The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1885-03-06
HOUSE.

FEB. 1S.-The House passed the Senate
bill for the erection at Chattanooga OF a
public building to cost 100000 While in
Committee of the Whole ON the RIVER and
Harbor bill, Mr.. Potter said Illinois alone
would be benefited by the Hennepin canal,
and she was able to construct it. 1t was
agreed to set aside $500, 600 for the improve
ment of Galveston harbor, and to authorize
the bridging of the Portland canal at Louis
vile.
FEB. Reconsideration of the River and
Haruor bill being resumed in the House, an
amendment was adopted increasing the APP
preparation for the improvement of the
Mississippi II yer, between the Illinois and
Ohio Rivers, from $500, 900 TO 100000. An
amendment was also agreed 10 providing
that no portion of the Mississippi appropri-
alton shall be expended in repairing or
building levees, unless for the purpose of
benefting navigation. The item making an
appropriation for the Calumet River i'm
prOvement was so amended as to permit the
work 10 be begun at once. This will make
available the $4,000 appropriated last year,
and will allow the use after June 80 of this
years appropriation. Speaker Carlisle
took the chair for the first time since his re-
cent sickness. He was welcomed back with
hearty applause. In Committee of the
Whole the Naval bill was read by para
graphs for amendment. Mr.. Curtin offered
an amendment which was adopted, apprO-
priating S25 900 for testing American armor
for vessels. He spoke strongly in favor of
strengthening the navy. Nr. Cannon moved
to strike out the paragraph .appropriating
$500, 900 for the completion of the wooden
ship New York. Mr.. Hewitt thought it
was pity to spend so much money on a
wooden ship when we had thirty for which
we had no use. Mr.. Thomas said it was alb
surd to go back twenty years for model on
of New York, said that wooden ships were
frequently potential in war. 1t was a wood
ell ship that sunk the TallapOOsa. The mo-
ton to strike out the paragraph was lost,
and further consideration of the bill was
deferred.
FEB. 2O-The House passed three bills
for public buildings. appropriating 100000
for Council Bluffs, $4,000 for Clarksburg,
and 81 0000O0 for Louisville. Consideration
of the River and Harbor bill being resumed,
the friends of the measure, to expedite
matters, yielded to the Mississippi River
clause. The Chair ruled that the lIennepin
Canal paragraph should be stricken from
the bill on the ground that the subject came
properly within the jurisdiction of the
Committee on Railways and Canals. Mr..
Henderson, of Iowa, appealed from the de-
csion. The Naval bin was discussed at
length. Mr.. Long called the navy IAN al
phabet of wooden washtubs," and said that
scarcely nation was so poor as to do it
reverence. People, he said, laughed at the
navy and relished the sinking of the Talla-
Poooa NY dCodi-uaISe uS rdStuilldil JUL
lesQue.
FEB. ga resolution was offered in the
House instructing the Foreign-Aifairs Com
mittee to Investigate the alleged discrimi-
nation by Germany against American pro-
ducts and report whether like discrimina-
ton should not be adopted by the United
States against articles imported from Ger
many. The Senate's amendments to the
Texas Pacific Land-Grant Forfeiture bill
and the Anti-FOreign Contract Labor bill
were concurred i'm. Mr.. Perkins offered q
bill to open the Oklahoma lands to settle
ment The House then went into Commit
tee of the Whole on the Naval bill.
FEB. Consideration of the River and
Harbor bill being resumed in the House,
the decision of the Chairman of the Com
mittee of the Whole ruling out the Henne-
pin Canal clause on point of order was
sustained by vote of 100 yeas to 9j nays,
and the paragraph was accordingly elimi-
mated. The following amendments were
adopted: Granting jurisdiction to the
United States Circuit Court to condemn any
real estate or material needed in any inn
provement authorized by the bill. Proyid-
to expend any portion of the money appro-
priated by the bill if in his opinion the use
to which 1t is to be put is injudicious. Re-
Stricting the appropriations for the inn
nrovement of the Mississippi River below
Cairo to the completion of the works on
Plum Point and Lake Providence reaches,
and providing that the Missouri and Missis-
sippi River appropriations shall be ex end
ed under the direction of the Secretary of
War. The section creating a United States
Harbor Board was stricken out, as was also
the section authorizing the Secretary of
War to remove and rebuild bridges which
ObStrlct navigation.