Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-02-20
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marine corps as instructor in any cohege
or institution of learning.
Savers moved to strike out the provis'
ion authorizing the secretary OF the nav!
| 10 enlist 1000 additional men, A some
what acrimonious colloquy ensued IN
which Savers, Talbot Dem. of Maryland,
Raw (Rep. of New York, Money dem.
of Mississippi and Boutelle took part.
Savers said that the secretary of the navy
stated that only 1000 additional men were
necessary to man the ships already author,
lied The amendment was defeated, OIL
| to 21.
Savers moved to strike out the provision
and insert a direction to the secretary OF
the navy to assign marines on board u
the secondary batteries of naval ships.
Boutelle and Money pointed out that
every man on shipboard was assigned TO
duty in case of conflict or preparation 1or
conflict and the marines went to the
secondary batteries. The amendment was
disagreed to.
The proceedings were suspended long
enough to enable the House to agree to
the Senates request for conference on
the agricultural appropriation bill
Savers Intellectually moved to strike
out the appropriation of $50, 600 for new
buildings at the naval observatory, but
the amount was reduced, on motion of
Talbot, to 100000, Savers called atten-
ton to the provision for clerk to the
board of labor employment at Norfolk
navy yard and asked what was the neces-
sity for the board, and why 1T should
have a clerk.
hod ny u
ence within the last year or two with
these boards of labor employment. DO
not know of any institution in this coun-
try to arbitrary and impenetrable to the
ordinary human inquiry or investigation
as this bureau of labor employment in the
navy department.
SAT the solicitation of many worthy
mechanics, have endeavored to ascertain
again and again why it was that compe-
tent and good men were dismissed from
employment and have never received salts
factory reply. l can address the Presi-
dent of the United States and get an
answer, but cannot get any Information
under any circumstances from the labor
employment board in the navy depart
ment.
"The board ought to exist no longer.
1 am opposed to giving it any more clerks
or facilities for lording it over men hay
ing business with it.
The amendment to strike out the item
for clerk was agreed to. The naval bill
was again laid aside and the conference
report upon the joint resolution extend
ing the time within which the returns for
the income tax may be made from March
l to April Is, 1895, was presented to the
House by McMillin and adopted. Recur
ring then to the naval appropriation bill,
the paragraph providing for the transfer
of the ship Constitution from Portsmouth,
N. H., navy yard, to the yard at Washing
ton, was stricken out on point of order,
made by Everett Dem of Massachusetts,.
Sayers asked Talbot how it came that
the bill appropriated $500, 0C0 for con-
tinuing the work on the machinery and
for new boilers of the cruiser Chicago, the
first of the new steel ships. The vessel
was completed, he thought, in 1886, and
now, in less than nine years, it was pro
posed to expend $500, 600 in repairs, $500
600 being appropriated for the current
year.
Talbot replied that the average life of
boilers of vessel was about nine years
and that of machinery about Is years. The
bureau of steam engineering was Of the
opinion that when new machinery and
boilers were in place the Chicago will be
a better ship than ever The repairs on