Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1897-03-11
For Inn mediate Attention.

washington correspondents:
When the sundry civil bill was pocketed
by President Cleveland most of the, inn
portant Government appropriations in ILL
nois for the next fiscal year fell to the
ground, and if Congress should fail to
pass a new bill before the LIST of July some
people now in the employ of the Govern
ment will have to go out of business or
take their compensation on tick.
This big appropriation bill is the catch
all for things not regularly included under
the departments, and it provides the
money for an infinite variety of things
which have no apparent relation to each
other. President Mckinley himself would
be personally affected, for one of the
| items vetoed by his predecessor is that
which provides for heating and lighting
the executive mansion and it's grounds,
and it is to be presumed the family of the
| new President will not care to 60 to bed
in the dark after the LIST of July. Col. Bill
| Morrison of the Interstate Commerce
Commission would find himself without
| salary, and the Government would be un-
able to print any more greenbacks If q
| new law were not enacted.
| The appropriation in which Chicago 10
most interest is that of $4,000 for the
improvement of the river. More impor-
tant than the amount Of the money itself
| Is the paragraph which was inserted In
the Senate, and only accepted by the
House after a hard fight, constituting the
item in the river and harbor bill 30 that
the money to be expended on the Chicago
river can be paid for other work than
dredging, rs is now held to be the law.
| All of the river and harbor items fail,
and among the number are 81, OO0, 600 for
the Hennepin canal, $873, 1888 for the i'm
provement of the Mississippi from the
mouth Of the Ohio to the mouth of the
Missouri, and $500, 666 from the Missouri
to st. Paul, in both of which Illinois ID
deeply interested. Rock Island would
suffer severely because items of $12,6OO
for the bridge and $4S, 900 for the arsenal
are involved.
The Chicago public building ID not af-
fected, because, under the original appro-
priation contracts may be entered into,
and there is money enough to keep up
the construction until the regular session.
Unless a new law is enacted there will
be no money to pay the keepers of the
lighthouses or the life-saving stations at
Chicago and Evanston or elsewhere on the
lakes. The appropriation of $500, 600 for
the completion of the two new revenue
cutters has also gone by the board. There
Is now no provision for paying the rental
of the Government Offices in the Rand
McNally building after July /, although
the annual rental is $19,345. Wash Hes
ing would find things uncomfortable ct
the postoffice if Congress did not step in
to help him, because the appropriation for
fuel, lights and water for public buildings
concerns the temporary structure on the
lake front, and it has failed with the
other items. The Federal Court in Chi
cago will be without money, after July /,
and the marshal, district attorney, COM
missioners, clerks and their subordina<es
will become the creditors of the Govern
ment unless Uncle Joe Cannon starts the
ball rolling once more and pushes through
another appropriation bill sufficiently free
from jobs to secure the approval Of the
President.
The new soldiers home at Danville, for
which 100000 was appropriated in the
House and the amount cut down to $3.50,
OOO in the Senate, also went by the boadr
One of the important items which failed
to be enacted into law was the appropria-
ton of $15OOOO for making the prelimi.
nary surveys looking toward the creation
of deep waterway from Chicago and
| AuAoeA W tAC <Al1uulIC DcdUOdEu, dD EGCOI0'
mended by the commission of which En-.
gineer Cooley was the expert member
The work of improving the channels Of the
great lakes from Chicago to Buffalo il
now in progress, and to continue this thu
sum of $1,OOO,O0O was provided BY the
bill which failed to become law.
Such of these items as are deserving
will, Of course, be included in the new ap
preparation bill, and there is not much
ground to fear that the Government EN-
ployes will not get their money.
There il, however, a much more press
ing urgency in regard to the appropria
tons carried by the deficiency bill. Thii
measure was hung up In conference. Presi
dent Cleveland did not veto this measure
but undoubtedly would have done 70 If 1
had been presented to him. It carries
among other things lump appropriation
s., 100000, which is deficiency in th,
amount previously provided for collectin,
the customs revenues. II immediate &C
ton is not taken every employe Of tn
custom house in Chicago will find his sal
airy withheld after April / until July ]
for the treasury has no money to pay ord
nary customs expenses after that time.
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