Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1896-04-09

taid no topnsre ones not even clearance
and entrance fees--a gratuity OF seven
or eight millions year from this govern
ment Mr.. Cummings called attention 10
the fact that the exemption OF steamers
IN the coastwise trade from the operation
of piIotage charges was MADE ny means
OF a rider on an appropriation OIL,
"sneaked through the House." he said,
"ana we see the same hand at work."
no continued. 'In regard to this BILL
CUMMINGS ARGUMENT.
Mr. Cummings said that Congress,
while enacting plentiful, generous pro-
lection FOR the ship-owneT, had done
nothing for the pilots, RELOCATING them
10 the legislatures Of the several states.
That was where the advocates or this
bill. he said. should have gone Tor the
relief they seek That would have been
the manly thing to do. He reviewed the
history Of n!lotage IN New York, showing
that the State maintained compulsory
piotage OF all vessels until her foreign
trade was OF sufficient volume to mann
tain pilot system. and then IL was
taken of the coastwise trade. but not
until then. The same right that New
York and other States have enjoyed ana
exercised, Mr.. Cummings insisted, should
be accorded to the States which sun
maintain the compulsory system, untl'
they see At 10 voluntarily re inquish H.
when their foreign commerce shall be
sufficient 10 maintain pilot system:
Referring to a statement made my MI.
Payne and by Mt Simpkins. that the
Pilot Association had sent representa-
tives 20 Washington TO lobby against the
bill Mr.. Cummings said: II have seen IN
the corridors. and / know two or three
members whom he has importuned IN
behalf of this BILL a myrmldom of mug
wumpery, named Chamber ain, said TO De
the Commissioner of Navigation. Grover
Cleveland. President of the United states.
has removed from the office OF Governor
of Arizona Mr.. Hughes, because ne
was charged with sending te.egrams 10
congressman, asking them to vote for
some school bill. ! say TO gentlemen on
the other side that II they are friends
OF Mr.. Chamberlains they VIII allow
this bill TO be killed, for II II shaL pass
and Mr. Cleveland hold to the rule ne
laid down in the Arizona case, Mr.. Cham-
berlain will navigate out Of Washington
very speedily" (App.ause)
SENATE PROCEEDINGS.
Senator Turpie Democrat. of Indi-
ana. who has achieved quite repu-
tation i'm the Senate for his skill In cloth
ing the most singing sarcasm IN pic
turesoue language, gave an Illustration
NJ his mowers in that line to-day. afford
ing an hour and a halls entertainment
TO his brother-senators, and to a large
audience in the galleries. The speech
was made in support Of the joint resolu-
tions introduced on the list Of April by
Mr.. Call DemocraO, OF Florida, pro-
posing intervention in the war now being
prosecuted in Cuba.
The objects Of Mr. Turpie's irvectiva
a al owl ND
the Spanish Government as the chairman
of the Committee on Foreign Relations
Mr.. sherman Republican,. OF Oho--and
the Junior Senator from Massachusetts,
Mr.. Lodge Republican). He ascrlbed to
Mr.. Sherman helpless inertia, delay, and
irritation at obstruction, and spoke OF
his taking refuge in the crypt of the
conference committee. very glad 10 be
rid Of his former action.
Mr. Lodge was portrayed by him as
belonging to the lingo class Of extremists,
and as being singularly gifted with the
power TO clothe an interesting and eX-
citing subject with all the dulness Of
tirne-worn commonplace. He drew an
amusing sketch of the controversy be-
tween Mr.. Lodge and the Spanish Min
ister and said that he had expected 1t
TO end I'm a duel, in which the champion
81 senatorial privilege would go into the
lists. fully armed. his visor down and
his lance in rest. But, instead of that.
the junior Senator from Massachusetts
had returned 10 the room of the Com
mittee on Foreign Relations and regalcd
himself with "puffs. mere puffs."
Mr.. Turpie closed his sarcastic remarks
on Mr.. Lodge with the quotation, that
"Pygmies are pygmies STILL though
perched on Alps"
At the close Of his speech the joint
resolution went over without action, and
the remainder Of the days session was
taken up with the Indian appropriation
bill Before reaching n final vote on il,
the Senate, at 505 o'clock, adjourned until
tomorrow.
MIR. TURPIE'S SPEECH.
After the above-described personal
references to Messrs. Sherman and Lodge,
Mr.. TurDie said 1t was impossible TO con
ceive of "a more wholly unlegislativ'
legislative proceeding a more wholly alb
normal proceeding, than the action takel
| BIZ the chairman Of the Committee OF
| Foreign Re atoms with reference TO th'
| Cuban question" There could not be
more unfortunate disposition of that mat
| ter than that which II suffered from tn
action. the inaction. and the reaction of
| the honorable chairman of the Com
| mittee on Foreign Relations.
| luton introduced by Mr.. Call with tn
| concurrent resolutions reported from IN
! Conference Committee. There was in IN
| former no double entendre," as Their
| was in the other. II contained a plan
statement Of the necessity for interpo
| s!tion.
In the third resolution Of the confer
ence report intervention" was men
toned twice. but It did not say on whicl
uf.la tn. me-
| For his own part, he was In favor o
intervening on the side of Cuban free
| dom and independence and for no Other
| reason or cause He had listened &c
twenty or thirty addresses" by III
Junior Senator from Massachusetts, AM
| 10 remarks" on several questions by the
Senator from Ohio, but all he had bee
| able to gather out of them was ina
there was war in Cuba. and that III
Cuban question was a great question
! Iaughter)
The Senate had heard nothing from III
chairman Of the Committee on Foreig
! Relations as to the territory In IN
hands Of the Cubans. That Senate
| seemed to be as much afraid Of az
I preaching that territory as General Wey
! Ter himself was He had mot even look
cd over the fence" OLaughter) lie Ail
| Turpi0 proposed 10 take a fair and i'm
I partial view or that territory ana JUS con
/ dition. He then proceeded 10 draw
| sketch of the Cuban Government, and G
the operations of the forces on eithe
side. lie had kept tally, he said, OF III
raids made by the Spanish troops upor
| country stores IN the eastern portion c
the island, the portion held by the u
! surgents, and he argued that the yer
/ existence of country stores in that r.
| -ion meant that there were not thieves
there or that thieves had been over
awed or punished Ii meant that theT
] - nn hrrriars no rOhhrrs In tha