The record-union., 1896-04-28

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WASHINGTON, April 27.-The SEN
ate Committee on Commerce to-day
completed the river and harbor appro-
priation bill, and it was reported to the
Senate The committee struck out and
reduced appropriations aggregating
$631 ,S5S, and increased or inserted
items aggregating s., ,G61 900, making a
net increase of 81, ,029. S32, the bill now
carrying a total of S12, ,444 $50.
The improvements placed under the
contract system were increased net by
S,504, ,403, leaving the total of this form:
of liabilitis to be provided for by future
appropriations at $50. 0.225, ,613.
Among the new items are the follow
ing: Rock Island harbor, r. l., $1,000:
Improving the deep channel at Balti-
more to thirty feet, $4,000 Mobile,
Ala, dredging channel, 100000; deep
water harbor at Santa Monica, Cal,
SlO0,0OO, with a provision for a con-
tinuing contract aggregating $685.
600, and provided that prior to the ex-
penditure of any of this money the
Southern Pacific Railroa d Company shall
file with the Secretary of War an agree
ment that any railroad company may
share in the use of the pier now con-
structed on the site Of this harbor and
the approaches thereto, situated west
erly of the easterly entrance to the
Santa Monica channel, upon paying its
propOrtiOnate cost and maintenance of
the same, such proportion in case of
disagreement to be determined by the
Secretary of War; acquiring right of
way for Illinois and Mississippi Canal,
100000; snagging Upper Missouri River,
$4,000; completing cut at head-reach
San Joaquin River, Cal, S37, $50, and
the unexpended balance of So, 900 may
be used in dredging Stockton and Nor
mon channels at the head of naviga-
tion at Stockton.
Columbia River, Oregon, and Wash
1ngton: Constructing and equipping
boat railway at The Dalles, 100000,
with continuing contract limited to
S2,O64, 46l; Columbia River Cascades,
*50,00O; protecting existing works, 500
GOO; Puget Sound, dredging Salmon
Bay and enlarging the waterway into
ship canal, 100000, with continuing
contract limited to S1,400,OOO.
The principal increases are as follows:
Luis Obispo, Cal, $4,000 to SAC. 900:
Wilmington, Cal, left at $4,000, and
placed under contract system at S342. =
GOO; Gray's Harbor, Wash, $4,000 to
$4,000; Everett, Wash, $50, 900 to $50
600; improving mouth of Flint River.
Ia, $4,000 to $4,000; Missouri River
commission contingent expenses,
S250,000 to S300,000; continuing con-
tracts under Missouri River Conrnis-
sion, increased from $3.50, 900 to $500
oOO per year; Upper Missouri, $3.50. 600
to $4,000, $4,000 of which is to be
used for the protection of caving banks
On the south Sioux City front: Bismarck
harbor, North Dakota, $4,000 to $40
GOO; Lower Willamette River Oregon
$4,000 to 100000; Puget Sound and
tributary waters, S27, 900 to $50. 900.
Columbia River between mouth of Will
annette and the city of Vancouver. $40 =
600 to $61 600
The principal reductions We're: Har-
bors-Wynawa Bay, South Carolina
$4,000 to $4,000, and placed under
contract system limited to 81 ,996. go:
Savannah, Georgia, contract limited to
Sl,U93,9o0, stricken out; Oakland. Cal
ifornia, 100000 to $4,000. and placed
under contract and limited to S666. 900.
Port OrofOrd, Oregon, stricken out: re-
moval of bar opposite Dubuque. Iowa.
$4,000, stricken out; removal of bar at
Quincy, Illinois, $4,000, stricken out.
maintaining Rock Island Harbor. Il
linois, $1,000, stricken out; Skasit
River. Washington, $4,000, stricken
out
Other changes were: The item for the
construction of restraining barriers in
Sacramento and Feather Rivers. Cali
fornia, as recommended by the Califor-
mia Debris Commission, instead of be-
ing contingent upon the appropriation
of a like sum $3.50, ,00O by California.
simply authorizes the Secretary of the
Treasury to receive any and all sums
the State may appropriate.
The general provisions Of the bill
governing the construction of the pub
lie works provides that the Secretary
of War shall not obligate the Govern
ment to pay in any one fiscal year more
than S400, 600 on any one work placed
under the contract system, instead of
'.25 per cent" of the amount of that
work, as provided in the House bill.
but he is not prevented from making
contracts for the whole of the work.
subject to these restrictions. The har-
bor of refuge at the mouth of Delaware
Bay is exempted from this restriction.