Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-10
DOWN TO BUSINESS.
Important Bills Passed Yesterday by
Both Senate and House,
THE FORMER FOR HOME SHIPPING
And the Other One for the Improvement
of Rivers and HarbOrS
HOW THE VOTES ON BOTH WERE CAST

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morning business in the Senate to-day, Nj
Frye, from the Committee on Commerce
reported back the House bill to encourag
American shipbuilding. He said the repor
was unanimous, and that he had beel
instructed to move its present considera
tion. He made that motion, and it wa
agreed to.
The bill having been read in full, Mr.
Frye stated that although it was general il
its provisions, two ships only were to b
admitted to American registry. They were
to be excluded from the coastwise trade
and might be used by the Government (by
charter or purchase) in case of war; That
he said, was the full extent of the bill. The
two ships TO be admitted were the City ol
New York and the City of Paris, of the
Inman line, the two largest ships to-day in
the world, since the Great Eastern was
broken up.
Mr.. Vest, a member of the Committee on
Commerce, said be had supported the bill
in committee and would support it in the
Senate, although it lacked a good deal OF
meeting his convictions on the question OF
free shipping. The statement had been re.
peatedly made, since the bill passed the
House, that these steamships would receive
large subsidies under the postal subsidy
bill. The bill, he said, would have no such
effect
Radical Conflict of Opinion.
Mr.. Mill; expressed the opinion that the
two ships would be entitled to subsidy.
Mr.. Vest persisted In the contrar Y
opinion, because the subsidy bill applied
only to American-built ships.
Mr.. Sherman read a clause of the pending
bill to show that the City of Paris and the
City of New York were to be entitled ''to
all the rights and privileges Of vessels of
the United States" except that they should
not be employed in the coastwise trade, and
he gave it as his opinion that that clause
would confer upon their owners the right
to make a contract under the postal subsidy
law.
Mr.. Vest remarked that if that was the
construction to be put upon the bill it
would be repeal, by implication, of the
postal subsidy bill, which absolutely re-
Quired American-built ships.
Mr.. Mills, in order to make The bill con-
form to Mr.. Vests views, moved to amend
the bill by striking out the clause read bv
Mr.. Sherman. AT the close of long dis
cussiOn the vote was taken on Mr.. Mills
amendment to strike from the bill the
clause which would entitle the two ships to
a contract under the postal subsidy act. The
amendment was rejected without a division.
Passed as 1t Came From the House.
The bill was then passed-just as it came
from the House-yeas, Al; nays, 10-aS fol-
lows:
1eas--Messrs. Allen, Allison, Barbour.
Cullom, Dawes, Dixon, Dolph, Dubois, Frye,
Gibson (Maryland), German, Hale, Hans
brough, Hawley, Hill, Kenna, Kyle, McMil-
Ian, Morgan, Paddock. Perkins. Pettigrew,
sanders, Sawyer Shoup, Stockbridge, Vest,
Villas and Wolcott-A.
Nays-Messrs. Bate, FELTON,, George, Har-
ris, Mitchell, Morrill,; Palmer, Teller, Voor-
The bill now goes to the President for ap-
proval.
The resolution for payment TO the Choc-
taw and Chickasaw nations for their interests
in the Cheyenne and Arapahoe reservations
about $4,000, ,000-was then taken up as
unfinished business. After debate this res
olution was agreed to, yeas 43, nays 13.
The River and Harbor Bill Passed.
Almost an hour was consumed in the
House this morning in the consideration of
unimportant reports submitted by the Com
mittee on Accounts The House then pro-
ceeded to the further consideration of the
river and harbor bill The pending question
was the reconsideration of the vote bv which
the House on Saturday agreed to the
amendment providing that in cases where
authority has been granted to the Sec
retary of War to make contracts for the
completion OF certain works, if no bids be
received which are deemed by the Secretary
to be advantageous, then materials NAV be
purchased and the work may be done other
wise than by contract Reluctantly, but
recognizing that by SO they would es-
cape day of flibustering, the advocates of
the bill voted to reconsider, and the amend
ment was then rejected.
Mr.. Holman, of Indiana moved to recon-
nit the bill, with instructions to the COM
mittee to report it back with an amendment
striking out the contract provisions.
Mr.. Outhwaite, of Ohio, moved to amend
the instructions by requiring the committee
to strike out all appropriations which are
for new works or for the further extension
OF works now under construction, so that
the bill shall include only appropriations
for the continuation or co ompletion of works
now in progress.
How the Finish Was Made
The amendment was lost-yeas, SO; nays,
20. The question then required on Mr..
Holman's motion, which was defeated
yeas, 50; nays, 149 The bill was then
passed-yeas, 1856; nays, Go. This being the
second Monday in the month the floor was
then accorded to the Committee on the Dis
trict of Columbia
The following is the negative vote on the
river and harbor bill:
Messrs. Allen, Andrew, Bailey, Baker, Bee
man, Beltzhoover, BreclIinIidg (ky.), Brook
SHIRE, Brown. Drummer, Busey Bushnell,
Butler, Bynum, Campbell, Caruth, Clancy,
Cochran, Cooper, Cox IN. ", Craig. Craw-
lord, Crosby, Culberson, Cummings, Dear
mond, Dickerson, Dockery, Dolliver, Ellis,
Flick, Fowler, Grady. Hall, Hallowell, Ham
ilton, Hit, Hoar, Holman. Hull, Kilgore,
Kribbs, Lane, Lanham, Lester (va.), Martin,
0Nell (Mass.), Outhwaite, Patton, Pendle-
ton, Post, Powers, Ray, Reilly, Richardson,
Savers, Scott Searle, Simpson, Stevens,
Tucker, Watson, White, Williams IN. c.,
lMass.)-65.
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