The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-02-26
YELLED ATTACK ON DINGLEY
THE SUBTERFUGE CHOSEN BY CON-
 GBESSMiN MOODY.

The Appropriation Asked for the Improve ment of the Harbor of Rockland, Me-, in MT. Dingley's District-Dingley Feel ingly Replies to Unpleasant Insinua- tions.
 Washington, Feb. 25.-A long and somewhat exciting debate over the question of river and harbor appropri- ations was precipitated in the house to-day during the consideration of the sundry civil bill. It was practically agreed by all those who participated that there would be no river and har- bor bill at this session of congress, and this led MT. Moody to attack the con- tract items carried in the sundry civil bill. He selected an appropriation of sS5O,OOO for Rockland, Me, and his words were really a yelled attack on MT. Dingley.
 MT. Greene, pop, of Nebraska, asked, Whose district is Rockland in?"
 MT. Moody (waving his hand)-"I do Sc Great laughter on the democratic side.)
 Continuing, Mr. Moody declared that if appropriations for harbors in propor- ton to their importance were provided in this bill on the scale of this appro- priation for Rockland, Me, there would not be a dollar of the revenues left. T am ready to submit" declared MT. ohar Htn a regime of rigid economy and to submit to honest leadership, but I, for one, propose to rebel against such discrim- nation" In closing, MT. Moody gave notice that he would ask the house to strike out this appropriation.
 MT. Grosvenor, rep, of Ohio, ex- pressed his amazement at the magni- tude of the appropriation for Rockland under the circumstances. It had not been, he said, the practice of the house to appropriate for works for which the contracts had not been actually let, and he denounced the policy proposed in the bill as ruinous. He declared that this and other items in the sum- dry civil bill should be stricken out; that all members should be on an equality. He warned the members that if they permitted the sundry civil bill to become a river and harbor bill by 1n- direction all hope of economy on river and harbor bills would be lost
 MT. Cannon defended the bill and de- clared that the river and harbor items in 1t had been investigated with more care than any since the contract sys- tenn had been inaugurated. Personally, he did not champion river and harbor bills, and did not want to be held re- sponsible for them. The gentleman from Ohio had always been an ardent advocate of river and harbor bills, and had been instrumental in passing some of the largest bills ever passed,
 '"They were always fair" interrupted MT. Grosvenor.
 Some of the most vicious bills ever reported" replied MT. Cannon, "came from the river and harbor committee while the gentleman was member of it. From 25 to B per cent. of the mon- ey carried was worse than thrown away. Yet the gentleman attacks me for bringing in bill for the expendi- ture of money upon projects which are necessary. If all these appropriations are stricken out will say Amen Will he?" (Great laughter.)
 My congressional district is not ask ing for a dollar" interposed MT. Gros- venor.
 "Then you have got it all in," return ed MT. Cannon.
 "There never was a dollar spent ir my district"
 MT. Dingley then took the floor. He displayed considerable feeling in reply ing to the insinuations of MT. Moody He explained first that the appropria- ton for Rockland was not important simply in aid of the commerce oi Rockland. The improvement contem- plated, the erection of a breakwatei and the construction of a harbor of ref uge, precisely such harbor of refuge as is contemplated at Sandy Bay, ir the gentlemans own district, said MT Dingley Already, he said, $250,000 hac been appropriated for Sandy Bay. The work at Rockland, Mr. Dingley contin- ued had not been placed under the contract system at his suggestion, but by the river and harbor commission upon the recommendation of the board of engineers. If 1t was not needed ir the judgment of the board of engineers 1t should be stricken out. Personally he cared nothing about it and he saic emphatically that he repudiated the in timation that personally heh ad intend ed himself in 1t, or asked for it. He appealed to the members of the com mittee to bear him out when he sai6 he had not made to any of them any intimation or a suggestion on the sub- ject. His personal wish, he said, 1T conclusion, was to see the appropria. tions largely reduced and if any ot them could properly be cut dwon ol eliminated entirely he would be thank full for 1t.
 Mir W. A. Stone of the committee said MT. Dingley had never said word to any member of the committee in re. gard to the appropriation for Rock land. There was some further debate in the course of which MT. Cannon in, timated that there must be scheme behind this attempt to strike out the river and harbor items in this bill ant thus re-enforce a demand for rivel and harbor measure. The amendment was finally voted down, 16-11S.
 On motion of MT. Berry, dem., O. Kentucky, the appropriation for con tinuing the improvement of the Ken lucky river was increased from $105, ,00 to $250, ,000 An amendment appropriat ing $15,000 for Yaquina bay, Oregon was pending when the house at