The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1895-01-16
PREPOSTER0US PROPHECY
Senator Allen Predicts PopuIist
Control in 1896.
MR.. GORMAN'S CRY FOR HELP
Sundry Civil Appropriations Bill in
the House Carries 100000 For
aPublic Building at Norfolk.
River and Harbor Inn
provements.
By Southern Associated Press.

Al L, - us IeSOlntlOnS were 0llereu
Dy Mr.. Mandersoa and agreed to,
calling on the Secretary of tho
Treasury for information as TO the
quantity of spirits withdrawn from
warehouses aud the quantity of
augar imported each day during the
Two montnH prior to August 10Th,
1884, with the names of tho owners
and importers, aud the amount of
Saxes and duties paid thereon.
Two bills were passed authorizing
she construction OF bridges in South.
western States and then the Senate
resumed consideration of the Ur-
gent Deficiency bill,
Speeches were made by Messrs.
Call aud Allen. MIR. Calls was di.
rected largely to the unequal distri
button OF wealth in the United
States and England aud to the nc
cumuiatlon OF enormous fortunes
10y Il few families, which condition
OF things he attributed TO legisla
aion that created franchises anu NO.
nopolies.
MIR. Allen aimed at defending the
Popuist party from the assumption
shat 1T was II party of vagaries. He
asserted that tnere was no vsgary i'll
'he Omaha platform mot even the
sub-treasury) that could be com
pared with the Democratic vagary
of the proposed repeal OF the tax on
Stale bank circulation.
He was fuceilous ana amusing in
his reference TO yesterdays Glove
least" between leading men of the
Democratic aud Republican parties
III the Senate; to their falling on
necks and weeping; to Mr.. r.Gorman's $
'Maceuonian cry, and to MIR. ALI
cons response with an offer OF nssis
Iance. i!e said 1t had never dawned
on members OF these two parties that
nelther of them was 10 have charge
OF the Government, and that it would
Oe turned over 10 the Popullst party
tn 1896; and he predicted TINT this
was to happen, the other two parties
having confessed their inability to
manage and control the affairs OF the
Government.
At the close of Mr.. Aliens speeck
the Senate proceeded to the consii
Grafton OF executive business, MIR.
Cockrell first announcing his iEteu
tion TO bring the bill 10 final vote
tomorrow.
The Senate at 1850 adjourned
until to morrow.
HOUSE. -Tne Presidents veto of
the bill authorizing the sale OF pub
lie lands for reservoirs and gravel
u aud grating rights OF way for
railways and canals thereto WAS inid
before the House and referred to
Jhe Committee on Pnbllo Lands.
,f
duced bill nppropriating 500, UOO
ior n public building at jackson
vile.
Most OF the session was occupied
IN the consideration of the Inulau
Appropriation bill for the year end
snS June ~, 1896. 1t carries "A tota,
appropriation of So, ,49l, 72U MS
against So, 1873, O03 appropriated for
the current fiscal year aud SO. T23. e..
Sl4, the total of the estimates sub
mltted by tue Secretary of The In.
terIor. General debate was NOT
closed when the House adjourned,
The Sundry Civil Appropriation
dill for the year 1895 '9G was report.
ed by Mr.. Sayers and placed on the
calendar.
Mr.. Grosyenor (Rep.) requested,
on behalf OF the ex Senator II. b
iayne and ex-Judge Stevenson
Burke, indirectly involved in the
charges made the other day by IS. j.
hitchie against Judge Kicks, au in :.
Vestlgatlon Of them. The decision
oil Judge Lurton III the cases upon
@hlch the charges wero based was,
on his motion, referred to the Com
mlttee on the Judiciary.
Inc sundry civil appropriation
Dill, as reported to tho iionse, car
fies an aggregate of SIS, $40, ri,
being $1,4o3, 793 less than the esti
mates on which it is based and
S4' 2S6,2l5 above the amount carried
by the bill for tue year 1875.
Among the few public buildings
which are authorized to be placed
al part or III whole, under contract
within the prescribed limit of cost
~ mo courthouse at Savannah. Ga.
among tile appropriations for pub
llc buildings III the south, carried in
Che bill. are the following:
CIarksviIle. Tenn, SIS, 600; Fort
Worth. Texas, $40, UU0; Little Rock
1rk,, addition to Courthouse. S5S
900; Norfolk, Vn., So. 600: Saynn.
nab. Ga, 800, ,0OJ; Additional lj.hts
'n niopiIe channel, $50, 600.
ltiver and iarbor improvements
"h"1r INC contract system: Calves.
'on hatnor, Texas, continuing I'm.
proVement, 81. .l6J,OO0, of whcI
SAoo'oVo may be used for dred eino