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Passed Over the Veto.
The Committee, on Appropriations
Makes a Formal Answer to Each of
the President's Damaging Charges
Against the Bill and Against the
Wisdom and Honesty of the House,
and Recommends the Passage of the
Bill Over the Veto.
WASHINGTON. June 2.-In the House
tc-day Mr. Henderson reported from
the committee on rules an order making
the hour of meeting for the remainder
of the session at ll o'clock A. M. It
was agreed to.
The report of the committee on
rivers and harbors, recommending the
passage of the river and harbor biil,
"the objections of the President to the j
contrary notwithstanding," was pres- |
ented by Mr. Hooker, Republican, of
New York, chairman, und read. The
report states that of the 417 items of
appropriations contained in the biil all
except twenty-seven are for projects
contained io bills which have hereto?
fore become laws, and which have been
for years in process of, construction by
the Government. No new projects
were added to the bill of 1894. It
will thus be seen, the reports states,
that the principal work of the commit?
tee has been the investigation and ex?
amination of improvements to which
Congress has repeatedly committed it?
self. The river and harbor bill of
1890 appropriated ?25,000,000 and
placed certain works under the contract
system, "which involved the additional
expenditure of $15,000,000 ' It ap?
pears, therefore, that by far the greater
number of projects appropriated for in
the bill of 1890 and which are not yet
completed. % ?
The report explains that the bill was
referred to Gen. Casey, then chief of
the United States engineers, who re?
ported to President Harrison that only
eight of tbe items seemed to bi of lieu
ited or local benefit. The gro99 amount
' appropriated for these items wa? $72,
000. From this it will be seen, the re?
port oontinues, that the larger part of j
the projects cootaiued in the present [
bili pa$<ed the scrutiny and received
th approval of Gen. Casey and have
gone unchallenged until now. The
bill? of 1890 and 1892 were approved
by President Harrison and the bill of
1894 was permitted hy the present Exe?
cutive to become a law by limitation.
The committee impeached the Presi?
dent's declaration that many of the ob?
jects for which the money is appropri?
ated sre not related to the public wel?
fare. They assert that the bill was
carefully prepared after exhaustive
hearings, and that they scrupulously
avoided making appropriations not in
the interest cf commerce.
Referring to the President's criti?
cism, that not a few of the improve?
ments have been so improvidently plan?
ned and prosecuted that after an unwise
expenditure of millions of dollars new
experiments for their accomplishment
have been entered upon, the committee
say that it has often occured, after a pro?
ject has been adopted in accordance
with certain defined pians submitted by
the engineers, that the interests of
commerce required that a greater and
more effective improvement than that
first contemplated should be made. In
such cases it had long been the custom
of Congress to order from time to time
new estimates to be -made with a view
to enlarging the scope of these projects
In making appropriates for these en
larged.projects the biil often directed
tbat the money appropriated should bc j
expended io accordance with the modi?
fications of the eogioeers. The con-1
mittee believe, therefore, that the Presi- j
dent may have inferred from thc lac- j
guaoe so used that the original plans
had been improvident and ill-advised
and the money wasted, when the money
expended upon the original plans was
judiciously expended and would have
Deen expended even if the modified
plan9 hud been originally adopted.
An instance -.;f these modifications is
found in the case of the harbors tit
Baltimore, Portland. New York, Wil?
mington, Delaware, Savannah and
other places.
A careful re examination of the bili
warrants the committee iu asserting
that there is no foundation for the
President's statement that, the bill
carries appropriations for work which
private parties have actually agreed
with the Government to do in consider
arion of rheir occupancy of pab?ie pr
ertv.
