Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-07-21
RIVERS AND HARBORS.
The Conference Report Accepted
 by the House.
s22, ,277,ll6 ARE DISPOSED OF.
Changes Made from the Original Bill- investigation Of the Standard Oil Trust Resumed - A Number Of Acts Approved by the President - Other Washington Topics.

WASHINGTON, July 21.-After the passage of n few unmportant bills the senate yesterday went into executive business. In the house the conference report on the River and Har- Dor Dill was presented. The house accepted tho report, ayes 154, nays A..
 The bill as it passed the house first ap- proprated S19, ,902, ,7s3. As agreed upon in con- ference aggregates S22, ,277 ,116, being netin- crease of $2 374. .333. The increase consists prin cipally of the following items: Potomac River at Washington $500, ,0O0, harbor of Philadelphia S250, 900, Baltimore, $50, ,0o0, Savannah, $90, 900, Oakland, Cal, $l5o,0o Breakwater at Mount Desert, Me, $50, ,0O0; Gowanus Bay, N. r., S40,000: harbor Charlotte, N. Y., $20, 900; harbor Yaqina Bay, Oregon, $50, 900: harbor, Buffalo, N. r., S25 ,000; Missouri River, $S06, GOO; Cape Fear River, S145,o00; Columbia River at Cascades S125, 900; Kennebec River, S55 000o Great kenawha River, $5O,O00; Thames River, Conn.,, S25, ,00o: Penobscot River, $40, 900 ;Housatonic River, ,S25 000 Roa- noke River, N. C., $35, ,000; St. Claire Flats Ship Canal, S25, ,O0O; Lower Willamette River, S20, ,000; Green and Barren Rivers $1S5, 900: Mississippi River, between Des Moines Rap ids and mouth of Illinois, $50,O00; harbor of Norwalk, Conn.,, $25, ,OO0; harbor of Oconto, Wis, SIS ,000; harbor ot Helena, Ark, S75 ,0o0, White River, Ark. SIG 900; St. Johns River, Fla. S25 ,000 For examinations, surveys, otc., S75,O00.
 All tho Senatc's reductions of amounts as fixed by the House were restored except five, and these five aggregate S17 ,5O0 The Senate rorcded from its amendment striking out the approximation for the purchase of the lock .nd dam on the Monogahcla River. Tho Senate amendment for the purchase of the improvement known as tho Green and Bar ren River improvement was agreed to. rl, ,,;, ;v FAy my canal project.
 Tho Senate receded from its amendment providing for the purchase Of the Portage Lake Canal and the Lake SuperiorSh Canal Railway and Iron Company Canal. The Sen atc amendment for a survey of a canal from Lake Michigan to the Illinois and Des Plaincs Rivers was agreed to, also the Senate amend nent providing for & survey and location of Il canal from the Illinois River at or near the town of Hennepin to the Mississippi River; also the Senate amendment for a survey of canal connecting the waters of Lake Michigan with the Calumet River. But the Govern- ment is not to be deemed committed to these projects, nor indeed to any other project for which d survey is ordered in this bill, will be seen by tho following clause added to that section of the bill making an appropriation for examinations surveys, contingencies, otc., viz:
 And provided further, that the Government shall not be deemed to have entered upon any project for the construction of improve mrnt of any waterway, harbor. or canal mentioned in this bill, unless or until the work of construction shall have been actually appropriated for.
 The last River and Harbor Bill to become d law was that approved August 5, 1886, and Q ;vrrcd appropriations for the fiscal year nndcd Juno 30, 1887. Two years have elapsed without Il River and Hnrbor Bill. The pres ent bill, therefore, really carries appropria- tions for two years, making the amount for sach year a littlo over eleven millions of dol Mrs.
 The House Committee on Manufactures re- stunned its investigation into the Standard Oi se for the Trust of testimony they wish to
 The President has approved tho act for tho relief of Lewis Davis; tue act for a bridge across the Fl;nt River, Georgia; tho act for q railroad bridge at Fort Smith, Ark; the act ratiiyius the act creating the county of San Juan. New Mexico; the joint resolution in re..nrd to Il stutue of Benjamin Franklin in the District of Columbia; the act for a bridge over the Mississippi River ne&r Natchoz, Miss the act ill regard to bountics of volrn- trrr soldiers and the acts granting pensions to Virginia Gricr, Jeptha s. Jones, Martin x. Kellogg. Catherine D. Whittlesey, LoanuA Shcrman Abel G. Rankin, and Carrie Y. Miller.
 The Senate this afternoon confirmed the nomination of MT. Melville w. Fuller of Iuiaois to be Chief Justice of the Supreme C,urt. The vote was Al to 20.