The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-03-04

( perhaps without q single aspiration in
common with either. the United States
would be foui-d siding with Russia and
| France and at enmity with Great
| Britain and the Dreibund.
/ Mr. Proctor Republican,, of YER
mont took occasion to say few words
! IN support of land defenses as opposed
| 70 ships from the point of economy
The perfection of dynamite and other
explosives was destined to work a
| greater revolution in naval matters
An American inventor would soon de-
wise means to prOpel against WarShipS
seeking to attack the forts. charges Of
dynamite large enough to destroy them
with certainty. He believed the com
mittee had acted very wisely in reduc-
ing the number of projected battle
ships.
DIR Mitchell Democrat, of Wfscon-
sin, said that Great Britain was the
! only nation that could compete with
us fairly in naval struggle. Our navy
was today stronger than it had ever
been, save in time of actual war. We
have now fortY-nine ships almost com
plete, some of them the best OF their
class in the world. We ought not to
| SO on layishing millions on these great
hunks of battleships for the purpose of
| making a show. This proposition was
driven forward by the iron and steel
DdCASQ Ly 5AAISO1SltL anu CtIALL
rlated by magazine articles represent
ing the bombardment and destruction
| Of our coast cities. A further re-
! enforcement was lent by our naval Of
l Ulcers, anxious as they we're to expand
their commands and their Importance.
At this point Mr.. Cockrell Q0emocrat
OF Missouri. presented the conference
report on the sundry civil appropria-
| ton bill
Mr.. Frye expressed regret at the ac-
ton OF the conference PelatiVe to the
retirement Of the revenue marine Of
ficerS being a distinct discrimination
against and an injustice to these Of
Acers.
Stewards Warning.
Mr.. COckren remarked:
ut was that or nothing"
Mr.. Stewart PopuisD. ofsNeVada.
uttered a warning against the pro-
jected monetary conference, holding
that it was a device Of the enemy to
defer the day when silver should be
rehabilitated.
Mr. Woleott Republican,, of Colo
RADIO, defended the monetary confer
ence amendment as It was reported,
holding that the House amendment re-
IatiYe to the appointment of the House
members of the conference by the next
Congress should be concurred In. He
and his colleague had been attacked
IN the newspapers of their own state
! as untrue to silver, for grabbing silver
in the back. Whatever might he the
reason for these criticisms, he should
be glad that in these ClnSing-f1ayS Of
the Congress he had had the oppor-
tunity to attempt to reach out and
seek to induce and help and meet Che
nations of the world in q final effort
TO do away with the poverty and suf-
fering and paralysis which had over
taken humanity.
The conference report on the sundry
civil appropriation bill was then con-
CURED in and the naval bill came up
again.
Mr.. German renewed his request for
final vote. on the naval bill prior to
10 O'clock tonight. and that after that
hour business be limited to conference
reports. House bills and Senate bills,
with House amendments. This agree
ment was entered into by unanimous
consent and after passage, with an
/ amendment of q House hin 2nprOpPfat-
! inS $4,000 for the payment 0f salaries
! of judges and court officers Ia Okla
! hOma, at D. m. a recess was taken
until $50 O'clock.
! AT $50 the Senate galleries were filled
! to overlooking and great crowds stood
/ in line in the corridors seeking to gain
admission. The attendance Of the sen
I atorS was small and scattering early in
| the evening. but was augmented to
nearly its full strength as The time for
| the hnal vote on the naval bill drew
near.
Afraid of War.
Mr. Chandler supported the amend
/ ment providing for two battle5hipS. In
! view of his service as secretary of the
navy his review of the development of
our navy was followed With close in
| terest. "At that time' he said, I'VE
] 7ir7Qr al =
nuaily for the Improvement of the
navy. Now our expenditures reached
$4,000, 900 annually for that purpose. 81
And he hoped it would be continued.
NIr. HaWley CRepublican). Of Connec-
ticut, urged the need of being ready
| for war. There was no knowing when
it would come. 1t was possible any
! day that some stubborn nation might
| lay her hands on Hawaii, compelling US
to say, Hands Off"
At 10 o'clock the vote was taken on
the amendment fixing the number Of yes
sells at two instead Of three and 1t was
( agreed to--33 TO %.
Yeas-AlIen, Allison, Bate, Berry,
Blackburn, Can. Camden, Chandler
| Cochren. Cullom, Daniel. Faulkner
German, Gray, Harris, Jones (Ark.)
Mitchell CWis.), Morrill,, Palmer, PETER
Pettigrew, Proctor Pugh, Ransom
Roach, Teller, Vest. Villas ana Vol
I eott-S9.
Nays-Aldrich. Blanchard, Burrows
( Butler, Cameron. Carey. Clark, Dubois,
! Frye, Gibson, Gordon, Hale, AawIey,
! Higgins. Hoar. Hunton McLaurin
! Henderson, Mitchell (Or.J Morgan
! Murphy, Perkins, Platt. Quay, Squire
! Stewart. Walsh, White and Wilson
! (Wash-)-29.
The provision striking out twelve
torpedo boats and inserting six light
draught composite gunboats of about
/ 1000 tons displacement at S29o0.O00 was
I agreed to. Another provision for three
/ tropedo boats. one to be built on the
Pacific coast, one on the Mississippi
river ana one on the Gulf OF Mexico
We're also adopted.
( a new amendment was adopted re-
hitting the penalties against the
I builders Of the Yorktown, PHILADELPHIA
and Newark.
1 Without Division,
The naval appropriation was then
I passed without division.
/ 0Ir. Blackburn presented another
conference report on the Diplomatic
and consular appropriation bill stating
no e agreement had been reached on the
Hawaiian cable and nc prospect that
the House would ever yield. The bill
would fail, he said, if the Senate per-
sisted on the vote about to be taken, in
keeping the cable appropriation in the
bin He believed also that the OH was
\ doomed to failure even if the two
houses aoQuoeSced in the hill.
\ Mr.. HawIey quickly asked if # was
meant to intimate that the president
would veto the bill.
81 am not able to gay" replied Mr.
Blackburn, that The, president would
veto it, but [ know that If [ were the
president would veto it,