The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1904-04-21


The Senate TUESDAY xza the scsEe @.
= sharp eolicquy between Senator's Tel
Ter and Hopkins. growing oat O. the
reading by MIR Teller. o. letter wrtt-
ten By the late General IL II Thomas
OF Chicago. ;askinx the civil service
administration OF the Treasury ne-
3agtment Mr. IiopSIax took exception
10 the quoting ot The letter and de-
ciared that the Colorado Senator sill
be willing 10 accept authority from
the slums. whe.eupon Ar. Teller de-
clined 20 yield further. declaring Mr.
Hopkins reference 10 the slums 20 be
insulting. The incident occurred in
connection with the discussion o. the
postoffice appropriation bill Tha, meas
ure was under discussion during the
first half OF the session and was passed
all amendments offered by the Demo
Gratis being voted down
M. Germans amendment providing
for the appointment OF Il comm isslon
10 investigate the affairs OF the Post
office Department was, on motion of
Mr.. lodge laid on the table. 40 10
l9. The division was on strictly 20
litical lines. Mr.. Teller presented an
amendment for an investigating com
mission composed entirely OF Senators.
He charged that Republican Senator'S
were unwilling to have an investiga-
tion when NJ. Aldrich interrupted with
a denial and Teller repeated his state
ment that no investigation was wanted.
The Senator can speak for himself
bat net for anyone else" Mr.. Aldrich
replied sharply. and Mr.. Teller re-
spOnded by saying that every resolution
looking to an inquiry had been voted
down
Can the Senator OF his own knOwl-
edge make q specific charge OF malfea-
sance in office that has not been in
vestigated?" Mr. Aldrich asked.
Mr.. Teller replied that it was evil
dent to all that there was corruption in
the PUstoffice Department that had
not been uncovered and that the Re
publicans were afraid 70 let in the
light.
The conference report on the Indian
appropriation bill was agreed 70. The
bill providing a form Of government tu:
the Panama Canal zone was taken up
and read and amended. but the debate
upon it had not begun when the Sen
ate adjourned
House Proceedings.
The House Wednesday passed the
bill reported by the committee or
rivers and harbOrs appropriating 81,
100000 for the restoration or main
tenance Of channels, or Of other river
and harbor improvements. Mr.. Bur
ton. chairman of the committee, ex-
planned its provisions and urged the
adoption Of settled principles with
regard 10 river and herbor work with
the view to considering each project
according to its merits. Mr.. Burton
said that the amounts expended for
rivers and harbors when the vast OK
tent Of our waterways was consider
ed was very small. He favored the
adoption OF a policy OF pushing mat.
ters TO completion as rapidly as pos
sible. and declared that Congress
should not undertake anything which
could not be completed within reas-
sued in the United States, he thought,
contrasted most unfavorably with
those Of foreign countries. The one
great defect in our system was the in
SufIi cheney of the engineering corps
Of the army. He favored the policy
Of requiring communities interested
in river and harbOr Improvements 10
participate in the expense and said
that preference should be given to
channels and harhors which benefit
a great area. Discussing the ques-
ton CT inland waterways, Mr.. Burton
called attention to the vast sums,
amounting to many millions OF dol
lars. which would be required to con.
struct them, and declared that the
adoption OF any one Of them would
furnish a precedent for the adoption
Of all.
In favoring broad and liberal treat
mant Of rivers and harbors. Mr.. Rams
dell, Of Louisiana. a member OF the
committee, said he would support q
bill carrying s10O, 100000 because the
people now are ready for 1t and
would applaud its passage He re
gretted the present measure simply
was an emergency one. The Ameri
can people. he said, are not afraid oi
large sums. but rather liked them
He charged that the Republicans had
been lavish and even reckless OF ex
pense in all matters except river and
harbor improvement and called at
tention to the hundreds of millions
which, he said, had been spent in con
nection with the war with Spain and
en- "criminal aggression and passive
warfare"
Mr.. Humphreys, of Mississippi, also
a member of the committee, spoke o1
the fallacy Of the levee system OF i'm
proving the Mississippi river, and
said 1t was not possible for ievee
or system of leyees 10 Withstand
floods such as occurred in 1897 ant
1903.
General debate was closed by Mr.
Small, of North Carolina, who spoke
of the necessity for an inland water
way between Chesapeake Bay anf
Beaufort Inlet, n. c.
Mr.. Clark. of Missouri, called al
tention to the fact that the river ant
|. harbor committee was made up en-
t.relv OF members living on the Gul
coast. the Great Lakes or the ocean
Seven great States through which
the Missouri river flows or passes ar
without a single representative. HI
alluded to the acquisition by th'
United States Cf the Sandwich Is
lands. the Philippines, Guam and Por
to Rico, "or the pretext that home
arc wanted for cur children and yet
he said, there is more farming lan'
ont of which TO make such home
that IS overfowed and destroyed an'
made barren by the floods of the Mis-
eorr; river than couId he found in al