The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-02-29
PUBLIC BUILDINGS.
The House Passes Bills Making Liberal
appropriations.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 2S-The House to-
day went into committee of the whole,
with Mr.. McMilhn, of Tennessee, in the
chair on public buildings measures. The
$500, 900 appropriation for Omaha reduced
from $500, 900 was passed.
Mr.. Bland opposed the next bill, $50, 900
appropriation for Bar Harbor Me-, which
brought Mr.. Milliken to his feet In defense
of the bill.
COMPARISONS ARE ODIoUS.
Mr. Bland said that for the last few days
the gentleman from Maine had been run
ming around like cockroach on a kitchen
floor, and now his excitement was explained
by the appearance of this Bar Harbor bill.
Mr. Milliken thought that the gentleman
from Missouri CAIr. Bland) was like the old
woman who borrowed "A kettle for forty
years. Then she got a new one OF her own,
and declared that she would neither borrow
nor lend.
BLANDS LITTLE GRAB.
The gentleman had got $4,000 for a
building at his little town of jefferson City,
which was neither so large nor so impor-
tant as Bar Harbor, and now he did not
want any other man to have a public build
ing.
The appropriation was reduced to S25, 600
and the bill was agreed to.
The next bill called up was that for the
erection of an appraisers building in the
city of New York.
ALTERNATIVE PROPOSITIONS.
The bill contains alternative propositions
for the purchase of site and the erection
of appraisers stores at a cost limited to
81 500, 900, and for the purchase of a single
site suitable for the erection of a combined
custom house aud appraisers stores; or two
sites convenie-G to each other and suitable
for custom house and appraisers stores de-
tached from each other. The cost of such a
site, or Sites is limited to 81, 100000.
AN ADVANTAGEOUS DEAL.
The bill was advocated by Messrs. Dibble,
of South Carolina, and Cox, of New York,
who explained the necessity of the accom-
modations for public business provided in
the bill, and said that the proceeds of the
sale of the present custom house property
on Wall street, estimated to be worth
So ,000, 900, would defray all the expense of
new buildings, better adapted to the con-
templated uses, and i'll a more convenient
locality.
The bill was agreed to unanimously.
OTHER CITIES IN LUCK
Bills were also agreed to increasing to
$500, 900 the limit of the cost of the building
at Charleston, S. c.; appropriating Sl0J,-
| 600 for an interstate building at TeXarkana,
| and 100000 for a building at Columbus,
Ga, and appropriating 1926, 900 for the pur-
chase of additional grounds at Indianapolis,
| Ind.
| In speaking to one of these measures,
Mr.. Kennedy, of Ohip, arraigned the
| Democratic party in the House for failure
to redeem its pledges of economy tariff re-
| form, and care for veteran soldiers, and as
serted that the November election would
visit retribution upon thir heads.
! MR.. DIBBLE ANSWERS HIM.
| Mr. Dibble considered that the issue which
| divided the two political parties was of a
| graver and more serious nature than the
erection of buildings for the convenience of
the public business, and he thought that
both sides of the House, whatever might be
| their differences on party questions, should
| consider business propositions without get
| ting into political controversies.
Bills vera also agreed to for the erection
| of public building at Bay City, Mich, at
an ultimate cost of $3.50, 900 and appropri-
ating $40O, 900 for building at Milwaukee,
| Wisconsin.
The committee having risen, the House
ratified its action, and also passed two bills
coming over from Saturday increasing the
limit of the appropriation for the building
at Chattanooga and providing for the pur-
| chase of a site at Buffalo.
BUILDING FOR NEW ORLEANS.
In the Senate to-day, on motion of Mr..
] Eustis, the Senate bin for the purchase of a
| site and the erection of a building for a
post office, United States courts and other
| government uses in New Orleans, not to ex-
ceed in cost 81 POO, 900, was taken from the
| calendar and passed.