St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-07-01
HARD-woRKED SENATOR'S.
Only Dozen of Them on Duty
They Talk and Talk and Do Lit
tie Else

Only a Dozen Of Them on Duty---
They Talk and Talk and Do Lit
tie Else.
Special to the Globe.
WASHINGTON, June 3O.-The feature
of the senate proceedings to-day was
the further consideration of the river
and harbor bill. There were only about
dozen senators in their seats. The
following amendments were agreed to:
Inserting an item of $4,000 for the Mis-
SiSsippi river above st. Anthony falls;
inserting an item of $50, 900 for strength
ening Sny island levee; inserting in the
Mississippi river appropriation from the
mouth of the Illinois to the mouth of
the Ohio the words, ''and the improve
ment of st. Louis harbor;" increasing
the appropriation for the Mississippi
from the head of the passes to the
mouth of the Ohio from S2,000,000 to
S2,500,000, increasing item of Sl,000,000
for the Missouri, from Fort Benton to
the mouth; increasing amount for the
canal at Cascades, Ore, from S175,0 to
100000; for the mouth of the Columbia
river, Ore, from $3.50, 900 to 100000;
directing examination and survey with
a view to future work at Rock Island,
Ills, Clinton, To-. Walden, Mass, Usage
iiNCls IhloOOull, IQol lINCl, 4NCW i VI h3
Cape Fear river, North Carolina, Mar
ragansett bay, Rhode Island, and Col
umbia river, at Dalles, Ore, but no
appropriations were made. The amend
ment directing survey for ship canal
from La Sale, Ills, to Lake Michi-
gan, near Chicago, was, after a
long debate, agreed to. The
amendment authorizes surveys and esti-
mates to be made for channel improve
ment and locks and dams in the beds of
the Illinois and DeSplaineS rivers, from
La Sale to Lockport. so as to provide a
navigable waterway 100 feet wide and
IA feet deep; also to have surveyed
channel from LOckport to Lake Michi-
gan, near Chicago; the expenses to be
paid out of the appropriation for the
Illinois river. Amendments were agreed
to locating a canal from the Illinois
river at Hennepin to the Mississippi at
the mouth of the Rock river, and abol-
iShing the Missouri river commission;
also an item apprOpriating $4,000 for
the purchase of the Green and Barren
rivers improvement in Kentucky. The
appropriation of $4,000 far Glen Cove,
n. Y, was increased to $4,000. Separ-
ate votes were demanded Oh the Henne-
pin channel amendment and the
one aboliShing the Missouri river
commission, also for the amendment
for purchase of the Green and Barren
rivers improvement in Kentucky. No
action was taken on account of no quo
rum. After brief executive session
the doors were again opened. The con-
ference report on the diplomatic and
consular bill was agreed to. As a sub
stitute for the amendment for a commits
sion to visit the Congo, an appropriation
of $4,000 was made for the salary of a
commercial ageut at Bona, in the Lower
Congo basin, with authority to visit the
Upper Congo basin and report as to its
commercial resources. Among the
bills passed was one authorizing the
Birmingham, Selma 81 New Orleans
railroad to build bridge across the
| TOmbigbee in Alabama. Thirty-eight
private pension bills were passed, and
the senate at 40 adjourned until Mon-
day at II a. M.