St. Paul daily globe., 1893-01-19
SUNUhY CIVIL BILL.
As Reported 1t Contains Ap-
preparations Of Nearly
$4O,O00,00O.
Upper Mississippi River I'm
provement Allowed
$1,625, 900.
Secretary Of the Interior Re-
quired to Consolidate Dis
trict Land Offices.
Blaine Passes an UneventGul
Day, His Condition Being
Unchanged.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 19.-The sundry
civil appl opration bill reported to tie
house today carries an aggregate appro-
priation Of $50, ,S2S S34. This Includes
SIC, 115, $50 appropriated for river and
harbor improvements. The principal
appropriations of interest are as fol-
lows: Enforcement of the alien con-
tract labor laws. S75.C coo; for the Chicka-
mauga and Chattanooga national parks,
100000; enforcement Of the Chinese
exclusion act, $4,000; life-6aving serv-
ice, $l,376,747; lighthouse beacons and
fog signals. S92. 200: prevention of epl-
0emic, $780, increase of S250,000,
made because of the fear of cho!-
era; survey Of public land,
$l05O00: quarantine service, $4,000;
recOinage of silver coin. Sl50.000: pub
iication of rebellion records, $40, 600;
expenses of United States courts, ST.
$4,000; continuing improvement to en-
trance Galveston harUor. Sl,000,0 900: i'm
proving Hay Lake channel, st. Mary'S
river, Michigan, S5G0,0O0: improving
Great KanaWha river, West Virginia,
S50O,0OO; improving Mississippi river
from the mouth of the OHIO river to the
landing on the west bank below Min
neap0liS, MIMI. S1,625, 900; continuing
Improvement ST. Mary's river at the falls
(Michigan), So, 100000; improving chan
mel connecting the waters Of the great
lakes between Chicago. Duluth and
Buffalo, 81 100000; improving canal at
the cascades of the Columbia river, Ore
gon, $1,4l9, $50; improving Humbolt har-
Dor, California, 1922, 600; for improving
Mississippi river from the head OF the
passes to the mouth of the Ohio river.
including expenses of the Mississippi
river commission, 81. 665, GOO; improving
Missouri river from its mouth to 81 ouX
City, TO-, including expenses of the Mis-
SOurl river commission, S730,GO0.
New Legislation.
In connection with an appropriation
of j490, 0U0 for salaries and commissions
of registers and receivers OF land Of
fees, il is made the duty of the Secre-
tary Of the interior to consolidate the
district land Offices so as TO bring their
total compensation within the approprl-
alton. Another piece Of new legislation
is the repeal of the act OF March 3, 1891.
which provided that once every three
years, instead Of every fiveyears. manned
soldiers should be entitled to new arti-
ticial limbs or communication therefor.
There Is therefore appropriated only
the usual annual amount for this pur-
pose. and the estimate of sos, 200, which
would have been necessary to carry out
the law, is not allowed. The committee
IN its investigation found that these
limbs did not require frequent renew
ing, and that q claim agent was chiefly
instrumental in securing the passage of
the law. In the bill, as reported, moth
ing was given to the worlds far for the
reason that its appropriations have. al
ready exceeded $1500,0U0, the limit al
lowed under the existing law, and any
new appropriations would be subject to
a point of order from single member.
1t will he necessary for The senate,
whose rules are different, to put the fair
items in the bill.