Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-05-24

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BILLS OF DIST Riot INTEREST.
Mr.. Morrill,. from the committee on public
buildings and grounds, reported back with
amendments the House bill for the acquisition
city for city post Office, and the Senate bill for
the purchase Of site for a building for the
use OF the Post Office Department aud OF the
city post Office Both bills we're placed on the
calendar. The Senate bills were also reported
and placed on the calendar to regulate the
practice Of medicine and of dentistry in the
District of Columbia and to prevent empiricism.
IMPORTED LIoUoRs IN PROHIBITION STATES.
Mr.. Wilson Iowa) asked and obtained unani-
nous consent that on Tuesday next after the
routine morning business, the bill subjecting
imported liquors to the provisions Of the laws
of the several states shall be taken up and its
consideration continued until disposed of.
MIR. Stewart at first objected to the displace-
ment of the silver bill, remarking that he did
not think that the country was suffering SO
much from the liquor business as it was from
the lack of currency. He thought that
the people of Iowa could get along better if
they had money to pay their debts
Mr.. Wilson resented MIR. Stewards remark,
and said that the people Of Iowa were pre-
pared to pay their debts, and were In every
respect in as good condition as the people Of
Nevada.
Mr.. Stewart-very we'll. I interpose no OBJ
lection, but hereafter shall object to anything
but appropriation bills until the silver bill is
disposed Of.
MIR. cARLIsLEs CREDENTIALS.
Mr.. Blackburn presented the credentials of
John G. Carlisle as Senator from the state Of
Kentucky for Mr.. Beck's unexpired term,
which commenced on March 4, 1889. They
were read and placed on file.
THE NAVAL APPROPRIATION BILL
was taken up, the pending question being on
the amendment reported from the committee
on appropriations-to strike out the item Of
ESQ, 900 for improvement Of the plant at Ports
mouth On. H. navy yard.
Mr.. German called for the yeas and nays.
He said that the item had not been estimated
for by the Navy Department 1t had been in
inserted under peculiar circumstances.
Mr.. Blair opposed the amendment. The
item, he said. had been inserted by
the House of Representatives. 1t was in
the line of the action of the Navy
Department continuously. since as well
as before 1882. The Portsmouth yard had
been constantly in use as place of repair for
the navy and would be needed for that pur-
pose SO long as there were any wooden vessels
connected with the navy. There was nothing
new in the proposition, nothing strange, moth
ing secret, nothing having reference to political
or other advantages. There was nothing
peculiar in it. The opposition to it was pecu-
liar, and he denounced the spirit and motive
of that opposition. 1t was influenced by the
monopolistic contractors, who were determined
to despoil the navy yards in order that they
might in future have the building Of the war
ships of the country.
Mr.. Allison. chairman Of the committee on
appropriations, felt compelled to make re-
Spouse to the ''amiable suggestion of the Sena-
tor from New Hampshire"-that the object Of
the amendment was to place in the hands Of
private contractors the construction of the
new navy.
Mr. Blair explained that what he said was
that that was the spirit Of the opposition. He
had not intended to attribute any such motive
to the committee on appropriations
Mr. Allison SAID that the committee had
recommended the striking out OF the items
in relation to the Portsmouth and Boston navy
yards because these two propositions really
meant the establishment of two new navy
yards for the construction Of iron and steel
ships. That was what they meant, and they
meant nothing else.
else The government was now expanding
large sums of money at the Brooklyn navy
yard. He not sure but that the ex-
penditure should be stopped and the navy
yard sold. This was great question, which
should not be disposed of in such an
indirect and incomplete way. Mr. Hoar asked
Mr.. Allison whether Tin view of the possibility
of the country being involved in great naval
war; there ought not to be navy yard some
where north OF New York, where iron and steel
vessels could go in to be equipped or to repair
damages
Mr. Allison replied that he was willing that
there should be- but he was not willing that
there should be two great naval establishments
for that purpose in New England. Nor
was he willing to say that Ports
mouth should be the place, or that Boston
should be the place. There was no present
necessity for the appropriation.