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

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could brand suchla man, if notas calum
niaGor' as a man ignorant of the facts
Mr. Burrows, chairman of the select
comnlttee on the improvement of the
Ml9slsslppl river, quoted from the report
OF the committee and defended it.
Mr.. Robinson of Mississippi thouoht The
bill should be guarded so that the commits
sion could not expend another dollar for
the repair of levees.
Mr.. Thomas, of Illinois. member of
the select committee, asserted that the
Mississippi commission had in no wise ex-
ceeded its authority, and placed himself
on record here and now in favor of the
commission, and that, too, includipc the
levee. Eight members of the house. after
floating down the Mississippi by night and
fog on freight boat laden with kerosene
barrels and agricultural implements, came
here, and, in the face of all the experience
of the best scientists, said, "you shall not
use money for this or that purpose, be-
cause, forsooth, we have been down the
Mississippi river and know more about it
than you or the commission" The friends of
pooling companies of railroads proposed
to limit this great national work and
strangle it to death.
Mr.. Butterworth expressed his belief in
the idea that the waters Of the Mississippi
could not be confined within mud walls
without compromise with muskrats or
truce with mOles. He had no hostility
to the levee system, but did not think there
should be any large expenditures of monev.
for the construction of levees until further
experiments were made. He defended the
general plan of appropriatihg money for
river and harbor Improvements. and as
serted that The man from the West who
voted against such appropriations would
have so few votes at the next election
that ii would not pay him to count them.
Let not New York, who had sucked the
orange and now wanted to chew the pulp,
forget that westward the star OF empire took
its course, and in the course OF that en-
pire necessary Improvements would fol-
low.
Mr.. Ellis spoke in. favor of the Iavee
system.
Mr. White opposed the passage Of the
river and harbor bill this session.
The bill was then read by paragraphs
for amendments. Amendment increasing
the appropriation for Charleston, S.
O., harbor, was lost. At this
point the committee rose informally, and
after the appointment by the speaker of
Mr.. Speer, of Georgia, as a conferree on
the tax bill. to fill the vacancy occasioned
by RandalPS declination, resumed its SEES
sion.
On motion of Mr.. Aldrich an item was
inserted appropriating GOO for the i'm
provement of Calumet river.
! Mr.. Davis, of Illinois, moved to increase
the appropriation for the harbor of Chica-
go from $4,000 to $125,OO0. Lost.
| Mr.. Van Voorhees, offered a provise COW
ering into the treasury all unexpended
moneys appropriated by former river and
harbor bills. Lost.
| Mr.. Burrows, of Michigan. offered an
amendment appropriating $150,OOO for
the improvement of the ST. Joseph, Mich,
harbor and the channel leading to Benton
harbor. Lost.
The committee then rose and Mr.. Page
said he would ask the house to sit the bill
out tonight.
MIR. Bingham, chairman of the COM
mistee on pOstofiices and post roads, oferd
bill to adjust the salaries of postmasters.
Recess.
At the evening session the senate bill
passed appropriating 100000 for the
erection of 4 public building in Jefferson
! City, Missouri.
A bill passed for the reappraisement of
OAAO OAoA9POlU ! Aa4itSA "a pOutSu ny LGOO-
! ert Smalls.
! The house then resumed, in com nittee
of the whole, consideration of The river and
harbor bill.
! A motion to strike out the approp-ia-
| lions for Cheesequakes creek, Mattawan
creek and English river was lost, but gave
rise to running debate, which continued
| for half an hour, and as the house was in
! excellent humor and applauded
and laughed at the speakers, encouraging
| them with cries of ''go aheadp or discour-
aging them with advice to sit DOWN. or
with shouts of "voter there was much con-
fusion in the chamber. From $50 till IL
o'clock but little progress was made on the
bill, and no amendments were adopted,
but every small item proved q stumbling
block, for opponents of the bill took ad-
vantage of IL to make a motion to strike
out, followed by a demand for quorum
| in each case, as there was barely a quorum
| present, much time was lost and consider
alton of the bill was further delayed by the
| great disorder which characterized the
| deliberations of the committee. On mo-
ton of Mr.. Morey the amendment was
/ adopted providing that no more than
| 100000 of the amount appropriated for
the improvement of the Ohio river shall be
| expended on the Davis island dam.
At this point the committee found itself
without quorum and rose, and the house
adjourned.
NEW YORK'SsSTATE PRISONS.