Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1895-02-22
HOUSE PROCEEDINGS.
Appropriation Hills Under Consider
Rtion-poIitics

Washington Feb. 21.-In the house
today the senate amendment to the bill
authorizing the construction of bridge
across the Missouri river at Sioux city,
Iowa, was agreed to.
The house then resumed C0nsidera-
ton of the senate amendment to the
diplomatic and consular appropriation
bill, appropriating $500 600 to aid in the
construction Of a submarine cable from
the United States to the Hawaiian Is
lands.
Mr.. Hooker dem, Miss), member
of the foreign affairs committee, opened
the debate in opposition to the propos-
ed appropriation. BY the terms OF this
amendment, Mr.. Hooker said, the gov
eminent was to own, control and oper-
ate this Hawaiian cable. Such propo-
sltion had never been made before,
Let private enterprise construct this
cable, IL 1t so desired.
Mr.. Storer (Rep, Ohio deprecated
making this matter party question.
hut said he realized that 1t was only
In this that the chairman of the COM
mlttee on foreign affairs hoped to de-
feat this project.
Party lines had been broken In the
senate when this amendment was voted
into the bill. He called attention to
the necessity for the cable, us expressed
IN two of President Cleveland's mes
sages, and the recommendations of Mr..
Bayard, when he was secretary OF
state. That was when there was a
Democrat was at the head of
the state department, said he. Things
were different, now that there was in
the state department a secretary who
rose above or below party accordingly
as he was viewed. SIN, If the admins
tration was now opposed to this cable.
the manly thing for Mr.. Cleveland to
do would be TO send message to con-
gress saying he had changed his mind,
In conclusion, Mr.. Storer said that
submarine cable was now as much a
necessary adjunct to the navy as the
electric signal which connected the
pilot house with the engine room OF a
battle ship.
Mr.. Draper Rep.. Mass) said he IA
vored this cable. as preliminary step
toward the annexation of the Hawai-
ian Islands.
Mr.. Hermann Rep.. Ore) declared
that TO the Pacific the question OF a
cable connecting Honolulu overshad-
owed and transcribed all others, save
only that OF the construction OF the
Nicaragua canal The people Of the
Hawaiian Islands gave us 30 per cent
OF their trade. More OF our ships en-
tered the port of Honolulu last year
than any other port in the world, Liv-
erpool not excepted. Aside from the
commercial reasons. there We're patri-
otlc and political reasons for the con-
struction of this cable.
Mr. Harter Dem., Ohio thought this
cable should be laid by private capital,
and he understood that private parties
had appeared before the committee
and had asked for a charter for this
purpose
Mr. Ryan Dem., N. " thought this
Democratic house could well afford. in
the closing hours OF its session, 10 show
its sympathy with merchants desiring
to extend our trade by voting an APP
preparation for the construction Of this
Mr.. Tucker Dem. Val opposed the
amendment.
Mr. sickles IN. " earnestly support
ed the cable proposition. He was COM
PEELED TO appeal from the Judgment
OF the house committee on foreign af-
fairs 10 that OF the senate COMMITTEE.
AS an American. he had platform of
MS own. He favored annexation. As a
Democrat he found his warrant In the
policy Of Jefferson. who annexed Louis
lana and OF jackson, who annexed
Texas. If party lines trammeled him
on a question like this he would break
them asunder. as he had done before.