Daily globe., 1882-09-26

in the West, which deposit the wastage of
such manufactures in said rivers has filed
up and is filling up the channels thereof to
such an extent as to render futile the eff
forts of the government to deepen the
same, and to seriously impair the naviga
bility thereof to the great detriment of
the public waters; therefore,
Be it enacted by the senate and house of
representatives of the United States of
America in congress assembled, that it
shall be unlawful for any mill owner, man
ufacturer of lumber, Or other person or
party, to deposit, or permit to be deposit
ed, in any of the navigable waters of the
United States, at points more than fifty
miles above tide water, or the mouth of
such rivers as flow into the great lakes,any
sawdust, slabs, or wastage of any kind,
from such manufacture; and any person
or party violating the foregoing provision
shall be guilty of misdemeanor, and
upon conviction thereof in any district
or circuit court of the United
States, shall pay fine of not less than five
hundred nor more than five thousand dol
lars, and be liable to Imprisonment, until
such fine is paid, not exceeding six months.
Sec. 2. That it shall be the duty of the
attorney general of the United States to
cause prosecution to be instituted against
all persons and parties guilty of the VIOLA
ton of the foregoing section, and to prose-
cute the same to final adjustment and it
shall be lawful for the said attorney gen
eral at the same time to institute civil suits
in the name of the United States, in the
nature of suits in equity, against all
parties violating the foregoing sec
tion, to ,enjoin and stay the acts pro-
hibited in section one of this act, and in
all such civil suits, where the fact is ad-
mitted or proved that the defendant has
violated the provisions of section one, the
United States shall be entitled to judg-
meut at law for damages sustained. which
in all cases shall be deemed to amount to
five hundred dollars and such further sum
as the court shall adjudge, which the court
may enter in such equity suits, and the
circuit courts of the United States shall
have authority to issue writs of Injunction
and punish for contempt thereof as in 9TH
er cases of like nature within the equity
jurisdiction of said courts; and the con-
v1ctlon and punishment of any party in
the district or circuit, court of the United
States of q mlsdemeanor under the first
section OF this act shall not be pleaded as
defense to the civil action hereby author
lied and directed, d,............
The documents were referred to the
committee on Mississippi river.
INSPECTION OF sAwDUsT.
The following invitation was read:
OFFICE OF ST. PAUL NAVIGATION Co..
FooT OF JACKSON STREET,
ST. PAUL, Sept. 20, '82. J
Lion. John b. Sanborn, President Chamber
of Commerce, st. Paul, Mimi:
Dear Sir-The reports of discussion at
meetings of your honorable body on the
subject of proposed remedies for the pres
ent obstructed condition of the Mississippi
river near our city, have been read with
special interest by owners of steamboats,
plying these waters
am instructed to tender the free use of
the steamer Henry w. Longfellow for
twenty -four hours, the date to be fixed by
your body, for the purpose Of making an
excursion up and down the river near st.
Paul, to the end that thorough examin-
alton may be made of the effects thus far
produced by the accumulations of saw
dust and mill refuse in the Father of Wa
ters."
The steamer will be provisioned for the
inner man, lest saw dust may be found de-
fclent in nutrition. The accommodations
of the steamer are sufficient to in
clude our representatives to the national
congress who manifest any interest in the
improvement of the river at this point.
The reasons to be ascertained are why the
Hghtest draft boat cannot. as in former
times, go to the foot of st. Anthony Falls.
We regret this, for it would be our pleasure
to carry you to the sister city, whittier we
shall go when the channel shall have been
deepened by additional supplies of saw
dust and slabs which the ingenious mill
owners are so anxious to contribute in the
hope. of procuring this desirable result.
Very respectfully, your obedient servant.
Signed W. S. BRADDocK. Secretary.
Mr.. Drake moved that the invitation. be
accepted and referred to the committee on
the Mississippi river to arrange details.
The motion prevailed.
CONFERENCE COMMITTEE.
Mr.. McClung then offered the following,
which was adopted:
Resolved, That while this chamber holds
that the question of the injurious effect
of sawdust and refuse in obstructing the
channel of the Mississippi river is ques-
tion to be settled by practical river men
and the government engineers charged
with the improvement of the river, and
that it has been settled by their unani-
nous verdict, and is no longer an open
question, we are willing to meet such of
our neighbors at Minneapolis as object to
the verdict in spirit of comfy and con-
ISOLATION and give them ocular dem
onstratien of the correctnes of the testi-
mony already accumulated on this sub
ject, and to join with them in accumulat-
ing as much more as possible, and we
invite them to meet committee of this
chamber to confer upon this subject and
unite in an amicable and friendly spirit
in whatever Measures may beinecessary to
prevent the obstruction of the river by |
sawdust, mill refuse or other debris |
whether thrown into it at Minneapolis, ST. |
Paul or at any other point.
We also invite our friends at Saltwater |
who have large interests at stake to join in |