Birmingham state herald., 1896-05-13
A COMPROMISE EFFECTED CaIifornia's Deep Water Mud
 dIe Finally Settled. MIR. GORMAN'S ECONOMY He Wants to Limit River and Harbor Expend-
 lures to sioooo,ooO. HOUSE RULED AGAINST GEN. WHEEL ER He Inserted Matter in the Record Without Permission and It Was Ordered Ex-
 cluded-Mr. Downing, Demo-
 crat, Will Lose His Seat.
HOUSE RULED AGAINST GEN. WHEEL ER

Washington, May 12.-An hour and a half was occupied after the opening of todays session of tho house in dispos- ing of motion made by MT. Perkins, re- publican, of Iowa, chairman of the com mittee on printing, to exclude from the permanent record certain matters in serted by Mr Wheeler, democrat, of Alabama, for which it was asserted by MT. Perkins he had received no permis- sion. MT Wheeler contended that he had a right to insert the matter com plained of, but the house voted otherwise, and by a vote of IA to "A the matter was ordered to be excluded.
 MT. Cooke, republican, of Illinois, called up the contested election case of Rinaker vs. Downing from the Sixteenth district of Illinois. The majority report finds that Rinaker, republican, was elected, and that Downing, democrat, was not elected.
 Before the debate began MT. Evans, republican, of Kentucky, gave notice that when the case was disposed of he would ask the house to consider the bill reported from the committee on ways and means to repeal what is known as the free alcohol law
 MT. Richardson. democrat, of Tennes- see endeavored to secure recognition to move an adjournment that members might attend the unveiling of the Han cock statue, claiming that it was privi- legged motion, and could be made at any time. The speaker ruled, however, that a gentleman could not be taken off the floor even by privileged motion.
 The basis of the elections committees recommendations was enrolled by elec- tion officers, with no charge of fraud or ballot box stuffing in the case. The re- turns of the vote as finally canvassed gave MT. Downing plurality of forty nine. The committee think that Rinaker was entitled to the certificate and the seat having figured out that his plural ity was thirty. The minority dissent from this (Mr. Moody, republican, of Massachusetts, joining with the demo- cratic members), and recommend that a recount of the votes be ordered, and that the contest be recommitted to the com mittee for that purpose. The discussion of the case occupied the remainder of the days session and will be resumed tomorrow, the special order making pri- vate pension bills the business of that session having been postponed until Thursday.
 The house adjourned at 5:15 o'clock.
 The Senate.
 A resolution instructing the committee on finance to inquire whether American labor or industries are suffering from or threatene with injurious competition through importations of oriental prod
 
 which have made such competition pos sible, was offered by Mir. Aldrlch, and went over until tomorrow on objection by MT. Allen. lt F;
 A resolution to accept the invitation of the Tennessee Centennial exposition to attend the celebration on June 1 next and for the appointment of select committee of five to represent the senate on that oc- casion was offered by MT Bate and agreed to.
 The river and harbor bill was taken up, and the long drawn out controversy be- tween the advocates of the harbor of San Pedro and those of the harbor of Santa Monica as to which of those points shall be selected for the expenditure of some $3, 900, 900 in the construction of a break water and the making of deep-sea har- bor in southern California was brought to a close by a settlement In the way of compromise. The debate had gone on since Friday last to the exclusion of al- most every other subject, and when it closed after four hours talk today an amendment was offered by the chairman of the committee on commerce (Mr. Frye), an advocate of Santa Monica, and was accepted by Senators White, demo- crat, of California, Vest, Pasco and the other minority members of the commit tee, and agreed to by the senate without a division. As the matter now stands the amendment provides for a board con- sist.ng of an officer of the navy to be de. tailed by the secretary of the navy; an officer of the coast and geodetic survey, to be detailed by the superintendent of the survey, and three civil engineers skilled in riparian work, to be appointed by the president of the United States, to examine the two harbors, ,athe report of the majority to be final; and it provides that whenever the board shall have set tied the location and made its report to the secretary of war the secretary of war Gh a r1pfi ion of the harbor as selected by the board according to the project to be reported by it, at a, cost not to exceed in the aggre- gate $2,900, ,000. trtg fN~.nrs
 After that question was disposed of an amendment was offered by MT. German limiting the annual expenditures under this and former river and harbor bills to $10,000 900. A motion to lay the amend ment on the table was defeated-yeas 26, nays 31-and then the senate, at 6:2O