The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-02-24

granite ury aock. upon vnlcn iarge sums OF
ain addition 70 that | wish 70 nrye the fact
that Puget sound today II the third or fourth
find in looking into the reports Of last year the
tonnage Of Puget sound Is something over 4,00O,-
coo tons; that the entrances and clearances
year. Its waters are deep, and for that reason
vessels of the dcepest draught enter The deep
est-draught vessels that plough the sec come and
these facts and q the ess distance and Of the
great disadvantage and OF the immediate and
pressing necessities for the construction Of .
that this provision substantially as recon-
mcnded, not only by the secretary of the navy
and the naval committee, but by all these sue.
selected by the Senate Is the site of this dry
dock, and the question finally settled By con-
Mr. Dolph then rehearsed tho arguments in
favor of the Columbia river, saying that the en-
trance was safe: the te.ty had deepened the
ihs fas 81
OF bar nacles, while teredoes were not known.
Mr.. washburn declared that Puget sound was
Nj. Allen. in reply to Mr. Dolph, said: II do
not desire to draw any partisan or any unfavor-
able contrast between the entrance of the Co
TACT is, M President. the Columbia river has an
entrance of 1000 feet in width, while the Straits
of Juan de Fuca has an entrance of eight miles
in width. At present, the Columbia river has
depth of twenty two or twenty-three feet on its
bar. The entrance to the strait Of Juan de Fuca
10 some eight or nine miles in width and the
no stress of weather is a vessel of largest size
hindered In entering the strait. The senator
from Oregon calls attention to the tonnage Of
these respective districts. This commission,
after having examined the subject, gives that Of
the Columbia river at S200O tons and that Of
Puget sound 9o ct tons. -,er
cess to Puget sound, but the converse Of the
proposition Is not true, because there are oon-
senn e @
at once see that such vessels are precluded from
going to the Columbia river. The deepest yes
and know the great tea ships from Japan and
China, which are among the deepest draughted
vessels in this age, go to the ports on Puget
ssNot only that, Mr. President, but in addition
such facts as these should be considered: Puget
sound has shore line, including its islands
surface of 1900 square miles Of water. From the
very northern extremity of this great inland sea
to its southern extremity 10 one continuous
seam of coal, and the only merchantable coal,
believe, discovered, or at least available. upon
the Pacific coast within the limits Of the United
mot only that, but It has q timber growth
that creates commerce extending into all the
ports Of the world. Even in the infancy of this
OF the Pacific coast the output Of the coal mines
of Warrington was $4,000 tons last year The
lumber cut upon Puget sound was ,e00,00O.000
or three transcoutinental roads directly COM
municating with Puget sound Its shipping in
dustries are swelling at an enormous, perIna-
nent and a healthful rate"
Here Mr.. Allen quoted statistics OF Puget
sound exports and imports from the New Years
observation-disclosures
ators disclaimed opposition to Puget sound
while favoring the committee amendment, the
bill went over.
Condensed from the Congressional Record, Feb
ruary IL.
The Senate, in committee Of the whole, took
up the naval appropriation bill, the pending
question being on Aliens amendment.
After long debate, participated in BY Messrs.
burn and Squire. Mr.. Cockrell said: "The
recommendation OF the commission is for dry
dock on the Columbia river. ! win read it.
sTColumbia river Is the only harbor:on the Pa
cific coast, within the limits of inquiry, that
doe as Sy q
.Tnere it is. The Columbia river is the only
place. Let us, then, amend this amendment by
inserting sthe Columbia river ii We are going
to be obedient and submissive to this commits
sion.
the responsibility of deciding upon this COM
MISSIONS report alone, seeing that they had
travelled outside the record and beyond the
Therefore / want the secretary OF the navy to
exercise his discretion for the particular place
selected by the commission on the Columbia
the river where ehs % sct
should be located. Therefore we leave It to him.
t Il he decides that hat Puget SOUND !, the place
come in and undertake to confne the selection
to one particular point that is not recommended
for dry dock alone, but for q dry dock as an
annex to q great naval establishment, great
navy yard"
Ia reply Mr.. Squire said:
"Mr President, il ir not my purpose to address
the senate extensively on this subject simply
desire to say that am in accord with what my
colleague lMr. Allenl has said, and it has not
seemed to me to be necessary that there should
be any further argument.
81 desire, however, to call the attention of the
Senate for moment, and particularly the at
tention OF the senator from Missouri tMr. Cock
relll, to matter of construction of this report.
The senator from Missouri has read the follow
ing sentence:
cific coast within the limits of inquiry that pre-
sents any advantages for the location of dry
dock as contemplated by the act creating the
This seemed inconsistent with the final
action OF the commission in their report, and I
took it up for the purpose Of examining the
ton of the report il divided into two sections
One is headed in capitals, The coast from the
Fmcs. That Is numbered i. and ap % eana o oe
page of the report. l find on page another
section numbered 2, headed also in capitals.
Senate to observe that the sentence which was
read by the senator from Missouri relates to the
coast from the forty-second parallel to the
sss portion uao Of 4 casa fa na not sauns d.
IN no other way can the language of
the report be regarded as symmetrical. believe
that the sentence quoted by the senator from
Missouri relates solely to this portion of the
coast, containing six harbors: Coos bay,
um,Ipaua river, Ya9uina bay. Columbia river.
Mr.. Cockrell-The senator from Washington
(Mr. SQuirel has called my attention to the lam
guage which has been SO often quoted here;
and, on examination, find that the commission
have heading. first, "The coast from the forty
aud then, second, puget Sound and adjacent
waters" Under the first heading is the sem
tence:
"'Columbia river is the only harbor on the
Pacific coast within the limits of inquiry that
presents any advantages for the location of Q
dry dock as contemplated in the act creating the
commission
snow the question arises, what is within the
limits of inquiry? / very naturally supposed,
in reading the report, that it was the inquiry in
Etitnted by congress and enjoined upon them
1.-THE senator from Washington thinks it is the
inquiry at the heading of this report, and that it
is necessary that 1t should be restricted to that
IN order to make 1t consistent. That may be the
interpretation, and that may be what was in
tended by the commission. But certainly the
language used would subject 1t to the under
standing that within the subject of INQUIRY
was the inquiry imposed by congress But the
senator from Washington may be correct in his
interpretation.
The amendment was adopted-a4 to Il.
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