The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1880-05-29
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WASHINGTON.

Washington, IS Representative h
Davis appeared before the House com
mittee on commerce, to-day, IN advo
cscy of favorable report on the resolu
ton introduced by him last Monday
calling for an official investigation OF Tn
extent of the causes of the diminution o
the tidal capacity of San Francisco bay
aud the resultant shoaling Of San Fran
cisco bar. The committee sgreed tC
recommend the adoption Of the resolution
by the House, with an amendment, t.
which Davis said he had no objections,
making the call upon the sscret'Ty of war
instead of the secretary OF the treasury
thereby involving the transfer Of the
proposed investigation from the coast
surI ey to the army engineer corps.
The Sens.e commerce committee, at
the instance of Senator Farley, to-day,
agreed to insert in the river and harbor
bill an authorization for the secretary Of
war to cause special surveys to be made
in California, with view to reporting the
best means for solving the debris problem,
together with estimates of the cost OF
works adequate ID prevent further in
! jury from this cause. The bill. as
| finally reported to the Senate this after
noon, contains new item of 200 for
the Wilmington breaker Improvements,
and the following increased items: Fer
Sacramento River, S45, 600; for SSn
Joaquin River, S25 900. The $4,000
increase for San Joaquin River was OBJ
tanned by tskirg 5000 from each of the
amounts Of additions previously granted
by the Senate committee for the
Wilmington and Sacramento River
improvements, the amount voted
for the latter by the House
being only $4,000 1t having been
learned that the House committed in
tended TO recommend $4,000 for Will
mington, which would have been their
usual proportion of one half Of the
departments estimate for this years |
requirements, Representative PachecO, |
on assertion that the committee had |
failed to keep their promise to him, there |
upon placed in Senator Farley's hands |
the original estimate of Colemendell |
for $4,000, which had been reduced |
Ose half by the secretary of war |
and upon this estimate Of Wendells |
the Senate committee granted nearly |
double the maximum amendment that |
could by any stretch of possibility have
been obtained from the House commit
tee.
All the Pacific Coast items, not men |
toned above, are retained in the bill by |
the Senate committee without alteration. |
from their respective amounts as passed |
by the House or exchange of any other |
kind, except that the appropriations of |
$40, 900 for Ysquina Bay and $4,000 for |
Coquille River are 10 be made from |
the general treasury, instead of being |
taken, as proposed by the House, from
last years appropriation for the contem-
plated Pacific Coast harbor of refuge.
Senator Farley was, to-day, at his own |
request, excused from further service on |
the pensions committee, as he is now on |
three other more important committees,
namely, commerce., postotfice and naval |
affairs, which fully occupy his time.
The Senate pensions committee voted |
10 report, with some verbal amendments,
the House bill granting pensions t. Ger
tain soldiers and sailors in the Mexican |
war, in Indian wars with Greeks and |
Seminoles. The bill repeats the section |
of the Revised Statutes which provides |
that no money on account of pensions |
shall be paid to any person or to widow,
or heir of any deceased persons
who in any manner voluntarily entered
in or aided in the late rebellion against /
the authority of the United States.
The House committee on appropria-
tons voted to-day to report to the House
recommending non-concurrence 10 most
Of the Senate amendments to the legisla-
tive appropriation bill and the appoint
ment of committee Of conference.