The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-04-07
The aalierita Daily eagle: Tuesday ntormme Apr Z 1895

an average deepening of the channel
only is inches. 1t had cost the gov
eminent S4O0, 900 TO secure an additional
depth of one inch for forty miles OF the
river.
Bearing this fact in mind" said he,
members can figure out for themselves
what il would cost TO deepen IL from its
mouth 10 Cairo 50 as 70 secure surh-
Gent depth Of water TO give the people
Of Cairo a sight Of ocean-going vessels,
promise held out when the commits
sion was inaugurated.
For the Hennepin canal, he continued.
a great project to connect the Mississip-
pi river with the eastern waterways.
this bill contained the magnificent ap-
preparation of S25, 0C0, 900 ard possibility
of a contract for its completion extend
ing over ten years. He favored this
important work but ne wanted TO dem
onstrate the viciOuSness OF the system
on which the bill was framed
At this point Mr.. Hepburn's time ex-
pired and he concluded with loud pro-
test against the passage Of bill carry
ing sixty-three millions with so short a
debate and no opportunity to amend a
single line or an item OF IL.
CAUHT BY CATCHINGS.
Mr.. Catchings Dem Missy who was
chairman of the river and harbor COM
mittee in the last congress replied TO
Mr.. Hepburn's speech which he denomi-
mated "a most extraordinary harangue'
I'm all frankness and candor," he said
ST desire to say that the bin which
the committee has presented 70 the
house is by all odds the most carefully
drawn, the most scientific IN its con-
\ .,
benefit Of the country, Of any bill which
has ever been passed in congress"
A minute was given TO Mr.. Lachlan
Rep. Cab TO criticise the manner in
which southern California had been
treated; to Mr.. Clark of Iowa, and Mr..
Hermann, CRep. Ore) TO favor the bill
in the interest Of reduced railroad trans
portation and to Mr.. Colson CRep. Ky)
to express the opinion that the bill did
not carry enough money.
Mr.. Dockery then closed the debate
for the opposition with a humorous ap-
peal 10 all members who had not got
what they wanted TO vote against the
motion TO suspend the rules.
Mr.. Hooker, chairman, in closing the
debate briefly said that the fact of the
passage of the bill under the suspension
of the rules was not unprecedented. The
Fifty-third congress, he said, had passed
q bill carrying SIS, 900, 900 under suspen-
sion of the rules He Indignantly re-
ferred to Mr.. Hepburn's attack. While
the bill carried authorizations for con-
tract work in Maine of over a million,
but $4,000 was actually appropriated;
while IL authorizd a million for Boston
harbor, not a dollar was appropriated
for New York, one item, that for Buff
falo, exceeded 1920, 900. for which not
dollar was appropriated. He thought
Mr.. Hepburn's criticism had been man
ifestly unfair. AS to the Mississippi
river convention that had been the gen.
tlenan's hobby for years. AS a matter
fact the language of the bill relative
TO the commission was identical with
former bills.
HOUSE RISES ENMASSE
He concluded by demanding a vote.
In response TO the speakers request for
the ayes, the house seemed to rise en-
masse. Only here and there a member
retained his seat.
On the rising vote 206 voted in the af-
firmaltive and but forty in the negative.
Mr.. TaIbert, Dem. S. CO called for the
ayes and nays.
LET'S put 'em on record" ne shouted,
but only twenty-six members arose to
second his demands and when the
speaker announced not a sufficient
number the great mass of the members
cheered. The speaker declared the bill
passed.
1.-THE extent of the vote" called out
Mr.. Hepburn, rising dramatically in his
place shows the evenneSs with which
the pork" has been distributed"
The bill to validate certain bond is
sues in New Mexico was called up and
failed to pass, by a vote of ~ yeas and
10 neys. The discussion revamped the
charges Of fraud made while the bill was
in committee.
Mr.. Low of New York, who called up
the bill, said in the course of his remarks
that a territory that was applying for
statehood ought not TO repudiate its
honest debts.
Mr.. GrosvenOr (Rep. Ohio) reported
the filed cheese bill and gave notice that
he would call 1t up Wednesday.
The senate bill for the disposition Of
the Fort Assinaboine reservations lands
was called up by Mr.. Hartman. who ex-
planned that settlers already on the land
were to retain their holdings, the other
lands TO be disposed of under the laws
applying TO the sale Of abandoned lands.
The secretary of the interior had decid-
ed that the settlers were tresspassers
until some measure was passed for their
benefit. This was passed without OPP
position.