The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-05-13
An Agreement Finally Reached Re-
Breakwater mt santa Monica
AN INDIGNANT CALIFORNIAN
MIR. FRYE's ALLUsION TO SAND LOTS
RESENTED BY MR.. PERKINS.
Spirited Debate I'm the House Over the
Report ON the Misunderstanding
Contested Election Case.

WASHINGTON, May 1.-THE animated
contest which has proceeded for the last
four days in the Senate over a deep-water
harbor on the southern coast Of Califor-
MIA was brought to close to-day by
compromise between the conflicting inter-
ests. The issue has been between the points
of Santa Monica, the terminus of the South
ern Pacific, and San Pedro, the locality
urged by the California Senators. Senator
Frye. chairman Of the commerce commit
tee, finally harmonized the differences by
referring the determination as between
Santa Monica and San Pedro to a commits
sion, to consist of three civil engineers.
naval officer and an officer OF the coast
survey. The compromise was accepted by
the California Senators, and was unani-
mously passed. An amendment urged by
Mr.. German, limiting the expenditures un-
der the river and harbor contract authori-
cations to s10.OOO,0OO annually. led to
lengthy debate. A motion by Mr.. Vest 70
table the amendment failed-yeas, &c; nays,
81 An agreement was reached to dispose
of the bill by O'Clock tomorrow.
When the Senate convened Mr.. Aldrich,
member of the committee on finance. asked
immediate consideration for a resolution Of
fered by him directing the finance commit
olution OF March g. 1891, to inquire whether
American labor and Industries are suffering
or threatened with injurious competition
through importations of Oriental products,
and If so to investigate the causes which
have made such competition possible. Mr..
Allen objected to immediate consideration
and the resolution went over.
The invitation to attend the Tennessee
Centennial Exposition was accepted, and
the presiding officer was authorized to
name a committee Of five Senators to at
tend the opening at Nashville, Tenn, on
June 1 next.
Mr.. Frye, chairman Of the committee on
finance, then resumed his speech in support
of the proposed amendment to the river
and harbor bill for a deep-water harbor at
Santa Monica, Cal. The Senator reviewed
In detail the reports of the army boards
Mr. Frye next took up the evidence given
said the Senator, referred to by Mr.. White
as IAN individual and by MI. Berry as ,ba
stock markets nor bearing them" said Mr.
Frye, scornfully. He is engaged in great
enterprises. and in all of them ne Is sue
Il he be greedy" the reasons that Induced
him to change from San Pedro to Santa
Monica are. worthy of the consideration of
was made to the fact that the people Of
Los Angeles did not want the har-
Dor at Santa Monica, Senator Frye
OF Los Angeles wanted. They did not know
what, they wanted. One day they favored
one i4 fS the next DAY anTtner Ie
on a platform advocating San Pedro; this
year they had chosen one on a platform IA,
to say that the recent Platform referred to
did not mention Santa Monica, but declared
in favor of all harbor projects. This, de-
dorsement of the Santa Monica project now
proposed, and was so proposed and so I'M
derstoo9 by the candidate.
Senator would ask Mr.. Huntington to do
work that the United States ought to do.
He had as much right as any other citizen
had said boldly that he believed Mr.. Hunt
ington would not let the Santa Monica har-
Dor fail, yet he did not expect any Senator
to say then let Huntington do it.
Mr.. Perkins denied the suggestion that this
was contest between two railroads He
of Huntington .'savored Of the slogan of the
sand lots" and that his name was com
jured up as the bogie man of California"
the d people of caiifornia u" exclaimed d Mr. \.
Perkins. II repel the charges that the peo-
pie of California seek Office by declaiming
he had nothing against Mr.. Huntington, un-
less II was certain the testimony before a
fha t an me- aSd h
California. The Senator spoke also of Mr..
Huntinston's former associate Senator
Stanford, and his public beneficence. and OF
the Crockers, who were distributing thou
sands in charities. He rejected vile
SANDER the assertion that the people or
California juggied these names to influence
politics. The vice president of the Southern
Pacific had recently been chosen by the Cal
ifornia convention as a presidential elector.
The people of California believed in rail-
roads, but they insisted that these roads
should not prostitute their powers and in
fiuence, but should stand on equal foot
ing with every other citizen.
Mr.. Frye, amid laughter, read para
graph from a San Francisco paper referring
to the nine Senators who voted to report the
Santa Monica amendment as a nice lot of
"rascaiS," whose nine names were sug-
gestive of a burglar alarm, and who would
be dangerous to meet on dark night IL
man had money in his pocket.
Mr. White made the concluding speech and
the Senate adopted the compromise pro-
posed by Senator Frye. The Senate, at GO