The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1852-09-26
CONGRESSIONAL.
DEFERRED DE BATE.
TUESDAY, AUGUST "a, 1881,
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RIVER AND HARBon BILL,


Mr.. DODGE, Of Iowa. move to amend the bill in
" For the improvement Of the Dos Moines rapids, In the
Mississippi river at the lower chain and The English chain,
$50 000'-
by inserting before the words Des Mones'' the words
Rock River rapids" and striking out $50 ,000' and
inserting 100000" so as 10 make II read
"For the improvement of Rock River rapids and Des
Mones rapids IN the Mississippi river al tie lower ohan
and English chain, 100000"
will state that the bill now appropriaies $4,000 for
The lower rapids my amendment proposes to appropriate
5o more for the upper rapids The appropriation in
the bill Is for the Des Moines rapids will not detan
the Senate with an argument upon the subject. enter
ed upon its consideration last evening. and will not
peat it,. trust the amendment will be adopted Ger.
tanly it il an important one.
The amendment was agreed TO.
Mr. BRADBURY. move TO insert at the end OF the
bill the following:
For improving the Ks.aeSsc M river. from the United
desire only TO say that this is the amendment with
different sum, which proposed last night, in CON-
mee OF the whole There have been surveys and esl-
mates made The citizens OF the place have already ex-
pended $4,000 upon the work This will enable them
Mr. HAMLIN believe express the opinion of the
Committee on Commerce when say that if 1t had been
submitted TO them they would have reported iavoraby
upon the amendment
The amendment was agreed to-
Mr. UNDERWOOD. have offered no amendment
to the bill was disposed 10 offer none until saw va
which | rise to offer now, which is TO insert
"For continuing the improvement OF The Cumberland
river in Kentucky and Tennessee, 1000"
la The act oil 1888 that sum was appropriated Tor this
river. and the amendment is copied precisely word for
word IRON that act In the act Of 1885, like appropria-
ton OF $4,000 for continuing the Improvement of the
Cumberland river made These are the two latest
acts upon the subject The surveys explorations, and
estimates have been made, and why this river should
not be improved as well other rivers upon the same
prlHcIpe, cannot conceive
Mr.. SEWARD. Before the question is taken, de-
sire TO submit TO the Senate view of what we have
done, as Justiiyng the vote gave the last amend.
menl, and the vote shall give this. We have in the
Senate amended the bill BY adding $3.50 900 to IT,
VI that sum the amendments for the benefit and improve
menl OF the rivers in the West including the Mississippi
and It's tributaries take about $3.50 00O while the lax rs
take $4,000, and distributed among the Atlantic States,
from Maine TO Florida, the balance-hat is. about
100000 OF that, Massachusetts gets $4,5oO, Vir.
gina $4,000, New Jersey $4,000, Mississippi 5000,
Rhode Island 81 900. South Carolina $4,000, Maine
S22aoo, North Carolina S20,000, Delaware SIS 900,
Connecticut $4,000, Florida $50 oOO California 1000
Georgia 10000, and New York S. oo0 submit that
we shall load this bill down, if we do not stop where we
are IN regard TO the western rivers The appropriations
already made by the Senate to those rivers amount 10
$350,ooo out OF the $780, 900.
MIR. UNDERWOOD am very sorry that my friends
economy has Just overtaken him. when have offer red
The only amendment which have submitted 10 The bill
You have just upon the motion OF the senator from
Iowa, A1r DoDoE,l agreed to amendment appropra.
ting S5oO00 tor single obstruction in the mississippi
rvef Here is rver, as you have been informed time
and again, which is navigabe for Steamboats, from
seven hundred 10 eight hundred miles. Nashville is a
port oil entry lhe river passes through the State OF
tennessee, and runs almost up 10 the mountains in the
State OF Kentucky II is river that has been embraced
IN your surveys, and system Of river Improvements in
be est from the very fouRdaon, as have presented
you laws 10 show, BY which S200o0 have been annually
appropriated to remove It's distractions Ii has shoas
ihe hapelh shoas-which greater obstruction than
those IN ihe Mississippi There shoals which inter.
upi the great trade in iron which supplies Pits
burg IRON the Tennessee oundes And allow me to s,y
that IRON Nashville next year you will have railroad TO
chattanooga, connecting with all the South, and them by
the iyer Improvement, connecting Nashville with the
nayigable stream OF the Mississippi Indiana, Illinois,
and Missouri, IT will make thorough Communication TO
Charleston, South Carolina, through this medium and
yet this stream has been overlooked 1t through the
modesty of my friend from Tennessee, [Mr. BrIl
when be proposed an amendment for the Tennessee river
mat ne did not include the Cumberland. | know that
the Kentucky delegation In the other House made this as
one reason why they would not for the biparc-
ulahy The gentleman who represents the disrc, on the
upper branches oil the Cumberland make this state.
sent 10 show that there is proprey in not excluding
this river from the bill.
Mr. BELL did not expect TO open my mouth again
upon this SUBJECT not that might not have had occasion
THIS morning IN reply 10 The honorable senator from
South Carolina, Mr.. BurLrE, to say a few words
Mr. SEWARD. Will The honorable senator permit
me 10 correct statement which made stated that
there was appropriation Tor New York in the amend
ments Of The SENATE That was included in the sum
Mr.. BELL think there are $50, 900 appropriated in
the bill for the Hudson river.
Mr. SEWARD. spoke Of the Senate amendments
Mr. BELL. think II would have been fair for the
senator TO have stalled The appropriations made in the
BILL as came from the House, for New York, when he
undertook TO compare the appropriations for the differ
en sections believe there is appropriation for the inn
royemen OF Hegsle, besides the appropriations the
lakes.
Mr.. SEWARD. That is in The original bill
Mr.. BILL. know, Mr. President, that the Senate
s not disposed TO hear any further debate upon this sub
eci but some explanation is due myself in regard 10
lhe amendment offered by my friend from Kentucky
Tennessee is more interested in il than Kentucky, al
though the river through very valuable portion Of
the iaet State believe u was amy solicitation that the
honorable senator did not make this proposition earlier
IL was withheld because did desire TO load the bill
with amendments. The history OF these increased ap
propfiatons is little singular
believe was the first that attacked what appeafed
70 De very unequal distribution OF these improvements
IN The West, Northwest, and South. But excused it,
~ rat on The ground that II seemed be the object OF
me friends OF the bill TO proceed in the execution of old
Woks h mad heretofore been recognised and for which
appropriations bad been made. was not disposed to
censare very severely the principle on which the bill was
sent from the House. mean as TO its limitations The
Cumberland HveI runs by my door The place in which
live ~ port OF entry The river is navgable for sir
OF seven hoDdred miles. ve months in the year.
Tor STEAMBOATS, But stated, Notwithstanding the great
interest which The country felt in the Improvement OF this
ryer under the circumstances in which The bill was pre-
bauassmens attending The BILL and the opposition which
il was likely to meet with, | would not propose an
amendment for i, althought old work which bad
been commenced long since, and full surveys made
which file in the bureau OF topog raphca engi
neers. only asked that you would give appropria.
lion 10 improve the Tennessee rver above the Muscle
shoals, an estimate for the completion of which