Morning journal and courier., 1894-05-12
LIVELY TIMES IN THE HOUSE.

the consideration of the naval sppropril ton bill
 Mir. Boutelle, rep, of Maine, said th
 rebuilding and upbuilding of the Amer can navy, which was begun under Preti
 dent Arthur and Secretary Chandler, hs'
 come to e stop under President Clsvelan,
 and Secretary Herbert. The situation nov
 confronting the country was that sine
 the democratic party obtained contro
 progress upon the work of rehsbilitstinl
 the navy had ceased. The beginning of tn,
 new steel navy was upon the recommend
 ing of MT. Chandler, but 30 determined
 was the democratic administration to ig.
 nore republican administrations that Mr.
 Whitney designated the first chip con-
 tracted for as cruiser, when there were al. l ready under contract and nearing compile
 ton four vessels. The naval review in
 New York last year, which the nswspa- pers headlined as 'sthe review of Secretary
 Whitney's navy" consisted of Ave ships
 four of them being the vessels contracted
 for under MT. Chsndler's administration. | Mir. Boutells reviewed the legislation au- | thorizing the construction of the new navy ! to support his assertion that the democrat ic party was entitled to no credit whatever | As an evidence of the liberal treatment &C., | corded the new navy by republicans as l contra-distinauished from democratic 1 treatment MT. Boutells said the Fifty first
 congress gave for new ships and to carry on contracts made by democratic officials the sum of s2s, ,5S2, 900. The democratic party, he declared, stood before the country sb- solutely without excuse for not going for ward with the working of the navy. Ar. Talbot of Maryland said the naval gun foundry was due to democratic mem bers. When the condition of the coun-
 try would permit the party would be found marching on to the consummatien, declared in 1876 by Admiral Porter to be the true position of the United States of having navy able to cope with the best on the globe. Democratic applause.
 The debate was closed by MT. Cum mings. dsm., of New York. Referring to the statement by MT. Boutelle that since the new navy was begun the majority of democrats had voted against the appro- priations, he said that maybe he could give the reasons. Most of the members doubtless remembered republican respon- sibiltty for the csrpet-bsg era in their states and could not be induced to vote to suit the other side. MT. Cummings re- ferred at length to what he termed the Robeson era affairs.
 "When you rob the navy and the gov ernment in doing it," said MT. Cummings, "for your own political purposes, 1t need not surprise the gentleman from Maine (Boutelle) that democrats would not vote money for new navy to be spent by re- publican administrations" [Applausel.
 Mir. Reed got the floor and said: "Mr. Chairman-If there Is any position which 1t is delightful to bshold on the part of northern democrat 1t Is the position occu- pied by the gentleman in charge of this bill (Mr. Cummipgs) He defends his south erD brethren. It is astonishing how the northern democrat knows his master and how anxious he Is to propitiate him. Why, they actually applauded on the other side just.now 8 repetition of the most absurd speech, if Imay say so without being unpsr- lfsmentary-that was presented by the gen. tleman from New York in this chamber four years ago. This that he has uttered today is nothing but hash, very fine, minced hash, of an attack which he made upon ne at time when it was impossible for me to make @ reply. It was not oply not possible, but 1t was not necessary, for my colleague (Boutelle) shortly afterwards gave him such a thorough exposition of the matter that the gentlemsn's speech was laughed at by all the democratic papers.
 ''It is 8 little amazing, Mir. Chairman. that the gentleman ehould have 80 little ! idea of the figure he cut upon that occs- sion that he should want to revive it in the memory of those who were here and saw It. It Is very painful the way in 1 which the gentleman endea7ors to bring himself into considerable notoriety by these continued performances. But sup pose he has to do 1t. I suppose that his l general knowledge of the subject is such l that he has to wander into by paths that he can find, instead of keeping in the broad highway where he would not be noticed. It is natural for him to do 1t, but it has got to be some- what monotonous for him to keep repeat ! ing things in this way. I congratulate audience on his side of the house that sl- most all the time does not know the facts upon which he Is commenting and conse- quently 1t seems to him from their sp- ptause as if he had made success, whereas he is only receiving the commentators of the ipjudicious. I hope the next time he revives these various eubjects he will bear In mind that oft-repeated failures never make @ success"
 little easy with the gentleman. left out the Biddeford natursliz ation frauds" Ap- plauss on the democratic side.
 MT. Reed-"Oh, he left out the Bidde- ford naturalization frauds, did hel Welll He exploited them before, and got the re- suit. The fact is, I never have larger majority in my district than when the democrats have possession of the navy yard, and if were willing to sacrifice my country for myseIf, would want them to have control ell the time. Laughter A gentleman said to me not long ago that the democratic party would last forever, that 1t would be here at the end of hundred years. That is 30. There has slwsys got to be hind end of things." Laughter and applause on the republican sidel.
 MT. Boutelle gave his account of the in- cident of Mir. Cummings' attack on MT. Reed in the Fifty-first congress and fol- lowed with a charge that the navy yards had been used by the Cleveland adminis- tration of 1885 S9 for the manipulation of patronage and the influencing of voters to an extent fully equal to anything that had preceded that period.
 Mr. Cummings denied that he had charged 'tcolonization of voters in the Kit tery yard" in his speech in the Fifty first congress. The gentleman (Boutelle) had refused to accept his (Oummings) disclsim- CT, but had repeated the charge instead of retractiDg 1t, which he would do If he were man.