The San Francisco call., 1899-02-10
INTERESTS The PEOPLE
OF THE PACIFIC COAST
California Congressman Endeavoring
to Secure More Money to Inn
prove Rivers and Harbors.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 9-Senator Per-
kins and Representative de Vrfes and
Barlow appeared before the Senate Com
mittee on Commerce to-day in the interest
of improvements in rivers and harbors of
California. Representative de Vries asked
that the appropriation for the Sacramento
River be Increased from $250,00 to $3.50 900,
and also asked that appropriations be
made for the Improvement of Feather
River
Representative Barlow made an appeal
for an appropriation of 1892 600 for the i'm
provement of Wilmington harbor. This is
the inner harbor Of san PEDRO, ana as
that has been provided for in the bill as
it passed the House, Barlow argued that
it was necessary on account OF the great
ly increased commerce of Southern Cali
fornia to improve the inner as well as the
outer harbor. Senator Perkins will en-
deavor to have the committee insert these
items in the bill, and if they fail to do so
he will offer them as amendments on the
floor of the Senate.
Congressman-elect Metcalf, who sue
ceeds Hilborn in the Third California Dis
trict, evidently purposes to get in early
and secure what patronage he can for his
friends and political supporters. He has
written to one of the officers of the House
of Representatives asking if he would be
given any patronage in return for his sup
port of that officer for reelection when
the Fifty-sixth Congress is organized.
Representatives Hilborn and De Vrtes
hope that they may yet be able to pass
money for new building at Oakland and
the completion of that at Stockton. All
the Representatives who have public
building bills to pass complain of the
chairman of the Public Buildings and
Grounds Committee (Mercer of Nebraska)
for consuming SO much time on the
Blair (Nebr.) bill to the exclusion of all
other pending bills. By special order the
House adjourned at $50, and as it had re-
mained in committee of the whole until
o'clock Speaker Reed, through his OBJ
structionists on the floor, filibustered for
the remaining hour and a half and sue
ceeded in preventing the passage of any
bills in the open House, with the excep-
tion of that for Newport News. 1t is not
likely that another day will be set aside
for the consideration of public buildings
measures, but there is some talk among
members of attaching whole lot of bills
to the regular appropriation bill. In case
pension day (Monday, February 20) to sus-
pend the rules and take up these bills and
pass them This will require a two-thirds
vote, but members claim that they can
muster a sufficient number.
The Secretary of the Interior to-day
submitted to Congress a communication
from the Commissioner of Education ask
ing that the appropriations in the sundry
civil bill providing for reindeer for Alaska
be increased from $12,500 to $25 900, and for
an increased appropriation for educating
children in Alaska from $40 900 to $50 600
Secretary of the Interior Bliss recon-
mends both increases.
California pensions: Original-Joseph
Daniels, Chico, 49, George D. Fullerton,
Fowler, $6; Louis Saalfeld, Downey, Sl2
Original, widow Mary Mitchell, San
Francisco, S.
Greenville, S.. Mexican war. widow, = re, re-,
isSue-Ann M HAYES Corvallis Sc