The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-05-20
CONGRESS-.
Appropriations for Rivers and
Harbors Made by the Senate.
The House Deyotss Another Day to the
Sundry Civil ApPrOpria
tiOn Bill.
SENATE.

WASHINGTON, May 19.-After the rou-
tine business and some matters of minor
nature, the bill exempting American coast
vessels, piloted by licensed masters or
United States pilots. from obligation to
pilots for services rendered, was taken up.
Butler offered an amendment repeating
such parts of the navigation laws as pre-
vented the purchase by citizens of the
United States of ships in foreign countries
and the right to man, register and fly the
American flag Frye moved to put the
motion on the table, and Butler asked for
the ayes and nays on it. The motion was
agreed to. Yeas, 81; nays, Is. The bill
then passed without division.
The conference report on the bill to pro-
vide for the sale of the klamath Indian res
ervation was agreed to.
The river and harbor appropriation bill
was then taken up and Mcpherson
made a motion to exclude from the bill all
authorization for new contracts and re-
duce by so per cent. the entire amount of
the appropriation. Dolph moved to table
the motion, which was agreed to. The
negatives voting were Harris, Kyle, Nc
Pherson, Paddock, Palmer, Villas.
The amendment from the committee on
commerce and the following were agreed
to:
Increasing the appropriation for harbor
at Wilmington. Cal, from $20, coo to So, 600 ;
inserting item of S200000 for deep water
harbor at San Pedro, Cal; increasing ap-
preparation !. for Yaouina bay, Ore,
from $4,000 to SIS, 600; for Gray's
from $4,000 to $50, OOo: for
Olympia harbor, Washington, from
s25. GOO to s35. 600; inserting item of $500, 600
for ship canal to connect the waters of
Sakes Union and Washington with Puget
sound by the Smith route; increasing APP
preparation for San Joaquin river, Cal,
from $500 to $50, COO: reducing appropri-
alton for canal at Cascades. Columbia
river, Ore, from s435, 600 to 1926, $50: in
sorting item of S1S7, 500 for Columbia river
at three-mile rapids; increasing appropria-
ton for mouth of Columbia river, Ore,
| from 5000, 000 to $3.50, 600; increasing appro-
priation for the lower Willamette and
Columbia in front of and below
Portland, Ore, from $4,000 to $3.50, 600;
for the mouth of Suislaw~ river from
$4,000 to $40, 600; for Puget Sound and its
tributaries, from $4,000 to SIS, 900; for
| Snohomish slough, state of Washington,
from $4,000 to 5000; inserting items oil
S33, 600 for the Columbia river between the
mouth of the Willamette and Vancouver:
SIG, 900 for the Willapa river and harbor
and $4,000 for the survey of the upper
Columbia river.
Frye, in charge of the bill. moved 10 re-
duce the appropriation for the harbor and
bay at Humboldt, CAL, from 100000 tt
S150,000. FELTON, opposed the amendment
Fryes amendment was agreed to
reducing the appropriation fol-
the Mississippi from the mouth of the Ohio
to Minneapolis from 100000 to $3.50 600
reducing appropriation for Mississippi
river from headquarters to the mouth oil
the Ohio from 81, 800, 900 to 81, 200, 600, the
amount last recommended by the commit
tee, 81, $50, goo; reducing appropriation OF
the Missouri from the mouth to Sioux City
to $500, 600.
/ All the committees amendments havin.
been disposed of the bill went over till to.
! morrow.