The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1898-02-26


three per cent of the money carried was
worse than thrown away. Yet the gentle
man attack me for bringing bill prOvid-
inc for the expenditure of money upon
projects l never approved. can read
hetWeen the lines. | can put the shoe on
the gentleman and show where it
ninohes. If all these appropriations are
stricken out will say-Amen, will hep"
stMy Congressional district is not ask
ing for q dollar" 1nterposed Mr.. Gros-
yenor.
"Then you have got it all in, returned
Mr.. Cannon --~-.-r-~
'FThere never was dollar spent in my
district.
MIR. Dingley then took the floor. He
displayed considerable feeling in replying
to tho insinuations of Mr.. Moody. He ex-
planned first that the appropriation for
Rockland was not Important; simply IN
the aid Of the commerce of Rookland.
The improvement contemplate the cree
ton of breakwatsr and the construo-
tion of a harbor of refuge, precisely SUCH
a harbor of refuge as is contemplated at
Sandy Bay, in the gentleman's own dis
trict. said Mr.. Dingley. Already, he
said $250,000 had een,appropriated for
Sandy Bay. The work at Rockland, Mr..
Dingley continued, had not been placed
under the contract system at his sug-
qestion, but by the river and harbor COM
mlEUb0 upon Ull6 VI WY
board of engineers. If it was not needed
in the Judgment of the board OF engineers
it should be stricken out. Personally he
cared nothing about it and he said en-
Dhatically that he repudiated the intima-
ton that personally he had interested
himself in it, or had asked for it, He ap-
pealed to the members OF the committee
to bear him out when he said he had not
made to any Of them an intimation or
a suggestion on the subject. His per-
sonai wish, be said, in conclusion, was to
see the appropriation reduced and it any
of them could properly be cut down Or
eliminated entirely he would be glad to
cooperate on the work.
Mr.. Stone, Republican of Pennsyl.
yania, said it would be river and harbor
bill, if not at this session, then at the
next. Mr.. Stone and Mr.. Cannon, nom
bers of the appropriation committee, both
stated that Mr.. Dingley had never said a
word to them concerning the apprOpri-
alton. The former said q member might
as well allege that the chaplain of the
House had Iobbied for legislation as to
intimate that the gentleman from Maine
was going about interesting and beseig-
ing committees for projects for his own
district.
There was some further debate, in the
course of which Mr.. Cannon said there
might be scheme behind this attempt
to strike out the river ana harDOr Items
in this bill and thus reinforce demand
for q river and harbor measure. The
amendment was finally voted down,
14-118.
When the item appropriating s4o0, 900
for San Pedro, Cali, was reached there
was some debate, in the course of which
Mir. Geer of Wisconsin reviewed the whole
history of the protracted contest between
San Pedro and Santa Monica, character
izing it as the most astounding character
in our legislative history. If there WAS
ANYTHING IN the bill that ought.to pass
he said, it was this. The item was passed
without amendment,
On motion of Mr.. Berry, Democrat of
Kentucky, the appropriation for contin-
ming the Improvement of the Kentucy
river was increased from $105, 900 to $780,
900.
An amendment appropriating $50, 600
for Yaquina bay, Oregon, was pending,
when the House at O'Clock recessed I'M
til s.
The evening session was larg ely vast
ed Six private pension bills We're ordered
to be favorably reported to the House by
the committee of the whole, but on the
next, Mr.. Sullivan of Mississippi raised
the point of no quorum and no further
business could be done.
Among the bills acted on was one
granting a pension of $50 q month to the
widow of Gen. VIM. J. Landau of Ken
lucky.
AT 1890 the House was declared ad-
io,rped 11nfil tomorrow.