Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-04-14
HITTING AT HOLMAN.
The Hoosier Cheese-Parer Getting 1t
in the Neck Right Along.
PARSINONY NOT AT ALL ECONOMY.
{ Some of His Plans Given Q Severe Backset
BY His Own Party.
PROSPECTS OF SEVERAL BIG ROWS
ESPECIAL TELEGRAPHIc LErTER.l
BUREAU OF TIE DIsrArcH,


ESPECIAL TELEGRAPHIc LErTER.l
BUREAU OF The DnrAroH,
WASHINGTON. d. c.. April 13.
1t is pretty evident that the Democratic
friends of Mr.. Holman in the House are
ready to rise in rebellion against his almost
insane desire to cut down the expenditures
of this Congress for campaign effect In the
naval appropriation bill, now under discus
sion in the House, he has gone to such ex-
tremes of opposition to certain provisions
that it looks as though his own anxiety and
obstinacy are about to defeat his purpose.
Republicans and Democrats assailed him
with bitterness and sarcasm to-day upon his
point that provision for the construction of
@ dry dock was not properly q part OF q
naval appropriation bill, though the harmo-
nious ruling of no less than four Speakers of
the House and Chairman of the Committee
of the whole House was cited against him.
Mr. Herbert, of ALBANIA, Chairman of the
Naval Committee, usually almost as
cranky as Holman on demagogic shouts for
economy, was especially severe on the
Indiana cheese-paring statesman. Cum
mings and Fellows, of New York, also
piled the latter with annoying questions
shively Caps the Awful Climax.
Boutelle and Dingley, of Maine, on the
part of the Republicans, Joined in to make
the old man ridiculous, and final and
crushing blow was given by Shively, who
was in the Chair, and who promptly, after
the long discussion, overruled the point of
order Mr. Shively is from MI. Holman's
~ la hod haa, ro1iod hxr
the latter to sustain his point, but Shively
is a young, clever, progressive member,
who detests the humbugging talk about
economy, is in favor OF liberal expenditures,
and was apparently glad of the opportunity
to assist at the drubbling of his senior col
league.
But the backset given to Mr.. Holman's
economical plans to-day was nothing to
what they will get when the section of the
naval bill is reached which provides for
only one new battleship and which also
meets with Herbert's appreciation. A |
dozen members are ready with fiery and |
ironical speeches descriptive of the hoop |
pole region patriotism and craftsmanship |
which, in the face Of a recent very narrow |
escape from two wars in which a strong |
navy only could have prevented great |
disaster could provide for but one new war |
vessel to build up navy which has been |
begun on grand scale but whose first ships |
bid fair to be rotten or obsolete before the |
naval machinery reaches any imposing |
dimensions
Herbert Comes Ont on Top.
The Democrats of the Naval Committee /
were not all in sympathy with Chairman
Herbert in this provision, but he gained
majority and so framed the bill The commit
tee is composed of 13 members, four of whom
are Republicans, all in favor, under the
leadership of Commodore" Boutelle, of
liberal appropriations for new vessels Of
the remaining nine Democrats Cummings,
of New York, and Daniel. of New Hamp-
shire, and McAleer, of Philadelphia, are
with the Republicans on the question of
naval construction. Cummings will attack
his Democratic colleagues of the commit
tee in his well-known sledge-hammer style,
and Daniel and McAleer will ably second
him, and it is even possible that one or two
other Democrats who agree to this section
of the bill in committee may reach more
liberal view of the committee of the whole
House.
Cummings holds to the plan of building
navy which was advocated and in a measure
initiated under Secretary Whitney. The
way to build navy is to build it. Cum
mings wants an immediate provision for
two large battleships, four smaller gun
boats, four torpedo gunboats and several
torpedo boats, and will offer an amendment
to that effect.
Prospects for Another Row.
The division of the Democrats of the
committee and their further division in the
House at large renders it quite possible that
Mr.. Cummings efforts may result in a pro-
vision for more vessels than the one which
now stands solitary in the bill. Of course,
Holman, who, though he has nothing to do |
with tho SfruetioO of tho naval hill |
feels that he should be heard upon every
thing that involves an appropriation, will, |
in his pig-headed way, oppose any increase, |
and will try to pare down wherever he can;
and so there is a prospect for nice Demo-
cratic row over the provision for new ships.
Of course, even if Holmanism prevail in |
the House, no one expects the Senate will
be SO timid as to subscribe to it, even in a
Presidential year. The record of the Re-
publican party is one of liberal expendi-
ture. 1t develops the country, as they
think, and so pays a high interest on the
outlay. Moreover, it makes liberal duty
on imports, an important source of income
for expenditure, and so two of the party
tenets are made to support each other The
Republicans believe the country will in
dorse this policy in the future as in the
past. And, curious to note, in the matter
of liberal expenditures the Alliance people
meet the Republicans on common grounds
Billion Dollars Against a Nickel.
The outcry against the 'billion-dollar
Congress" is met with the appellation "the
fve-cent-nickel Congress. One sportive
Democrat who detests Holmanism and ad-
mires the Republican policy in this respect,
said to me to-day: ''The one is penny-ante
Congress and the other a table-stake Con-
gress."
A constant and very interested spectator
and auditor of the scenes and discussion in
the House pending the discussion of the
naval appropriation bill is Mr.. Charles
Cramp, of Cramp Brothers, the great Phila-
delphsa ship builders Few men are better
known here and plain, hearty, genial, social
qualities makes him a great favorite. Nat
urally, with their almost unequealed plant
for the construction of war vessels, he
would expect to capture some of the con-
tracts if a liberal provision be made for
naval ships
A good deal of amusement and gossip
were excited in diplomatic and other circles,
here to-day, by report that one Senior
Antonio Hilario da Coehlo. of New York,
had sent friend, Colonel Tom Wilkin-
son, on to Washington. with challenge to