The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1898-02-02
POINTS ON PROSPERITY
vQTI0uS Views on The Subject from
Different Political SIQHdD0IlIS.
JERRY SIRPSON STARTS THE DIVERSION
House Spends aEOst Of Tho Day on tho
District OF Columbia >Approprin-
lion Diil-:;enaiOf Clark Considers
IL Necessary TO Explain why He
Voted for tho TclIor Resolutions.
JERRY SIMPSON STARTS THE DIVERSION

Washington, D. c., Feb l, 1S9S
The House devoted most Of the ses-
sion to-day to tie District of Columbia
appropriation bill. but had not COM
pleted it at the time Of adjournment.
some politics was elected into the de-
bate just at the close. The military
academy appropriation bill was re-
ported.
The antl-civl service reformers won
a slight victory when Mr.. Perkins
(Rep), OF Iowa, presented resolution.
Tor printing the hearings before the
sivil service committee.
Mr.. Grosvenor antagonized the reso-
luton He said the hearings had taken
an eN parte turn and he desired to
suDmlt some facts in refutation Of GER
a.n statements before the hearings
We're printed. Mr.. Perkins, however,
refused to withdraw the resolution
until the House, by vote of 90 10 90,
had refused the previous question. He
then yielded.
~ res&ut.on was adopted which re-
quested the Secretary of War to sub
mt to the House the report of c.
MOD. Townsend OF the corps of en-
gineers. dated December 13, 1897 con-
cerning certain proposed improve
ments Of st. Joseph and Benton har-
bors, Michigan.
The house at 1880 p. m. went into
committee of the whole, and resumed
ConeiSlerati lion of the District of Colum-
piai appropriation bill, which was be-
gun Saturday.
AT O'clock the debate drlfted into
politics. Mn Simpson popD, of Kan
sas, attempted to show from clippings
from Maine papers that there had been
no return of prosperity in the lumber
Industry in that State. He also at
tackled New Jersey as the home OF
trusts
Mr.; D!nglcy, in reply, declared that
the Maine papers were full of evil
dences nf the Improvement in the lum-
per industry. The clippings quoted
were the exception. II was, he said,
ahother proof that gentlemen on the
other side could see the speck on the
barn door. hut could not see the door.
Mr., P!tney tRepl, Of New Jersey, de-
lended his State He declared that
New Jersey had been trust-riddcn be-
cause for years 1t had been under
democratic domination The Demo
cratic Legislature hnd Knocked down
ieg:Gntson To the highest bidder. Laws
were to be had by thOs> who had the
. price The last crOwnng infamy Of
the Democratic Legislature was an 0t-
coal combine by which the price of
coal was to be advanced 81 per ton.
hut at last. said Mr.. Pitney, the wise,
patriotic people of New Jersey had
risen In their might and swept the
Democrats from power They had re-
pud:ated utterly the Infamous doctrine
preached by Bryan in 1896. and had
elected as Governor last year gen
l!eman attorney GencraD Griggs) who
had been to-day called to n larger
sphere of usefulness In President Nc
kinley's Cabinet URepublican ap-
plause)
Mr.. Handy Dem.), of Delaware, as
an evidence Of the lack Of prosperity.
read @ letter from n friend in Phlla-
delphia, who said he had counted 240
unemployed persons who on Il single
Gay visited charitable soup house
In KensIngton.
Mr.. Adams Rep.). of PENNSYLVANIA,
in reply, declared that the report of
the factory inspector of PENNSYLVANIA
showed mat $4,000 more persons were
employed In the factories now than at
this time last year. AS to the soup
houses In Kensngton they fed so. 600
unemployed under the free trade tariff
Mr.. Mahany Rep), Of New York,
presented in open House the protests of
10000 German American voters against
the Lodge immigration bill. He made
"t SIGCCn against the in
tolerance of those who desired to close
the gates of immigration, and when
Mr.. Stone Rep), OF Pennsylvania, in
tel1upted him, he turned upon the
Pennsylvanian and denounced him as
one who desired to prcclpitatc q race
question, as one who had attacked the
Irish, the Germans, the Poles and
every other nationality. II commend
YOU" he shouted, "to the voters OF
Pennsylvania as one whose American
Ism cannot stand the test"
'Is the Sergcant-at-Arms present ?"
was the only comment of Mr. Stone
when Mr. Mahany concluded
At i;d0 p. nj. the House adjourned
SENATE.
No business of Importance was trans
acted by the Senate In open session
to-day The feature OF the short :;ts
SION was statement made by Mr..
Clark RcpD. OF Wyoming, as mat
ter of personal privilege. concerning
his vote in favor of the Teller re-
solution.
Mr. Clark had received n dispatch
from his state. published in Eastern
newspapers, to the effect that Henry
There are three little things which do
mere work than any other three LITTLE
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