The Portland daily press., 1892-05-07
WHEN HOLMAN FORGETS.
Seruples Disappear When There Is
Pork for His District.
MIR. REED TURNS THE LAUGH ON
THE TREASURY GUARDIAN.

Other Washington News-Ten Thousand
Dollars Worth of Property Destroyed
by Wind Storm-The Chinese Are
Still With Us-PostaI Notes and Free
Delivery in Rural Districts-Behrins
Sea Treaty To Be Ratified at Once.
WASHINGTON, May 6.-After routine
business the House today vert into COM
mittee of the whole on the river and har-
Dor bill. An amendment by Mr.. Caruth,
appropriating $4,000 for the improvement
of the Salt river in Kentucky, was de-
feated. Mr.. Reed of Maine saw an op-
portunity to stir up Mr.. Holman, and he
did so by moving to strike out the appro-
priation of $4,000 for completing the
embankments on the south side of the
Great Miami river. In sarcastic man.
ner, he called upon the chairman of the
committee on appropriations to rise and
protest against this extravagant expen-
diture, even though it was to be epxend-
ed within his district. It seemed that
the gentleman had a redeeming trait,
that he was so human that when it came
to an appropriation for his own district
the great principle of economy, retrench-
ment and reform was no more applica-
BILE to him than to the weakest of repre-
sentatives. Laughter.
Mr.. Holman defended the appropria-
ton. and referring to an allusion made
by Mr.. Reed to the town of Lawrence
curg, Ind, said that if he had alluded in
similar manner to 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.
Mr.. Whiting of Michigan, moved to
strike out the appropriation for a ship
channel twenty-orie feet in depth con-
Meeting the waters of the Great Lakes
between Chicago, Duluth and Buffalo,
and to insert in lieu thereof a provision
authorizing the Secretary of War to ap-
point board of engineers, to whom
shall be referred the report of Col. Poe
upon the subject of twenty foot chan
mel from Duluth to Buffalo through the
Great Lakes. The board shall also re-
port as to the practicability of raising
the water level of the lakes and connect
ing harbors by damming the Niagara
river.
Pending action, the committee rose and
the House took a recess until o'clock,
the evening session to be for the consid-
GRAFTON of private pension bills.
osTAL NOTES AND FREE DELIVERY.
Important Measures To Be Reported to
the House.
WASHINGTON, May 6.-The House
committee on post offices and post roads
has authorized Chairman Henderson to
report the postal fractional note bill
which authorizes the Postmaster General
to issue fractional currency notes in the
sum of 81 and fractions thereof to be
furnished to postmasters throughout the
country and sold at face values, payable
to bearer at any post Office in the United
States at any time within six months
from issue, after which the note is to be
cancelled.
The committee also authorized Mr..
Patterson of Ohio to report to the House
a bill appropriating 100000 for an ex-
perimental free mail delivery system in
the rural districts of the United States.
The postmaster general is directed to
apply the system to all rural districts in
the country.