The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-02-05

ton Mr. Butler read from the report of the
Secretary Of the Navy the statement that IAN
Assistant Secretary of the Navy would seem to
be an essential feature"
Mr.. Ingalls, docking at the Republic ans)-The
remark appears to be an interpretation and is
put in Notwithstanding evidently an after
Thought Mr. Ingalls, read the context preceding
the clause already read, to show that is was only
in the system of organization that the Secre-
tary had said an Assistant Secretary was wanted;
not for the performance of the duties, for we had
no navy. Laughter Why, had it not been said
here, internum iterumque, that we had no navy
and the hope expressed that the patriotism Of the
Democratic party would rise to the exigency of
the occasion and give US navy2 Mr.. ingalls,
would have been better satisfied if the naval
committee of the Senate, instead Of comforting
patronage on the Navy Department had ar
ranged for a satisfactory inquiry into the condi-
ton of that department in connection with our
naval construction and the transaction by which
attempt after attempt had been made to reject
the Dolphin. Mr.. ingalls, animadverted with some
severity upon the course of the Secretary of the
Navy in connection with the Dolphin, saving
that he had sent the vessel to sea time after time
in special search of a cyclone, in order to show
structural weakness" and the Dolphin finally
succeeded In encountering the cyclone off Cape
Hatteras. and the waves were SO high and the
winds so tempestuous that the experts appointed
by the Secretary had to 60 below sea sick. The
American people, Mr.. Ingalls, continued, could
not forget that studious attempt had been
made by the Secretary of the Navy to crush
American enterprise, aud that by a pre- deter
mined plan one of the greatest OF American indus
trial establishments, employing 1900 men. had
been forced into bankruptcy AT last, however.
by some sort of subterranean arrangement, for
no public notice had been issued, the Secretary
seemed to ha We decided that the Dolphin had to
be accepted. Mr.. Ingalls, was not in the mood
to hand out on a salver any additional patronage
to the Secretary Of the Navy, which that officer
was able to certify only in parenthesis
MIR. Cockrell said that. if Mr.. Ingalls, believed
his own statements true. he was neglecting his
public duty by not calling for an investigation,
which the Republicans had in the Senate. the
power to order.
Mr.. Ingails-It will be Investigated; don't be
uneasy.
Mr. Cockrell thought the investigation should
De made before false Impressions were created
about the matter. The Secretary of the Navy,
he said, courted the fullest investigation. He
had simply tried to compel contractor to com
ply with the law. Senators should remember the
condition of the departments when the new ad-
ministration took charge of them The depart
ments were from one year to two years behind
current work Mr. Cockrell found no fault
about the matter because business had accumu-
lated from year to year. He would say, how
ever, that it was a burning shame that the bal
ances due the soldiers, and the widows and or
phans were still due and unsettled, twenty years
after the close of the war.
Mr. Logan expressed his willingness to vote
for the pending bill if the Secretary of the Navy
said it was necessary. He remembered, howev
er, that the former Secretaries had asked for the
assistants only when the Secretaries were new to
their places.
Mr.. Butler thought, notwithstanding the sheer
of the Senator from Kansas Mr.. Ingalls,, the
Secretary of the Navy had fully and explicitly
recommended provision for the new officer. Mr.
Butler did not believe it an act of kindness to
Mr.. John Roach to interject his name into this
debate. When a proper time to sneak on this
subject should come, Mr.. Butler would have
something to say.
Mr.. Cameron urged an immediate vote on the
bill, but Mr.. Logan opposed this, and at 2 O'clock
the matter went over