Referriog to fi;e Presiden furtl
cri'icism fha* the bi!l contemplates
imm?diat* cash expendirure of nea
?17.00').OOO. inc?a?iog ?3.000 0
carril in the sundry civil appropr
rinn bills for contract w.^rk. rh? co
ojittee assert, that rue President is
error an.d that only ?12,621,000 are
be espended during the two 5seai ye:
ending June 30. 1898 The staremt
is also made thar the bili does no* ?
proptiate $62.000,000 for contri
work, but ouly $59.616,000 It
abo shown that if all the cootracrs ?
t!-orized by the bili are promptly eot<
ed into by the Secretary of War t
maximum amount thar can be. expeo
ed in any one year is $16 612.000. a
not $20,000.000 as rhe President ?
serrs.
Referring to the President's forth
criticism tnat the appropriations ?
the smaller schemes "Ot covered 1
contracts which will fall due U
years hence will not be less th;
?30,000,000, the committee say th
the next river and harbor bill w
only cover the cost of prosecutit
these smaller works for the two fisc
years ending in 1900, and that i
additional appropriations for tl
smaller ones will be made fortrie ye
1898.'
Passing to the President's accus
tion of extravagance', the commits
show that the average appropriator
for the past six years have been ?16
000,000 a year, while including tl
present bill arid the two others U
the remainder of this century ll
total amount for those six years wi
only average $13,000,000 a yea
This is based partly upon the grout)
that the committee's expeiience wit
the contract system in the past, *<
gether with other knowledge, justitit
the belief that the contract wor
which will be distributed over
period of six years. and whic
amounts to ?59,000.000, will be con
pleted for at least 30 per cent les
than amount stated, or, in other
words, for ?42,000.000. The repoi
repeatedly emphasizes the commit
tee's approval of the contract sys
tem as being less expensive to* th
Government, and securing mor
prompt and satisfactory results
This system is the distinctive featur
of the bill, and the committee strong
ly recommends its continuation Th
report adds that no good reason ha
been assigned by the President wh*
the House should recede from it
action with regard to the measure.
"It must not be forgotten," tin
report concludes, "that if this bil
should fail there are hundreds of use
ful projects of immprovements tha
have been in process of completioi
for a number of years, and agains
which the most captious critic coule
urge no objection, which would b<
suspended, whereby great wast*
would be 'incurred and great los:
sustained. Notwithstanding all tha
has been said against the bill you
committee assert that if it shoulc
yield most actual substantial beneii
to the farmers, the producers, th?
consumers, the merchants xand th<
business imterests of the country
and contribute largely to its prosper?
ity."
There was an unusually large num
ber of members in their seats, and
they listened to the report with close
attention and applauded it warmly.
Mr.Hooker stated that, in the opin?
ion of the committee, the President's
veto raised every possible objection,
and it wa8the intention of the com?
mittee by its report to answer them.
He -said that many gentlemen had
spoken to him about discussing the
veto, and if he had consented to erive
o
them all the time asked for it would
run over three or four days. The
matter was one f^r the House to de?
termine ; if it wanted to engage in
general debate, w-ell and good. In
order to test the sense of the House
or. the question, and without express?
ing any opinion as to the desirability
of the course indicated, he would
ask the previous question on the mo?
tion to pass the bill. (Applause.)
31 r. Dockery, Democrat, of Mis?
souri, and several other members
were orr their feet demanding recoar
nation. Ihe former with great ve?
hemency of manner denounced
the course of the gentleman f: mi
New York (Mr. Hooker,) shouting :
"The gentleman agreed with me yes?
terday that there should be oppor?
tunity for debate, lt is unjust, tm
fair and unman'}* to cut us off this
way "
Mr. Hooker seemed about to yield
to Mr. Dockery*s demand, but many
members interposed with cries for
"the regular order," and the vote on
ordering trie previous question was
iaken. It resulted : Yeas 179, nays
60.
Mr. Dockery demande 1 the yeas
and nays, but could muster only -15
members to second his demand, no!
a sufficient number, and that an?
nouncement was greeted with deri?
sive cries of triumph from friends o?
the bill.
The Speaker put the question :
"Upon reconsideration, will the
House pass the bill, the objection of,
? the President to the contrary not
j withstanding ?"
