Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-05-20
AGAINST NATIONAL PARKS.
Mr.. Compton Speaks Against Chat
tanooga and Chickamauga.
THE RIVER AND HARBOR BILL
1t is Passed by in the Senate With
out Division.
THE SENATE,

seIned the confederation CT tho river and harboI
bill, and various amendments Of small i'm.
portance were offered and agreed to.
Mr.. Mcmillan moved to insert an item Of
800 900 for the improvement Of Grand river
Michigan, below the falls.
Mr.. Frye opposed the amendment and said
that almost everything had beef done in the
bill for Michigan that the committee felt JUST
ned In doing. The amendment was rejected.
MIR: Hawley moved to increase the appropria-
ton for the harbor at New Haven, Conn, from
els, 600 to S25, 900 and argued in support Of the
ton was rejected.
MI. Pugh moved to take $1,000 from the
appropriation Of s262, 500 for the Mobile har.
provement of The Warrior river.
Mr. RALE ON MAsoUERADINo.
Mr.. Hale opposed the amendment and pointed
out the effect Of the Continuing contract
| items in the bill. Whereas these items, he said
only carried appropriations Of &c, 206, $50, they
bound the government hand and foot to an ad.
ditional outlay of $50, Sl5,377.
And yet, he said, the democratic Senators
particularly referring to Messrs German. Vest
Cockrell and Vilas) were not seen to rise and
protest against those provisions which had been
pus In a bill by a democratic House of Repre-
sentatives. He discovered in that fact some
thing OF the disappearing" which had been
referred to the other day by the Senator from
Maryland.
THE BILL PASSED.
The Senate finally passed tho river and har-
Dor appropriation bill without division and q
conference with the House was asked.
THE HOUSE.
Once more the third party, as represented by
Mr.. Watson (Ga. }, attempted to secure consid-
GRAFTON of the resolution requesting the ways
and means committee to report the sub
treasury bill,an once more the demand for the
regular order" operated as an objection.
After the call of committees for reports the
House went into committee Of the whole (Mr.
Lester OF Georgia in the chair) on the sundry
civil bill.
CENSUS OFFICE ITEMS.
An amendment offered by Mr.. Cogswell
(Mass.) appropriating s543, 767 for continuing
the work in the division of farms. homes and
mortgages in the census bureau was rejected
Mr.. Dingley (Me.) offered an amendment ap-
propriating $3.50 900 for the publication c: the
final volumes of the census OF 1890.
In speaking of this amendment Mr.. PAYNE of
New York took occasion to critise an nppropria-
ton in the bill of $50 900 for q reservoir on the
west branch of Hot Springs creek. If there
was chaIfcc for the United States to wipe out
its title to Hot Springs the treasury would be
much better off,
Mr.. Terry (Ark) thought that the appropria-
obtained the title to the property on q techni-
cality and it ought to treat the people who had
improved the land and made it valuable in q
fair manner.
Mr.. Dingley's amendment was lost.
AGAINST NATIONAL SPARKS.
MIR. Dickerson moved to strike out the appro-
priation Of else, 900 to enable the Secretary of
War to complete the establishment of the
Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Park.
Mr.. Compton (Md.) spoke in favor of the
motion. He was opposed to the appropriation
on principle. He did not believe in perpetual
ing the horrors Of the war.
He stood here and unhesitatingly said that IL
his poor will and judgment could have scope in
this land, but one other monument would ever
be erected within its limits. At the
foo; or near the base of yonder
magnificent marble shaft (the Washington
aSonun.sa erected a in memory of the
unparalleled in the annals Of history
he would spring an arch on the placid
and now historic waters Of the old
Potomac, and on that arch he would
erect two heroic figures with clasped
hands-Grant and Lee-that the country
over this land to sneak for neace for nn;on ' for
reconciliation and honnv and rsnn;tad cow
trv- IAnnlanse He va, onnosad 20 ~ ~,
nronriatipn in The hin on nrrinc;nio 81 ~
ever criticism might come he wpnld cast ~.
humble vote oooi1st II "'1 '"'' Ai'
THE APPROPRIATION ADVOCATED.
Mr.. Picker Esd. y favored the augmentation
for IN. o.r,o rooson .ha, ,,o o,,.,arl.. ,
n Tboro ros .ooa tou.u.,h;. .-:-.:f
tween tho reon,e Of tho nor,,, ga 49, 80.
of the south. There sbonld he no an;np,os;tS
between them. They should be a nation Of
brothers, and they were rapidly becoming So
This brotherly feeling intensified when on the
old battlehe!ds the Union and confederate ex-sol-
diers met and exchanged patriotic sentiments
while discussing the scenes i'll which they had
been actors. He would mark every battlefield
and every skirmish ground and fix by tablets
the spots where both sides fought He believed
that this would develop patriotism. He believed
that every confederate soldier in the land was
~. DicKe s saiu tnat tne reputation OF the
inc 70 nornstn"ta ~ NV ra;s;,m st "'enp.-
were remembered nv their deeds not hv ~
expenditure of money