Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1888-06-29

16afQ OF. IQ0 HrLuY appropriation 44no
been reported to the Senate this morning.
The sundry civil bill had been sent to the
Senate last Tuesday and 1t would not be
possible to consider it before the 30th OF
June. So as to the naval appropriation bill
it had come to the Senate last
Monday and it would be impossible
to consider it before June 80.
to the House nor had the general deficiency
bill. It would therefore be necessary to
pass joint resolution either Friday or Sat-
urday to extend for certain number of days
the appropriations for the current year.
The consideration of the river and harbor
bill was proceeded with. After ffty-seven
of its ninety six pages had been disposed of
the bill was laid aside and the conference re-
port on the Diplomatic and consular bill was
presented by Mr.. Hall and agreed to.
The joint resolution extending for thirty
days the appropriations for the current fiscal
year where the regular appropriation bills
may not have passed before June 80
committee on appropriations. After a dis
cussion in which Mr.. Platt spoke of its me-
cessity as being a sad and extraordinary
thing, Mr.. Sherman spoke of the enormous
expense and labor imposed on the depart
ments by such extensions. Mr.. Edmunds
expressed the idea that this was as good a
time as any to have the question decided
whether the government could be carried on
by regular appropriation bills, and Mr.. Hale
spoke of it as usual at every long session of
Congress.
The Senate then took up the army appro-
priatien bill. One important amendment
reported by the committee was the insertion
of an item appropriating $500, 900 for cannon
and carriages, projectiles, experiments in
means Of protecting torpedo lines, etc.-all
materials to be of American manufacture.
The amendment was agreed to with an
amendment offered by Mr.. Hawley adding
after the word "projectiles' the words sand
increased facilities for their manufacture"
Another amendment was the insertion of a
new section authorizing negotiations for the
purchase of the 225 acres of land on the Hud-
son directly south of the military reservation
at West Point belonging to the estate of Ed
ward V. Kinsley, the report to be submitted
to Congress at its next session.
Mr.. Hawley offered an amendment to in
sert an additional section appropriating $780,
900 for an army gun factory at Watervliet
arsenal; Sc, 10000 for the purchase of steel
for high power coast defense guns of eight,
ten and twelve inch calibre; $500, 900 for the
purchase of submarine mines, cable gale
ries and appliances to operate mines, and
500, 900 for the purchase Of submarine con-
trollable torpedoes and torpedo boats.
A point of order was made against the
amendment by Mr.. Gordon that it was not
germane or relevant, but the point was over
ruled.
Mr.. HawIey addressed the Senate as to the
Importance and necessity Of the amendment
which he had offered by the direction of the
committee. He made the broad statement,
he said, that nation of more than 60, 000, 600
people could not resist frst-elsss ship from
China Japan, Chilli or any European nation.
Any of the great ports of the country was
open to capture by fraction of the navy of
any of the nations. Ships of war could go
6 Govt Io~-r-
cities. There YVES not in possession of the
army on the coast single modern built mp
rifle gun, but only guns that killed more
friends than enemies He asked for the adop-
ton of the amendment so there might be a
beginning of the manufacture of proper guns
for coast Notifications. The American gov
eminent could not argue with any foreign
government without having something be-
hind it. A foreign government would laugh
at the American government with tremen-
dous argument in its fist, but nothing be-
hind it,
MIR. Morgan advocated the amendments. If
the United States had such an establishment
as the Krupp gun factory its moral power
would be immensely added to. The naval
power of the government was not equivalent
to it's population and resources. The govern.
ment should show the nations that it was
prepared to use its resources at once when
ever occasion might demand.
W1LAOQG hStIAk Uu LILO dnOAUAcub t0c
Senate at 5:15 adjourned till tomorrow.
RoUsE.-Ar. Blount, of Georgia, was
elected Speaker pro tenn. during the tempo
rary absence of Speaker Carlisle.
The House went into committee of the
whole on the tariff bill. Mr.. Baker, of New
York, moved to strike from the free list veg
etables in their natural state or in salt or
brine not specially enumerated or provided
for.
Mr. T. Fl. Fl. Brown, of Virginia, said that
the question presented was whether the
farmers of the country should be permitted
to feed the people of the United States or
whether the farmers of other countries
should be allowed to do so.
Mr. Mills, of Texas, said that one of the
objections made to the clause was that it re-
moved the duty on potatoes. This was q
mistake as potatoes were specifically provided
for in another portion of the BILL The clause
he commended was in the interest of the con-
Stunning classes and he queried where the
Republicans would be willing to reduce taxa
ton.
Mr.. BIumm, of Pennsylvania, suggested
that they were ready to reduce internal reve-
nue. taxes.
Eyes" replied Mr.. Mills, ''you want free
whiskey. You do not say in your platform
that you want to reduce the duty on sugar
and rice. The convention has overruled
what you have commended for, your party de-
mands you to go for free whiskey. We go
with you to the country on that question. We
demand q reduction on those things which
enter into consumption as necessaries and
demand that taxes shall remain on whiskey
as it is to-day
Mr.. ]. d. Taylor, of Ohio, challenged the
statement that the Republican party was in
favor of free whiskey. AL persons of the
Republican party were in favor of abolishine
internal revenue taxes because they believed
il to be unwise as system. To say the Re-
publican party was in favor of free whiskey
was absurd and he repudiated the charge tc
that effect. Under the circumstances man
who would coldly and with his Judgment in
his own hands assert that the Republican
| party was in favor of free whiskey might be
developed according to the Darwinian theory
for countless cycles of time without mount
| ing intellectually to the position of breve,
Ass. daughter and applause on the Repub.
| lican side.)
Mr.. Mills inquired whether the gentleman
| intended that remark to apply to him.
Mr.. Taylor said he would repeat his re
| mark.
| Mr.. Mills-'fAll have to say is that the
platform of the Republican party says 1t Ii
in favor of the repeal of the internal taxes.
Shouts of Oh, no, from the Republicans.) II
says it is in favor of taking the tax eff alco
hoI used in the arts, and if that ID not enough
it is in favor of taking off all internal taxes
That is what is understood by the country as
being in favor of free whisky. Continuing
Mr. Mill said he was not astonished at thu
| tenderness of gentlemen on this question. Il
was well known that the majority of the Re
publican party was opposed to the extreme
position which the Republicans had taken at
Chicago.
Mr.. Kelley, of Pennsylvania, said that ne
man who had read or heard what he said OF
| the subject of internal taxation since tbs
close of the war was justified in charging
him with being in favor of free whiskey. HI
had never favored it. He advocated the re
| peal of the war taxes which jefferson had de
| nounced as an Internal system and at tina
| time had been repealed at the end of clever
| years. He denounced that internal system
which Madison and Monroe had fastened ts
repeal at the end of seven years when suol
| taxes had been again resorted to as a wa
measure. he had demanded that the Democ
racy should walk in the footsteps of tn,
| fathers of that party and should maintain
its hottest precedence by removing the super
vision Oh the national government from th
| fields, the factories and orchards of the South
/ He had demanded that the Democrats carr,
out their platform Of 1884 which promiset
an abolition of the internal taxes.
Mr.. Spinola, of New York, said that tn
gentleman from fAhfn f1savIarl had made 4