Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-05-07
A VOTE FOR WATERWAYS.
THE RIVER AND HARBOR BILL
PASSES THE HOUSE.

A Vote of 143 Yeas to 1O2 Nays-List
OF the Members in the Affirmative
and Those in the NegatiVe-SOme
OF the Eleventh-Hour Amend
ments.
WASHINGTON, May 6.-The House to-
day went into committee of the whole
on the river aud harbor bill. After
short general debate the committee rose
and reported the bill to the House. The
only amendment reported from the COM
mlttee upon which a separate vote was
demanded was that directing the Secre-
tary of War to negotiate for the purchase
of the works of the Monongahela Naviga-
ton Company. 1t was agreed to by avote
of 124 to AZ.
USE OF THE MONEY.
Under the arrangement made in COM
mittee Mr.. Holman offered an amendment
providing that the money appropriated
for the improvement of the lower Mississ-
ippi (eXcept such as is required to pro-
tect works already in progress) shall be
expended in the continuance and COM
pletion of works ON the Plum Point and
Lake Providence reaches. This was
agreed to by vote OF l32 yeas to lib nays.
THE SECRETARY RESPONSIBLE.
Mr.. Hepburn, OF Iowa, moved to amend
by providing that the appropriation for
the improvement of the lower Mississippi
shall be expended under direction OF the
Secretary OF War without the iuterven-
ti0n of the Mississippi River Commits
sion. This was agreed to by vote of 1876
yeas to 107 nays.
Mr.. Hepburn also offered an amendment
providing that the improvement OF the
Missouri river, from iJs mouth to Sioux
City, shall be conducted without the i'm
tervention of the Missouri River Commits
sion. This was agreed to by vote OF rs
to Il.
THE VOTE IN DETAIL.
After the failure of two motions to re-
commit the bill was passed by vote of
143 yeas to 102 nays.
The vote in detail was as follows:
YeGS-Messrs, Adams of Illinois, Ba-
ker, Ballentiue, Barksdale, Barnes, Barry,
Bayne, Bennett, Bingham, Blanchard,
Bland, Boyle, Brady, Breckinridge of Ar
kansas, Breckenridge OF Kentucky, Brown
OfOhiO, Burleigh, Butterworth, Cabell,
Caldwell, Carleton, Catchings, Clardy,
Clements, Compton, COmstOck, COnger,
Crisp, CroxtOn, CutcheOn, Daniel, Dar-
gan, Davidson, of Florida, Davidson of
Alabama, Dawson, Dibble, Dunham,
Dunn, Farquhar, FELTON,, Findlay,
Goff, GrosvenOr, Guenther, Hall, Harris,
Hatch, Heard, Hemphill, Henderson of
Illinois, Henley, Herbert, Herman, Hill,
Hopkins, HOuk, Howard, Hudd, Hutton,
IriOn, Jackson, johnson of New York
Jones of Alabama, Jones OF Texas, Kelley,
King, Lanham, Lawler, Linds-
ley, Lore, Louttit, Markham,
Masten. Maybury, McCreary, McKenna,
Mcmillan, McRea, Miller, Mills, MOfatt,
Neal, Neece, Nelson, Oates, OHara
O'Neill Of Pennsylvania, O'Neill of
Missouri, Owen, Payne, Peel, Pettibone,
Plumb, Price, Reagan, Reese, Riggs,
Rogers, Rowell, Sadler, Sawyer Sayres,
Scott, Sessions, Singleton, Skinner,
Smalls, Stephenson, Stewart of Texas, St.
Martin, Stone of California, Strait, Symes,
Taulbee, j. NJ. Taylor of Tennessee, u.
Taylor Of Tennessee, Turner, Van Eaton,
Van SchaIck, Veile, WadswOrth, Wake
field, Ward Of Illinois, " arner of Mis-
souri,, Weber, Wellborn. Wheeler, White
of Pennsylvania. White of Minnesota,
wilkins, Willis, Wilson, and Wolford.
NOgS-MessTs. Allen of Massachusetts,
Allen of Mississippi, Atkinson, Beach,
Bliss, Blount, Bound, B0utelle. Bragg,
Brown of Pennsylvania. Brum, Buck, By
mum, +. Campbell OF New York, Camp
bell of Ohio, Campbell of Pennsylvania,
#. j.. Campbell of New York, Gambler,
Cobb, Cooper. Cowles, Dingley,
Dockery, DOwdney, Eden, Eldredge,
Ely, ErmentrOut, Evans, EVerhart,
Ford, Fuller. Green of New Jersey,
Grout, Hale, Halsell, Harmer, Hayden,
Haynes, Henderson of North Carolina,
Hepburn. Hewett, Hiestand, Hires, His
cock, Hit, Holman, Jones, Johnston of
North Carolina, Ketcham, LaffoOn, Lafol-
lette, Laird, Landes, Lehlbach, Little,
Long, Lowry. Lyman. Mahoney, MatsOn,
McAdoo, McCOmas, Merriman, Mllard,
Milliken, morrill,, Osborne. Perkins, Pc
ters, PHELPS, Pidcock, Pindar, Randall,
Rauney, Reed of Maine. Reid OF NOrtn
Carolina, Rice, Richardson, Roberts,
Rock well, Ryan, SeBey, Sowden, SpOOn :
er, Spriggs, Springer, Steele. Stone OF Ken
lucky, Stone Of Missouri, Storm. Struble,
SwOpe, |. FL. Taylor OF Ohio, Thomas Of
Wisconsin, Wait, Ward of Indiana
Weaver Of Iowa, Winans and Worthing~
ton.
An unsuccessful attempt was then
made to bring up the electoral count bill.
and the House adjourned.