The record-union., 1896-05-13


gave this explanation of it: That the
| company in landing 10000 tons of coal
| a day for its railroad system had had
to pay 81 a ton lighterage at Santa
Monica, and that by building it's great
wharf there it saved that outlay for
| liShterage, so that the building of the
wharf was a wise business enterprise,
| not an experiment.
White (Dem.) of California rose to
follow his colleague.
Frye said the bill must be voted on
to-day if the Senate expected to
have any river and harbor bill this
session.
Aldrich Rep) of Illinois-Why not
vote now?
Not yet" White curtly replied.
Vest said nobody had attacked the
people of California. He had simply
remarked that Mr. Huntington seemed
to be the issue, and the great political
factor in that State. That was so much
| the case that one gentleman who ap
peared before the Committee on Com
merce Can ex-Judge of the Superior
CourO had declared that rather than
make any compromise with Mr.. Hunt
ington or any concession to the Hunt
AiAs7 tcAi lililEGIICe 1e WOulu GADdlIldlt
himself and cease to be a citizen, and
any man who would assert that Hunt
ington was not a burning issue in that
State had hardihood which he (VesD
did not envy and could not appreciate
In that connection Frye read an ex-
tract from a leading California news
paper abusing the members of the Com
mittee on Commerce who favored what
if He'd no
| declaring that their names had the
suggestive sound of burglar alarm
That is certainly" said Vest, "a
Vitriolic utterance. The only surprise
l experience is that my name is not
mentioned in it. 1t is the first time
have escaped when a charge of burglary
or any other crime has been made"
They had not heard" said Frye,
that you had made a speech declaring
that Mr.. Huntington was entitled to
the rights of a civilized man. If they
heard it your name would have been in
the list"
Vest soon drifted away from the San
Pedro and Santa Monica controversy
into a discussion as to the Eads jetty
system at the mouths of the Msss-
sippi-this discussion having for its
favorable to that system) with Major
Quinn of the Engineer Corps.
White Oem) of California repudi-
ated the insinuations of Frye that there
was anything of the ''sandlots' agita-
tion on his CWhite's) side of the con-
troversy. The people of California he
said, were just as law-abiding and as
fully competent to take care of their
affairs as were the constituents of the
Senator from Maine. He denied they
were animated by any sentiments that
were not honorable and manly. He
(White) did not regard the soil on
which Mr.. Huntington stood as sacred,
but he had uttered not a single word
against him.
White spoke in playful ridicuIe of
Fryes pr tension decide, after
survey of two mornings, which was the
better location for the deep-sea harbor
of California. The fact was, he said,
| that Santa Monica was an absolutely
unprotected roadway with hardly any
thing of the bay about it.
In the course of Whites speech he re-
ferred to the eccentricities of the late
Republican Convention of California,
which passed resolutions condemning
the Pacific Railroad funding bill, and
had then chosen as one of the dele
gates at large a Vice-President of the
Southern Pacific, and as a delegate the
Representative from the State, who, as
member of the Pacific Railroad Com
mittee had voted for the funding bill.
Frye argued against the clause in
Whites amendment which provided
that one of the proposed Commissioners
should be an officer of the Engineer
to
ing the foreman of the jury. He now
made counter proposition, which was
that the location of the harbor be de-
termined by an officer of the navy, to
be detailed by the Secretary of the
Navy, an officer of the Coast and Geod-
etic Survey, to be detailed by the Super
intendent of such survey, and three ex-
perenced civil engineers skilled in ri
parian work to be appointed by the
President of the United States, who
shall constitute board, the decision of
a majority being final as to the loca-
tion of the harbor.
White accepted the proposition. SO
did Pasco and the other Senators who
advocated San Pedro, and it was agreed
to without a division.
German Oem) of Maryland offered
an amendment limiting the expendi-
ture under the bill and contracts au-
thorized by former river and harbor
bills to $40, 100000 a year, and made an
argument in its support, in which he
stated that the amount was larger than
the average expenditure for the last
eleven years.
After some discussion motion was
made by Vest to lay Germans amend
ment on the table That motion was de-
feated-yeas 26, nays 81.
An agreement was made to take up
the bill under the five-minute rule to-
morrow, and to have the vote on the
bill and all amendments at p. M, and
then the Senate at 600 o'clock ad-
journed.
IN THE HOUSE.
WASHINGTON, May 12.-An hour
and half was occupied after the open
ing of to-day's session in disposing of
a motion made by Perkins (Rep) of
Connecticut Chairman of the Commit
tee on Printing, to exclude from the
permanent record certain matters in
serted by Wheeler (Dem) of Arizona,
for which it was asserted by Perkins
he had received no permission.
Wheeler contended that he had right
to insert the matter complained of, but
the House held otherwise, and by a vote
of IA to IS the matter was ordered to
be excluded
The remainder of the day was spent
in discussing the contested election
cases of Rinaker VS.. Downing from the
Sixteenth District of Illinois. The ma
jority of the Elections Committee No.