St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-07-31
RIVER AND HARBOR BILL.
Present Status of the Measure.
Doubts Regarding Its Passage.

Present Status of the Measure.
Doubts Regarding Its Passage.
WASHINGTON, July 3O.-The following
statement exhibits in detail the results of
the conferences upon the river and harbor
bill:
The house conferees receded from their
disagreement to the item for the New York
harbor. The senate amendment in relation
to the Mississippi river, from the passes to
south OF the Ohio river, was agreed to, in
creasing the appropriation therefore from
Sl.6o7,5JO TO S2000.000, which is $3.50, 900 less
than the amount in the original house bill.
The house conferees receded from their dis
agreement to the Potomac flats approprla-
ton, and 1t remains as it WAS in the senate
amendments. The house conferees receded
from their disagreement to the Sturgeon
Bay canal appropriation, with an amend
ment providing that the appropriation
therefor shall not be expended unless the sec
rotary of war and chief of engineers shall be
satisfied of the eXpedience and desirablity of
the United States acquiring the canal, etc.
and working the same free Of toll. The Por-
tage Lake canal amendment was agreed to by
the house conferees with an amendment In
the same terms rs those attached to the Stur-
geon Bay canal. The item relating to the
Hennepin canal was amended so as to retain
the paragraph in the senate amendment ac-
cepting the Illinois and Michigan canal from
the state Of Illinois, and The secretary OF war
is authorized and directed to commence the
word of charging said canal in accordance
with the surveys, plans and estimates made
in pursuance of the river and harbor bill OF
1882 And the secretary of war is further
authorized and directed to cause
FINAL SURVEY AND LOG ATION
of the Heunepin canal and for these pur-
poses the sum of 100000 is appropriated.
As thus amended the house conferees agreed
to the provision The senate confereeS con-
scented to an amendment deere asing the ap-
preparation for the lock at the cascades on
the Columbia river $37, 5O0-less than the
ton which were contained in the bill reported
to the senate by the senate committee and
which amounted to more than 10000 each
and which, by the senate amendment were re-
duced 20 per cent, the senate conferees con-
sented to restore to their original amount
respectively. The gross amount of this iu-
crease is in round numbers S45s, 900. The
bill as it passed the senate appropriated
S14, 013,3 1893. The amount of the amendment
agreed upon by the conference of the two
houses increases the above amount about
$678, LOG, making the total amount appropri-
ated by the amended bill about SI4 691, 500.
The report to be presented to the house will
not receive the signature of Mr. Willis, chair
man of the house committee, and as he an
nounces his intention to oppose the bill on the
floor the measure is generally regarded as
being in extreme jeopardy. The roll calls of
yesterday revealed the presence of Il bare
quorum in the house, and quite a numb II of
members left town this morning. but the
friends of the bill in its present shape find
announcement in the fact that few Of the
advocates Of the Hennepin canal clause are
among the absentees.