that he With
drew that word.
The article went on to quote from the Ka-
Da"ha wv. va Gd&ettee, To the effect that the
81 congressional district OF that state received
from the public treasury more than the amount
OF taxes which had gone into the Treasury
from the whole state In five years; and that,
tnrough the exeriens Of Mr. Kenna a
goloen stream had poured into the Sd district.
[eifeshing the hearts OF the wOrkingnen. their
wives and children. 0A' '-o--
MT. kenna inquired If the gentleman did not
Wlsn tnat somebody would write that wav
apout MIN. In so far as the article read i'm
piled mat he had done faithful duty to his CON
stiluents and to every interest of the coIJntrv
IL was no more than just. ''
MI COX SAID that ne never Yielded IN tho
shrieks OF locality. Let the House can a hall
ana proceed 10 the apporttOnment bill
Ihe amendment was rejected-56 to9S
MI. van worms moved to strike out the item
OF =, o10 lor the Shenandoah liver.
Ml. Cpoegran read from the engineers re-
poIt on the shenandoah. describing It as a
MI