Los Angeles herald., 1891-02-11
NATIONAL CAPITAL.
Appropriation Bills Still on
Deck in Congress.
The Senate Struggles With the
Naval Budget.
Tshe Barrundia Affair Dragged Into
House Proceedings.
An Illinois Congressman Indignantly De-
nounces the Charge that He Is
British Emissary.
Associated Press Dispatches.

British Emissary.
associated Press Dispatches.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 10.-In the senate,
today, the house bill to revise the wages
Of certain employees of the government
printing Office, was taken up and passed.
Plumb and German were appointed
conferees on the part of the senate on
the Notifications appropriations bill.
The naval appropriations bill was then
taken up, and Hale made a statementa as
to its provisions.
The first amendment reported from
the committee on appropriations was
the following: To enable the president
TO cause careful sounding to be made
between San Francisco and Honolulu
for the purpose OF determining the prac-
ticability of laying telegraphic cable
between those points, $4,000, or SO
much thereof as may be necessary and
the president is hereby, authorized to
direct the use of any vessel or vessels
belonging to the United States, in max
ing such survey. 1t was agreed to, after
remarks by German to the effect that it
was not to be regarded as committing
the government in any way to the pro-
position that the government was to buy
the cable.
The item of $25 900 for equipment and
arms for naval militia in various states,
was challenged by Carlisle, and ex-
planned by Hale as applying to certain
states that had organizations for drill
ing and training for naval service, just
aB land militia had for land service.
Carlisle opposed the item. He thought
it merely the beginning Of bounty
system.
The item was discussed at great length,
and amended to read: ''for arms" in
stead of equipment and arms" and
agreed to-31 to 15.
The next amendment was one provid-
ing for dry dock on the Columbia
river. or on Puget sound. Allen moved
= substitute by fixing the site at Port
Orchard, on Puget sound. No action
was reached on the amendment.
A message from the president, with
the correspondence relating to the con-
duct of Commander Reiter, was pre-
scented and referred to the committee on
naval officers.
The presidents veto message on the
bill for q public building at Dallas,
Texas, with the action of the house in
passing the bill over the veto of the
president, was received and referred.
A eulogy was delivered on the late
Representative Walker, OF Missouri, and
the senate adjourned.
HOUSE PROCEEDINGS.
The house, today, passed the bill in
creasing to 500 a month the pension of
the widow of General Custer.
Unanimous consent for the committee
On coinage, weights and measures to sit
during the session of the house was
granted.
The army and pension appropriation
bills were sent to conference.
Enloe, of Tennessee, moved to dis
charge the committee on expenditures
from further consideration of the reso-
luton offered by him calling on the Sec
retary OF the treasury for information as
geological park. Defeated.
The house then went into committee
of the whole on the legislative appropri
alton bill.
In the general debate. the Bafrundia
case was revived by Dalzell of Pennsyl-
vania, who defended the action of Com
mander Reiter. The public reprimand
administered to the commander by the
secretary of the navy, he said. was un-
warranted and Unjust. Dalzell affirmed
Ehat Guatemala had right to arrest
while on board the Acapulco.
Was there, he asked, one law to be fol-
lowed when we faced Guatemala, and
another when we faced Great Britain,
France or Germany? He said: Nay.
The killing of Barrundia could not do
the American flag any harm. 1t had
never been the function of our flag, it
was not now, it never would be, to pro-
tect criminals to defeat the administra-
tion OF justice; to defp well-recognized
principles OF international law in the
ports of any power, whether great or in
significant.
Lodge OF Massachusetts and Deliver
of Iowa defended the action of the secre-
tary OF the navy.
Boutelle of Maine said he would not
have written the letter to Commander
Reiter that the secretary had published,
and if he had written it he would not
have published it.
Fithian of Illinois opposed the ship
ping bill, and attacked Charles Hill,
secretary of the, shipping league, on ac-
count OF his statement that he (Fithian)
was British emissary. He denounced
the statement as lie, and its author as
an unmitigated liar.
Farquhar of New York briefly defend
ed the bill, and without disposing of it
the committee rose and the house ad-
journed.
BILLS REPORTED, ETC.
Stockbridge, from the committee on
commerce, today reported to the house
a bill to provide for the safe transport
and humane treatment of cattle ex-
ported from the United States to for
eign countries. 1t authorizes the secre-
tary OF agriculture to examine all ves-
sells carrying export cattle from ports OF
the United States to foreign countries,
and prescribe rules and regulations for
their proper transportation.
Senator Hoar reported today from the
judiciary committee, as an original meas
ure, bill to provide for the judicial dis
Cricting of the United States into ten
circuits. The circuits as now constituted
nine districts. The bill, as re-
ported, increases the number to ten, and
makes some chanpas in the boundaries