HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES..
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Mr.. Levin made personal explanation. 1t
appeared that Mr.. Gilbert, of New York, had
accused him of offering to sell him some prop,
erty adjoining the Philadelphia navy yard, to
be benefited by the construction of balance
dock, and that he rejected the offer, consider
ing il to be corrupt. Mr.. Levin denied the
charge from beginning to end, and said Mr..
Gilbert was stranger to him, and that if he
had desired to sell property he had friends,
capitalists, in Philadelphia, who would buy,
and he would not have applied to man who
would have picked his pocket.


The House voted on the amendments re-
ported by the Committee 10 the Navy Appro-
priation Bill and after this subject was dis
posed Of,


The House, by vote of yeas l20, nays 81,
resolved itself into Committee of the Whole ;
and by a vote of ayes lis, noes II, took up
the bill 10 reduce the Tariff Of 1912


The clerk read the bill. Mr.. Hungerford
proposed substitute for the entire bill; and