The herald., 1896-05-21
nUNTINdroN's HIRED MEN
Receive Their Masters Orders and Show
Servile Obedience
People IN and Out Of Congress Agbast at th Q
Attempt at Fraui
The Conference Report Of Disagreement OF
the Harbor Amendment to Come Up In
the Sesate Today-Csngres-
sionaI Proceedings
Special to The Herald.

Special to The Herald.
WASHINGTON, May 20.-1n the
course Of this day the Huntington Santa
Monica congressional syndicate has
succeeded In piling the Ossa of falsehood
on the Pelion of general infamy. Sena-
tor Frye proved unable to Withstand
the pressure of his senatorial colleagues
who, on yesterday. appealed to him to
stay by the solemn agreement that he
had made when he offered the amend
ment to the harbor bill, providing for q
commission, a majority of which was to
yesterday evening Hermann of Oregon
assured Senator White that this morn
ing the conferees would recede from
their opposition and agree to leave the
senate amendment intact but the Ore
gon statesman evidently got later Or
ders from his master. Huntington, for
when the conference committee met
this morning and Frye and the senate
amendment, Hermann broke his pledg-
ed word and voted with Hooker to dis
agree. The committee this afternoon
reported a disagreement on the Frye
amendment. and the matter will go over
for another day or two.
In the meantime the true inwardness
of the matter is coming out. Today
Congressman McLachlan asked Hunt
lnsr nv try
ing to interfere with the arrangement
made in the senate. which had salts
fled every one in Los Angeles, and had
been accepted by Frye as satisfactory
to the interest which he represented.
"Oh," said Boyd, Frye made a mis-
take in agreeing to that amendment
We cannot accept that. and Frye should
not have done SO.
So Mr. Huntingdon seems to have pass
ed the word along the line Of his con-
gressional servants that not single
chance is to be given the people Of
Southern California to secure free har-
Dor from the government.
In the meantime Hooker is trying to
get the whole appropriation for both
inner and deep-water harbors reported
against. People here. both in and out
of congress- stand aghast at what is
denominated the most outrageous at
tempt at fraud that congress has seen
for a quarter of a century. The papers
are getting full of it, and 1t has become
q question whether Hooker and his
No fO OF Il
the pressure of an aroused public senti-
ment. White is waiting for the matter
to assume debatable shape, when he
proposes to cover the whole gang with
the infamy which they have so boldly
invited. 1t Is safe to say that unless
the opposition yields and thus escapes,
the storm that transpired in the recent
vote in the senate will be child's play to
that which will come.
THE COMMITTEES S REPORT
The conferees on the river and harbor
bill made a report today, showing an
agreement on all the amendments made
by the senate except those relating to
santa Monica and San Pedro harbors
IN Southern California, on which the
conferees were unable to reach an un-
derstanding. The specific items of dis
agreement are those providing for a
commission to determine whether
deep-water harbor shall be located at
Los Angeles, Santa Monica bay, or at
San Pedro at an ultimate cost of $780,
900, or the Improvement of Wilmington
harbor at San Pedro at an aggregate
cost of $342, 200, and also the amendment
providing for increasing the depth or the
Wilmington harbor to twenty-five feet.
The house conferees accepted large
majority of the senate amendments.