Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1886-06-23

III furnished the gentleman from Iowa, N
e. Hepburn, with an opportunity to fg
! over again the issues Of '62. He on
- wished to remark to the gentleman fro
'e Iowa, who had sought on many G
casions to make finss at the sout
E. that brave men and honorable M
q never struck PROSTATE foe. I
"a did not know what part the gentlems
~ took in the Union army, except as he four
u it given in the Congressional directory, b1
t but one thing was certain, that the GENT
s man bore on his body no proof that
had ever led desperate charge and he di
, uot think, from the gentlemans condu
- here, that it was likely he ever would.
MIR. Henderson. of Iowa-My colleap,
may bear no scars, butno soldier who wer
from Iowa was more at the front than h
E Mr.. Wise-I took his history an write
by himself and certainly his biography ws
partial. Mr.. Wise then proceeded to spea
, to the bill and earnestly impressed upo
the majority the propriety and necessit
. for the rehabilitation Of the navy.
Mr.. Golf, OF West Virginia. attribute
the present deplorable condition of tn
navy to the idiotic appropriations by Cor
gress, and denied that it was the result G
extravagant expenditures by former Sc.
retaries Of the Navy. He then went on t.
criticise the action OF Secretary Whitney i
connection with the "Dolphin," and bit
terly assailed the Auxiliary Board an
pointed Ay the Secretary without an,
authority OF law to report upon the vessel
That board consisted of Capt. Belknap
Commander Evans and Mr.. Winter. Th
first nam had been an applicant for pro
motion and for designation by the Nava
Observatory. He knew that the repor
was intended to be made one way, and un
less it was 60 made he would get neither
promotion nor his designation to thai
high Office. Commander Evans had ar
underlying grudge and hatred against Secre
| tary Chandler, having been removed by that
officer. Mr.. Winter was superintendent oil
the Metropolitan Steamship Company,
in which he was deeply interested and to
which John Roach WAS rival. as be built
the ships OF the Mallory line. He was
interested in patents which Roach had re-
pudiated, and this was the third man on
this impartial board. These were the men
who struck down and ruined the grandest
artisan OF the day, and he was convicted
on such testimony. He (Mr. Goff) believed
that this board could not be duplicated
anywhere. The Dolphin" was as grand a
ship as ever danced on The ocean wave. ii
the testimony OF experts could be relied
upon. 1t had been condemned on the
ground that it had not attained speed OF
fifteen kpots an hour.s That. .wassnot1 1trsse.
II had attained and exceeded that speed.
The Advisory Board had said it made over
fifteen knots under the most disadvant-
ageous circumstances. After the appoint.
ment OF Lieut.: Klapp's board it went dbwn
trial trip, and the board reported
to the Secretary of the Navy that
the "Dolphin" had made oyer fifteen knots
A dispatch from Mr.. Belknap reporting
that the vessel had made fifteen and one
half knots had slumbered in the Depart
ments until last week. 1t had slumbered,
and it would have been better for the repu-
tation vi living men if it still slumbered. It
had slumbered from May, 1885, to the
time that Senator Hale called for informa-
ton relative to the matter. Secretary
Whitney had reluctantly drawn it from q
pigeon hole and given it the light OF day.
cant, as Secretary Whitney, after it's re-
ceipt, had written to the Attorney General,
asking him for his opinion on the subject,
and stating it as fact that
the Dolphin" had not made fifteen
knots an hour. On the strength OF
this statement the Attorney General
had acted and this dispatch written ia May,
1885, had s numbered while the Attorney
General was making his decision, and while
the wreck Of the glandest establishment
that ever honored the land had been going
on. Each and every act OF Secretary Whit
ney from the time this nncalled-for warfare
had been commenced upon John Roach
down to the rendition Of the Attorney
Generals opinion had been without au-
thority OF law or fact, and every act since
that time had been without authority OF
law. II the opinion of the Attorney-Gen-
eral was law, he (Mr. Gof) would rather
spend an eternity with John Roach under
these circumstances amid the wreck of q
lifetime and the destruction Of his fortune
than an hour with q Dung reformer in his
gilded palace at the other end OF the ave-
une. [Applause on the Republican side.]
Mr.. O'Neill, of Missouri, submitted an
argument favoring liberal appropriations
pedo service. Mr.. Sayers. OF Texas, do.
tended the action OF the Secretary OF the
Navy in connection with the "DolphiD"
and critisized the reports OF the Advisory
Board the members of which. he said, it
rightfully dealt with would be laboring I'M
der an indictment for attempt to connive
at fraud upon the Government. When
Secretary Whitney had come into office he
found that Honest old John Roach" with
the consent of the elegant Advisory Board
and the former Secretary OF the
NAVY NaO dU6CEdCVCu lIOu VuV VAAAASAo
in violation OF TIE terms and spirit
,f the contract the neat little sum OF
$18O,OOO. Secretary Whitney had entered
into an investigation and his action and
the action of the board approved by him
were right, Secretary Chandler, Mr.. Roach
and the Republican party to the contrary
After completing the consideration OF
one hall OF the bill the committee rose and
the House took recess until o'c.ock, the
evening session to be for the consideration
Of Pension bills.
EVENING SESSION.
The House at it's evening session passed
twenty-six private pension bills. Mr.. Wal
ace, OF Louisiana, took the House to task
|or the small attendance at the evening
session and gave notice that next Friday
nieht he would demand a quorum. At IL
D o'clock the House adjourned.
Costly Grudge.
PANAMA, June 18.-A terrible affray
occurred at Bogota, the capital OF the Re-
public, between the guards OF the prison
and the members OF one OF the National
One general, several officers
and thirty soldiers were killed. The ARRAY
is looked upon as the outcome OF an olo
prudqe between the guards and the soldiers
and ia without any political significance
whatever.
No Indian Outbreak.
NEEDLES, Gala, June lS.-Col. Cirieson'
Lieut., Connolly and Sheriff steen nave IN,
vestieated the report of the threatened
outbreak OF the Hualapai Indians ana
found it to be groundless.
Should Not BE Granted
sr r.or,s. June 18.-The motion for .
now trial in the Maxwell case was heard IN
the Criminal Court to-day and the Judge
too the matter under advisementa and w'l
render a decision next week.