St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-12-21
MONEY THROWN AWAY.
New York Representatives At.
tack the River and Harbor Bill

New York Representatives At
tack the River and Harbor Bill.
Special to the Globe.
WASHINGTON. Dec. 20.-The house
to-day agreed to an adjournment from
Dec Il to Jan. 2, and resumed consider
alton of the river and harbOr bill. The
house concurred in the amendments of
the senate to the bill incorporating the
American Historic association, and TO
the bill authorizing the Ohio ~ Tennes-
see Railroad company to construct
bridges across the Tennessee and Cum
berand rivers. 1T also, after some de-
bate, agreed to the conference report
on the bill for the relief and civ
Iization of the Chippewa In
dams in Minnesota. A bill APP
propriating SIS, 900 to meet a deficiency
In the printing appropriation, and
$1,000 for observations of the eclipse of
the sun was passed. The senate amend
ment to the holiday recess resolution
(prOviding for a recess from Dec. q
until Jan. y was agreed to. Among
the bills reported and placed upon the
calendar was a bill for the relief of the
New York, Lake Erie d Western Rail
road company, and bill authorizing
temporary occupation of certain streets
by tracks OF the Baltimore IL Ohio road
to meet demands of increased travel in
cident to the inaugural ceremonies.
The bill providing for paying certain
advances made to the United States by
Maryland and Virginia for the purpose
of aiding in erecting public buildings
I'm Washington was taken up, but the
time allotted to it was wasted in
disputing the limitation Of debate.
The members of the house then got
into n long wTangle over proposition
to limit debate on the river and harbor
bill. 1t was finally agreed that the gen.
eral debate should be limited to an hour
and a half. Mr.. SOwden spoke in Oppo-
sition to the bill, and directed his re-
marks especially against that provision
that six memberS-elert of the Fifty-frSt
congress shall, prior to the first Monday
of December next, investigate the eX-
penditure of appropriations for Inter
nal improvements, with authority to
visit the places where the approprIa-
tons are expended. Mr.. Cummings, of
New York, said that in the light of past
river and harbor legislation, thoughtful
statesmen
OUGHT TO GO SLOW.
lie took his stand on the veto message
of President Arthur. He was willing
to vote the fullest appropriation for the
benefit of genuine arteries of commerce.
He would gladly vote $l,500,000 for
Galveston if necessary, but an order to
secure this appropriation he was not
willing to vote thousands for Pow-wow
river and Miug's creek. Give Calves
ton her millions. Raise the appropria-
ti0nS for New York from 100000 to
SS,O00,000 and the gentlemen would not
hear every week of steamships ground
.ing off Sandy Hook and of the United
States men-ofwar fastened in the mud
at Wallabout, when they ought
to be laundering at the gates of
Port au Prince, or making music.
at the Samoan islands. Laugh ter. I
Mr.. Stewart. of Texas. defended the bill
and commented on the fact that the OPP
position to such measures always came
from representatives of New York
which, he said, had in the past received
more appropriations than any other To-
cality in the country. MIR. Cox, of New
York, made an appeal Tor New York
harbor. Mr.. Henderson. of Illinois. de-
Tended the bill. Nlr. Fitch. of New
York, spoke briefly in opposition 10 the
substitute, of which Mir. Grain gave no.
tice yesterday, increasing the aggregate
of the DILL to So, 100000. He spoke of
Mr.. Cummings speech in reference TO
the veto message of President Arthur.
President Arthur had been
DEFEATED FOR RECONCILIATION
and his defeat was as good an argument
in favor of the bill as the defeat of con-
greSSmen was an argument against ii.
Mr.. McAdoo, of New Jersey, said that
the present system was pouring money
into the waters, without any return
being made for it. He favored eXpendi-
ture of lump sum, under the direction
of board of internal Improvements or
the chief of engineers. MIR. Blanchard,
of Louisiana. challenged the gentleman
from New York (Alr. Cummings to
move to strike out the appropriations
for the small rivers he had ridi-
Culed. He read the reports of the engi-
neers upon two or three of the i'm
provementS ridiculed by Mr.. Cummings,
in order to show that they were of ma
tional Importance. The reading of the
bill by paragraphs having been entered
upon, the committee arose and the house
az O'Clock adjourned.