! Whereupon Mr. Dockery made
: another' e?brt to secure a hearing.
I So mildly a? to be almost pathetic he
j inquired : "Upon the question of
j passing a bill over the President's
I veto there can be no debate under
j the course pursued by the gentleman
! in charge "
I The Speaker: "When the House
? of Representatives has so voted
! there can be no debate." (Ap?
plause )
Mr. Dockery : "And it has so
veted. Stifled debate." And he
sank into his seat amidst general
laughter.
The vote was then taken on the
passage of the bill over*the Presi?
dent's veto, the Constitution requir?
ing that it'should be done by yeas
and nays. They were 220 yeas and
60 nays. More than two-thirds hav?
ing voted in the affirmative, the bill
was declared to have passed.
No More Bonds.
The Prohibitive Bill Passed
by the Senate,
WASHINGTON, June 2.-An eight
hours' session of the senate was wound
up to-day hy the passage ot the bill to
prohibir the issuance of interest bear?
ing bonds without, the consent of con?
gress All amendments, with a mo?
tion to postpone were voted down by a
majority of 7, and the bill was passed
hy a like majority-32 to 25.
Mr. Allison ahnraeteriz^d the risk of
a relapse into (he condition which pre?
vailed bet.ween 1SG1 and 1879 as a
most unwir-o and unjust thiner, and said
that no part of the people of the Tinged
Slates could he benefitted by such a
relapse. Mr. Chandler appealed to the
Democratic senators no* to vote a want
of confidence in the President of the
United States and the secretary of the
treasury, who were men of their own
party and of their own choice. ?
Mr. Teller said thit he did not be?
lieve that the gold people need have
any or had any fears of McKinley, or
of bi? attitude on .the rooney question
Speeches were also made by Senators
burrows (Rep.) of Michigan and Pal?
mer (Dem.) of Illinois. Then the vot?
ing beg;:o. - All tho amendments were
voted down and the bili was passed.
Putting on- the Screws.
The Metropo?tian Police Law
Hanging Over Florence,
Florence was the city referred to
yesterday in The State as being
threatened with metropolitan' police
by Governor Evans. She came very
near getting the metropolitan police
law applied to her, but now she is to
be given "another chance," as Gov?
ernor Evans expresses it. It her
council fails now with the aid of the
constables to be stationed there to
break up the sale of liquor in ali
places other than the dispensaries,
metropolitan police will be put on
the town.
It appears that J)ectective New?
bold has been doing some work about
Florence and succeeded in purchas?
ing whiskey from about a dozen dif?
ferent places without any trouble.
Some of the whiskey said to have
been purchased in Florence blind
tigers was on exhibition in the gov?
ernor's office yesterday when Capt.
W. H. Day, the mayor of the town ;
G. G Thompson, Esq , the city at?
torney, and Messrs II. L. Odiorne
and J. J. McNeill, representing the
municipal government of Florence
arrived in the cit}' to hold a con?
ference with the governor.
The conference was held behind
closed doors in the executive cham?
ber, Detective Newbold being pres?
ent. When it wa9 over, the gentle?
men went away assured that "an?
other chance" would be given the
city.
Governor Evans says this is the
third time that he has given the town
council "another chance" to enforce
the dispensary law, and if results
are not forthcoming he will at once
put on the metropolitan police. Ile
says the evidence of the existence
of blind tigers in Florence is full and
complete. Ile states that the rep- j
resentatives of the municipal gov?
ernment assured him that they were !
for the enforcement of the law and:
would use their utmost endeavors to j
have it carried out lo the letter. Ile \
says that he proposes to give the j
council several constables to co-op'?- ?
rato willi their police in carrying out ?
the law and make thc trial full and !
complete
The gentlemen from Florence will j
i el urn to that city and begin opera?
tions without delay.-The ?State.
Tucson, Arizona, June -Ail
counties save one have elected dele- j
grates to the Democratic Territorial !
