Los Angeles herald., 1892-05-20
OUR HARBOR APPROPRIATIONS,
The Senate Agrees to $4,000
for Wilmington.
twenty-five Thousand for Harbor
Survey at San Pedro.
Bland Again Baked in His Effort to
Attach silver Coinage Clause
to the Sundry Civil Bill.
Washington Notes.
Sv the Associated Press.l


today the bill exempting American
coastwise vessels, piloted by licensed
masters or by United States pilot, from
the obligation to pay state pilots for
services not rendered, was taken up.
Butler offered an amendment repeal
ing such parts of the navigation laws as
prevent the purchase by citizens OF the
United States of ships in foreign coun-
tries, and the right to man. register and
fly the American flag.
FRYE moved to lay the amendment on
the table, and Butler asked the ayes and
NAYS on the motion. The motion was
agreed to-yeas, 81; nays, 13-a party
vote. except as to Messrs. Kyle, Blodgett
and Pugh, who voted with the Repu bli-
cans to lay the amendment on the table.
The bill was then passed without di-
vision.
In the conference report on the bill
TO provide for the disposal and sale of
the Klamath River Indian reservation
was presented and agreed to.
The river and harbor appropriation
bill was taken up and Mcpherson made
a motion to exclude from the bill all
authorization for new contracts, and to
reduce by so per cent the entire amount
appropriated.
Dolph moved to table the motion,
which was agreed to-yeas, AZ; nays,
6, Harris. Kyle, Mcpherson, Paddock,
Palmer, Villas.
Amendments were reported from the
committee on commerce, and the follow
ing were agreed to among others:
Increasing the appropriation for the
harbor at Wilmington, Cal, from $780,
600 to $51 1000.
Inserting the item of $4,000 for a
survey for a deep water harbor at San
Pedro, Cal.
Increasing the appropriations for va
quina bay, Ore., from $4,000 to $685.
600.
For Gray's harbor and the Chehalis
river, Washington, from $30. 900 to $780,
600, and for Olympia harbor, Washing
ton, from $25, 900 to $S5, 900.
Inserting the item of SIC, 900 for ship
canal to connect the waters of Lakes
Union and Washington, with Puget
sound by the Smiths cove route.
Increasing the appropriation for the
San Joaquin river, California, from $780,
900 to 10000.
Reducing the appropriation for the
canal at the Cascades of the Columbia
river, Oregon, from $3.50. 900 to $320, ,250.
Inserting the item of $1S5, 800 for the
Columbia river at Three.mile rapids.
Increasing the appropriation for the
mouth of the Columbia river, Oregon,
from 5000, 900 to $3.50 900.
Increasing the appropriations for the
lower Willamette and Columbia
rivers in front and below Portland,
Ore, from $50, 900 to $150,000.
T., = of hn -
Oregon, from SIC, 900 to $780, 900.
For Puget sound and its tributaries,
from $4,000 to SIS 600, and for Swino-
mish. state of Washington, from SIS, 900
to $4,000.
Inserting the item of $4,000 for the
Columbia river between the mouth of
the Willamette river and the city of
Vancouver; $4,000 for the Willapa
river and harbor, and $4,000 for a sur
yey of the upper Columbia river.
Frye lin charge of the billy moved to
reduce the appropriation for the harbor
and bay at Humboldt, California, from
$500, 600 to $3.50, 900, this being one of
the 25 per cent reductions.
Senator FELTON, opposed the amend
ment.
Frye's amendment was agreed to.
The following amendments were also
agreed to-:
Reducing the appropriation for the
Mississippi from the mouth of the Ohio
to Minneapolis, from $l,5OO,OOO to
$780, 900.
Reducing the appropriation for the
Mississippi river, tlom the head of the
passes to the mouth OF the Ohio, from
$2,50O,OOO. (The amount first recon-
by the mended committee was $780,
DOO.)
Reducing the appropriation for ship
Buffalo, from $500, 900 to s375,OOO.
Reducing the appropriation for the
Missouri, from its mouth to Sioux City,
1s., from $500, 600 to 100000.
All the committees amendments hav-
ing been disposed Of the bill went over
until tomorrow, when it will be open to
eneral amend ment and the senate ad-