The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-03-02
FORTY-ElGHTH CONGRESS
HOUSE.

Washington, 1.-Oates ,r,u =,
committee On public lands rsnl NE
resolution calling on the Secrse,ha'eeo
OF the Interior for information
ative to the unauthorized feno isi'
In of public lands by midwifery
corporations in the several state, s1 %
territories. Adopted. aug
The following bills were ran,,.
BY Wilkins, from the com mitto.
on banking and currency, to provree
FOR the Issue of circulating notes t
national Banking assoc ati0ns CO..
mlttee of the whole. Hi'
Buckner submitted a minority y.
port. 'S Re,
Regan, from The committee .,
commerce, to establish a beard .,
Interstate commerce and regnIato
such commerce. Committee 0f fbe
whole. - Tue
james, from the COMMITTEES ~
railways and canals, to aid the co, "
struction Of canal between T.La
Union and Puget Sound. COMMIT
tee OF the whole. '''
Madison, committee of invalid
pensions; to increase the pensions
OF The widows or children. and ~
pendent relatives of deceased soS
oiers and sailors. Committee ~ tba
whole. VIC
The House at 10 went into ron,
mittee If the whole on the nsraI
appropriation bill. al
Thomas stated there were Hftr
nine officers for every ship in t5a
service, or one officer to every Ave
seamen He called attention to the
thoroughly helpless condition of the
navy, declaring there wss scarcelys
nation in The world which could not
send one or more war vessels here
and lay the great cities OF the Atlsn.
tic or Pacific coast under contribu-
ton. He ran through the list Of
vessels in commission, referring to
them as monuments of shame and
disgrace. The pending bill had no
provisions for armament, and when
ships are completed there are No
guns to put in them.
Finerty said the appropriations
committee seemed determiD ed to be
economical in the weakest point of
the national structure. The world
was aware of the condition o. our
defensive marine, which "a the
present time was menace to
the we'll being Of this country, If in
the event OF war it should be unpre.
pared to meet any enemy of Tespec>
table strength. He was Sensi''l5 to
the fact that a war navy could not
be built in short time, but there
was nothing to hinder the construc>
ton of ships which would enable
the United States ID case o. sudden
hostility to prey upon the com merce
OF her antagonist L made but little
difference who was responsible for
the present depleted condition Of the
navy. The fact remained that viz
tually the United States hal no
navy. He wanted to see the work
begun by the Forty-seventh Con.
gress followed up by the Forty
eighth Congress. Congress % ght
talk about the Monroe doctrine, but
it would hear the click of the Eu-
ropean spade at Panama, as it dug
the canal to bring the Atlantic and
Pacific together. What Europe dug
with the spade she would maintain
With the sword.
Bedford twitted the Democratic
side with making pretense Of ecoL.
Omy, when the surplus in the trea.
sury was swelling and bursting lie
the English plum pudding, guarded
by the combined genius Of Pennsy
vania and New York, which, in th
persons of Randall and HutchinS
were running this bin on the CHEESE.
pairing principle. These gentleman
had joined shields together to plsy
before the country the role of Demo
cratic economists. He blessed the
memory of Andrea Jaeksoo. who
had said sin time Of peace prepare
for war" (Laughter)
Hiscock said the inference to be
drawn from the bill was that the
Democratic maj ority intended to
stop the good work Of building I'D
new navy which Republicans had
inaugu ated. The committee rots
and the House adjourned.