Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-08-04
byAGREEMENT AT LAST.
coNGREsS PASSES THE RIVER
AND HARBOR ELL.

A, pxpectation that the President will
sign 1t and Also the Surplus ResOlu-
tion Nature of the agreement
Reached by the COnferees-sOme of the
Appropriations.
WASHINGTON, Aug. SIN the House
TO-DAY Mr.. Willis presented the confer
epce report on the river and harbor appro-
o-istion bill and it was read at length.
The statement accompanying the report
s,etes that the bill as reported from the
conference appropriates 900. The
sandy BAY, New YORK harbOr and Poto-
mac flats items remain in the bill uu-
changed. No appropriation is made for
the Hennepin canal, but board of three
engineers is required to consider the
value of the proposed canal to the COM
merce OF the country. A pvOviso is at
tached that nothing in this clause shall be
construed as committing the government
TO Improvement. No appropriation is
made for the Sturgeon Bay or Portage
Lake canals, but a board of engineers is
required to report to the next Congress
as to the facts connected with their con-
structiOn.
A QUESTION OF CONSIDERATION.
The report and statement having been
made Mr., Burnes, of Missouri, raised the
question of consideration with the confer
ence report on the deficiency apprOpria-
ton bill, but the House determined, by a
vote of 143 to q, TO consider the river and
harb0r report.
Mr. Springer, of Illinois, made the point
Of order that the conference report must
be considered IN committee of the whole,
but the point was promptly Overrujed by
the Speaker. Then Mr.. Springer raised
tae question of no quorum upon the mo-
ton ordering the previous question on the
adoption of the report, and there being
hare quorum in the House it was some
time before sufficient members passed
between the tellers and ordered the pre-
YiJus question.
FILIBUSTERING TACTICS.
Filibustering motions were then re-
sorted to by Messrs. Springer and Hep
burn, but as they did not have a large
enough following to order the yeas and
nays, after the consumption of an hours
'time they had exhausted all the parlia-
mentary motions at their disposal and the
conference report was debated for half an
hour. Mr.. Willis closed the debate in a
three minute speech in favor of the re-
Of III yeas to 50 nays.
s. In the Senate to-day Mr.. Mcmillan from
the conference committee on the river and
har5or bill submitted the report, being in
the shape Of substitute for the whole
bill, which Mr.. Edmunds insisted should
be read in tull.
After some discussion the conference
report was agreed to without division.
The changes made in the river and har-
-
ported by the conierees with the form in
which it passed the Senate, are as fol-
lows:
INCREASES.
Harbor at Wilmington, n. c., from
$56, $50 to $75, ZOO; Red river. Ark, from
$ll, ,2jO TO $15, 900; Mississippi river, from
The head OF the passes to the mouth Of the
ono, from 81, ,651 800 30 $2,00O.O00; for the
examination and survey of the South
Passes, from $3.50 to $4,000; general
surveys of the Mississippi river, from
$3.50 10 100000; Sandy Bay HarbOr of
Refuge, Mass, from $4,000 to $lO0, 900;
81. Mary's river, Mich, from $lo7,50O to
100000; Hay Lake Channel, Mich, from
Sll2,5OO to S15O,000; James river, Va,
from $1,000 to $ll2,500; Arkansas river,
Ark, from 500, $50 to $4,000 general sur
veys, from $T5, 600 to 100000.
In addition all items of appropriation
which were contained In the bill reported
to the Senate by the Senate Committee,
and " hich amounts To not more than
10000 each, aud which by the Senate
amendments were reduced % per cent,
are restored to their original amounts.
THE DECREASES.
The decreases are as follows: Sturgeon
Bay canal, from SIP 800 to $5, 600; PortG ge
Lake canal, from S262, 800 to 10000; Hen
nepln cana, from $500. 600 to $l5, 900. With
respect to each OF these three pro-
leets, the Secretary OF War is authorized
and directed to appoint a board of three
engineers from the United States army,
WHO shall examine the canals and their
reallOn to commerce and consider their
4 value and all other matters connected
Win their usefulness for navigation. and
WHO shall give information as tOthe eX-
Ieoency OF the work and the desiratility
u The Improvement. The Secretary is
required t0 transmit reports OF these
ooaros to Congress at the next session,
0gether with his views and those of the
lniet Of Engineers thereon. The pro-
Visions for New York harbor and the
lo'omac fats remain as they passed the
9tHate, tha New York harDOr apprOpria-
uon being 100000 and the Potomac flats
%"Vo0' The bill appprOpriates $l4,4 ,4I3,-
49,, "nlch Is @66S,3OO less than the House
0'I' ana $351 ,5O1 more than the Senate bill.
SIGNATURES EXPECTED.
me PresldentIs expected to sign both
.he river aud harbOr bill and the Morrison
n"p.us resolutions in the improved form
"aIcu they have at last been brought
~ Tue TWO houses. The more objectiona-
ue features OF both have been elimi-
H".eu' The river and harbor bill may,
Try,"eVer, be vetoed on account of its size.
5. iae nlit as passed apprOpriates $l4, ,473,.
gD' "nich is $6US, 300 less than the aggre.
f1o'o ol the bill as it originally passed the
representative HarIis' Marriage.
soWAsHlNGToN, Aug. Representative
td.ai' tmails' OF Georgia, was married