Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-01-03
APPOINTMENTS CONFIRMED.

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port.
APPOINTMENTS CONFIRMED.
Senate confrmqtions: James Hunter, of
Missouri, as sIrgayor Of customs at St.
Josepa, Missouri. PoStmasters-Ge George
T. Eta, Marietta, Pa; Charles II, Wilson,
| Portsmouth. Pa; LEVIN G. Peysart, South
| Bethlehem, Pa. VIM. Q. Wiley, Washing
ton, Pa; Richard Hennback, Whitehaven,
Pa; Francis M. Byrne, Streator, ILL.,;
Frank S. Myers, Eureka, Ill; Vim. E. Nc
Mullen, Gibson City, ILL.,; Robert N. Hin
man, Mt Vernon, ILL.,; Ansel D. Brown,
Burlington, KS; N. B. Klaine, at Dodge
| City, KS; Ralph NJ. Eastey, Hutchins, KS;
| Alfred A. Rumble, Greenwich, Conn; Geo.
F. Crownigshield, Central Falls, R. l.;
VIM. Verback, Holland, Mich; J. D. Boiler,
Bowling Green, o.; J. Allen Myers, Bryan,
| Texas.
| The Mississippi river commissions re-
port, submitted to congress to-day, shows
the amount expended from July 1, 1882, to
| Dec. 16, 1882, including the estimated liza
bilities, is $96, 224; balance estimated to be
rec uired during the remainder of the fiscal
year is put at 100000. The delays in the
work at Plum point and Lake Providence,
are due to the great scarcity of labor. The
commission says: ''We see no reason for
doubling the ultimate entire success of the
| improvement. On the upper Mississippi,
below Des Moines, the work is car
ried on in detached portions and
SO far only at those places where
navigation is most impeded; but in Mis-
souri, only continuous work, beginning at
some point of stable regimen, affords any
prospect of success. By doubling or treb-
ling plants, which cannot be done under
the present allotment of appropriations,
work could be done in much shorter time
without an increase in the ultimate cost.
The report recapitulates in detail! plans
| upon which the commission is at work be-
low Cairo, the main principle being the
contraction Of the width of the river and
the projection of banks to secure the scour
irgsout of the bottom and preventing the
formation of bars. The works have al
ready passed beyond experimental stage.
They have received practical tests at
various points on tie mississippi and Mis-
souri, river, and even recent work of the
commission already -ho,s5 their correct
ness. For carrying o. work at the harbors
of Vicksburg, Natchez and New Orle ans,
| lock at Bayou Plaque mine, rectif cation
of the Red and Atchafaiaya rivers, and for
CLOSING crevasses and outlets, as auxiliary
to the work of channel Improvements $4,-
| $4,000 is wanted. Concerning outlets
and levees, the report says: THE plan of
improvement should include the control of
| floods in order to succeed in such general
| improvement as is described in the organ
ic act creating this commission" The re-
port recommends that provision be made
| by law for the appropriation by suitable
| proceedings of land and ma
terial necessary in any work
of improvement of the Mississippi
river undertaken by the government. 1t
recommends that provision be made for
retaining control by the government over
areas reclaimed and built up from the
river bed by works of channel improve
ment 1t is recommended that provision
be made by law for the punishment of per-
sons making or assisting to make any cut
| off at any bend in the Mississippi river, or
in any manner interfering with its chan
mel or banks. From much of that part of
| the report which relates to levees, one
member of the commission, Gen. Com
stock, dissents. He is of opinion that
levees are of but little aid in the improve
iQ0Qb OI low wafer udflSdblOu, anu uOuOtS
at present the advisability of leyees on
banks Of rivers abov present grades.
MINNESOTA IA ILwAY LAND GRANTS.
The railroads for the benefit of which
patents (or certificates as the case may beg
have been issued for lands lying opposite
portions OF such roals, aud not completed
within the time required by the law max
ing the grant. and So wash patents or
certificates have been SISTED since the ex-
piration of that period, are as follows: st.
Paul, Minneapolis i Manitoba, acres pat
| ented, SAT ,519; Western railroad formerly
branch of the st. Paul & Pacifc), acres
patented 109,116; Sout hern Minnesota
extension, acres certified but not patented,
169, 553; Hastings & Dakot a, acres certified
but not patented, 1885; Atlantic & Pa
cifc, acres patented, 25,037.
To-DAY's NOMINATIONS.
The president sent the following nomi-
nations To the senate to-day: A. P Ketch-