St. Paul daily globe., 1888-05-22
A General Reduction in the
Appropriation for Missis-
sippi Headwaters.
Senator Blair Springs an Or
thodox Sunday Bill on
the Senate.
Death of Mrs. Senator Sawyer
Minnesota Baptists at
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WASHINGTON, May 21.-Senators
Sabin and Davis seem inclined to con-
gratulate themselves upon their care OF
Minnesota interests, yet they have been
unable to prevent a reduction of the
appropriation in the river and harbor
bill for the Improvement of the MlSSlS-
sippi river from Minneapolis to Des
Moines from S650,000 to S500,G00, and in
snag boats. and the total humiliation OF
the appropriation for reservoirs, besides
other important interests. knute Mel
son manages to retain a liberal allow
ance for Duluth, Grand Marais, Red
affecting his district. Following are
the changes made and reported to the
senate to-day:
The total increase in the bill, as re-
ported to the senate, is about 81 100000.
The appropriation for Dunkirk is made
Zoo; Charlotte, n. Y, 100000; Oak
river. w. Va, $500 the item for the
purchase OF the upper lock and dam,
Monongahela Navigation company, W.
Va, S150,000, is struck out; Buffalo, n.
Y, S250,00G; (BiloXy Bay, Miss, struck
OUT; Ashtabula, o., 5000; port Clin
ton, o., struck OUT; OcOnoto, Wis.,,
$4,000; Wilmington, Cal, $G2, 800; Red
river, Louisiana and Arkansas, $4,000;
bayou Lafourch, La, struck out; Ar
kansas river. Arkansas, 100000;
St. Croix river, Wisconsin and
from Des Moines rapids to
mouth of Illinois, S135,000; canal at
Cascades, Or, S3OO,OOO; mouth of
Columbia, Or. S500,000; lower Will
lamette and Columbia in front of and
below Portland, Or, 100000;
willamette, above Portland, $4,000;
Tillam0Ok Bay, Or, 5000; Yaquima
Bay, Or, $l50,000. For the conStruc-
ton of movable dam in the Ohio river
near the mouth of Beaver river, 100000,
land the secretary of war is directed to
locate sites for three movable dams be-
tween the dam provided for and the
dam at Davis iSland): st. Clair fiat ship
canal, Mich, $1,000: Grand Rapids,
near Mount Carmel, Ill. $4,000; snag
and dredge boats on the upper Mis-
sissippi, $1,000; Mississippi, from Min
neapolS to Des Moines rapids, S500,000;
Black river, No. $1,000. The
PROVISION FOR RESERVOIRS
at the head waters OF the Mississippi is
struck out. The appropriation for the
Mississippi between the mouth of the
amended by the Insertion of provision
that the work shall include work on the
harbOr at St. Louis. The provision for
the Missouri river is struck out and the
following is substituted: Improving
Missouri river from mouth to Fort Ben
ton, continuing Improvement, S1,050,-
900, including removal OF ObStructiOnS,
surveys and examinations, together
with office expenses and salaries of the
+n -1No
pended in accordance with plans of the
commission. SO much of the sum as the
commission may deem necessary may
be expended at AtchiSOn and Fort Leav-
enWOrth, Kan, and in preserving or i'm
proving the existing work at Kansas
City and st. Joseph, Mo-, and the sum
of $1,000 may be used between the
southern limit of st. Joseph and the
head of Lake Contrary. Out of the
above sum S150,000 shall be expended
between Council Bluffs and Omaha and
point five miles above the bridge of
Omaha and Council Bluffs Bridge COM
panY; 100000 at Sioux City; $4,000 at
or near Plattsmouth; $4,000 at or near
Rulo, Neb., and $4,000 at or near Ne
braska City. The following is the
HENNEPIN CANAL PROVISION:
For the purpose of securing a contin-
uOuS naVigable water way between
Lake Michigan and the Mississippi
river, having capacity and facilities adj
equate for the passage of the largest
Mississippi river steamboats, and of
naval vessels suitable for defense in
time of war, the secretary of war is au-
thOriZed and directed to cause to be
made the proper surveys, plans and eS-
Inmates for a channel Improvement and
locks and dams III the beds of the Hi
nOiS and DeSplaineS rivers from La
Sale to IOckport so as to provide nav
igable water way not less than fourteen
feet deep, and to have surveyed and 10
Gated channel from Lockport to Lake
Michigan at or near Chicago, such chan
nel to be suitable for the purposes
aforesaid, and capable of carrying not
less than 100000 cubic feet of water per
minute, flowing at a rate of two miles
per hour, the necessary expenses of
such surveys, plans, etc, to be paid out
of the sum appropriated for the i'm
prOvement of the Illinois river. The
secretary
Is FURTHER DIRECTED
to cause to be located on such line as he
may approve, canal from the Illinois
river at or near Hennepin to the Mis-
SiSSippi river, at or above the mouth of
feeder for the same, said canal to be
known as the Illinois and Mississippi
canal, and to be eighty feet wide at
water line and to have depth of not
less than seven feet of water with locks
10 feet long and thirty feet wide. The
secretary of war shall cause to be made
and submitted to congress detailed
plans and estimates for the construction
OF the canal and feeder, the necessary
expense to be paid out of the uneX-
pended balance on hand heretofore ap-
propriated for the survey of said canal
A survey is provided for canalway
connecting Lake Michigan with Calumet
river, beginning near Hammond, Ind,
and running by way of Berry lake; and
for Minnesota points at Superior, Mimi,
with view to the construction of a
harbor of refuge.