The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1896-04-09
Tie House Debates al LeEsih tha Bill for
Its Abolition.
SENATE STILL TALKS CUBAN lPPAIRS.
The House Bill for the Metric system oil
weights and Measures is Sent Back To
the Committeo-The Indian APP
propriation Bill Continued.

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United States after January T. 1901 ana
finally IL was recommittcd TO the Com
nittoe on Coinage. Weights, and Meas
ures The first vote was on the motion
10 order the bill TO third reading
That was az -eed to-yeas. 1lJ. nays, ll';
| not voting. IFS. A motion was made
| TO reconsider and lay that motion ON IN.
! table. The ordinary parliamentary de-
vice 10 ciinch action upon measure fol-
lowed. and the House refused by vote
" 1872 TO M 20 lay the motion 20 re-
consider on the table. The motion 10
reconsider was then agreed to-l42 20
| g9-whereupon the bill was sent back
TO the committee.
COMPULSORY PILOTAGE.
The the bin to abolish compulsory
! pilotage was taken up Mr.. Payne eN-
! plained the intent and scope of the hi'.
| The original law relating to pilots. he
| said. had been passed in 11o9. There
! had been no change I'm this law so -di
! as coastwise sailing vessels were c0n-
ccrned. though several States had done
away with this unjust discrimination
| against sailing vessels. tie roai from
| a table giving the estimated pnolase
| receipts from tonnage of vessels tnidt 90
! in the foreign trade at eighteen pofN-
| in the nine States which would DEE al-
! fected by the bill showing that In the
/ year ended june 80, 1869, they were
! SJ5j 500.
"It is contended that many Of the
southern ports are rendered dangerous
| by the shifting channels and by the
changing conditions Of the sand-bars, and
! that n man must be upon the ground every
day I'm order TO know the dangerous places.
/ IL Is hard to believe that this is TRUE in
! the ports Of Virginia, Georgia, South
! Carolina, Alabama. or Texas, as the
/ LEGISLATURES Of those States have dc-
| clared that their ports are safe With
| out the services Of a pilot If the owner
| paid tax annually or otherwise. There
| is not the slightest danger that the SER
/ vice Will go down or will even be seil-
| ously crippled 10y the proposed change
! When pilots are necessary and can render
/ the service. they are employed When
/ they are not necessary and their ser
| vices used they should not be permitted
TO become q charge upon interstate COM
mcrce."
FEES PAID IN FLORIDA.
! "The principal complaint made 10 the
! committee came from the pilots of PEN
! sacola. Fla, and yet 10 appears there
/ that foreign vessels paid pilots fees
! Amounting 10 S'.-2l D. also appcars
! that during the last 90 and half. not
| withstandlng the fact that any American
! steam vessels may go into poi i.cc 'I
pilotage yet every American steam ves-
! sci employed a pilot every time 10 en-
| farad the mort of paneaooia The sim
pie plain fact remains. that where a port
| is easy of access the pilOtage system will
! depend, as 10 ought to depend, upon for
| eign tonnage for It's maintenance; that
! in every port difficult or dangerous of
access, the master Will still employ the
! pilot and the service VIII thus be MAIN
| tained.'
Mr.. Minor Rep). Of Wisconsin. who
| had joined with the minority, explained
| that his opposition to the bin was based
upon the belief that 1t would not and
I could not bo made practical. that the
| Board Of Steamboat Inspectors were not
| qualified 90 license sailing vessel pilots.
1 and If they were qualified they had not
| the time to do the work. Mr. Minor as
serted, also. that the cost Of pilotage was
/ added TO the schedule of freight rates.
/ so that ultimately the shipper paid for
| pnotage. and not the ship owner lie
! advocated no change in the present law,
! leaving the States 10 regulate the matter
/ of pilotage I'm their several ports.
OPPOSES THE BILL.
Mr.. Cummings Dem) of New York.
opposing the bill said il had appeared in
/ every Congress OF which ne had been
member, and was defeated in the Fifty
! first Congress on a question of considera-
| ton. il was a bin, he said. drawn I'm
| favor of the vessel owners and against
| the pilots. Was not the ship owner al-
| ready sufficiently protected? ne asked.
| The coast-wise trade was in the control
\ OF New England ship owners, who paid
| no tonnage dues. not even clearance and
| entrance fees a grdtmty of seven or
eight millions a year from this Govern
ment. Mr.. Cummings called attention
I to the fact that the exemption OF steam
| ers in the coast-wise trade from the
| operation Of the pilotaRe charges was
made by means Of rider on an appro-
priaton bill, "sneaked through the
| House." he said. "and we SEQ the same
| hand at work. he continued. in regard
20 this BILL"
fhc senate Proceedings.
| WASHINGTON. April S.-Senator Tur-
| pie Dem, Ind.), who has achieved quite
a reputation in the Senate for his skih
| IN clothing the most sarcasms IN pic
turesque language gave an illustration
| Of his powers in that line to-day, al
! fording an hour ana a-halrs entertain
ment 10 his brother senators ana 10
| large audience I'm The galleries Tue
speech was made in support OF the
Joint resolutions introduced or the lat
of April by Mir. Call (DemOcraD, OF fior-
ida, proposing Intervention IN The wal
now being prosecuted IN Cuba. The OBJ
jects OF Mr.. Turpie's invective were not
so much General Weyler and the spanish
Government. as the chairman OF the Com
mttee on Foreign Relations. Mr.. Sher-
man Republican), of OHIO. ana the junior
senator from Massachusetts-Mr Lodge
(Republican). He ascribed TO Mr.. Sher-
man belplessness inertia, delay, and irri-
tation at obstruction; and spoke OF his
taking refuge in the crypt Of the confer-
ence committee, very glad to be rid ol
his former action
lie reminded the Senate that about fou
weeks ago the captain-general OF Cuba
made a pause IN his campaign. Not SO
long a panse" he added, ''as the chairman
of the Committee on Foreign Relations
made in his" Laughter) Genera
Weyler had made a pause. and hao ISSUED
a proclamation Offering amnesty 10 the
priests who were within the revolu-
uonary lines. He argued from this that
where there were priests there were
churches; and where there were churches
there were people. But not priest haG
accented the offer OF amnesty. lie spoke
of the Weyler campaign as being in imita-
ton of that Of the Duke OF Ava IN the
Netherlands. and said that the result
would be the same. The Netherlands hao
been lost 10 spain. and CUBA would be
lost to Spain.
NO CHANCE FOR SPAIN.
Nay" he exclaimed: Cuba Is lost 10
Spain--irreyOcably lost There is no
more chance on the face OF things To-
day for the re-cstablishment of the span