Red Lodge picket. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1889-1907, 1896-05-16
SANTA MONICA PLAN GOES OVER
Iii" Senate Will Have Il Board to
Examine the Harbnr.

| W Washington. May Ex-senator Aldrich .
| Rhode Island. a member of the commit g.
| on finance. asked immediate consideration
| in the senate today for a resolution {
| fered by him directing the finance com
| mittee. under the provision of the senate
| resolution of March g. 1891 to inquiy.
whether American labor and indus tries
| are suffering from OF threatened with N
| furious competition through the import
| ton OF Oriental products. and if 50. to III
| NeStigau the causes which made Su Il
| competition possible.
! Senator Allen of Nebraska objected tt
| immediate consideration and the resolu
| ton Went over
Senator F'.'ye of Maine chairman of tae
committee on commerce, resumed hls
speech in support Of the proposed amend
ment TO the river and harbor bill for a
deep-Water harbor at Santa Monica Cal.
The senator reviewed in detail the report s
Of army boards. Reference being made TO
the feasibility of locating harbor at San
ia Monica for the amount mentioned ii
the amendment Senator White of Califo"-
MIA lnterjected the inquiry: "Wherc was
that amount, 50, 09S 600, obtained?" From
Mr.. Hood. responded Senator Frye IAN !
sent to the war department.
Again Senator White called attention 10
the poetic statement made Yesterday D.
Senator Frye spirtedly rejected the state
ment that ne had ever spoken of waves
~ or 80 feet high. He knew as much about
waves, he said, as the senator from Cal
ifornia. He explained that his reference
was to Gash.ng of Pacific waves on rock
breaking g or 30 feet high. Yes" sail
Senator White, sarcastically the rocks
might be la1 feet high
Senator Frye took up the evidence givea
by Hunttngton. This was the man." said
the senator, "referred to by Senator White
as an ineIiG iot1al and by Senator Berry As
man of greed. He is not bullng the
stock markets nor bearing them" sad
Senator Frye. seornfully. He is engaged
in great enterprises, and in all of them he
is successful. SO if he be an individual and
be greedy the reasons that induced him to
change from San Pedro to Santa Monica
are worthy Of the consideration of tiie
senate.
The senator read at length from the evi
dence OF Huntington, also the reports CT
Engineers Hood and COrthell. When in
cidental reference was made to the fact
that the people of Los Angeles did moi
want the harbor at Santa Monica. Sena
tor Frye sad he did not care what the
people Of Los Angeles wanted: they dil
not know what they wanted. one day they
favored one locality. the next day anoth-
er; one year they chose a congressional
dro this Year they had chosen one on A
platform fsyoring Santa Monica.
Senator Berry Interrupted to say that
the recent platform referred to did not
mention Santa Monica, but declared in
favor of all harbor projects.
This, declared Senator Frye, ''Was
equivalent 10 an Endorsement of the Santa
Monica project now proposed. and was 50
proposed and SO understood by the candi-
dates"
Senator Frye was followed by Senator
Perkins, who opposed the Santa Monica
site and warmly resented Senator Frye
remarks that the cry Of Huntington was
the slogan Of the sand lots" as a libel on
the people Of California. Senator Vest fol
lowed, in favor of settling the question on
its merits and not as a Huntington issue.
Senator White of California closed the
debate, opposing the Santa Monica propo
sition. Senator Frye offered an amend
ment to the Santa Monica amendment,
providing fpi a board to consist of a naval
officer, an officer Of the coast and geodetic
survey and three civilian engineers, ap-
pointed by the president, to determine
whether Santa Monica OF San Pedro IS
better &dapted to a deep-water harbo".
IFpon the report of the board, the secre
tary of war is authorized to make a con-
tract for work at the point selected by the
board. Senator Frye's amendment was
adopted without division, thus ending the
fight between the two places The provis-
ion for the inner harbor at San Pedro
1892 500 remains in the bill.
Senator German urged the adoption Of
an amendment by which future contract
expenditures under the bill would be linn |
tied to $ef0o,000 annually.
Senator Vest moved to table the German |
which motion rejected |
yeas 1G. nays 81.
An agreement was reached to have a
final vote on all amendments and the bill |
at 8 p. m tomorrow.
At G:20 p. m. the senate adjourned.
FILLED Cheese Dill.
Washington, May l2.-The finance COM |
nittee of the senate reported faVorably |
the house filled cheese bill with amend- |
ments reducing the annual revenue tax |
On manufacturers from Si00 to $40 and on |
wholesale dealers from 500 to 81. The |
report WAS adopted by a vote of . to I.