Mr. KASSON. I find it in vain to call for reasons, under certain circumstances, where there are none to be given. If in colleague, Mr. Gnisssu.] or any other gentleman here, as heard the testimony of any officer of the Dept, or of any Representative upon this floor from the district in which this navyyard is situated, or of any person who has investigated this subject or claims to have any personal nowledge upon iIt, should be glad to hearit. It is necessary here for me to say that while I did oppose the acquisition of Seaveys Island, uponterule which iI think the House ought to adopt touching these matters, that appropriations for mere convenience ought not to be 89m Cone. lsr SilasNo. 46. made, I also stated that where these appropriations were necessary for the commercial and effective conduct of the public business they ought to be made. find, now, this condition of things, to which I desire to call the attention of the House, that the effect of the indiscriminate striking out of these appropriations will be this: that when we come to vote upon this bill in the House there will be an effort to combine the interests of all parties and get back into this bill all these appropriations, some of which ought not to be adopted, and some ofwhich ought to be adopted. I therefore callupon the true economists in this House to exercise their discrimination at. this time, and retain those appropriations that ought to be retained, and reject those that ought to be rejected. This navyyard at NewYork, as is well known to all, is the great central nav “yard of the count; it is located at the great commercial center of the country. The provisions now existing for the conduct of the naval business at that navyyard are inadequate for the properexecution of that business and the committee, after reducing by some millions the entire estimates of the Navy Dept, find themselves met here in this House by ageneral proposition still further to reduce the appropriations, without any reason being given for the particular application of the rule. Now, I desire to say this much, to restrain the action of this committee and of the House upon the rule which they adopted by their action the other day; that I am not aware that a single member of the Committee on appropriations was opposed to this appropriation tidr the navy yard at NewYork. nd unless, therefore, we adopt in ComWhole the apro priations which should be adopted, we sha I find the bill swollen by several 100s of 1,000s of dollars when the vote comes tobe taken in the House, by a combination of all interests to get these appropriations back and for this reason I ask that this appropriation for the navy yard at NewYork may be adopted as a necessary appropriation, one so certified to us by the officers of the Navy Dept, and which I suppose is known to the gentlemeu from the cities of NewYork and rooklyn upon this oor.