The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-01-30
FUNDS FOR FoRTIFIcATIONS.
HOUSE TAKES UP THE APPROPBIA-
TION BILL.

The General Debate Not Confined TO
Subjects Dealt with by the Mn,
Isut Covers Wide RanSe-Face-
tious Amendment offered 10 APP
propriate $4,000 to Make the
White House "A Suitable Abode for
Mark acknowledgements Greet the
Teller Resolution with Applause.
Washington. Jan. 29.-At the opening OF
the session of the House bill TO permit
the building of a dam across the Mississip
pi river at Coon Rapids, at the northern
limits of the city of Minneapolis, was pass
e.
Immediately afterward the clerk of the
Senate appeared and transmitted the Tell
er resolution, which passed the Senate last
night. The announcement was greeted
with q terrific outburst of applause from
the Democratic side of the House.
No motion was made at the time and
the resolution remained on the table
The fortihcaton appropriation bill was
reported. and then on omtion of Mr..
Grout, Rep, of Vermont, the House went
into committee of the whole and resumed
the consideration of the District OF Co
lumbia appropriation bill.
1t carries $4,144,9l2 as against estimates
made by the war department of Sl3,37S, 57l.
The principal amounts allowed 10y the Hill
for the main items are as follows' Gun
and mortar batteries, $1,000 go; sites for
fortifcations, 100000; torpedoes for har-
Dor defense, $4,000; armament Of forti-
fications $2OS8,777; field guns and other
miscellaneous items, 100000, and ordnance
and fertilization board, 100000
Provision is made that the armament
shall be of American make, except when
Il is to the manifest interest of the govern
ment to purchase limited quantities
abroad.
The general debate was not confined TO
the subjects dealt with by the bill. 1t
covered a wide range The Teller resolu-
ton, the Cuban question, Hawaiian an
nexation, the tariff. and other political
topics was discussed.
At the conclusion of general debate the
bill was taken up for amendment under
the five minute rule
MIR. King, Dem, of Utah, raised a laugh
by offering an amendment to appropriate
$4,000 for the improvement of the White
House, Ito make it a suitable abode for
Hon. Mark A. Hanna" The amendment
was ruled out on point of order.
Mr.. Simpson, Pop, of Kansas, conf
mented upon President McKinley's decla-
ration at the Manufacturers dinner in
New York, declaring that his intention 10
make all the obligations of the United
States payable in the dearest money of
the world was "dress-coat anarchy" He
4 ~
licans to sneer at "backwoods states
men, and he reminded them that all the
Republican heroes Of the past had come
from the rural districts. The Republican
party, he declared, had at last become the
open defender of plutocracy.
Mr.. Tongue, Rep, of Oregon. in a splr-
tied reply, denounced the Populists end
the Democrats for being responsible,
through the passage of the Wilson tariff
bill, for the depression in the property of
the farming classes.
The discussion became very animated
when the topic Of prosperity was reached.
Mr. Wilson, Dem, of Tennessee, precip-
itated it, and Messrs. Grosvenor, Rep. of
Ohio; Cochran, Dem, of Missouri; Hop
kius, Rep, of Illinois; Mahany, Rep, of
New York, and Fitzgerald, Dem, of
Massachusetts, took part.
The latter again brought up the New
England cotton strikes, which have played
& considerable part in the debate on PRE-
vious days.
Mr. Simpkins, Rep, of Massachusetts.
sn the course of his reply, drew a round
of applause from the Democratic side by
stating that he frankly confessed that In
his opinion there was likely to be more
strikes under a protective than under
free trade system. The applause ceased,
however, and arose on the other side,
when he added that this was because
under the free trade system men would
have no work, and when they did it would
be for what they could get.
For some time the debate was confined
to the business situation in Massachusetts,
Aiessrs. Knox, Mccall and other Republi-
cans of that state contending the propo-
sition advanced by Mr.. Fitzgerald that
prosperity had not come to the common
wealth under the Dingley law.
Mr.. Hepburn, Rep, of Iowa, created
some enthusiasm on the Republican side,
when he read the Dun trade review in an
swer to the criticisms as to the effects of
the Dingley tariff law.
Mr.. Allen, Dem, of Mississippi aroused
the Democrats to applause by quoting the
following speech delivered by President
Mckinley in the House in 1880 when the
Mckinley bill was being discussed: when
merchandise is cheap men are poorest, and
the most distressing experiences in the hiss
tory of our country-yea, in all human his
tory-have been when everything was the
lowest and cheapest measured by gold for
everything was highest and dearest meas
ured by labor
After some further remarks by Messrs.
Dinsmore, Dem. of Arkansas, and Haw-
lev Rep, of Texas at o'clock, after COM
plotting 107 pages of the bill, the House ad-
journed.