The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-03-21

Washington. March 17.-After a pro-
longed debate. the senate today passed
the ship subsidy bill. the final vote
upon the measure being AZ to 81. Sen
ators Allison and Dolliver. of Iowa:
Spooner and Quarles Of Wisconsin, and
Proctor and Dillingham;, Of Vermont,
republicans, voted against the final
passage of the bill and Senator Nc
Laurin, of South Carolina. voted for
it.
Some amendments to the bill We're
adopted, but they were all agreeable
to those in charge of the measure. the
friends of the bill voting down all
other amendments.
Senator Hanna, Of Ohio, offered and
the senate adopted three amendments.
applying directly to the ACQUISITION by
]. Pierpont Morgan and his associates
of the Leyland Line of British ships.
They provide that no foreign built
ship shall participate in the proposed
subsidy; that nothing in the act shall
be construed TO prevent American
citizens or corporations from holding
or operating foreign ships in the
ocean carrying trade; and that no for
eign built ship of any line thus ac-
quired by American citizens shall b.
admitted hereafter to American regis
try.
House of Representatives.
The house today began the consider
alton of the river and harbor bill. Mr..
Burton, of Ohio. made an extended
speech in explanation of the measure,
in the course or which he presented
many interesting facts relative to it.
Several other members spoke briefly
to the measure, mong them being Mr..
Bellamy of North Carolina. At the
conclusion of the proceedings today
Mr.. Wachter, Of Maryland, denied a
story to the effect that
Speaker Henderson had attempted to
influence his course on the question Of
Cuban reciprocity.
Mr.. Burton in cahrge Of the river and
harbor bill, discussed some popular
misapprehenSion with reference to it.
In the first place, he said. the impress
sion existed thar the bill carried some
thing over $50. 00e, 900 for the ensuing
fiscal year; whereas, it carried but
$4,000, 900 Of actual appropriations, the
remaining $50, 600, 900 being simply au-
thorized to be appropriated under the
contract system. There was also, he
said, a mistaken idea, that the pending
a - - eHPAO
than any previous bill. In 1890, he
said, the actual appropriations in the
bill exceeded $25. 000. 900. For the cur
rent year the appropriations contained
in the sundry civil bill, to provide for
continuing contracts, authorized in
river and harbor bills were $37, 900, coo
against SAL. 600. 900 for the two previous
years.
Mr.. Burton said that the a~ppropria-
tons for river and harbor work. in
stead of increasing with other govern
mental expenditures. as was popularity
supposed. were in reality decreasing.
MIR. Burton also denounced the popu-
lar idea that unworthy projects for the
Improvement of bavs and creeks abb
sorbed a proportion of the appropria-
ton in the bill. The appropriations
were not divided VI according to states
and localities. The great projects in
which the whole country was inter-
ested absorbed $780, O0, 600 out of the
$50, 600, 900 carried and authorized by
the bill
Mr.. Bellamy. of North Carolina,
criticised the bill for what he declared
was the unjust treatment accorded
North Carolina. He was particularly
aggrieved of the omission of
appropriations for Wilmington and the
upper Cane Fear river
He charged hat there had been a
willful Discrimination against North
Carolina. He contraSted the treat
mon accorded Alabama and her ports
with that received by North Carolina
and her ports and said IL was most un-
fortunate that North Carolina had not
had a member upon the river and har-
Dor committee. The states represented
on that committee, he said, received
s47.0 00.0 900 of the $50. 600. 900 carried by
the bill
Mr.. Foster, of Illinois. discussed the
Boer war, d~enouncing the majority for
failing to allow congress to consider a
resolution expressing the sympathy OF
the American people with the strug-
Cling Beers.
Mr.. Reeves. of Illinois. a member of