The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1889-02-13
MAD BRIGADIERS
Both Houses of Congress Dis,
cIlss Southern Crimes.
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senate bills reported frosn she cnns.
ualttee and placed On the calendar was
one To provide Tor the enforcement d
the quarantine Laws and FOR the esfah-
iishment OF national board OF health.
The following house bin was taken
from the calendar and passed. Grant.
irsg right CT way 20 the Pima Land &
Water LouayAny across the Fort Low.
ell military reservation In Arizona.
The senate then proceeded To execn-
tive business. Within fiye minutes
the executsTe business was transacted
and legislative business resumed.
Evarts gave notice that as soon a
the navai appropriation hill was dis
posed CT be xanid ask the senate Ia
consider the resolution reported from
the committee on privileges and elec.
tloHs. IS TO the oufvages in Washing.
ton county, Texas. and directing that
the camrnittee revise the existing laws
regulating the election Of members oi
congress.
TuE THOMAS TYPE or CRUISER.
The senate resumed consideration Of
the naval appropriation bill. the pend
ing question being Chambers amend
ment to strike ogt the words requiring
the neH cruising monitor to be con-
ssructed under the plans and speciti-
cations of Representative Thomas OF
Illinois. Chandler continued his argu-
nlent IN support OF the amendment.
His understanding was that Thomas
merely enumerated certain ideas as
the desiderstum In the ship, and that
naTal officers nos in the employment
OF the government made all the de-
signs, plans and specifications He
thought il altogether wrong to put
such q provision in an appropriation
bill. but, Ii anybody was 10 he recog-
nized In the matter. it should be the
men who had taken the ideas, and de-
signed the ship.
Finally the clause was made TO cad
as follows:
The armored steel cruising monitor of
the type approved and recommended by
the naval board In their report 70 the sec
rotary Of the navy. and by him referred 10
and approved la his letter 10 the chairman
of tic committee on naval affairs OF the
house OF representatives, dated January 3.
Issa, to be constructed according 20 plans
and specifications furnished by the navy
department.. TO be approved By the seere
tary Of the navy.
Cullom said that Thomas had de-
voted good deal OF labor ard atten-
ton, but he had done 80 for the public
good ard not from any ambition to be
especially identified by name with the
ship. add yet he tcullom) had a pri-
vate letter IN his pocket from gentle
man who had done the clerical work
in getting up the plans and speciiica-
tons, giving the entire credit OF the in
vention to Thomas.
NAVY DEPAgTAEyT WELL ADMINISTERED.
Plumb complimented the present
administration of the navy depart
ment. He was glad to say, in the
closing days of the administration
that the navy department had been
well administered, not only in the
sense that there had been q stimulus
given, 50 far as could be given. by
executive direction TO everything that
went to the up-building of the navy,
to procuring the best type of ships,
and To stimulation of the highest form
of manufactures, but more than all
that. to the encouragement of the in
dnstrial genius of the people and TO the
doing OF work not in the navy yards
where political considerations might
have influence, but in private yards
He was glad to say that during the
past four years the navy department
had been administered on 9 practical.
level-headed. judicious way. The re-
suit was that, quoting remark made
TO him by Hale, he was prepared 10
believe that within 10 years the United
States would have the best navy in the
worid-1ot the strongest nayy-not a
navy with the most ships-but a navy
with the most modern ships-with
ships best adapted TO the work they
would have to do.
Hale said the foundation for a good
navy had been well laid under the
administration of the department by
Chandler. Under Chambers admin
istration the old plan of spending
large sums of money in repairing old
wooden ships had been abandoned.
simultaneously with that. policy,
which Chandler had pressed upon
congress in season and out OF season,
the foundation for the construction of
a new navy under modern methods,
to meet modern aud present exigen-
cies. had been laid. As result the
work had been entered upon of build
ing the Dolphin, Boston. Atlanta and
Chicago, and when the present adj
rninlstration came in il had found
those ships in process of construction.
with provisions made for other ships.
Much of the success which had char
acterized the present administration
of the navy department.. to which he
was glad 10 bear testimony, had been
owing 20 the holding up of the see
retary's hands by the majority of the
senate opposed 10 him in politics. The
secretary had been careful in his
methods. He had encouraged Amer
lean inventions. American enterprise
and American skill. and now the
United States had some of the best
ships that were 10 be found to-day on
the waters of the globe
An amendment was adopted appro-
priasing $50 600 for testing the Hurst
gun. and then the bin was passed.
A message from the president. trans
nissing a report from the secretary os
state as 10 the seal fisheries Of Bshring
sea was presented. read and referred.
CRIMES OF SOUTHERN DEMOCRATS.
Evarts asked unanimous consent
that unfinished bgsiness-the Union
Pacific funding bill--be laid aside, and
the report of the committee on pyivil-
eyes and election. as 70 outrageS in
Washington county, Texas, be taken
mp.
Coke objected. Harris demonstrated
against occupying the time OF the sen
ate at this inopportune and inauspi-
cious period OF the session IN 4 polit-
ical discussion.
sherman supported Evarts' motion.
Morgan demonstrated and declared
that Il debate we're opened the Repub-
iiean senators might as well provide
for the incoming president calling an
extra session OF congress
Chandler eommented upon Harris s
remark as TO this being an inauSpicious
moment for taking up the Subject, and
said be wondered when a more appro-
pirate time could be selected than one
when a process had been commenced
la certain states OF killing contestants
Tor seats IN the house of representa-
tives. lie proceeded to speak Of the
assassination of Clayton in Arkansas.
Berry characterized the killing of
CLAYTON IS cowarsily murder and said
the insinustion that the people OF
Arkansas were responsible Tor II, d.
rectly or indirectly. was not trae.
The question was then taken on
Evarts' motion 20 lay aside the Paea-
fic Railroad funding bill and take ur
l.. 81 rat tee s<k