The age-herald., 1898-03-16
Between Boston and New Orleans OppOS-
 ed by Representative Cromwell.
POLITICAL QUESTIONS
Discussed on the Floor of the House Under the Range of the Debate Allowed z.in Committee of the
 Whole.

Washington, March 15.-The house agreed today to consider the bill for the relief of the legal heirs of the victims and sur vivors of the Maine disaster as soon as the report of the postoffice appropriation bill, which was taken up today, is out of the way.
 MT. Loud. in charge of the postoffice bill, explained it's provisions briefly. It carried $9S 1862, 300, being s95S3O1 less than the esti- mates and $3 3,296, ,962 more than the appro- priations for the current year.
 Mr. Cromwell (rep. Md.), made an ex- tended speech against the appropriation for special fast mail facilities from Boston to New Orleans.
 During general debate on the bill the members generally took advantage or the latitude allowed in committee of the whole to discuss various political questions, and the debate accordingly covered a wide range.
 MT. Griggs (dem. Gal, contributed some remarks on the mooted question of the relative advantages possessed by the cot ton manufacturers of the north and the south, to show that the advantages pos sessed by the latter were not due to long hours of labor.
 He predicted that the south in the near future would manufacture as well as grow the cotton crop of the world. He warned NeW fuSldHu tide ohO iiuob eApe"AoAA N--o industry.
 MT. Griggs criticised some utterances of of Speaker Reed and MT. Dingley and created much enthusiasm on the demo- cratic side.
 At the conclusion of his speech an ar- engagement was made to close general de- bate at o'clock tomorrow.
 Happy Day for Republicans
 MT. Walker (rep) of Massachusetts. said it 1eap daV for the republicans when a southern member rose on the floor and spoke of the great manufacturing in- dustries of the south in competition with those of the north. It was day we had been waiting for since the pilgrims landed. No section would rejoice more than the south had entered the lists, than New England.
 we shall suffer from southern compe- tition temporarily" said be-
 "We may have to reduce wages tenn porarily, we may have to lose some de- partments of our industry permanently, but we glory in this southern competition be- cause it shows the cementing of the com mon country we love so we'll" (Applause)
 MT. Mahaney rep) of New York, de- nounced an editorial in New York paper on the Sheriff Martin verdict. The pub lie opinion of the United States, he said, while accepting the verdict, registered the unofficial verdict that the shooting down of defenseless laborers constituted an inn peachment of American liberty and a dis grace to the section in which it occurred.
 MT. Tawney (rep) of Minnesota, then got the floor and replied to a speech de- livered by MT. Johnson (rep) of Indiana, several weeks ago, against the annexation of the Hawaiian Islands.
 MT. Tawney argued that the commercial and military advantages of the islands made their annexation desirable. He de- tended the native Hawaans, whom. he said. are not an illiterate race. MY. Taw- rnl, Ha1 tlnt only ed royalists opposed annexation.
 He was warmly congratulated when he concluded.
 At 5:10 D. m. the house adjourned.