The daily gazette., 1882-07-22
JoBBERY SHOWN UP.
THE RIVER AND HAR5oR BILL
in THE SENATE.
INGALLS, sTIRs THE MENAGER1E
Logan and Allison Angry Because the
Hennepin Scheme is Dropped-Ingalls
ON the Commerce Committee.
Twashington Dispatch to \. y. sun.


t washington Dispatch to n. Y. Sun.
WAsHINeToN, July 21.-When the con-
ference report ON the River and HarbOr bill
was submitted to the Senate this morning,
up jumped Mr.. Logan looking very fierce,
and Mr.. Allison, whose uprising crest of
hair seemed particularly forbidding and
ominous. Mr.. Allison, though further
away from David Davis than Mr.. Logan
was, caught the Vice Presidents eye first,
and the Iowa SsEAter sEasted nowoPds IN
formalities. His announcement that he was
opposed to accepting the conference report
was no news 10 the Senate, for the usually
placid Senator has been in state
of mind ever since it was pri-
vately understood that the House
eonfreres have stood firm against the Henne-
pin Canal scheme. With the fear Of a veto
before their eyes, the House drew the line
ut the canals jobs, the extra Mississippi ap-
preparation and the Potomac flats half mil
lion. Mr.. Allison thought this was very
small business, and he asked, with no little
excitement of tone, II the Senate was going
to stand 1t, to have all the little streams
and creeks in the country taken bountiful
care of, while the House put its foot on such
vital commercial projects as the connection
of the great water ways, by which he was
understood to refer to the IIennepin Canal.
Mr.. Logan stood all the while his associate
from across the Mississippi was thus pro-
testing, and seized the thread where Allison
dropped it, He was proceeding in the same
strain and equally characteristic vigor when
he was brought up standing by Cameron of
Wisconsin, who asked Logan if he did not
vote against the bill, and If he did, why he
was making such fuss about the Hennepin
Canal project for.
Mr.. Logan's answer was short, sharp and
categorical, but not satisfactory. "0f
course voted against the BILL" said he.
"What of it P'
Thereupon Mr.. Cameron, with a smile
which seemed greatly to irritate the Stall
wart Senator, sat down, and Logan, whose
gift at Petort is not re-eminent asked the
Senator not to let his Scotch blood get ex-
cited Thereupon Mr.. Cameron, with the
same dry smile, informed Mr.. Logan that he
was out of order, to which Logan replied,
"What If be? A lot Of other gentlemen
| have been too"
Now, these and few other little pre-
| liminary incidents serve to show that the
Senate was not in the sweetest of tempers
| about this matter On two or three other
| bills the House has chosen to express opinion
adverse to some of the Senate's special pro
visions, like that increasing the pay of the
| Senate employees and charging extra
| iflliehE,t lDF LHG sthSlOil Ol OEJODtT. ne
assumption of the House In putting It's foot
on these special Senate bantlings in the
| River and Harbor bill caused wrath, not
only because the Senatorial dignity was
treated Fudely, but also because the passage
| of the bill was thereby uf layed. But these
| little incidents were as zephyr to tornado
| in view OF what followeds The tall and
angular form of Mr.. Ingalls, was seen, and
his clear incisive tones were heard saying
that there were singular, extraordinary,
and even sinister circumstances connected
with this report.
As Mr.. Ingalls, has a sharp tongue, and
hesitates not to use il, this opening sentence
at once brought to him the tribute of undi-
vided attention 1t was evident that the re-
port was to be subjected to his peculiar
| treatment, and perhaps Senators in connec-
| tiOn Herewith. He did not leave them long
to surmise. He charged directly that there
had been log-rolling OF shameless and
outrageous kind, so that 1t appeared that
the provisions and amendments which eff
| fected the States of members Of the Con-
ference and Commerce Committees were
| abundantly taken care of, while other
amendments not thus protected by personal
interest were given away. Thereupon up
| Jumped the now excited Mcmillan, Chair
man Of the Conference Committe, and init
mated that Mr., ingalls, was not proceeding
in the line of strict truth.
Mr.. Ingalls, is not a senator who goes into
debate with his harness disjointed. He
| took up the record and said he would read
| from 1t to prove that he had been wholly
within the truth. 81 believe the Senator
from North Carolina, Mr. Ransom, is a
member of the Conference and the Com
merce Committees said he.
The Senator from North Carolina gave an
| null at biS alWnys shirt
cuffs, turned rcd, and NODDED.
He knew what was coming, and he grew
/ SO uncomfortable as Mr.. Ingalls, went on
| that he could not conceal his Irritation. For
| Mr.. Ingalls,, beginning with list of amend
ments applying to the alleged commercial
streams of North Carolina, read on so long
that he paused to take his breath, and then
asked, twill not this list cease until the
crack of doom and every one of these have
been aeceded to by the Conference Commits
tee.7 Then he went on TO Michigan, and
did the same thing, touching up the peppery
and airy Ferry.
Next he turned to California, and then to
| Texas. OF course the Senators thus hit
seemed anxious and looked around at the
other Senators, who could not help smiling
at the vigor OF the eastigation. Bayard re-
laxed his usually stern features, and other
Senators looked amused, while Mcmillan
| and Ferry and Coke nestled in their places
uneasily, and Ransom became red as the
stockings that his low-cut shoes revealed.
Ingalls, meantime let his sharp sentences
cut right home, and he denounced the
whole log-rolling system, pronounced the
bill an irregular and indefensible one, and
said that the Senators might shut their eyes
to the fact, but the truth was the verdict of
the people had been made up, and it was
against the bill as an inexcusable, improper
clutching at the big surplus in the Treasury.