Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-07-03
Money for Waterways
 
The River and Harbor Bill
 Passed by the Senate.
IT APpRoPRIATEs sss.474,7ss

IT APPROPRIATEs Sae.474, 7ss. Several Amendments Agreed To-The
 Missouri River Commission Still Exists.
 MT. Anderson Delays the Union Pacific
 Funding Bill in the House.
 WASHINGTON, July 3.-The passage of the river and harbor bill was the event in the senate yesterday.
 The conference report on the legislative ap proprlation bill was concurred in.
 The river and harbor bill was taken up for the purpose of having separate votes on cer- tain amendments The demand for a separate vote on the Hennepin canal amendment was withdrawn by MT. Vest, and @ motion to re- consider was made by MT. Sherman, but afterward withdrawn.
 An an. nlment relative Ito Buttermilk channel New York, was withdrawn, and the appropriation stands made by the house.
 The amendment appropriating $135, 900 for the Green and Barren rivers improvement in Kentucky was agreed to.
 The amendment abolishing the Missouri river commission was defeated after a long discussion, in which Mir. Hoar denounced the criticisms which he claimed were so generally indulged in by some senators and newspapers TelaUiSe to TlVer ana OILS. lie 0aQ become sick, he said, of hearing senators trying to blacken the character of their own associates in public life. Mir. Hoars remarks were made in response to suggestions by Mr. Vest that appropriations in the bill were made by species of agreement not to say log rolling, between senators.
 An amendment appropriating S35U, 900 for the purchase of the Portage Lake canal and the Lake Superior canal was agreed to; also one increasing the appropriation for St. Johns river, Florida, from $150, 500 to $250- 000 An amendment reducing the appropr1a- tion for the James river, Virginia, was not agreed to, and the appropriati, II remains at $e25, 900. The bill was then passed.
 The bill as originally reported from the senate committee on commerce appropriated $21 ,562, 7S3 AS it passed to-day, it appropri- ates $23, ,474, 7S3.
 The conference report on the Natchez bridge bill was agreed to.
 On motion of MT. Hoar the fishery treaty was postponed until July 10.
 MT. Turpie then took the floor and read an address on the presidents annual message He asked what had cheapened and pauper- ized labor in India, Egypt, China or else where, and asserted that it was caused by the long ages of commercial restriction and re- pression, the entire inhibition of foreign traffic, a constant seclusion and isolation of manufacturers and an exclusively internal consumption of work and wares. And yet, he continued, it was seriously proposed that the young American nation should receive its lessons ill polital economy and in the practical rules of its -raxenale adr,inistrss4efeErom-t the archaeic and moldering systems of the mikado and the mandarin. Continuing be said:
 1.-The candidate of the Chicago convention is a we'll beloved and chosen representative of the rank and lawless growth of incorpo- rated power who would faithfully befriend, protect and encourage American industries by the highest most prohibitory and unne- cessary restrictions and by the permitted immigration of the Chinaman. Although l he is a man of no inconsiderable capacity, of great mental force and acumen, he has that which is not often found with such qualities-a harsh intolerance which treated dissent as idiocy. Deeply touched and tinged with the prejudlces of an exclusive class aris- tocracy he belongs to that group of reaction ary statesmen Traditional paternalists) whom the people have so often rejected, and will reject again."
 When MT. Turpie concluded the senate went into secret session, and shortly after ward adjourned until Thursday.
 The time of the house was largely taken up in successful efforts by MT. Anderson of 
 Pacific funding bill under a suspension of the | rules.
 | MT. Anderson, of Iowa, introduced a bill | for the regulation of railroads acquired by the United States under judicial forfeiture He demanded its reading ill full. For two | hours the clerk continued to read the bill | when Mir. Belmont, of New York, On a ques- tion of privilege, presented the conference report on the diplomatic and consular appro- priation bill, and it was agreed to.
 The conference on the bill authorizing the Mississippi and Louisiana railroad company to build a bridge across the Mississippi river at Natchez, was agreed to, as was the con- ference report on the legislative appropriation bill,
 | Unsuccessful efforts were made to secure unanimous consent for the consideration of the dependent pension and Nicaragua canal bills
 When the reading of the Anderson bill was l concluded Mir. Anderson immediately intro duced bill establishing municipal code for the District of Columbia. The bill made a volume of 321 pages, and its reading was demanded.
 consideration of other bills, but they proved unsuccessful, and when it seen that the fiiibustering would continue for the rest of the day the house adjourned. DE BAUSSETT'S AIRY BUBBLE PRICKED
 Commissioner of Patents Hall has refused a patent to Professor De Baussett for his air ship, on which the house committee on venti- lation and acoustics recently made fayora- ble report, and recommended an appropria- tion of $150,OO0 to enable the inventor to construct his flying machine. Commissioner Hall, in refusing patent, says the proposed machine if built, would De incapable of use
 ha ci Sfar, ho if novelty were admitted, it must be held that patent must be refused at least until the applicant practically demonstrates the operativeness ot his devlce. The patent sys- tenn was never designed to protect the chimerical schemes of visionaries. Invention