New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-07-15
BY TELEG r A PHI
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| WAsuINGroN. july I4.-The conference
| report on the silver bill was adopted. Il
| goes to the President for approval.
The Impeachment court adjourned tc
Monday.
The river and harbor bill was resumed
The amendments increasing the appropria-
tions for the James and Cape Fear rivers
we're agreed to.
Mr.. Norwood, of Georgia, moved to non
concur in all the committee amendments
striking out appropriations.
Mr.. Window, of Minnesota, said the title
of the bill was Making appropriations for
the construction, repair, preservation and
completion of certain public works on riv-
ers and harbors, and for other purposes
He thought "for other purposes means to
make smooth and easy the way to congress
siOnal honors from the various districts Of
the country. 1t was to remove distractions
in the way to Washington rather than to
remove distractions from the rivers and
harbors.
MIR. orwood withdrew his amendment.
The Senate then non cOncurred in the
vario IS amendments OF the Committee on
Appropriations to strike out the provisions
in the House bill, as follows: Appropri-
ating $4,000 for the improvement of the
Occoquon river, $4,000 for Acquia creek.
$1,000 for Nomoni creek, and $4,000 for
French Broad river, and $4,000 for Pim-
lico river, North Carolina; $4,000 for
Clinch river $4,000 for Hiawassee river,
$4,000 for Powell river, and So, 600 for
the Cumberland river, below Nashville,
Tennessee; $4,000 for dredging Cypress
bayou, $60,OO0 for Sabine pass, Sl2,-
500 for Trinity. river where it enters
Galveston bav; $4,000 for Pass Cavallo
inlet. and $4,000 for Arkansas bay, Texas;
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$4,000 for Perquinan river, North Carolina;
1923. 900 for the Cumberland and Rock Castle
rivers above Nashville, Tennessee; $25, 900
for the improvement of the Ocmulgee river,
between Macon and the seaboard, Georgia;
$50. 900 for the port of Darien, Georgia;
$25 900 for the improvement OF New river,
$4,000 for the Matapony river, and $4,000
for the Pamunkey river, Virginia; 1000
for the Warrior and Tombigbee, and $4,000
for Choctawhatchee river, Alabama: $4,000
for the Apalachicola river, Florida; $40, 900
for removing distractions at the pass of
Brazos Santiago, Texas; 5000 for the i'm
provement of the French Broad river, Ten
nessee: SIC, 900 for the Missouri river at the
point where it ia cutting into the Kansas
shore above st. Joseph. tor the protection
of the city of St. Joseph; $4,000 for the i'm
provement of the Wicomlco river, Mary
land; $4,000 for the Big Sandy river, Ken
lucky.
The other amendments proposed by the
Committee on Appropriations were agreed
to, as follows: Appropriating $4,000 for
the removal of Beaver and NailOr Bend
rocks and clearing out snags in Little
Kanawha river, West Virginia; increasing
the appropriation for the improvement OF
the ChattahOochie and Flint rivers, GeOr
gia, from $50 900 to $4,000; increasing the
amount for the Ouachita river in Arkansas
and Louisiana, from $4,000 to SIS 200; that
for Cedar Keys, Florida, from $4,000 to
$50, 900; reducing the amount for the i'm
provement of the Yazoo river, Mississippi,
from $50, 900 to $l5 600; striking out the ap-
preparation of $4,000 for Mckeys Ferry,
North Carolina; increasing the amount for
the improvement of the harbor at Norfolk,
Virginia, from Sl3, 900 to S39, 900.
The conference report on the bankrupt
bill was adopted and goes to the President.
Adjourned to eleven o'clock TO- morrow.
House.
The Committee on Naval Affairs reported
a resolution reciting that the wreck Of the
monitor Tecumseh, sunk in Mobile bay, has
been sold, and directing the Secretary OF
the Navy to prevent the breaking up or
destruction of tho wreck, and if necessary
to purchase back the said wreck. Adopted.
The report of the Elections Committee,
seating Abbott and ousting Frost from Mas
sachusetts, was adopted.
The report of the conference committee
on the bill to amend the bankrupt act was
adopted. Adjourned.