Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-04-01
THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.
CAPTAIN EADS' JETTY SYSTEM
ARRAIGNED.
It's EkespOnsibility for the Overflow
The Peruvian Company,s Empty
Claim-senatOr HIPS Condition
Congress Yesterday.

WASHINGTON, March 3l-In the Senate
communication was received from the At
torneY General in response to the resolution
of the 2S-h inst, transmitting the CORES
POndence with Dallas Sanders. Temporarily
tabled and ordered printed. On motion of
Mr. Butler a resolution was passed, reim-
bursing Mr.. Ingalls,, OF Kansas, for his ex-
penses in defending his title to his seat, to
the smount Of SS,195.
On motion OF Mr.. Jonas, the Senate bill
for public building 10 Shreveport, La and
apprOprIatiDg 100000 therefor, was passed.
On motion of Mr.. Garland the House
Joint resolution, authorizing the issue of
ratiOns in the district Of the Mississippi
overflow, was passed.
Mr.. Brown asked and obtained indefinite
leave Of absence for his colleague, Mr.. Hill.
He said the accounts he had received OF that
Senator's condition were favorable, but that
HIS physicians could not say st what time
be would be able to return to the Senate.
The Senate resumed consideration of the
Indian appropriation bill.
Mr.. HOsr withdrew his two million dollar
educational amendment, and offered a sub
stitute calling for half a million dollars for
the same purposes, and the debate on this
proposition proceeded.
long debate elsued, fOme members IN
c,ining favOrably to Mr.. Hoar's proposition
as an experiment IN the right direction, but
Obieellng to the amount called for Final
ly Mr.. Hoar accepted a modification sug-
gested by Mr.. Window, fixing the appro-
priatfOn for this purpose at $3.50 900.
The amendment as modified was adopted
by vote of % 10 1S
The amendment as adopted is as follows:
''Tbe Secretary Of the Interior Is further au-
thOrized and directed TO provide for the
care, support and education of all Indian
children dwelling west of the Mississippi
and not belonging to the five civiliz ID tribes
in the Indian Territory-Or so many thereof
IS may he practicsble-under such regula-
tfons as may be approved by the President
n any OF the States or Territories, at a cost
Lot exceeding 500 per annum for each child;
and for this purpose there is appropriated
$3.50, 600. or so much thereof as may be ne
cessaTY"
The bill was then reported from the com
mitlee aud passed. After an executive Sc
sion the Senate adjourned.
HOUSE PROCEEDINGS.
The House at 1875 went into committee
of the whole on the army appropriation
bill.
The committee rose temporarily, and on
motion OF Mr.. Hiscock, of New York, the
1lint resolution was passed, appropriating
100000 to enable the Secretary OF War to
issue TaiOns to persons rendered destitute
by the overflow OF the Mississippi river.
The committee then resumed its session,
and Mr.. ButterWOrth concluded his exOla-
nation o. the bill, which sppropriates S27,-
4O6 69S, being Sis, ,29S in excess OF the sp-
preparation for the current year.
Mr.. HOuck, OF Tennessee, argued in Oppo-
sItion to thai feature Of the bill transferring
to the Court OF Claims claims now pending
in the QusrteTm4ster Generals department,
cOntending { at such transfer would work
great Injustice to claimants, particularly
to those the adjudication OF whose cases
had been about completed. The aggregate
amount OF claims remaining was about
50, 000 600, sBd he did not think that Con-
gTess should change the whole policy of the
government and erect a new tribunal for
the adjudication Of this class of claims,
after having held out for twenty years
that the Quartermaster Generals De-
partment was the tribunal to which
claimants should make their applications.
If it were proposed to protect the Treasury
against disloYsl claimants, this manner of
QuarteTmsster General investigation should
be kept up. It was utterly impossible FOR
disioYal Or;dishOnes .claim to creep In under
the present system Of adju1ieation. These
claimants had gone through every conceiva-
been heeced once or twice by claim agents,
and he protested against giving claim
agents another opportunity to fleece them
again.
The debate on this proposition occupied
the time until the committee rose, when the
House adjourned.
The CAUSE OF THE OVERFLOW.
Captain Thomas P. Leathers was before
the House Commerce Committee to day, ad
vOesting the outlet system for the Missis-
Eippi river. He said he was in favor OF the
levee system but wanted additional outlets
also, otherTis thee levees would be useless
Captain Leathers maintained that a great
mistake had been made in constructing the
jstties at the mouth Of the river. at is," he
said, impossible to discharge the vast
volume OF water furnished by the Missis-
sippi river through the little tunnel con-
strueied at IFS mouth bv Captain Eads"
Continuing, he said "If you make an out
let at Lake Borgne. I'll stake my life and
all have that you'll never again be asked
Tor Tatt0ns. 1t cuts me to the soul that
our people have to come here and beg you
for Gods sake to give them rations. As
you have paid money to stop up
the Outh of the river you might paw a
little 10 furnish another outlet Nv practf-
cal experience has all been in favor of the
outlet system, and have no axe to grind"
He b' lieved in giving money to the Missis-
sippi River Commission, but would limit
them TO taking out snags and
wrecks, and not allow them to pro-
ceed on the theory that half the river
had greater capacity than the whole. He
would not give his practical experience for
all the sciences in the world. GAN you
want to do" he said, ''is to assist nature in
its course, leaving the river to it's Latural
bed. There is no mouth now for the water
to now through, consequently, it is running
blind and raging around everywhere. am
a levee man, but, If you continue to stop up
the mouth Of the river, as you have
done, the levees are no good. You
must get rid Of the water and then build
levees. We must hedge against such work
as was done by Captain Eads in blocking up
the Southern Pass The Captain argued
that IL the outlet is made the river will not
shoal TO any crest extent-surely not
enough to effect navigation. He thought
that the present overflow was occasioned by
water from the Ohio river, and said "When
the ice now In the Missouri river breaks up,
the existing overflow will be nothing com
pared with what you will see then"
THE PERUVIAN COMPANY's EMPTY TITLE.
Chairman Williams, of the House For
eign Affairs Committee, has received a
letter from Mr.. Hurlbut, Minister Of Peru.
I'm regard to the "COehet" claim, which
is the foundation OF Shepherds Pc
ruyian Company. Hurlbut says Coch-
ct wss = FreDchman, and never
renounced HIS French eitiz snship, and at
the best the Peruvian Company have title
70 nothing but a lawsuit between the
French claimants, and can have no possible
standing as Americans, and finally that the
whole question is res GdjHdiedtd, having
been settled in 1861 by a mixed French and
Peruvian Commission.
ARGUMENT BEGUN IN THE STAR ROUTE
TRIALS
Argument in the star route trials, on the
motion 70 quash the indictments against
Brady, Dorsey and others, began to day be-
fore Judge Wylie, counsel for the defend
ants occupying all the day that was not
spent in legal spsrrings.
Weather Indications.