Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-06-30
CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS.


WASHINGTON, June 29th.-Senator Stew
art introduced in the Senate to-day pc
tition from California raisin-groWers p1o-
testing against the reduction of the tariff
on raisins
The Senate then resumed consideration
of the army appropriation bill, the pend
ing question being Hawley's amendment
offered yesterday.
German said he did not believe the
terms of The amendment sufficiently
guarded to protect the interests of the
country. In beginning such great enter
prise as proposed, TO place the whole So
100000 IN the hands of the Ordnance
Bureau, generally regarded as vicious, was
bad, and sure to result in disaster.
Hawley said heamendment merely pro-
posed to do tor the army exactly what had
been done for the navy. The proposition
of the Senator from Maryland, if he under
derstood 1t, was that private concerns
should be invited to make a per
fected gun. But he (Hawley) asserted that
no large steel manufacturer in the country
would undertake on any terms the Govern
ment would listen to or the people sane
ton to build twelve or 16-inch gun in its
own shop, purely for experiment Would
the Senator himself if he had two or three
millions invested in a steel-works spend
another million in putting plant in order
to turn out single perfected gun, which
might be rejected when made? After the
harrassing experiences of old John Roach,
man who had done honor to the country
not one manufacturer would spend a
million dollars in making q gun. He de-
tended the ordnance officers of the army
and navy, to whom he knew the grossest
injustice had been done.
Butler said if the Senator from Mary
land had been a member of the Committee
on Military Affairs or the Committee on
Naval Affairs, he would soon have come to
the conclusion that those ordnance officers
were subject to very trying ordeal Not
three days since a gentleman Talluding to
Berdanl had appeared before the Commit
tee on Naval Affairs with a devse-which
he supposed to be absolutely perfect-for
the removal Of nets against torpedoes and
yet, when he was subjected to an examina-
ton as TO its practicability, he had to ad-
init 1t had not been tested, but he Haunted
into the face of the committee the threat
that unless il recommended the appropria-
ton he asked he would take steamer for
Europe in August and would have the de-
wise adopted there. That was an illustra-
ton of what ordnance officers had to en-
counter almost daily.
After further debate the discussion was
suspended to let other business be trans
acted.
Allison reported back the joint resolu-
ton extending the appropriation for the
present fiscal year for thirty days from
June 30th in the departments for which the
appropriation bills for the next year shall
not have become laws, and after long dis
cussion the resolution was passed without
division.
The Senate then resumed consideration
of the army appropriation bill, the ques-
ton being again on Hawley's amendment.
Hawley stated, in reply to a question
previously asked, that with an appropria-
ton of five million dollars 270 guns would
be constructed, but that it would take five
or six years to expend the five millions If
the American people were driven to war
and were humilisted, then the men who
argued against the policy of providing guns
would hide themselves, and would call
upon the mountains to tall upon them
The English themselves were surprised at
the carelessness of the United States in re-
gard to war preparations, and asked was
there ever such happy-go-lucky reliance
on luck since the world began. This coun-
try, with its sixty millions of people, was a
monstrous mass of potential power, but
against modern steel guns it was no more
effective than dead whale.
Stewart spoke of the United States as
being 3 good fat goose to be plucked by
anybody" and spoke of the alarm felt at
San Francisco couple of years ago when
trouble with Chile was apprehended
He was reminded by Plumb that Eng
land had paid fifteen millions under the
Alabama award, and he replied that that
was because the United States had then a
great navy, and because all the world was
then in awe of it. But the times had
changed, and such treaty as Alabama
treaty would not be made now.
COckrpll smoke SarcasticaIlv on tI,a
frenzy exhibited, as he said. BY the Sena-
tors from Connecticut and Nevada He
could almost imagine the British red coats
coming down from the skies, landing on
American SOIL driving back the timid
Yankees and levying contributions on
American cities.
They burned this Capitol, Hawley sug-
gested.
q Yes, they barned this Capitol once
said Crockrell, and they regret it to this
day
so do we,'' was Hawley's reioinder.
"No, sir" ssid Cockrell; I'VE not regret
it. ] do not regret it, and the American
people do not regret it." In the course of
his further argument Cockrell was asked
by Stewart whether he approved of Ger
many taking the Samoan Islands.
''Thst has nothing to do" was the reply,
with the fortifcaticns of the United
States"
But 90 you approve of it?" persisted
Stewart.
Il am not discussing the question" said
Cockrell. What have the Samoan Islands |
to do with the territorial integrity of the
United States? Nothing more than China
man has to do with it," Laughter
Answer my question, said Stewart.
''It is none of your business whether /
do or notl' was the more forcible than
polite response. 1T is not the question in
issue"
CocSrell continued, amid repeated inter
ruptions and groanings from Stewart He |
said the American people feared nobody |
that they worshiped at the shrine of an |
everlasting Almighty Jehovah and not al
hat Of any single powe. on she earth. nor |