The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1904-12-17
MORT BUILDINGS
AND + EVER |: I. ||. SHIP
Movement e Cut Down o''''l In Is
mense Navy Appropriation and; and
Use Funds Elsewhere.
CLAIMS THE. BILL j. ! /. MAY y Y PASS
General Lee Much Encouraged
at Prospect for jamestown town
Celebration.
Movement 70 Cut Down Down In I'm
CLAIMS The BILL 1 MAY Y Y PASS ASS
natisn,
J, o,,r - e,,lar corrrespondent.''

(Eron Our RGgulaT sSoii Ssl'o''''N0' -i-3,
WASHINGTON, .. c., December 16.---
There is a good reason to believe that the
river and harbor bill, and the bill making
annroprations for public buildings VII
be larger than wa sexpected Garner - =
the session OF Congress- It has developed se 's1
! tbat there is a considerable portion OF
both Republican and Democrats OF the
House and the Senate as we'll who are ar.
! opposed to making such liberal appro-i
rriation to the navy, while the apprtoypr,l1s d
lions proposed for the erection OF pubic
bindings and the Improvement OF water
wuys. are so small as to be penurious. ! {
is said that Speaker Cannon does not
exnect tho public building bill to carry
more than IS, COO, 900, while the total 4, OF
CONCENTRATIONS for river land farbor I'M
movement, Tho thinks, should not pc
rrcater than $4,000 900. The Secretary OF
tho Navy asked for s12l, LOCO Tor the
navy. and it is understood that the sCom-
$mittea on Appropriations has not cut
1t In great deal. +,
"a has not been difficult to stir up n
strong sentiment in favor OF cutting the
naval appropriation and increasing the
amounts to be spent on public Dulld1'nss
and rivers and hnrbors. whether ms
sentiment will accomplish great ueai
remains to be seen.
\ Omnibus Claims Bill.
mo Committee on Claims Is engaged
in the preparation Of an omnibus claims
bill. which will be introduced soon. lis Us.
thought tho bill will pass, though the
contrary opinion prevailed a short time
ago. Among the items IN the pl!l as as
fnr ms agreed on are the celebrated rent
cln,n,s,, ! of Richmond citizens, growing
out Of the occupancy Of their buildings
nv United States troops after tho end,
or the war. Il b ii
The Senate adjourned to-day until Mon
! dav at noon, and 1t is understood hat
+ on that day adjournment will be taken
until Wednesday, when adjournment VIII
he taken until the 4th Of January. Little
ar nothing has been accomplished III the
way of legislation thus far, fthough one
& month of the session has gone 1t Is
/. plain that there will be no general legls-.
iaton this session and that no
action IF will be taken on any OF
tho measures IN when me gen
eral public is Interested The passage OF
appropriate ton bills will be about all that
Congress Will have done when tho 18th
of March arrives.
General Lee Encouraged.
General Fltzhugh Lee, president OF
the jamestown Exposition company, and
Mr.. IS. Gordon Cumming, Of Hampton.
chairman of the Legislative Committee
OF the company, were at tho Capitol
today. Mr. Cumming only came last
night, but General Lee has been here
several days. Both gentlemen arc greatly
pleased at the prospect Of getting a
good appropriation for the celebration Of
/ tho jamestown Tercentenary, There Is
little doubt that the committee will re-
commend that a considerable sum he eS-
pcnded liz celebrating tho event, though
it is not certain that It will recommend
| that there be an exposition. Indeed,
there Is small prospect OF there being
an exposition unless tho friends OF the
schcme overcome tho report3of the COM
| mttee recommending hat tho celebration
| take some other form, for 1t Is not
thought TINT It. will recommend an en-
| position,
| General Lee and General Charles T.,
| Fitzhugh. both retired officers Of the
United States army, stop vt the Shore
ham. They were In the dining room of
tho hostelry the other evening, when
General Fltzhugh effected an introduce
| ton,
II have met YOU before. General" said
General Fitzhugh. shut II was along
time ago. when ] commanded battery
down IN Virginia, and you and your boys
I 4 n GRAY tnnlc If AWAY from mo Mt Ren 4