Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-06
FOOLlNG THE PEOPLE.
Nr. Breckinridge, Of Kentucky, Wants
That Trick Stopped.
HOLMANS CHEESE KNIFE Is OUT,
And He Insists on PAIRING Down River and
Harbor Expenses.
UNIFORM MARRIAGE LAWS ADVOCATED

WASHINGTON, May 5.-The attack in
the House to-day upon the river and harbor
bill by Mr.. Holman was sharp and bitter,
but his marks did not create a sensation,
as did those OF Mr.. Breckenridge, of Ken
tucky, when he appealed to Democratic
House to deal frankly and fairly with the
people, and not try to create the impress
sion that the bill involved the appropriation
of but S21, 900, 600, when it really carried an
expenditure of S47, 900, 600. After the ref
erence ofa few Senate bills, the House went
into committee of the whole, Mr. Hatch, of
Missouri, in the chair, on the river and
harbor appropriation bill. Further general
debate was limited to two hours, and Mr..
Holman, of Indiana, took the floor in oppo-
sition TO the measure.
He attacked the bill as being an extrava-
giant one. 1t not only appropriated more
than s21, 600 900, but it authorized contracts
to be made which would make the Govern
ment liable to S26, OOO, 900 more. In con-
nection with the bill he sent to the clerks
desk and had read letter from w. E.
Leonard, of Port Huron, Mich, to Repre-
sentative Whiting, thanking him for his
opposition to the proposal to make 2l-foot
channel across Lake St. Clair, q distance OF
30 miles
Too Many Millions for Piers.
This channel would have to be made with
piers of wood or stone on both sides. 1t
would cost at least S72, 000, 900, and if the
piers wereof stone it would cost $500, ,0OO, 600.
Again at Beer Point, in Lake Erie, there |
would be ten miles of piers and five feet of |
dredging, and at the $500" river, so miles |
of piers AT the foot of Lake Huron there
would have to be about three miles of
piers These SO miles of wooden piers,
with the necessary dredging, would cost
s.. SOC, 600; and in FIVE years the work would
not be worth the button on a soldiers coat
for the navigation of 21-foot vessels.
Mr. Whiting, of Michigan, thought that
the proposition to secure 21-foot channel
from Duluth to Bnffalo was premature and
ill-advised.
Mr.. Breckinridge, of Kentucky, had too
short time accorded to him to attack the
bill in detail, but he said that if q Demo-
cratic House wished to pass the bill it
should act frankly with the people, and tell
them that the measure involved an appro-
priation of S47 200, 600 and not of S21 ,000,-
0O0 II the 81, ,00OO 900 was fair and just,
let the Democratic party 60 before the
country and say so, and not declare that
this was an economical Congress and had
appropriated only S21 100000,
One Kind of Economy Not Wanted.
Mr.. Lockwood made an eloquent speech
in favor OF the deep waterway channel He
believed in the general policy of economy,
but he was opposed to that economy which
deprived the people Of their just rights in
the matter of transportation.
Mr. Catchings, of Mississippi, in de-
Tending the bill, paid his respects to Mr..
Holman. Tine gentleman from Indiana, he
said, opposed the measure as he did every
other measure, which was step toward the
advancement of the country.
The general debate having concluded, the
bill was considered under the fve-mihute
rule. On motion of Mr.. Blanchard, the
appropriation for the improvement of the
harbor at Manitowoc Wis, was increased
from $4,000 to S2S, 900. Without disposiDg
of the bill, the committee rose and the
House adjourned.
II" In"'prfsenting remonstrance against
legislation to close the Worlds Fair on
Sundays, Senator Morrill, to-day remarked
that if it were so closed it would deprive
the working classes of any reasonable op-
portunity to visit the exhibition