Show CHARTING WATERS OF ISLES Entire Day Devoted to Discussing Proposition in the House Washington April 19The House sp nl practically the entire day debating de-bating a proposition In the naval bill designed to turn over lo the navy the survey and charting of the waters of Cuba Porto Rico and the Philippines The bill carried an appropriation of 100000 for this purpose Mr Cannon chairman of the Appropriations Appro-priations committee led the fight against It arguing that surveying oil these waters as should be made should be performed by the coast and geodetic geo-detic survey which he said could do the work cheaper and better In the end time House adopted an amendment offered by him to appropriate appropri-ate only the regular 10000 for ocean surveys surveysNEW NAVAL ACADEMY The chairman of the committee of the whole Mr Payne overruled the point of order against the appropriation of 350000 for the new Naval academy but an amendment offered by Mr Cannon was adopted providing that before the money appropriated by the bill for the academy bo expended plans for the whole improvement not to exceed G 000000 be submitted and approved by the Secretary of the Navy GOES FOR NAVAL OBSERVATORY During tim debate Mr Moody of Massachusetts cited the case of the naval observatory lo prove that there was not proper administration of scientific sci-entific work under naval olQcers He contrasted the cost of the work at Greenwich and Harvard observatories with that at the naval observatory in Washington The work of the naval observatory was he said the laughing slock of time scientific world Everyman Every-man to his own trade FOSS MAKES REPLY Sir Foss replied that It vas not the purpose of the committee to abolish the coast and geodetic survey but simply to confine it to the jurisdiction originally original-ly given under the Revised Statutes Mr Cummings of New York argued that the proposed surveys should be made by the navy not by a semlpo lltlcal bureau like the coast and geodetic geo-detic survey He poked mUn at iho superintendent of the survey wuo he said Hew his own Hag while afloat like a hag ofllcer of the navy He read a letter from a man now In time survey who had served twenty years at sea The letter described the work ao pit Nobody knows anything but me It said I am commanding officer I was only a boatswain in time navy ALLUSION TO DEWEY Mr Cannon concluded the debate ill favor of the amendment The acC a-cC time navy were educated to light ho said nol lo perform civil duties In time performance of civil duties he said with great emphasis they are Limo most incompetent and the most expensive ex-pensive Jn the burst of applause that followed this utterance some one cried uiit something some-thing about Dewey Olj 1 am not talking politics responded Mr Cannon Can-non I am talking dollars and cents and an ofllelent survey I arn a great admirer of Admiral Dewey and all time other ollicerjj and men who SLrvcd In time Spanish war I love them so well that when I secamen trying to see them to work at something at which they cannot sustain themselves I call a halt Mr Cannons amendnont was adopted finally 111 to 10 Without completing the bill the committee com-mittee rose v TO BUILD A MONUMENT Mr Fitzgerald offered in open house a resolution to appropriate Jf0000 for a monument In Washington to the embattled em-battled farmers who resisted the British Brit-ish at Concord In the first battle of time Revolution 12G years ago today It was referred and then at 525 p m tho House adjourned |