The Portland daily press., 1889-12-05
THE SENATES ANNUAL STORM OF BILLS
Half a Thousand of Them made Big
Drift Yesterday.
One Embodies a Plan for Building
Sea Coast Defences.
Trusts, Pensions, the Civil Service
Concerned In Others.

WASHINGTON, December 4.-The Senate
devoted most of today's session to the intro
duction Of bills. the total number presented
being 500 against 59S on the first bill day two
years ago. Most of the measures proposed
were bills that failed to become laws during
the last Congress. Senator Dolph intro.
duced bill providing for Notifications and
other sea coast defences as recommended by
the board appointed by President Cleveland
to select ports at which Notifications are
most urgently needed. THE following are
the ports at which Notifications are recon-
mended to be provided: New York, San
Francisco, Boston, the lake ports, Hampton
Roads, New Orleans, Philadelphia. Wash
ington, Baltimore, Portland. Me-; the
EeSdS keS Wes Pd REts IN ggS SeM SSe
London, Coun. Savannah, Galveston, Port
land, Ore; Pensacola, Wilmington, San
Diego, Portsmouth. N. 81 +; for the defence If
Cumberland Sound, at Fort Clinch; de-
nosco tor s PVer on S Sek kenneef sed and dSd ps
New Haven. The bill appropriates for this his
purpose $126, ,377 300, to be expended over a
period of IL years. Floating batteries and tor
pedo boats are to be constructed under the
supervision of the Secretary of the navy. .and
ed by:him. All work when not done at gov
ernment shops Is to be done by contract. The
bill also authorizes the Secretary of War to
erect on the Pacific coast gun factory for
the manufacturing of the most approved
patterns of guns and gun carriages for the
army, at a cost not to exceed 81, ,000, 900.
Senator Cameron introduced the subsidy
steamship bill introduced by him in the last
Congress. 1t divides the American owned
vessels engaged In foreign trade into three
classes, and provides that compensation for
vessels of the first class shall be paid
at a rate of four cents hundred
tons for each mile travelled between United
States port and any foreign port on both the
outward and inward passage; for the second
class, four and four tenths cents and for the
third class five and three tenths cents.
These vessels shall carry the mails when
ever called upon and the government shall
have the right to purchase them.
Senator Manderson reintroduced bill
providing that all persons who served three
months or more in the war and are disabled
vicious habits, and are without adequate
means of self-support. shall be entitled TO a
pension at the rate of $12 month and that
dependent parents, widows and children
shall be placed on the pension roll regard
less of the cause.
Mr.: Dawes introduced bill appro-
priating 100000 for the relief of Fanny T.
Allen of Springfield, Mass, and Augusta NJ.
Ladd OF Holyoke, Mass, widow and daugh-
ter of the late Erskine M. Allen, inventor of
the improved Springfield rifles
The bill introduced in the Senate by Sena-
tor Sherman against trusts is identical with
the one reported by him last year from the
committee on finance. 1t declares that all
trusts are unlawful and gives persons power
to recover whenever articles are advanced in
value by combinations, and declares the off
GERS of trusts guilty of misdemeanors Other
measures on this subject introduced were by
Senator Reagan, one of which fixes the max
lmum penalty for engaging in trust at $10,-
600 and five years imprisonment.
Senator Georges bill gives the president
power TO suspend customs duties whenever
he is satisfied that any articles have been
in value by reason of trusts.