The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-02-19

matches, was struck out; the fourth section.
increasing the duties on molasses and cigars
twenty per cent, was amended by in
Guiding melado.
The committee then rose, and Mr. Coburn.
OF Indiana. reported the caucus force bill,
which was ordered printed and recommitted
The House Committee on Pacific Railroads
Will vote on the Texas Pacific Friday. The
| committee are about equally divided.
1t IS stated a majority of the Senate Ju-
dietary Committee consider the Pacific Mail
Subsidy as q contract which Congress cannot
abrogate.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 1S-The bill which
passed the House authorizes J. B. Eads. of
st. Louis, and his associates, to construct
such jetties and other auxiliary works as to
create and maintain a wide and deep channel
between the Southwest Pass of the Mississippi
River and the Gulf of Mexico. Taey are to
receive eight millions for constructing such
works and obtaining depth of thirty feet in
the channel, and one hundred and fifty thous-
and dollars year during twenty years while
| such depth is maintained
Mr.. Maynard, who introduced the bill, ex-
planned and advocated it.
Mr.. Williams, of Wisconsin, also addressed
the House in advocacy of the bill, urging that
1t would be the beginning of a series of inn
provements of internal national water
ways-one extending to New Orleans,
the commercial emporium of the South,
and the other extending to New York,
the commercial emporium of the continent,
winch would solve for the future the cheap
transportation question, in favor of the indus
trial millions OF the country, and which
would be national in his character, affecting
the interests OF every State west OF the Rocky
Nj ountaIns, at cost not exceeding eight mil
lions for the Mississippi, six millions in the
Northwest, and twelve millions in the East.
Wilson, of Indiana, offered an amendment
for the appointment of commission of three
army engineers to examine the construction
OF the work, and that no money shall be paid
on account of it until such commission shall
report to the Secretary of War, that the work
IS OF permanent character and of durable
materials.
He spoke of the necessity of such provi-
sion.
Thompson, OF Pennsylvania, moved to
strike out that portion of the bill which
directs the Secretary of War to construct the
work in case of the default of Eads, and he
spoke in support of that amendment.
Dunnell, Of Minnesota, and Whithorne, of
Tennessee, spoke in advocacy of the bill.
Messrs. Sheldon and Sypher, of Louisiana,
expressed their belief in the canal system
rather than the jetty system, but were willing
to have this experiment tried.
MIR. Platt, OF Virginia, objected 10 putting
the work in the hands OF any private parties,
and advocated the committing of it to the en-
gineers of the army.
Mr.. Lewis, of Tennessee, opposed Mr..
Platt's proposition, because the army engi-
neers were adverse to the plan.
1t was work that required genius, and the
army engineers were not men of genius, but
sleepy old foges.
Mr.. Conger, of Michigan, chairman of the
Committee on Commerce, confessed that he
had been originally opposed to this bill, but,
after studying the analogies between the
rivers of Europe improved by the jetty sys-
tenn and the Mississippi River, he had come
to the conclusion that the jetty system was
not only practicable, but safe in it's applica-
ton to the Mississippi.
At the close of the discussion the question
was taken on the amendment offered by Mr.
Thompson, and it was agreed to.
The next vote was on the amendment
offered by Wilson, Of Indiana, and it was
rejected-the friends of the bill asserting that
the same provisions were made in another part
of the bill.
The bill was then passed without division.