Convention which meets on the 8th i
inst. All the delegates are instructed
to vote only for delegates to Chicago
pledged to free silver coinage.
Brave St. Louisans.
ST LOUIS. June 2 -The lo wet
house of the municipal assembly
to day passed the bill appropriating
?100.000 for the relief of the'tornado
sufferers The general fund footing
to night is ?129,000.
Mayor Walbridge haj not refused
to accept moneys sent from outside
cities, and has turned ?15,000 thus
secured to the relief committee
The mayor, however, believes that
St. Louis should be equal to the task
of canng for the afflicted. The in?
dividuals of the police force who were
not sufferers from the storm have
each contributed one day's pay to
the general fund. The St. Louis
Fair association turned into the fund
the net profits of yesterday's racing,
about $1,500,
James Campbell, Dan Cattlin, W.
J. Lemp. Chas. Parsons and other
capitalists to day took initial steps to
raise $250,000 to lend to tornado suf?
ferers at low rates of interest to re?
build their homes. No interest will
be charged for ]2 months. At the
Noonday club $35,000 was raised
for this purpo6e.
? All indications go to show that
William Hartigan, a wealthy iron
miner of Birmingham, Ala., is be?
neath the debris of the wrecked
building
Hartigan, who owned several
mines and a large furnace near Bir?
mingham, Ala., came to St Louis
two days before the tornado to pur?
chase machinery Wednesday he
went to the fair grounds. Since then
nothing has been seen of him. The
sun shone but 10 minutes today, and
frequently showers and falling tem?
perature kept up the strain of misery
among the unfortunates At all the
relief stations, long lines of men and
women stood waiting their turn to
receive the daily allotment of food
The county supervisors in East St.
Louis, in response to an appeal from
the city council, voied an appropria?
tion of $25.000 to relieve the imme?
diate suffering. Destitution in East
St Louis is hourly increasing. The
ladies' relief committee made a tour
of the territory to-day and report
570 families absolutely homeless and
destitute. Two thousand five hun?
dred people were breakfasted by the
committee to-day One hundred
families who found home in freight
cars were turned out in the rain
to day.
A committee of islanders made an
appeal to Mayor Bader for tents He
immediately telegraphed the govern?
or for IOU Those able to move
made a rush for the suburb of Den?
ver Side, where 70 tents are stand?
ing. The militia were compelled to
drive back roany of the newcomers
to prevent a panic.
The fight for the necessaries of life
is a desperate one. The relief com?
mittee are having a hard time con?
trolling the poor and making equal
distribution. At present they are
expending about ?1,000 a day for
food, clothing and cots. They need
?500 a day more, but the capital is
limited.
Cotton Futures.
NEW YORK, June 4.-The Sun says :
Cotton advanced 9 to 12 points, react?
ed and declined, recovered the loss and
closed very steady at a net rise for the
day of 7 to 9 points, with sales of 199,
500 bales.
To-day'6 features : Those who thought
they had guessed the Chronicle report
on the acreage to a nicety found that
they had done noth?Dg of the kind;
that they had been barkiog up the
wron?: tree altogether. Many had as?
sumed that it would state the increase
in the area at 17 per cent at least. Its
actual figures are 12 9. It has been
assumed that this year the crop will be
something like 10,000,000 bales, if not
more, thought cotton history teaches
that it might easily fall to two or three
million bales below this. At any rate
the Chronicle's report was the lion in
the path of the bears to-day here and
abroad and caused a sharp rally. The
receipts at the ports were small, the ex?
ports relatively large. Liverpool
closed sfroneer ; New Orleans showed
considerable strength and the question
arises whether there is no? a little ton
much rain in the Atlantic States, j
Liverpool and thc Continent sold, j
Wall street both bought and sold and I
so did the South, but on the whole ?
there was more pressure ro buy to-day j
than to sell. Shorts covered freely, j
but thc =hort interest is still believed to !
be i^rfje.
