St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-03-17
RAISING THE WIND,
The House Discusses the River
and Harbor Bill.


WASHINGTON. March Is. - In the
house this morning, after the passage of
a resolution calling upon the secretary
of the treasury for information as 10
measures taken by him for To-
cal supervision and inspection of
public buildings, the house went
into committee of tile whole and
resumed consideration of the sun
dry civil bill. The pending amend
ment was that of Mr.. Enloe (Tenn) au-
thOriZing the investigation of coast and
geodetic survey to determine the adyis-
ability of transfer of this bureau to the
navy department. Mr.. Cultivate (Ohio)
took the floor in defense of the bureau.
the Importance of its work and the
efficiency of the service. Mr.. Mahon
(Rep., Pa intimated that the contem-
plated transfer was to get rid of Re-
publican officeholder. Messrs. Covert
and Sickles Deus. n. " and MIR.
Hooker Miss argued against the trans
fer.
Mr.. Cummings Dem, y. " charged
extravaganza against the geological
coast surveys. Mr.. Enloe concluded the
debate with few parting words to his
victorious opponents. He announced
that as long as he had seat in the
house he would each year renew the
tight until the coast and geodetic sur
vey was reformed or abolished.
An amendment offered by Mr.. Loud
(Rep., CALI Directing the superintend-
ent Of the coast and geodetic survey to
survey San Francisco harbor and the
approaches thereto, was adopted after
some debate on minor amendments.
Mr.. Hartman (Rep.)
RAISED A QUESTION
as to some statements made Uy Mr. HOl-
man a few days ago with reference to
an alleged Endorsement given by the
commissioner Of the general land office
and tie secretary OF the interior to the
amendment he had adopted with refer
ence TO the timber culture act of 1881.
He denied that it had received
such Endorsement. Both the commits
sloner of the land Office and the
secretary of the interior repudiated it.
Mr.. McCrary (Rep., Pa and Mr.. Will
son (Rep., WaSh.) also criticised the
amendment. and gave notice that they
would ask separate vote upon it when
the bill was reported to the house. To
the paragraph appropriating $3.50. 600 for
expenditure by the Missouri river com
mission, Mr.. Broderick rep, Kan.)
offered an amendment setting aside
$4,000 of the appropriation to strength
EN- and improve the river banks at
Atchison and Leayenworth. Mr.. Mer-
Ger rep. Neb.) offered substitute for
the amendment, being to set aside
Sl50.OOO of the appropriation for the
Missouri river, providing that it should
/ be used for the construction, repair and
maintenance of reVetments between
the mouth of the Platte river and
Sioux City He insisted that the com.
mission should be made to understand
that there was something beside
the sixteen-mile reach at Jeffer-
son City which needed attention.
The river between Omaha and Couu-
Gil Bluffs should be looked after. The
amendment was at this point agreed TO
limiting to S125, 900 the expenditures OF
the coast and geodetic survey Mr..
Wilson (Rep., Wash.) made vigorous
speech OH the discrimination against
the western coast iii the matter OF river
and harbor improvements. He pro-
tested against this Injustice. His peu-