The San Francisco call., 1896-04-28
COMPLETED BY
THE COMMIT TEE,
Appropriations for Rivers
and Harbors Agreed
Upon.
BIG TOTAL OF THE BILL.
Over Twelve Million Dollars to
Be Expended in Needed
improvements.
INCREASE IN THE ALLOWANCES
One Provision for Permitting Rival
Railroads to Secure Facilities
at Santa Monica.

WASHINGTON, ID. O., April N.-The
Senate Committee on Commerce to-day
completed the river and harbor appropria-
ton bill and it was reported to the Senate
The committee struck out and reduced ap-
propriations aggregating $631, ,S5S and in
creased or inserted items aggregating
$2,661 800, making net increase of s., ,029-
S32, the bill now carrying total of $12,-
444, $50.
The Improvements placed under the
contract system were increased net by
So ,504, 403. leaving the total of this form of
liabilities to be provided for by future ap-
propriations at $50, ,225, 618.
Among the new items are the following:
Rock Island harbor, Rhode Island, $4,000;
improving deep channel at Baltimore to
thirty feet, $4,000 Mobile. Ala, dredg-
ing channel. $50 900; deep-water harbor at
Santa Monica Cal, 100000, with pro-
vision for contiguous contract aggregat-
ing 81, ,998. 900, and provided that prior to
the expenditure of any of this money
the Southern Pacific Railroad Com
pany shall file with the Secre-
tary of War an agreement that any rail-
road company may share in the use of the
pier now constructed on the site OF this
harbor and the approaches thereto, situ-
ated westerly of the easterly entrance to
the Santa Monica tunnel, upon paying its
proportionate cost and maintenance of the
same, such proportion, in case of disagree
ment, to be determined by the Secretary
of War.
Acquiring right of way for Illinois and
Mississippi canal, $4,000; snagging uppe
Missouri River, $50 1000; completing cut at
head reach San Joaquin River, Cal.
$37, 500, and unexpended balance of $24, 900
may be used in dredging Stockton and
Mormon channels at the head of naviga-
ton at Stockton.
Columbia River, Oregon and Washing
Understanding and equipping boat rail
way at The Dalles, $780, with continu-
ing contract limited to 1864, 467; Column
bia River, Cascades, $4,000; protecting
existing works, $4,000; Puget Sound,
dredging Salmon Bay and enlarging the
waterway into ship canal, $100, 900, with
continuing contract limited to 81 400 900.
The principal increases are as follows:
San Diego, Cal, $4,000 to $4,000; San
Luis Obispo, Cal, $32, 900 to $4,000; Will
mington, CAL, left at $4,000 and placed
under contract system at $342 900; Grays
Harbor. Wash, $4,000 to 500, 600; Everett,
Wash. $50, 900 to $50 1000; improving mouth
of Flint River, Iowa, $4,000 to SIS, 900;
Missouri River Commission, contingent ex-
penses, $3.50, 900 to $780, 900; continuing con-
tracts under Missouri River Commission,
increased from $3.50, 900 to $780, 900 per year
Upper Missouri, $190,000 to $22O,O00-
$4,000 of which is to be used for the pro-
lection of caving banks on the South
Sinu-v Ci+v
Dakota, $4,000 to $4,000; lower
Willamette River, Oregon. $4,000 to $780,
900; Puget Sound and tributary waters,
$4,000 to $4,000; Columbia River, be-
tween mouth of Willamette and the city
of Vancouver. $4,000 to $67 1000.
The principal reductions were:
Harbors-Wynaw Bay, s. c., $11O 900 to
$4,000 and placed under contract system
limited to 81, ,996, $50. Savannah, Ca, con-
tract limited to $1,O93,95 stricken out.
| Oakland, CAL, 100000 to $4,000 and
placed under contract and limited to
$666,000. Port Oxford, Or, stricken out.
Removal of bar opposite Dubuque, Iowa,
| $4,000, stricken out. Removal of bar at
Quincy, Ill.,. $4,000, stricken out. Main
tanning Rock Island harbor, Illinois,
$4,000, stricken out. Skagit River, Wash
ington, $4,000, stricken ont.
Other changes were: The item for the
| construction of restraining barriers in Sac
ran ento and Feather rivers, California, as
recommended by the California Debris
Commission, instead of being contingent
upon the appropriation of a like sum
($250, ,000) by California, simply authorizes
the Secretary of the Treasury to receive
any and all sums the State may appro-
pirate.
The general provisions of the bill gov
erning the construction of the public
works provide that the Secretary of War
shall not obligate the Government to pay
in any one fiscal year more than $400, 900
on any one work placed under the con-
tract system instead of "25 per cent"
of the amount of that work, as pro-
vlded in the House bill, but he is not
prevented from making contracts for the
whole of the work, subject to these re-
strictions The harbor of refuge at the
mouth of Delaware Bay is exempted from
this restriction.