The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-04-15
MILLIONS TO CLEAN OUT MUD.
THE SENATE TO ADD s5.OOO.OOO To
THE RIVER AND HARBoR BILL.

Friends of the Measure in the Lower
House Confident the President
VIII Veto IL IL the Addition il
Made-SenhtOrs Claim It Can he
Passed over the Presidents Veto.
Washington, April 14.-An addition of
from 100000 to 100000 is TO be made to
the river and harbor bill in the Senate.
The commerce committee, which now has
the bill under consideration. is giving
hearings in connection with new projects.
which were not even discussed in the
House. Some OF the members of the COM
mttee, who represent commercial con-
sutuencies, are not to be frightened by
the threat that the House will non-concur
in some of the appropria tions contemplate
ed by the Senate, nor are they to be intimi-
dated by the rumor circulated at the cap
itol to-day that the President is opposed
to the passage of a river and harbor bill
at this session, even II II should be at the
reduced figures contained IN the House
measure.
Senator Elkins Of West Virginia. who is
member Of the commerce committee and
a believer in the policy of liberal appro-
priation as the surest way TO good
times" says he believes the Senate will
put about S5,0OO,O0O to the bill, and send IL
to the House thus amended. lie is conf
dent the House viii accept the bin, and he
predicts there is enough strength back Of
the bill in both houses to pass it over a
presidential veto, If, as rumored the
President disapproves it.
There was considerable gossip and spec
ulation at the Senate end of the capt.
tol to-day over the river and harbor bill
and 1t was said that 1t is the only bill that
Il d hn f4F aaNNar NH.nHanH
ment. The fact was recalled that the Sec
retary of War recommended the strictest
economy IN the framing of the bin In the
House. and Speaker Reed prevailed upon
the river and harbor committee to keep
the aggregate amount below $10000,00O II
was expected that the Senate might add
M,OO0,00 or 100000 to the grand total, but
the friends of the bill in the House did not
dream that the Senate would make a 90
per cent. increase in the amount as II
passed the former body under a suspen-
sion Of the rules.
There was considerable CONSERVATION
among those members who are counting
upon a reelection as the result of their
efforts to get a ''slice of the pork" out
of the river and harbor barrel When
they heard that the Senate intended to
pile up the amount to such a figure as
of them hurried over to the Senate and
appealed TO their senatorial friends to
use their influence to prevent the bill from
being overloaded. 1t was urged that the
President has quietly Informed some of
his intimate friends in both branches of
congress that he is opposed to the river
and harbor appropriations on general
principles, and reminded them that he
vetoed one river and harbor bill and re-
fused to give his sanction to a similar
measure in the Fdfty-third congress. In
| spite of the threatened veto by the Pres
| ident, the friends of the river and harbor
bill insist that it is a rnerftorious meas
ure, as It has the support of more than
two-thirds of both branches of the ma
tional legislature, and they will force II
| dentiai opposttion to the contrary not
withStanding.