Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-02-13
AT WASHINGTON.
The Name of Thomas De-
leted from the Bill.
WHITNEY PATTED ON THE BACK.
Americas Navy of the Future
Clayton's Murder-The COlored
Vote in the South.
Associated Press Dispatches to the HERALD.

WASHINGTON, roUTudiy la INV
senate, among the Senate bills reported
rom the committee and placed on the
,alendar, was one to provide for the en-
of the quarantine laws and
or the establishment of National
Board of Health.
The following House bill was taken
rom the calendar and passed: Granting
light of way to the Pima Land and
Water Company across Fort Lowell
Military Reservation in Arizona.
The Senate then proceeded to execut-
i've business. Within five minutes the
executive business was transacted, and
legislative business was resumed. Evarts
gave notice that as soon as the Naval
Appropriation pill was disposed OF. he
would ask the Senate to consider the res
olution reported from the Committee on
Privileges and Elections as to the out
RACES in Washington county, Texas, and
directing that the committee revise the
existing laws regulating the election OF
members of Congress.
The Senate resumed consideration OF
the Naval Appropriation bill, the pend
ing question being Chandler's amend
ment to strike out the words requiring
new cruising monitor to be constructed
of the type and under the plans and
specifications of Thomas, of Illinois.
Chandler continued his argument in
support of the amendment. His under
standing was that Thomas merely enum-
Grated certain ideas as desiderata in the
ship, and that the naval officers now III
the employmet OF the Government
made all the designs, plans and specifi-
cation. He thought 1t altogether wrong
TO put such a provision in an appropria-
ton bill, but if any body was to be recog-
nized in that manner, it should be the
men who had taken their ideas and de-
signed the ship.
Finally, the clause was made to read as
follows: "One armored steel cruising
monitor of the type approved and recon-
mended by the Naval Board in their re-
port to the Secretary of the Navy, and by
him referred to and approved in his let
ter to the Chairman of the Committee on
Naval Affairs of the House of Represent
atives, dated January 8, 1889, to be con.
structed according to the plans and
specifications furnished by the Navy De-
partment, to be approved by the Secre-
tary of the Navy"
Cullom said that Thomas had devoted
good deal of labor to the matter, but he
had done so for the public good and not
from any ambition to be specially identi-
fed by name with the ship; and yet, he
pocket from the gentleman who had done
the clerical work in getting up the plans
and specifications, giving the entire credit
of the invention to Thomas.
Plumb complimented the present ad-
ministration of the Navy Department.
He was glad to say in the closing days of
the administration that the Navy De-
partment had been we'll administered,
not only in the sense that there had been
stimulus given, 80 far as it could be
given by executive direction, to every
thing that went toward the upbuilding Of
the navy, to procuring the best types of
ships, to the stimulating OF the highest
forms OF manufactures; but more than
that, to the encouragement of the indi-
vidual genius of the people, and to the
doing of the work, not in the navy yards,
where political cosiderations might have
an influence, but in private yards. He
was glad to say that during the past four
years the Navy Department had been
administered in practical, ,level.headed
judicious way. The result was that
quoting q remark made to him by Hale,
he was prepared to believe that, within
ten years, the United States would have
the best navy in the world. Not the
strongest navy; not the navy with the
most ships; not navy with the greatest
variety of ships; but navy with the
most modern ships, with the ships best
adapted to the work they would have to
do.
Hale said that the foundations for a
good navy had been well laid under the
administration of the Department by
Chandler. Under Chandler's admins
tration of the Department the old plan
of spending large sums of money in re-
pairing old wooden chips had been aban-
doned. simultaneously with that policy,
which Chandler had pressed upon Con-
gress, in season and out of season, the
foundations for the construction Of new
navy, under modern methods, to meet
modern and present exigencies, had been
laid. AS result the work had been
entered upon of building the Dolphin,
the Boston, the Atlanta and the Chicago,
and when the present administra.
tion came in, it had found those
ships in process Of construction with pro.
visions made for other ships. Much of
the success which had characterized the
present administration of the Navy De-
partment, to which he was glad to bear
testimony, had been owing to the hearty
holding up of the Secretary's hands by a
of the Senate opposed to him in
politics. The Secretary had been care
full in his methods. He had encouraged
American inventors, American enter
prise and American skill, and now the
United States had some OF the best ships
that were to be found to-day on the
waters of the globe.
An amendment was adopted, appro-
$4,000 for testing the Hurst
guns, and then the bill passed.
A message from the President trens-
mitting the report from the Secretary of
State as to the seal fisheries of Behring's
Sea, was presented, read and referred.
Evarts asked unanimous consent that the
unfinished business of the Union Pacific
Funding bill be laid aside, and the re.
port of the committee on Privileges and
as to the outrages in Washing
ton county, Texas, be taken up. Coke
objected. Harris demonstrated against
the time of the Senate at this
and inauspicious period of |
The session in political discussion. Sher-
man supported Evarts' motion, and
Morgan demonstrated and declared that