Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-07-31
WASHINGTON.
The Conference Committees Of the Two
Houses Finally Agree on the
River and Harb0r Bill.
Presidential Nominations-The Texas sena-
tors Vote Nay on the Surplus Rssolu-
tion--Mineola Postmastership.
THE coNrERrEs.

THE CoNFBREEs.
| WASHINGTON, July 30.--The following
statement exhibits in detail the results
of the conference upon the river and
harbor bill; The house conferees re-
coded from their disagreement TO the
item for the New York harbor The
senate amendment in relation to
the Mississippi river from the
/ passes to the mouth of the
Ohio river was agreed TO, increasing
the appropriation therefor from Sl,GS7,-
900 to 81, 100000, which Is S250,000 less
than the amount in the origi1tI The
house confer es receded from their disa-
| greement to the Potomac fats approprla
ton and IL remains as 10 was In the senate
amendment. The house conferees receded
from their disagreement to the
Sturgeon bay canal appropriations
with an amendment providing that
the appropriation therefor shall not be
! expended unless the secretary Of war and
chief Of engineers shall be satisfied of the
eXpediency and desirability of the United
States acquiring the canal, ETC., aud
working the same free of tolls.
The Portage lake canal amend
ment was agreed TO by the house
conferees with an amendment in the
same terms as those attached 10
the Sturgeon bay canal The item relat-
Ing to the Hennepin canal was amended
so as to retain the paragraph In the SEN
ate amendment accepting the Illinois &
Michigan canal from the state Of Illinois,
and the secretary of war Is authorized and
directed to commence the work of en-
lsrging said canal in accordance with
the surveyors plans and estimates
made in pursuance of the river and
harbor bill OF 1881 and the secretary of
war is further authorized and directed to
cause llnal survey and the location of
the line of the Hennepin canal, and for
these purposes the sum of 100000 is
appropriated. AS thus amended the
house conierees agreed to the pro-
visions
the senate conierees consented to an
amendment decreasing the appropriation
for a lock at the cascades on Columbia
river S37, 800 less than the senate amend
ments appropriated. BY the amendment
the bill appropriates about Sl4,G9l 800.
The report to be presented to the house
bill will not receive the signature of VIII
lis, chairman of the house committee, and,
as he announces his intention to oppose
the bill on the floor, the measure is gen.
orally regarded as being in extreme jeop
ardy.
Nominations; Cornelius Watts, United
States attorney for the district of West
Virginia; Dabney II. Maur of Virginia,
envoy extraordinary and minister pleni-
potentary Of the United States to the
United States Of Colombia; MalhoneaD
L. Mason, collector of internal revenue
for the district of Indiana; John w. Cage,
postmaster at Mineola, Tex.
THE RIVER AND HARBOR BILL.
WASHINGTON, July 30--The conference
committee on the river and ha2bor appro-
priaton bill have reached an agreement
on the bill, and report will be presented
TO the house this afternoon. The Henne-
pin canal clause remains in the bill, with
a modification providing for the accept
ance by the government of the Illinois
and Michigan canal and survey Of the
fine Of the Hennepin canal The Poto-
mac flats, New York harbor and other
items of Importance are conceded by the
house conferees, No cut has been made
in any items appropriating less than $780,
900.
The report to be presented to the house
will not receive the signature of Mr.. Will
| lis, chairman of the house committee, and
as ne announces his intention to oppose
the bill on the floor the measure is gene
rally regarded as being in extreme jeop-
ardy. The roll call Of yesterday revealed
the presence of but bare quorum in the
house, Quite number of members left
town this morning, but the friends of the
bin In its present shape find encourage
ment in the fact that few of the advocates
of the Hennepin canal clause are among
the absentees,
NOTES.
4 WASHINGTON, July 30,--Before the
committee investigating the Indian
leadership to-day, A, B. Upshaw, chief
clerk of the Indian office, testified that
II. D. Branham OF oxford, Miss, was at
the time he was licensed as trader u
member Of the law firm of which Secre-
tary Lamar was the head. The firm was
Lamar, Mayes & Branhsm, Mayes being
son In the law office Of the secretary.
s. 2. Rounds, public printer, rendered
his resignation to the president yester-
day. 1t is understood that 1t was done
at the request Of the president, who, it is
said, desires to I'LL the place before the
adjournment of congress. Mr.. Rounds
Is credited with having said that Mr.
Rogers of Buffalo will be appointed to
succeed him.
The president has approved the legis-
latiye bill.