Los Angeles herald., 1890-03-23

no Senator who had visited San Fran
cisco bad been driven to see the post
Office as one OF the sights of the city.
Mitchell remarked that the postoffice
at San Francisco was disgrace to the
city and nation. u
Hearst-Of course 1t is.
The five minutes allowed for debate
having expired, unanimous consent was
given Hearst to continue his remarks,
Int he lid not avail himself of the privi-
leoe only saving: "Well, go ahead and
pass the bill; will have plenty of time
10 talk ON the other bills that are
coming"
Dawes Gives the West It's Dues.
Dawes said that of all the appropri-
ations for public buildings that had come
before the Senate, there was hardly one
more inst than that for San Diego. 1t
was one of the three most important
harbors on the Pacific Coast. - These
three were San Diego, at the extreme
southwest of California; San Francisco
and Puget sound.
Mitchell-And Portland, Oregon.
Dawes-Portland is not on the Pacific
coast, but it is very important place,
and there is every justification for pub
lie building there The debate has taken
wide range, but l think it is a wise
debate. | think there is occasion for us
to consider more carefully how far we
will extend these public buildings. That
they have got to go more largely in the
West and less in the East those of us
from the East are unfortunately COM
PEELED to admit. Nothing so amazes an
Eastern man as to travel West and
see the immense development there.
But the difficulty with the public build
ing reports is that they go so largely on
the idea of partition; it is nothing else +;
it is a most difficult thing for the com
mittee on appropriations to lose sight OF
the idea of partition, and to confine
itself to the absolute merits of the case.
Staniord-I have never known MEM
ber of the committee on public build
ings to attempt to gain anything for his
locality that was not based on the pub
lie interests, and the committee has
made that the controlling idea in de-
termining the amount of the appropri-
alton.
ingalls, Justifies Himself
Ingalls, said there was an impression
in The public mind and which he had
ucIlNeu lfOlIl IedilllS tlic licWsPaIoiS,
that the appropriations on the river and
harbor bills and bills for public build
ings, went by favor, and that large ap-
preparations had been made for which
there was no apparent justifica-
ton. Public attention had been
called repeatedly to the fact that
after the formal business of the Senate
was over, the session had been contin-
ued, and with far less than a quorum
present, bills were taken up, read hastily
and passed without report being read
and without the slightest discussion
and millions and millions of appropria-
tions had thus been piled up without
any reason being given why the bills
should have been passed. The debate
today had been instructive and advan-
tageous. 1t had justified the action OF
the committee on the pending bill
which, without explanation given, would
have gone into the same category as
those which had preceded it. He be-
lieved the Government of the United
States ought never to be a tenant for the
premises it occupied, but wherever there
was Government occupation there
should be Government ownership
1t would be, he said, an object
lesson in patriotism if, in every
town and village in the republic there
was y place, large or small, from which
every day the flag of the republic should
fly as an indication that there was {
visible presence of the majesty anC
power OF the Government. He ha(
been in favor OF liberal appropriation
for public buildings, and should be gla(
! to support measure that would pro
vide for postoffice building wherevel
the Government had occasion to hire
buildings. He condemned, however
the practice that had grown upon extra
vagance and co-eXtravagance and costli
ness in public buildings, and cited as
model the appropriations for building:
for the Bureau of Engraving and Print
ing, for the Pension Bureau and for the
National Museum.
The Bill Passed.
At the close of the discussion the bill
was passed.
Blair introduced another educationa
bill, and it was referred to the commit
| tee on education and labor. aer
Among the bills on the calendar
passed were the following: To confirm
to the City OF Buffalo, Wyoming, certain
| lands occupied for school purposes APP
propriating $4,000 for lighthouse al
st. Mary's island, Alaska; to establish
two additional land offices in the State
of Montana. gt.p -4i
Altogether there were fifty bills
passed, most of them private pension
bills.
Adjourned.