Birmingham state herald., 1896-05-12
MISCELLANEOUS BUSINESS Was the Order of the House Yesterday. SAN PEDRO OR SAN TIA MONICA Which of the Two Shall Be Made Deep Wa
 ter Harbor VEST ARGUED AGAINST BOTH OF THEM He Says the Condition of the Treasury Doesn't Warrant the Expenditure.
 A Substitute for the Bankruptcy
 Bill Reported.
SAN PEDRO ORSAN IA MONICA
sT ARGUED AGAINST BOTH OF THEM

WaShlngton, May n.-MlScellaneouS | business was the order in the house to- | day. More bills authorizing construction l of bridges and granting right of way over government property than of any other | kind were passed.
 A preliminary conference report upon 1 the Indian appropriation bill was agreed l to, and further conference ordered on
 the items still in dispute.
 The resolutions of elections committee No. declaring John w. Maddox, demo- | crat, to be entitled to the seat occupied by him as representative from the Seventh district of Georgia, contested by w. H. | Feltor, fusionist, were presented, and being the unanimous report of the com mittee were agreed to.
 The rest of the day was devoted to the | consideration of District of Columbia | business.
 At 5;15 o'clock the house adjourned un- l til tomorrow. !uF +
 The Senate.
 The senate had another copious dose | Of San Pedro and Santa Monica today. I Three of the members of the committee l on commerce who oppose the amendment offered by the chairman of the commit | tee, MT. Frye, designating Santa Monica l as the place for deep sea harbor in southern California Senators Berry O "A | of Missouri, and Caffery, democrat, of | Louisiana-submitted remarks against l the amendment, which Mr. Berry de- | scribed as most unjustifable and inex- cusable attempt to override public senti- | ment and to appropriate money in the interest of private greed and private gain. MT Vest argued against making an appropriation for a breakwater either | at the one place or the other as in his Judgment there was no necessity for the | expenditure and as the condition of the treasury was such that an issue of bonds would be necessary in few months. MT. l Caffery based his arguments against San Monica on the unanimous reports of two l army engineers, and was reminded in l that connection of the success of the
 Eads scheme for deepening the approach l es to New Orleans in spite of the adverse views of the army engineers.
 Then the chairman of the committee, l MT. Frye, republican, of Maine, com | menced the task of answering all the ob- | jections to the committee amendment, | and in so doing he eulogized Mir. c. P. l Huntington, who had been mentioned as | political factor in California, where @ l mans chances of nomination for office l turned upon the. fact of whether he was l for or against Huntington.
 MT. Frye's speech was not finished when the bill was laid aside until tomor-
 row, but at that time MT. German gave | notice of an amendment limiting the an- nual expenditure under the pending and | former river and harbor bill to $10,000,- 1 GOO.
 l Mr. Teller reported substitute for the | house bankruptcy bill, and MT. Mitchell, republican, of Oregon, presented the | views of the minority of the judiciary l committee, favoring the house bill. The l house bill provides for both voluntary and involuntary bankruptcy, the senate | bill for voluntary bankruptcy only. l House joint resolution providing that 1 the laws against the admission of con | tract labor immigration shall not be con strued as prohibiting the entrance into | the United States of mechanics, artisans l and other laborers necessary for the preparation and installment of foreign | exhibits at the Nashville Centennial ex- position, and also providing for the ad- mission of exhibits free of duty, was passed. a s.sa The calendar of private pension bills was taken up. After about a dozen were passed further progress was blocked by an attempt of MT. Allen, populist, of Ne | braska, to have a second pension case en- grafted on bill giving pension to the l mother of an officer and at 5:35 o'clock | the sente adjourned until tomorrow.