The Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1885-1886, 1886-07-13
HENNEPIN TO THE FRONT.
The Senate O'asses the Amendment
Appropriatins s3OS.000 for the
Canal.

| WASHINGTON CITY, July II. In the house
Saturday the amendment to the general de
ficiency bill giving one months extra pay
to senate and house employees was stricken
out ana the bill passed Randall's tariff
bill wa, adversely reported by Morrison,
and Tuesday set apart for consideration of
joint resolution requiring all surplus in
the treasury above 100000, 900 to be paid
cut in redemption of bonds TIE house
then adjourned.
Monday bill was passed authorizing the
secretary of war TO loan tents to the South
western Iowa and Northwestern Missouri
! Veteran Soldiers association and to the
| IrlState Veteran association of Ohio, In
diana and Michigan for reunion purposes
Under the call of states the following
| bills, etc, were introduced and referred
| By Wheeler of Alabama declaring it to be
the sense OF the house that congress should
not adjourn until it has enacted O law ap-
i propriating portion of the surplus money
in the treasury to assist the states in the
| great work-education; by Hall of Iowa
fer the relief of settlers on the Des Moines
river lands above Raccoon Fork by Rob
crtsou of Kentucky appropriating $1,000
for the erection of granite shaft TO mark
kthe birth place Of Abraham LINCOLN.
senate Saturday passed a biTrHuthef
izing the Chicago. Burlington & Quincy
| Railroad company to bridge the Mississippi
at Dubuque<1jHoars fisheries resolution
was agreed TO; Riddlebergers open execu.
tive sessions resolution was objected to,
which brought from that gentleman
vehement protest, and the Hennepin canal
clause in the river and harbor bill was de
| h1tal A N haIi and
the senate adjourned.
Monday Sherman introduced, by request,
a bill to stop all payments of public money
to James b. Eads for past, present or
future work at the mouth of the Mississippi
river until further ordered by congress;
| referred.
Resuming work on the calendar, the sen
ate passed the following bill The house
bill granting pensions to the soldiers and
sailors of the Mexican war
A number OF important measures were
laid over under objections, and at 1870 p
M the calendar was laid aside.
Hoar, from the Judiciary committee re-
ported back, with substitute, Beck's bill
to prohibit members of congress from act.
ing as attorneys or employees of railroads
that have received grants of land from the
United States
The senate then resumed the considera
| ton of the river and harbor appropria-
ton bill. The pending question being on
the Hennepin canal and Michigan and
Illinois canal amendment
Allison argued in favor of the amend
ment. He believed it TO be as important
a provision as there was in the bill, with
but few exceptions. There was no more
meIitorious proposition than this one
No other civilized government on the
earth would have SO long neglected this
great opportunity of the connection of
the Mississippi river and its tributaries
with the great chain of the northern
lakes, except the government of the
United States He believed that the
same men who listened To this would see
the day wheu vessels of war would be
transported from the northwestern lakes
to the Mississippi river and the guilt
through the waterway of the Illinois and
Michigan canal He deuied that the
canals wcle growing obsolete. on the
contrary, all great governments of
Europe were expending many millions OF
dollars in constructing and enarging the
canals. Every civilized government was
utilizing waterways by connecting the
rivers and lakes by canal, in order that
the bulky products might be transported
more cheaply than by rail. That was all
there WAS of this project He believed
that it would result in an annual saving
OF more than the entire cost
',,n. L..
and gave some explanations in answer to
the questions Of Hawlcy, as to some of
the engineering problems involved
Platt opposed the amendment
| Vest believed this amendment TO be the
avant courier of proposition to unload
the Erie canal on the general govern
ment, He was sick and tired Of having
a committee on commerce made dumps
ing grounds of every sickly broken down
scheme of internal Improvement
Plumb argued agains, The amendme mt
He calculated that at the rate of $500,
ooW year as proposed in the amendment.
II would require thirty or iorIy wears to
complete this work In the course of
his argument he commented upon the
| VI WV WI WI luS bdiNtSlon HAT
Dor and said that the government had been
sending army engineers TO school there at
a cost OF several million dollars. The
whole system was wrong Army engin>
eers lacked the Judgment and professional
sklli that were necessary, aud what
ever success they did have 10 such
works was the result of their en-
| nlpyngnt nt e..
He complained that the whole business
of the public works carried On in the
war department was mana gcd in a slip,
sbod way, millions being spent for
'naterisl and no account kept of it. As
10 the HenDepin canal, he complained
that the army engineers had planned to
take 1t across a high divide, which might
be avoided by a diverting line few miles
southwark. The trouble with these high.
priced wall-papered engineers fresh from
school was that they always wanted to do
some utterly impracticable things. But
a great objection to all these works, was
that instead OF sufficient appropriation
being made, money was spent in driblets
| Finally the discussion closed. and the
senate proceeded TO vote on the amend
ment, and it was agreed TO, yeas 81, NAYS
%. as follows:
leas-Allison, Blair, Brown, Butler,
Call, Cameron, Conger, Cullom, Dawes,
Evarts, Gibson, German, Hale, Hawley
Hoar, kenna, Logan, McMellan, Malone.
Henderson, Miller, Mitchell. of Oregon;
Palmer. Payne. Ransom, Sawyer, Spoon
er, Stanford, Teller, Van Wyck and wills
son, of Iown-3l
Nays--Beck, Berry. Blackburn. Cock :
rell. Coke. Edmunds, Frye, Gray. Harris,
Hearst, ingalls,, Maxcy. Pist,. Plumb,
Pugh, Saulsberry. Sherman. Vance, Vest,
| VOORHEES,, Walthall and Whitehall-92
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