Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-07-03
CONGRESSIONAL.
Senator Turpie's Estimate of
Harrison.
RIVER AND HARBOR BILL PASSED.
The FeltOn-Sullivan COnte St.-The
Latter Recommended to
Be Seated.

WASHINGTON, July 2.-In the Senate
the conference report on the legislative
appropriation bill was presented and
concured in. The Senate then took up
the River and Harbor bill, the committee
amendments to which had been reserved,
on Saturday for separate votes.
The demand for a separate vote on the
Hennepin Canal amendment was with
drawn by Vest on suggestion that the
question might be left to the conference
committee, but subsequently a motion
to reconsider was made by Sherman.
As to the amendment abolishing the
Missouri River Commission, Vest offered.
to withdraw it at the request OF Paddock,
but Plumb insisted on vote being taken
and made an argument against fur
ther continuance of the commission.
In the course of the discussion Hoar
made vehement denunciation of the
criticism and abuse so generally indulgedi
in by some Senators and by newspapers
in relation to the River and Harbor BILL,
He had got sick, he said, of hearing
Senators trying to blacken the characters
of their associates in public life by charg-
ing that the river and harbor bills were
made of miserable bargains, log rollings
and cheatings.
Vest took the responsibility of saying
that legislation on the river and harbor
bills were not free from criticism.
Hoar-But are the proposed appropria-
tions honest items or not?
Vest-That is another question. I un-
dertake to say for the Committee on Com
merce we have honestly tried to do our
duty, but we have put appropriations in
this bill against our own judgment, cer-
tainly against my judgment, because we
have been overwhelmed by personal So
licitation.
amendment abolishing the Missouri River
Commission was disagreed to.
Palmer offered an amendment appro-
priating $3.50 900 for the purchase of Por-
tage Lake and Lake Superior ship canals.
Agreed to.
Sherman said he would not object on
his motion to reconsider the vote agree
ing to the Hennepin Canal amendment,
although he was opposed to it. The bill
was then passed as originally reported
from the Senate Committee on Com
merce. 1t originally appropriated $21,-
562, 1888; as it finally passed the Senate,
it appropriates 500, ,474, 1888, having been
increased by the Senate 1912, 900.
On motion of Hoar, the Fisheries
Treaty and Morgan's resolution there
upon were postponed till Tuesday Of next
week.
Turpie then proceeded to address the
Senate on the Presidents tariff message.
In the course of his speech he said pro-
duction was a good servant but bad
master. 1t could not be shown that any
person or corporation who was engaged
in good faith in the busi-
ness OF manufacturing would be
injured by reasonable reduction
of duties as proposed in the Mills bill,
or that any employee would be harmed
by the emancipation OF labor which
would result by it's operation. Agricul
ture, commerce and manufacturers would
be relieved from lnequitable and impov-
erished restrictions; restoration would
| commercial rights and franchises.
1t was this that was proposed by the
message of the President. The con-
summation of this would not be retarde d
or prevented by the action of the Chica-
60 Convention. The candidate of the
Chicago Convention was a we'll beloved
and chosen representative of the rank
and lawless growth of incorporated
power. He would faithfully be-
friend, protect and encourage American
industries by the highest and most pro-
hibitory and unnecessary restrictions,
and by the permitted immigration of
Chinese. Although he was a man of no
small capacity and great mental force,
he had that which was not often found
with such qualities, harsh intolerance
which treated dissent as idiocy. Deeply
touched and tinged with prejudices of ex-
elusive class aristocracy, he belonged to.
that group Of reactionary statesmen (tra-
ditional Paternalists) whom the people
so often rejected and would reject again.
At the close of Turpie's speech the
Senate proceeded to executive session
and then adjourned till Thursday.
REPORTED BACK.
The Senate Committee on Judiciary
has decided to report back the nomina-
ton of Melville w. Fuller to be Chief
Justice, without recommendation.