The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1897-03-11
For mediate Attention.
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For Immediate Attention.
Washington correspondence:
When the sundry civil bill was pocketc,
by President Cleveland most of the inn
portant Government appropriations i'll lll-
nos for the next fiscal year fell TO the
ground, and if Congress should fail 10
pass new bill before the 1st 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 1t provides the
money for an infinite variety of things
which have no apparent relation to eacl,
| other. President Mckinley himself would
be personally affected, for one of the
items vetoed by his predecessor is that
which provides for heating and lightin.:
the executive mansion and it's grounds.
and it is to be presumed the family of the
new President will not care to 20 to bed
in the dark after the 1st of July. Col. Bill
Morrison of the Interstate Commerce
Commission would find himself without a
salary, and the Government would be un-
able to print any more greenbacks if a
new law were not enacted.
The appropriation in which Chicago is
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 hard fight. constituting the
item in the river and harbor bill so that
the money to be expended on the Chicago
| river can be paid for other work than
dredging, as is now held to be the law.
| All of the river and harbor items fail,
| and among the number are 81, ,O00, 900 for
the Hennepin canal, $673,33333 for the i'm
| provement of the Mississippi from the
| mouth of the Ohio to the mouth of the
| Missouri, and $S26,666 from the Missouri
| to st. Paul, in both of which Illinois is
| deeply interested. Rock Island would
| suffer severely because items of $12, 500
| for the bridge and $4,000 for the arsenal
are involved.
The Chicago public building is 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 100000 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 1, although
the annual rental is S19,345. Wash Hes
ing would find things uncomfortable at
the postOffice if Congress did not step in
to help him, because the approximation for
fuel, lights and water for public buildings
concerns the temporary structure on thu.
lake front, and it has failed with the
other items. The Federal Court in Chi
cagO will be without money after July 1.
and the marshal, district attorney. COM
missioners, clerks and their subortinate,
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 DanviIle. for
which 100000 was appropriated in the
House and the amount cut down to S15O.-
OOO IN the Senate, also went by the board.
One of the important items which failed
to be enacted into law was the appropria
ton of S150OOO for making the nrelimi
nary surveys looking toward the creation
OF deep waterway from Chicago and
Duluth to the Atlantic seaboard. as recon-
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 is
now in progress. and to continue this the
sum of $1,OO0,OOO was provided by the
bill which failed to become a law.
Such of these items as are deserving
will, of course, be included in the new an
preparation bill, and there is not much
ground to fear that the Government en-
ployes will not get their money.
There is, however, a much more press
ing urgency in regard to the approprio-
tions carried by the deficiency bill. This