St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-03-22
TO IMPROVE RIVERS.
Nearly Twenty-0ne Million
Dollars in the Appropria-
ton Bill.
The Contract System Assures
the Completion OF Impop-
tant Projects.
List Of Appropriations to Be
Made for Work in the
Northwest.
Undelivered Speeches WillGet
No Show in the Record
Hereafter.


WASHINGTON. March 21.-The house
committee OH rivers and harbors today
completed consideration of the regular
river and harbor appropriation Dill. LII
appropriates $50. 200, 900, which is about
$500. 600 less than the amount carried by
the bill reported by the committee Ill
the last congress. The greatest feature
of the bill is the extent TO which the
committee enIarges the policy adopted
in the last congress of placing some OF
the most important projects under tle
contract system, by means OF when
work can be undertaken with the
amount appropriated for the year COW
cred bv the bill and contracts entered
into for the completion of the work ana
of its continuance without serious IN
terruption, as has sometimes happened
when the continuance of the work was
entirely dependent upon river and mar
Dor appropriations by each congress be-
fore the work could again be pushed
ahead.
This year the committee authorizes
additional contracts to be entered INTO,
aggregating $50, Isl, 7O6 distributed as
follows: Charleston, salts, 900; Savan-
nah, s.. PIT, 600; Mobile, 81, $500; Hud-
son river, 81, Az, 90G; Columbia river,
Oregon, S1,7GO,O0O; the great lakes,
S3,94O, COO: Point judith. RI, 81, $4,000;
Beaver Dam, Ohio, $4,000 the Mis-
sissippi river. SlO.0OO.0OO. The bill in
authorizing
The Contract System
to be applied to the Mississippi river
provides for improving the MISSISSIPPI
river from the head of the passes to the
mouth Of the OHIO river, including sal
aries, clerical Office, travelling and
miscellaneous expenses of the MlSSlS-
Eippi river commission, and continuing
improvements S2.500,000. the amount
directly appropriated in this years bill.
to be expended under the direction OF
the secretary of war, in accordance
with the plans, specifications and rec
concentrations of the Mississippi river
commission for the general improve
ment OF the river, for the building or
leYeeS and for surveys, including the
surveys from the head of the passes TO
the headWaterS Of the river, IN Such
manner as in their opinion shall best
improve navigation and promote the in
tereSt of commerce at all stages or the
river.
Additional contracts may be entered
into by the secretary of war for such
materials and work as may be neceS-
sary to carry on continuously the plans
of the Mississippi river commissions
system; materials may be purchased
Il. 4l,f, fhnr, Inv
tract, to be paid for as appropriations
may bemade from time to time, not eX-
ceeding in the aggregate $2,50O,O0O per
Rnnum for three years commencing
July /, 1888.
From the Ohio TO st. Paul.
For Improving the Mississippi river
from the mouth of the OhiotO st. Paul,
Sh5O0,0OO. Additional contracts may be
made by the secretary of war to carry
Oh continuously the systematic improve
ment of the Mississippi between the
points mentioned, or material may be
purchased and work done otherwise
than by contract, not exceeding the ag-
gfegate 81, 100000 per annum tor three
years commencing July /, 1893. Pro-
Nided further, that of the amount APP
propriated 100000 shall be expended
from the mouth OF the Ohio to the mouth
of Missouri river and 100000 from the
mouth Of the Missouri to st. Paul land the
amounts for which additional contracts
are authorized TO he entered into shall
be expended in like proportions.
In the case of the great lakes project
S400, 900 is appropriated in the bill for
ship channel twenty and twenty-one
feet in depth and a minimum width of
800 feet in the shadows Of the connect
ing waters of the great lakes between
Chicago, Duluth and Buffalo. Further
contracts may be made by the secretary
OF war to carry out the plan proposed
by The engineer officer at Detroit. In
the cases of the other improvements
put under the contract system, the bill
provides that the secretary of war may
enter into contracts ito complete the
present
Projected improvements
to be paid for as appropriations may
be made by lawp The aggregate cost
of The contracts. tits provided in each
case. shall NOT exceed, inclusive of the
appropriations made directly in this
bill, the cost heretofore named as the
limit of cost of completion of the ini-
provements. For these projects there
is directly appropriated in the bill the
following amounts: Charleston harDOr,
$500, 600: Mobile harbOr, $3.50, 000: Sayan-
nah. S425, ZOO; improvement to Ohio
river by the construction of movable
dam at or below the mouth of Beaver
river, Pennsylvania, 100000; Point
Judith, r. l., $1OO,000 Columbia river,
Oregon, at the Cascades, 1885, 600.
Following is list of appropriations
for Northwestern work in excess Of
$4,000:
Wisconsin Green Bay, $4,000; Ke-
nOsha. $4,000; Kewaunee, $4,000;
Manitowoc. $4,000; Milwaukee refuge,
$4,000; Milwaukee harbor. $4,000; Ra-
cine, $4,000; Superior bay and ST.
Louis bay. SO 200; Sheboygan. $4,000;
Ashland, $4,000; Fox, $4,000; Menomi-
nee, $50, 800.
Minnesota - Duluth $4,000; Agate
bay, $4,000; Grand MaraIs, $4,000;
Red River of the North. $4,000.
Oregon-Coos Bay, $4,000; Yaquina
bay. 5000.
illinois, Calumet harbor. to maintain
existing works. $4,000; Chicago. S72, 600;
Waukegan, $4,000; Calumet. SIS, 900, OF
which $1,000 above the fork; illinois.
100000; Illinois and Mississippi canal,
$500, 900.
Michigan-Grand Haven, $4,000;
Grand Marais, $4,000; Manistee, $1,000;
MuSkegOn, $4,000: Sand Beach Refuge,