The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-05-12

WASHINGTON, May 1.-THE senate
today passed bills authorizing the res
toration of lands within Fort Lewis
! Colorado, military reservation to the
public domain.
In reporting the bankruptcy bill from
the judiciary committee. Mr.. Teller
stated that 1T favored the substitution
of the senate bankruptcy bill for that
passed by the house.
Mr.. Mitchell (Rep., Ore.) added tina
the minority of the committee favored
! the house bill. !
The joint resolution was passed, au
thorizing foreign exhibitors at the
| Tennessee centennial exposition to b.
! held in Nashville, Tenn, in 1897, t.
bring to this country foreign laborers
from their respective countries for the
purpose of preparing for and making
| their exhibits, and allowing articles i'm
ported from foreign countries for the
| sole purpose of exhibition at said expo
| sition to be imported free of duty, IN
| der regulations prescribed by the secre
tary of the treasury.
MILITARY PARKS.
Bills were passed for the use of ma
tional military parks as follows: Fol-
military maneuvres by the state OIL
| federal forces; authorizing the county
of Navajo, Ariz., to issue bonds for &
court house, ETC.; house bill, providing
a life saving station at Port Bonita, a
the Golden Gate, California; appropri
ating $3.50, 900 additional for the public
building at Portland, Ore, and fixing
this as the limit of cost.
The river and harbor bill was then
taken up. the question being the only
remaining amendment for deep water
harbor at Santa Monica, Cal.
Mr. Berry Dem.), of Arkansas, a
member of the commerce committee
spoke in opposition to the amendment
He declared that this proposed ex-
penditure of 100000 against the re-
commentator of government engineers
and against the advice of the Cali
fornia senators. was the most
UNJUST AND INEXUSABLE
proposition he had ever seen in con-
nection with rivers and harbors. II
was disregard for public interest and
a disregard for public sentiment and
an appropria ton of public money for
uses which will benefit private indi-
viduals only 1t was the effort made
said Mr.. Berry, to override the gov
eminent engineers, by private en-
gineers, hired by private interests and
having only private interests at stake.
After speaking of the great import
ance of the river and harbor bill, Mr..
Berry declared that if the senate
amendment was forced on the bill, it
would probably defeat the bill for this
session. The senator reviewed the re-
commentators of army boards in
favor of San Pedro as the proper place
for the Pacific coast harbor, and spoke
of the action of the commerce commit
tee in setting aside these reports and
accepting the judgment of the chair
man of the committee (Mr. Frye who
had visited Santa Monica.
PRIVATE GREED.
ct would be better to dump this So
0OO,O into the Pacific ocean, ex-
claimed Mr.. Berry, rather than that
the country should know that this
senate is ready to override its army
engineers, override public sentiment,
in the interest of private greed and
private gain"
Mr. Berry said that the evidence
showed the Southern Pacific Railroad
company could dictate terms for an
entrance to Santa Monica. He did not
believe there is man in the United
States-save and except c. P. Hunting
ton-who, in the face of the representa-
tons of army engineers, would come
to congress and ask it to give to him
SO, 000, 900 to build a. breakwater.
Mr.. Vest (Dem) of Missouri, a mem
Der of the committee on commerce,
said he could not see the necessity of
this expenditure either at Santa Mon
lea or San Pedro. He took no stock,
he said, in the attacks on Mr.. Hunt
ington because he was railroad preSi-
dent and q rich man. Like other men
he looked after his own interests. Mr..
Vest believed Mr.. Huntington was sim
cere in saying Santa Monica was the
BEST POINT FOR A HARBoR.
The senator said he dropped out of
account all talk of monopolies and lob
bies. ANY United States senator who
would permit a lobby to control him
was unworthy Of a seat here, said Mr.
Vest. He based his objection on the
fact that the country did not have a
full treasury, and the river and harbor
bill had already reached an enormous
aggregate.
If the endless chain continued and
grew, and appropriations were made,
there mus. be more bonds. Under
these circumstances this Improvement
could we'll afford to wait Unfortunate
ly, said Mr.. Vest, Mr.. Huntington is a
political factor in California. Not even
a town meeting can be held without
asking if this is a Huntington man
and that man is an Huntington
man. In view of this state of public
feeling, Mr.. Vest said he did not be-
lieve in settling this question and MAX
ing the appropriation now. The sena-
tor urged that if the inner harbor at
San Pedro was a success after a mod
crate outlay, as was expected, it would
do away entirely with the necessity of
A THREE. MILLION EXPENDITURE
for an outer harbor. If the senate in
sisted on providing an outer harbor
now, then Mr.. Vest favored the amend
ment of Mr.. White, referring the ques-
ton to another government board. He
believed another board was needed to
enquire into the floor of the ocean and
other points the former board had not
examined The senator suggested that