Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1886-07-27


ton was the one on page 20 in relation
to an increase Of the water-supply In
Washington. As it passed the House
the bill spproprates cleo, 600 to com
plete the reservoirs and s395,000 to
complete the tunnel, the amount to DO
expended under the supervision OF
army engineers. The committees
amendment provides that the money
shall be expended under the supervl.
sion Of board composed of one ball
civilians and one half army engineers,
and the scope of the board is extended
to embrace the entire system of water
supply for the District.
The committees amendment was
adopted.
The reading OF the bill was inter-
rupted 10 permit Mr.. Dawes to report
from the Committee on Appropriations
the Notifications bill. lie gave notice
that he would call it up as soon as the
deficiency bill was passed.
The House bill to increase the naval
establishment was laid before the Sem
ate and referred to the Committee on
Naval Affairs.
The reading Of the deficiency bill was
resumed. An item was inserted to
pay Edwin b. Smith $4,000 for legal
services rendered the Government in the
Guiteau case. The reading Of the bill
being completed, and all amendments
reported by the Committee on Appro-
piiations being disposed Of, this bill was
open to general amendment. Items were
added of s248,000 for the repayment
to importers of duties paid in excess
also, 1926, I IA on account Of mail trans
portation over non.subsidized railroads
operated by the Central Pacific Railway
Company, for the fiscal year ending
June 80, 1856, and for prior years.
An item Of $3.50 was inserted to pay
sixty.Gve printers on the Congressional
Record for time waiting for copy"
during the present session. On motion
Of Mr.. Butler an item Of $4,000 was
inserted for completing a coaling-shed
and building at Port Royal harbor.
The bill was then reported back to the
Senate, and all the amendments except
the one in reference to the Washington
water-works were cOncurred in. This
amendment was changed in few slight
particulars not affecting its main fea-
lures, and then the amendment was
agreed to and the bill passed.
The Senate then went into secret
session after ordering recess from 6
to o'clock. Five minutes later the
officers Of the Senate were sent to the
corridors, the committee-rooms, tele-
graph and newspaper offices of the Sc
cond floor, all the occupants of which
were promptly elected. At 6 O'Clock
recess was taken until s, the pro-
ceedings to be then continued in secret
session.
The Senate reconvened in secret ses-
sion at 8 o'clock. At S:45 the doors
were reopened and the Senate proceed
ed to the consideration of private pen
sion bills which have been favorablyre-
ported. Fifty were passed, including
one granting pension to the widow of
General Durbin Ward.
On motion of Mr.. Vest, the bill was
passed authorizing the construction OF &
hotel on the Government land at Fort
ress Monroe.
A number Of public-building bills
were passed, among them one author
izing a public building at Charlotte, N.
c., TO cost 100000.
Adjourned.
House OF Representatives.
Mr.. Holman, from the conference
committee on the legislative, executive,
and judicial appropriation bill, reported
their disagreement. Mr.. Holman stated
that the real point Of difference was the
Senate amendment providing for sena-
tors clerks. Other points of difference
were more formal than real.
Mr.. Oates moved that the House re-
cede from the senator's clerks amend
ment. The motion was lost-yeas, SO;
nays, l2l. Further conference ordered.
Mr.. Henley, of California, from the
Committee on Public Lands, reported
back the Senate bill forieiting certain
tracts of land granted to the Northern
Pacific Railroad Company. The COM
mittee recommend that in lieu OF the
Senate bill there be substituted the
provisions of the House bill on the
same subject. Mr.. Henley stated that
the distinctive difference between the
two bills was that while the Senate
bill forfeited the grant from Wallula
Junction to Portland the House
bill included also the forfeiture of the
grant from Bismarck to the Pacific
ocean. The House bill forfeited 81, OOO,-
600 acres more than the Senate bill.
As an earnest, he said, Of the determi-
nation of the Democratic party to full
fiji the pledges made in its platform
there was now brought forward bill
to forfeit the most valuable Of all the
grants which had ever been made in the
history of the Government to any cor
poraiion. The Democratic party pro-
posed to make this bill test Of its
fidelity to its pledges. A complaint
had been made in the Senate that ii this
and other forfeiture bills were passed
rank injustice might be worked to the
railroad corporations, and this CON-
plant had been made as though it was
possible for Congress to work q diyesti-
tuIe of any legal rights.
Mr.. Van Eaton, Of Mississippi, sup
| norted the Senate bill,
Mr.. Price, Of Wisconsin, could find
nothing in the platform Of any political
party which could justify Congress in
violating an express or implied contract,
as was done in the House bill. lie was
not willing to bow so abjectly before
the communistic cry If" Damn the rail-
roads 4" as to break the contracts, and
to break the pledges Of parties in ma
tionsl conventions. 1t was deEagogy
in the lowest and meanest sense.
Mr.. Voorhees,, Of Washington Terri
tory, favored the House bill, declaring
that there were high reasons Of public
policy why the land grant Of the North
ern Pacific Company should be taken
from its control as far as this could
legally be done. He pictured what he
characterized as the oppression Of the
railroad company as practiced in Wash