Chicago, June 5-On the invita?
tion of the "honest money" and hon- j
est primary organization of Cook !
Country Democrats a conference of
go Kl standard party leaders from ail
parts of Illinois will be held here on
Saturday to report the status of the
silver movement, upon which to base
a decision as to the advisability of
calling a State Convention separate
from the one to be held at Peoria,
which is expected to vote for free
silver and Altgeld's nomination.
BRADSTREET'S REPORT.
NEW YORK, Jane 5.-Bradstreet's
to-morrow will say : General trade coo
troues depressed in almost all lines.
The demand is smaller than a week
ago, and requests for and offerings cf
commercial paper have decreased.
Mercantile collections continue com?
plained of, and the tendency of prices,
particularly of cereals, sugar, coffee,
pork products, cotton and cotton goods
and iron and steel, contioues downard.
At the South the more favorable
features are the rain which visited
South Carolina, Georgia and Alabama
with benefit to the crop?, about one
sixth increase in the cotton acreage of
Texas, higher prices for rosin, and a
large volume of business at Nashville,
Charleston and Baltimore. Nebraska's
crop prospects were never better
There is a moderate increases in de
demand for dry goods at Chicago, but
business there generally is disappoint?
ing. The check to trade at St. Louis
is in part the result of delays in the
distribution of merchandise on account
of the late storm. Unseasonably cool
weather and raio have interfered with
retail trade in the territory tributary to
Kansas City.
May bank clearings, 189G, are
heavily reduced, reflecting the quiet?
ness in trade and speculation. They
show not only a heavy failing off from
May a year ago. but are smaller than
the April total, something which has
occurred only twice in thirteen years.
Total clearings at sixty-nine cities for
May aggregate ?4,218.000,000, a de?
crease of Io per cent from May a year
ago, and of 1.4 per cent, from April
this year.
The total number of buisness failures
throughout the United States this week,
as reported to Bradstreet's is 236, com- !
pared with 227 last week, and 230 in
the first, week of June, 1895
Makers of cotton for export are doing
relatively the best, business Over sup?
ply of cotton fabric? continues to depress
prices. Much woollen goods ma?
chinery continous idle, and sales of
woollens for fall delivery have not held
up as expected. Shoes continue firm,
and factories report a large number of
orders on hand, which strengthens
leather and hides. Iron md steel
prices in some instances are maintained
by the strength of pools. Either consu- j
mers are resisting demands of combina j
dons by withoidicg orders or nearby !
wants for staple making of iron and
steel have been overestimated. Pro?
duction tends to decrease.
Work of Relief in St. Louis
ST LOUIS, June 4 -The general
relief fund for the tornado sunerers j
now foots up $191,000. There are
many independent relief undertak?
ings that will swell the amount to
?220,000. The malcontents who have
tried to inject politics into this work
of mercy seem to have expended
their ammunition and. matters went
smoothly to-day.
A meeting was held by the emer?
gency building and loan committee
this evening, and reports of solicitors
showed that over $100,000 had been
subscribed. The purpose of the
projectors is to incorporate as a loan
society They will lend on -lots
where the houses have been destroy?
ed, up to their former value, charg?
ing no interest for four months, and
take second deeds of trust for secur
ity
Improvements in East St. Louis is
marked. Mayor Bader and the relief
committee, of which he is chairman,
are untiring in their work. The
amount received in money from out?
side sources to-night was ?19,500
and half as much more in food and
clothing The fcity council's appro?
priation of $25,000 is now available.
It Will Slumber.
WASHINGTON, June 3 -The senate
committee on foreign relations at its
meeting this morning took action on
the Morgan joint resolution provid?
ing for the recognition of the belli
gerency of the Cuban insurgents.
Senator Morgan discussed the sub?
ject for some time, but the sugges?
tion was made to him that it would
be better not to report the matter at j
all, than to have it reported and have !
it remain unacted upon.
