El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1901-03-16
Special to The Herald.


interesting and splendiferous from
Splendidville. but they have been else
where written of in the Herald There
was another proceeding the same day
which was more interesting to a lot
of folks. That is. by the calendar 1t
WAS the same day, but by legal f1c-
ton it was Saturday. March 2. There
was no actual adjournment of the SEN
ate from the beginning of the session
at IL O'Clock Saturday. until noon on
Monday. although there was a recess
from half an hour before midnight.
Saturday until 3 O'Clock Sunday after
noon. After that there was continu-
AUS sitting. The interesting thing was
the slaughter of the river and harbor
bill by Senator Carter.
This administration-andt the last one
is one of the slickest that ever came
down the pike of Time, politically,
same slaughter. All through the Fiji
nty-sixth congress the democrats have
~been lured into comparative docility
by the pickings in prospect when the
pork barrel came around. 1t will be
remembered how Allen told Bryan
there was mo opposition" for him to
join. They have been compromising
on this bill and that bill; letting the
VPhilippine amendment go through;
conserving to the army increase; not
fighting much on revenue reduction.
etc. all with a view to the ultimate
reward of merit in the river and har-
Dor bill. Every man in congress had
something coming to him out of the
good big appropriation which was to
Ne made.
The Assassination of the River and
Harbor Bill.
Then at midnight Sunday. after
Morgan was through positively last
appearance on the Nicaragua canal
and the senate expected to agree with
the report Of the conferees on rivers
and harbors, Carter arose and damned
his number seven brOgan through the
~top of the barrel. spilling out the $50
900 OOO which was to be divided. There
by the treasury is richer. but the con-
gressmen's districts are poorer. And
great is the moan. Carter was in bet
ter position to do this than any of his
fellows, almost. Montana has no nav
igable rivers and the Montana coast
well. the less said of it the better. That
he was working on an understanding
with the white house everybody be-
lieveS.
talked Twelve Hours Steady.
Carter began talking against the bill ]
al midnight and kept it up, practically
continuously. until it became time for |
the Inauguration to begin at noon the |
next day, when he walked away with as
bright eyes alert step as if he had done
nothing in particular. Under the rules.
voting can not be done until every SEN
atOr has had his say. And it was all
good straight talk. He did not avail
himself of the common resorts in long
distance speeches. reading pamphlets
not particularly germane. nor did he
wander from his subject. The rest of
rvox
and listened, indignant and tired. yet
amused in spite of themselves. Occas-
ionally he gave himself little respite
however by Turing the advocates of the
bill into speeches in its defense. That
took up time just as well as if he
shad the floor himself.
Little Rivers in Congress
At one time he began attacking the
provision for improving lot of South
Carolina creeks with brutal names,
bringing Tillman to his feet with a
characteristic speech-during which
Carter rested. Tillman thought:
y THE Mississippi itself has quit hav
ing any steamboats, on it almost. and
the whole scheme of river improvement
is a humbug and a steal; but if you are
going to steal. let us divide it out and
don't go to complaining"
And a lot more pertaining to the spe
cial appropriations attacked. Carter
! thanked him very nicely and then went
ahead to describe the Bagaduce in
Maine. the Cocheco in New Hampshire
lat present nearly six inches deeD): the
POwow of Massachusetts,: the Murder
Kill in New Jersey. the Dcughboy Bar
in Georgia, all of which were given APP
preparations. For the Altahamba in
Georgia. $4,000 was given and he read
a report of an army engineer describ-
inc he obc-rr- a,-fIx duo 20
Overhanging branches, and saying that
low water depth in some places was not
over a foot. The Ouachita in -Louisi-
ana and Arkansas also came in for
some of the unSought attentions. The
bill provided 100000 for removing
''snags. logs. wrecks. leaning timber,
etc from it. Trinity river in Texas
was another object of his disapprova1.
1t was proposed to spend 81 900 900 on
this stream all told beginning with a
$4,000 appropriation for cleaning
the river" Afterwards 81 locks and
dams were to be built for the purpose
of keeping water in It. at a cost of 3d.
Us. 900. All of this was tough on the
congressman responsible. Noon and
the eEd came before a vote could be
taken. Wherefore the river and harbor
dill is very dead.
Roosevelt in the Senate.
As a result of his efforts. the senate
has been talking of adopting Reed rules
or making some effort for limiting de-
bate. However the short session which
ended yesterday was too short to dis
cuss it and the subject was dropped
1t won't be heard of again likely. The
seI,ate clings tenaciousIy 20 its tradi-
tion which gives every member all the
time he wants to talk on any subject |
and while the idea of closure fer debate \
croDs up every once and a while still !