Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1892-05-07
REED AND HOLMAN.
Have Little set-tO Over an Indiana Ap'
preparation in the River and Hsrbor

Have a Little Bet-to Over an Indiana Ap'
preparation in tho River and Hsrbor
Bill
WASHINGTON, d. c., May 6.-There
was quite a large attendance OF the
members In the House this morning.
The first business in order was the Sib-
ley bill, coming over from last Friday
but the House refused TO consider II
and went into committee Of the whole,
Mr.. Hatch in the chair, on the river
and harbOr bill.
Mr.. Caruth, OF Kentucky, threw a
little amusement into the proceedings
by offering an amendment appropriate
ing So, coo for the improvement OF Salt
River, KY. After expatiating upon the
great benefits which would accrue to
commerce from the improvements OF
the navigation of this stream, he allud-
ed TO the advantage which the appro-
priation would bring to defeated candi-
dates for the Presidency.
Mr.. Blanchard remembered that some
Kentucky representative had asked for
a survey of Salt River.
"Will you get it ready before the No.
vember elections?" was Mr.. Caruth'S
plaintive rejoinder; and the House,
bursting into laughter, defeated the
amendment.
Then Mr.. Reed, of Maine, saw an op-
portunity to stir up Mr.. Holman and he
did so by moving to strike out the ap-
proproiation of $4,000 for completing
the embankment on the south side of
the Great Miami river. In sarcastic
manner he called upon the chairman OF
the Committee on Appropriations TO
rise and protest against this eXtrava-
CANT expenditure, even though 1t was
to be expended within his district. 1t
seemed that the gentleman had re-
deeming trait-that he was so human
thot when il came to an appropriation
for his own district the great principle
OF economy, retrenchment and reform
was no more applicable to him than to
the weakest of Representatives. Laugh
ter.
Mr.. Holman defended the appropria-
tion. Referring to an allusion made by
Mr.. reed to the town Of Lawrenceburg,
Ind, he said that if he had alluded in a
similar manner TO a town in the gentle
mans district, the gentleman could
think of nothing that was too mean for
him to reply. He denied emphatically
that in advocating the paragraph he
was in any way actuated by personal
motive.
Mr.. Reed replied that he had not said
that the gentleman was actuated In leg
islation by personal motives but he had
been here for fifteen years and he had
never seen the gentleman vote against
an Indiana project.
Mr.. Holman-"Yes you have. You
have seen me do so over and over again.
You have seen me vote against the
swamp land bill, in which Indiana was
interested"
Mr.. Reed-"That is right-that is an
exception"
Mr.. McRae, OF Arkansas-"He is not
right"
Mr.. Reed-"Is that so? Then that
settles that instance"
Mr.. Reeds motion was lost without
division.
Mr.. Whiting moved to strike out the
appropriation for a ship channel twenty
one feet in depth connecting the waters
of the great lakes between Chicago,
Duluth and Buffalo, and inserting in
lieu thereof provision authorizing the
Secretary Of War to appoing board OF
engineers to whom shall be re-
ferred the report of Colonel o.
NJ. Poe, upon the subject OF
twenty foot channel from Duluth TO
Buffalo through the great lakes; the
board also to report as TO the practica-
btity of raising the water level Of the
lakes and connecting harbors by dam
ming the Niagara river.
Pending action the committee rose
and the House took recess, the eve
ming session to be fer the consideration
Of private pension bills.