No quorum was had in comm ii iee j
until just before adjournment and no!
action was had. The majority of the
committee is against reporting the
resolution and it is believed chat it !
will be permitted to slumber in the
committe room until the end of the .
session
Highest cf ali in Leavening Pow*
UNCONSTITUTIONAL.
Testing Clause in Dispensary
Law Knocked Out.
Special to The State.
CHARLESTON, June 4.-The amend?
ed dispensary law received a dose of
"knocked out drops" in the United
?States circuit court this afternoon.
Judge Simontoo declared in his opin?
ion that so much of the dispensary law
which refers to the seizing, testing and
confiscation of liquors, ordered for per?
sonal consumption by the residents of
this State, is io conflict with the Con?
stitution of the United States, and is
therefore null and void.
He holds that a resident has the
right to order his liquor from beyond
the State, and to receive it without hav?
ing it interfered wifh in any manner.
The opioion is a lengthy and exhaus?
tive legal document. It fally covers
the subject matter which has been in
dispute. The greater portion of the
opinions deals with the section of the
law referring to the testing of liquors,
and, as stated above, Judge Simonton
denies the validity of such testing.
He considers it a burden on commerce.
Judge Simonton shows that the pro?
visions of the law are directed towards
giving the State a monopoly of the li?
quor trade.
In conclusion, he states: -'The pres?
ent act gives to certain persons, the
board of control, the sole power ot pur?
chasing and importing into this State
I an article recognized as an article of
?commerce. The monopoly is invested
ia them by provisions of such strin?
gency and secured by such?extraordi
cary sanctions that every other per?
son of this State aod al! citizens of
other States are absolutely deprived of
competition with them. Thu* the pro?
ducts, as well ai; thc citizens of orber
States, arc discriminated against, and
interstate commerce is destroyed v
Judge Simontoo will therefore hold
all constables and police officers who
seize liquor intended for personal con?
sumption in contempt and wiil punish
them accordingly.
- um -OHM?
Hunting for a Fiend.
The following story of a fiendish as?
sault which has probably ere this time
be:o followed by a lynching, is taken
from yesterday's issue of the Lexicg
son Di-patch :
4'We have been informed by a re?
liable and responsible person that a
fiendish and brutal assuis was made
upon the person of Mrs. Hen Gonter,
who resides at thc "0!<? Dave Kyzer
place/' on the Augusta road near the
place of Mr. George D. Hayes, cn
Monday afternoon about '2 o'clock by
a strange negro who had been seen by
severa! parties loafing abou: in thc
neighborhood.
"Our informant crates *hut Mrs.
Gunter, wish her husband and two
other persons, had been at work in a
fielt' orno distance from the house, and,
laining of being tick, was told by
her husbaud to go Lome and lie dowD.
She started to do sc, and on her way
home, in passing an old log house, she
saw a negro man sitting beside it play?
ing with a pistol. After hailing her he
caught her and a scuffle ensued.
Whether be accomplished his hellish
purpose is not known as the lady is
verv reticent about the matter.
"As soon as it bad become known
that the assult had been made the
neighbors immediately organized and
started in pursuit of the Send, but up
to the the time our informant left, the
search had been without soeces?. If
caught, a necktie party will probably
follow, duriog which he will dance in
the air at the end of a piow line to
the tune of whistling bullets.
"He is described as being a black
burly negro, about ? 12 feet high,
heavily built, thick lips, 'weighs about
165 pounds, had on a white shirt but
no coat nor vest, and a cigarette bat.
The citizens should be on the lookout
for such a negro answering to the above
description and arrest him.''
To be Tried in Aiken.
WALTERBORO, June I-By consent
a motion of Solicitor Bellinger to
change the venue in the Broxton
Bridge murder case came no for
hearing yesterday. The Judge grant?
ed the motion to-day and ordered
the case to ba heard at Aiken net
earlier than the fourth week in June.
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