The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1882-03-21
THE MISSISSIPPI.
APPROPRIATION PROBABILITIES.

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WAsuGsGroN, March lS.--As was fore.
Swallowed IN these dispatches On Thursday,
he,house committee on the improvement
of the Mississippi river, at a special meet.
ing to-day, modified the Gibson bill by re-
ducing the amount appropriated for the
river below Cairo from SG,ll3O00 to 81
$4,000, the amount asked for by the river
commission. The bill agreed upon to-day
appropriates the latter sum, To be expended
by the secretary of war in accorlances with
the recommendations, plans, specifications
and estimates, and under the supervision of
the commission for the improvement of
the navigation and commerce OF the river
from Cairo TO the head OF the passes. In
order to satisfy demand made by repre-.
sentatiVcs of the Upper Mississippi to the
effect that the commission has been neglect,
ing their section, although it WAS the inten.
ton Of congress that the entire river should
receive attention from the committee, the
improvement committee to-day determined
to incorporate in their bill IN appropriation
of 81 10000 for continuing the improve.
ment of the river from the mouth of the
Illinois, 100000 from the mouth Of the
Illinois to Des MONIES rapids, and $3.50, 900
from the Dss Moiues rapids to St. Paul,
to be expended under the supervision Of the
commission.
THE TOTAL AMOUNT
appropriated by the bill for the entire river
is sG,SG3,0O0
The bill will be reported Monday, and
under the rules it will be referred to the
committee of the whole. The improve
ment committee will make every effort TO
have it made a special order. This will re-
qure unanimous consent. Clardy, Thomas
and other members Of the improvement
committee believe that if the bill could be
brought up for consideration on its merits
the house would pass it. They think that,
in parliamentary sense, the measure has
been much strengthened by tie amend
menis inserted to-day making sppropria.
tons for the upper Mississippi. They Of
course recognize the danger Of the opposi-
ton which the commerce committee may
make to al attempt to pass the bill NJ a
separate measure. They will, however,
call the attention of tho house to the fact
that the Gibson bill and also the report of
the Mississippi river commission were
formally referred to the improvement COM
mittee. The members OF the latter com.
mittee will cnueavor to convince the house
that the passage of separate bill is tho
ONLY FAIR AND JUST MODE
OF dealing properly with the Mississippi
and they will assure the house that the
friends Of the river are not only willing, but
anxious that the question Of voting liberal
sum for the Improvement Of the river
should be considered and decided on its
own merits and not DO mixed with and
quarrellcd over in connection with what
Senator Vest calls tho "Coon creeks, Goose
branches and Nluskrat rivers of the
harbor bill.
But the chances are that the commerce
committee, which Is the most powerful
committee organ In tho house, will continue
to insist on claiming and retaining jurls'
diction ofthc Mississippi, and thatin the end
the Mississippi, will find itself alongside the
Muskrat river or the river and harbor bill.
If the members of the Improvement COM
mittuc should b. unable to secure separate
action on their own bill, they will cordially
cooperate In nm effort TO obtain from the
commerce committee Nh appropriation OF
least approximating the amouat contained
in their own bill.
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