Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1886-01-19
RIVERS AND HARBORS.
A LIBERAL BILL DEMANDED.
JveutJ-hve MilIions ut Leasi--fndian-Civili-
zsnon legislation Free COINAGE Favored
Another Effort 10 Admit Dskotu.

TwentS-nve MllIIons Mt Leasi-Indian-Civili-
| zstion LsGislafion-Fr COINAGE Favored
Another Effort 20 Admit Dskota.
Prom our Regular Correspondent
WAsHINGToN, ID. c., January Is.
The executive committees Of the wa
ter-way conventions held during the
past summer and fall at New Orleans,
Kansas City, and st. Paul in the in
terest Of western and southwestern
rivers and harbors assembled here to-
day for the purpose Of making an i'm
preston upon Congress by speeches
and resolutions in favor Of liberal APP
preparations for internal improvements.
The congressional delegations from IL
linois and Iowa also held a conference
to mark out the course they should
pursue in Congress TO secure an appro.
priatiOn to open the IIennepin-canal
route from the great lakes to the Mis-
sissippi river.
DIssATIsFAC TION WITH THE LIMIT
They are all dissatisfied with the
limit Of 100000 that the House
committee has fixed for the river and
haTbor bill for the next fiscal year.
One of the men who was prominent in
the St. Paul convention says the bill to
be passed this session ought to carry at
least s2j, 100000. Probably the House
committee, with the exception of one
or two Of its members, would be glad
to have slS.000,000 or 100000, 900
appropriated, but the level-headed men
among them do not imagine that bill
of that size would receive the approval
Of the Executive. The pressure for
large appropriations in this direction is
very great. and some men are acting as
if there will be no hereafter-no con-
gressiOnal elections to follow-and the
bill to be passed this session is from
present indications very likely to az
gregate from fifteen to eighteen millions.
CIVILIZING THE INDIAN.
This morning a subcommittee Of the
Committee on Territories'was addressed
by Congressman Townshend, Of Hi
nois, and Weaver, Of Iowa, in favor Of
their respective bills for organizing the
Indian Territory as Territory under
the name of Oklahoma. and to encour-
age the Indians to take lands in seve-
rally. Both bills are based upon the
theory that the policy heretofore pur-
sued for the civilization of the Indians
has proved failure, and that the true
plan is to make them citizens and abol-
ish the system of holding lands in COM
mon.
TIE ADMISSION OF DAKOTA.
The Dakota senator's are to have a
hearing before another subcommittee
on Wednesday in favor Of the admis-
sion of Southern Dakota as a State.
SILVER SUSTAINED.
The latest canvass made by the adj
yCcates Of the suspension Of silver coin
age gives the slyer.mon a majority Of
thirty-fye in the House and they say
the tendency is rather in favor Of free
coinage instead Of toward the susyeu-
sion Of the act requiring the monthly
manufacture Of not less than two mil
lion Bland dollars.
MINOR NOTES.
Mr.. Wise's Committee on Manuflc-
lures organized to-day and divided into
subcommittee, to which were referred
the various bills sent to that COM
mittee.
Speaker Carlisle argued before the
Supreme Court to-day a case from Lou
isyille, Ky.
Ex-Representatiye Dorsheimer, who
now United State District Attorney
at New York. and ex-Congre, sman Jor-
gensen, Of Virginia, were on the floor
Of the House to-day.
Mr.. Wise introduced in the House
to-day the resolution passed by the
General Assembly instructing Senator's
and requesting Representatives from
Virginia to vote for the repeal Of inter-
nal-reyenue taxes.