The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1892-03-25
THE eREAT RIvERa
Ehe Committee Has CompIstsd the I'm
FOR IiaProviaE the Great Rivers

1ile Committee Has completed the I'm
FOR Improving the Great Rivers.
WAsHINsTO.g, March % The house
committee on rivers and harbors yes
terday completed confederation of the
regular river and harbor appropriation
bill 1t apPropriates SO. zoo, 600.
which Is about $500, GOO less than the
amount carried by the bill reported by
the committee in the last congress
The greatest feature of the bill Is the
extent % which the committee enlarEes
the policy adopted by the last congress
Of placing some Of the most important
projects under contract system by
means Of which work can be under
taken with the amount appro priated
for the year covered by the bill and
contracts entered into for the COM
pletiou of the work and OF lis coutinu-
ance without serious interruption as
has sometimes happened when the con-
tinuance OF the work was entirely de-
pendent upon river and haEbor apPrO-
priatiOns for each congress before the
work could again be pushed ahead
This year abe committee authorizes
additional 1ntracts to be entered into
aggregating 49,, Isl, !05 distributed as
follows:
Charleston. s. C.. 50. us. 600; Savan-
nah, 81, 2i7, 600; Mobile, 81, 443 500; Hud-
son river, g, AZ, 8OGi Columbia river,
81, zoo, 600; the great lakes. s.. $40 600;
Point Judith, r. l., Sf.1T5. 600; Beaver
Dam, o., $3.50, 600; the Mississippi. river,
SIG, OoD, COZ.
For the Missouri river down to Sioux
City, S70. 600; general improvement
Sioux City TO mouth, $500, 600 are apPrO-
Driated.
The bill in authorizing the contract
system 20 be applied TO the Mississippi
river provides; For i'm proving the Mis-
sissiPpi river from the head of the
passes to the mouth OF the Ohio river.
including salaries, clerical ottics, trav-
cling aud miscellaneous expenses Of
the Mississippi river commissions aud
continuing improvements, 50, $780, 600.
The amount directly appr5p riated in
this years bill to be expended under
the direction of the ecrctary OF war
in accordance with the plans, speci-
fcations and recommendations of the
Mississippi river commission for the
general improvement of the river, for
the building of levees and for surveys,
including the surveys fr I'm the head of
the passes to the headwatsrs of the
river, in such manner as in their OpIn-
ion shall best improve navigation and
promote the interests of com 10 cree at all
stages of the river Additional contracts
may be entered into by the secretary
of war for such materials and work as
may be necessary to carry on cOntiuu-
OusIy the plans of the Mississippi river
commission, or the materials may be
purchased aud work done otherwise
than by contract, to be paid for as ap-
preparations may be made from time to
time, not exceeding in the aggregate
81, 500, 600 per annum for three years,
commencing July /, 1898
For improving the Mississippi river
from the mouth of the Ohio to st. Paul,
81, 800 600 Additional contracts may
be made by the secretary OF war to
carry on continuously the systematic
improvements the Mississippi between
the points mentioned or material may
be purchased and work done otherwise
than by contract not exceeding in the
aggregate 81. 500, Og3 per aunum for
three years commencing July ],
1898. Provided further, that Of
the amount appropriated 500, 600
shall be expended from the mouth of
the Ohio to the mouth of the Missouri
river and $500, 600 from the mouth of
the Missouri to St Paul and the amounts
for which additional contracts are au-
thOrized to be entered into shall be ex-
pended in like proportions.
In the case OF the great lakes project
$500, 600 is appropriated in the bill for
a ship channel twenty and twenty-One
feet deep and OF a minimum width of
500 feet in tina shadows Of the connect
ing waters of the great lakes between
Chicago, Duluth and Buffalo. Further
contracts may be made by the secrc-
tary OF war to carry out the plan pro-
posed by the engineer officer at Detroit