Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-07-04
SAVANNAH'S WATERWAY.
TuT1 SENATE VOTES TO APPRO-
PIRATE 100000.

NJ Reck Declares in Favor of PUTTING
the Surplus in the Treasury In Circu-
l.tion Through the Medium OF Ampor-
+aut Public improvements Mr. brown
AIDS in PassIng the Amendment.
WASHINGTON, July 3.-The Senate tQs
day resumed consideration Of the river
and harbor appropriation bill, and the
reading of the bill was proceeded with.
The reading of the bill being concluded,
Mr. Beck introduced bill to authorize
the construction Of bridges across the
Tennessee and Cumberland rivers by the
Obio Valley Railroad Company. 1t was
referred.
The Senate then proceeded to vote on
emendments to the river and harDor bill.
The first amendment shat provoked dis
cnssi0n was that appropriating $l,00O,OOO
for inproving New York narbOr, so as to
secure a tbirty-foot channel at the Sandy
Hook entrance of the baroOr, upon such
nlan as the Secretary of War may ap-
Iroye. The amendment was finally
lgreed to.
POTOMAC IMPROVEMENTS.
The next amendment on which there
was discussion was tine one appropriating
100000 tor the improvement of the Poto-
mac river in the vicinity OF w ashlngt0n,
with the provisO that no part OF the sum
should be expended upon or with refer
pnce to any place in respect OF which the
title of the United States was in doubt or
in respect to which any claim adverse to
The United States had been made. The
discussion was entirely devoted to the
Droyso, the necessity for 1T being two
slaims to land reclaimed from the river,
one on the part of the kidwell claimants
and the other ON the part of the Chesa-
reake and Ohio Canal Company. This
amendment, also, was agreed to.
CUMBERLAND SOUND.
An amendment reducing the appropri-
alton for improving Cumberland Sound
On Georgia and Florlda) from $l5O,Oo0 to
\ SlO1. 900 was opposed by Mr.. Gail and was
ascrlOed bylNir Ingalls, to the pr0verb that
tBeabsent are always in the wrong, the ap-
pGcatiou Of it being that if Senator Jones,
Of Florida who is a member of the Com
rttee on Commerce, bad not been ''tem-
porarlY" absent this item would not
have been temporarily" reduced. After
long discussion the amendment was
agreed to
sAYANNAH'S CLAIM.
The amendment increasing the apprO-
nriatOn for savannah, Ga, from Sl2J, 900
4 t0$t75 900 having been reached, Mr.. Brown
4 moved 10 increase the dfHOunJ 10 P=UO,DUU
and advocated the motion. which vas dis
cussed at considerable length. In the
Il course OF the discussion Mr.. Beck de-
II cared that the trouble WAS that the gov
ernmeut mad too much money. The coun-
try would suffer more by reason
n of the amount of money in the
Treasury (and which was increasing
every year by taxation) than it would if
d the government had barely money enough
to carry on It's ordinary business. Only
Sl44,000,0O0 of debt could be paid off before
September, 1891, and for that there were
t24,000,000 lying idle in the Treasury.
Therefore he did not care whether this
bill appropriated $4,000, 900 SIS, 900, 600 or
$40,0J0,000,so long as the money was prop
erly spent.
THE AMENDMENT ADOPTED.
Anything was better than keeping it
locked up in the Treasury. IL taxation
Fl could not be reduced, and it did not seem
that 1t could be, ana if any profitable har-
Dor work was to be done, as at New \ YCrk, =,
Nj oayannah, Galveston or Wilmington, he
81 was III favor of il. Let the money be spent
81 In this way and get into the hands OF the
81 people, lie favored the amendment and
q was not troubled about the size of the bill
Il not a bit.
Mr.. Brown samendment was agreed to.
n The Senate then, at 4:20 O'Clock, wen t
INTO secret session and afterwards ad =
81 lourned till Tuesday.