The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1890-03-22
TELEGRAPHIC.
WASHINGTON NEWS.

WASHINGTON NEWS.
WASHINGTON, March 90 Tne project
of the Cascade locks will permit of til,
passage of boats up to twenty foot stage
of water in the river. 1t will compare
we'll with the great 500 canal now under
construction. If, as confidently believed
BY Mr.. Hermann, this project at the Cas-
cades can be sufficiently completed tc
pass boats with what money he thinks
congress will appropriate at this or al
most succeeding congress, his conclu.
sion to seek protection through the regu.
lar river and harbor bill, seems to BIZ the
wiser course.
The educational bill was taken up as
unfinished business. On the third read
ing the Blair educational bill was de
feated, 81 to 81
| After debate the senate proceeded to
vote on the bill and amendments. The
first vote was ON the amendments offered
by Moody of South Dakota, that litter
ates among Indians shall be included in
the calculations. Hawley. opposing the
bill, read table Of appropriations to be
made for the next fiscal year with the
| following recapitulation: Probable ap-
preparations, $455, ,6OO,O 900; proposed ap-
preparations, $58, ,242.000; total, $685.
1900; estimated revenues, $3.50, AGO.
900; excess of appropriations over reven-
ues, $73.442,000. Moody's amendment
was agreed to.
The senate proceeded to vote on the
third reading and engrossment OF the bill.
When the vote was concluded and 1t hxd
resulted against the bill. Blair changed
his vote from aye to no, SO as to make q
motion to reconsider. the result was
announced, yeas 81, nays 81.
The committee on war claims to-day
heard Representative Hermann as to his
DILL recompensing Robert Iraville, of
Marion county, Or, for arms lost by him
during the war and for which he was un-
justly charged by the war department.
Mr.. Hermann also addressed the com
mittee ON the pending bill to credit the
state of Washington for arms and OF
dinance stores borrowed of 1t By the state
of Oregon during the Nez Perces Indian
war of 1877 and not returned. amounting
to $4,000 in vslue. The committee con-
sidered these bills and agreed to report
each OF them fsvorably.
Representative Wilson, of Washington,
has been notified to appear before the
river and harbOr committee and show why
the amounts fixed by the committee for
improvements IN bis state are insufficient.
He has been met on all sides with the
statement that Washington, being young
is not entitled to much consideration, and
the disposition to give this new Infant
cold shoulder becomes more apparent as
the session advances. Washington will
get moro for improvement of the Upper
Columbia than for all other river and
harbor Improvements:
The senators from the Pacific Coast all
voted for the Blair bill to-day. The
Oregon and California senators had voted
for il before and could not change, even
were they SO disposed. The Washington
senators were IN favor ot it from prilci-
pie, believing that as their state had been
given liberal grants of land they should
not withhold their support from the
Southern states
There Is a project IN course Ot discus
sion by which to unite several large har
Dor improvements in one separate bill,
independent of the river and harbor bill,
duV It's dufoCdLcS nave pIOpOscu W Itcp-
resentative Hermanr that he include IN this
his Columbia works. He proposes to sub
nit the project of the boat railway scheme
at The Dalles, on the Columbia, in hopes
of obtaining 1,009. 900. so as to put the
great work under way. and to this end he
is in daily conference with Texas, Mary
land and the lake congressman. He says
the people of the upper Columbia valley
will not feel complimented to receive,
even if it were now possible, 100000 or
100000 biennially for the boat railway
when the estimate for completion is $3,-
100000. The sad experience of such
driblets in the history of the Cascade locks
is enough for them. They want the work
inaugurated on such an actual appropri-
alton of money as will guarantee its COM
pletion during the present generation at
least.
In a consultation with the chief of en-
glneeis that officer expressed the opinion
that such an omnibus bill might prove
good thing as to the boat railway. Mr..
Hermann declines to consider the invita-
ton SO far as the Cascade canal and locks
and Columbia jetty are concerned. He
thinks he can take care of them in the
river and hsrbor bill, and as much would
be at stake if they were included in an
bill and it were defeated, he can.