Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1897-03-11
BILLS THAT FAILED.
WORK FOR THE EXTRA SESSION
OF CONGRESS.
Chicago and Illinois Affected by the
Delay in Usual Observation-Disclosures
Civil Bill Was Pocket-Vetoed-Riv-
ers and Harbors Left Out.
For Imm ediatc Attention.

Washington correspondence:
When the sundry civil bill was pocketed
nv President Cleveland most of the inn
Dortant 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 10 eacn
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 its grounds,
and it is to be presumed the family of the
new President will not care to go 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 IL
new law were not enacted.
The appropriation in which Chicago IS
most interest is that of Sllo,OOO TOR the
improvement of the river. More lmpor-
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 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,
how
the Hennepin canal $673,333 for the inn
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 Sl2,5OO
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 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 l. although
the annual rental is $19,345. Wash Hes
ing would find things uncomfortable at
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
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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 subordinates
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 Danyille. for
which 100000 was appropriated in the
House and the amount cut down to SEQ
oOO IN the Senate, also went by the boadr.
one OF the important items which failed
to be enacted into law was the apnronria-
ton OF $4,000 for making the prelimi-
nary surveys looking toward the creation
OF a deep waterway from Chicago and
Duluth to the Atlantic seaboard, as recon-
mended by the commission of which I'm
gineer Cooley was the expert member.
Inc work OF improving the channels Of the
great lakes from Chicago to Buffalo is
now IN progress. and to continue this the
sum OF Sl,OOO,OOO was provided by the
plll Wnlch tailed to become a law.
ouch 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.
1here is, however, a much more press
ing urgency in regard to the approprio-
tioIs carried by the deficiency bill. This
measure was hung up in conference. Presi
uent cleveland did not veto this measure
put undoubtedly would have done so if i
had been presented to him. It carr;ea
among al o other things lump appropriation
p1'@OooOO, which is deficiency in +ha
amount previously provided for collect;na
the customs revenues. If Immediate m.
tion is not taken every employe of tha
custom house in Chicago will find his col
airy withheld after April l until INV
ior the treasury has no money to paw ord;.
nary customs expenses after that time
mere is no doubt that speedy action viii
ne taken to re-enact all the appronr;a+;o,,
oiiis which failed to become laws Eor
Instance, the agricultural bill, which Pros
iuene cleveland pocketed because of ito
seeu appropriations, which he has always
ieiuseu 10 approve of, carries with # tho
salary OF the secretary of the department
anu' OF course, Tama JIM Wilson 30
lo"a would hardly care to keen nm his
GU ~ washington social life without b;s
P.e stipend of $4,000 per annum.
;ons .e sue Mckinley is particularly anx-
nronu ~ the passage of the belated an
tho ta ,a.aon Dlils shall not interfere with
enae .aa,i M measure which he hopes to have
enacted into law at an early date.
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