The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-05-18
RIVER and BARBOR WORK
The Bill Providing for Emergencies
Passed by the Senate.
Amount Appropriated or Authorized
to He Expended S4OO.OOO-PrcIim-
mary Surveys in. Twenty-Five
States-The Alaskan Code Bill Con-
sidered In Committee of the Whole.

A bill making provision for emergen-
cies in river and haI Dor works. for certain
surveys, and for the diversion of certain
| appropriations or modification Of provi-
sions heretofore made was passed by the
House yesterday The amount appropriated
or authorized to be expended by the bill in
! addition to appropriations heretofore made
or authorized by law, some of which are
diverted, is 100000. OF this amount $780,
600 is appropriated for allotment by the
Secretary of War with the concurrence OF
the Chief of Engineers and local engineers
to provide in the first place for emergen-
cies such as arise when a channel is closed
or materially impeded by sudden storm
or other casualty.
Preliminary surveys in the waters of
twenty-five States are authorized. Diver
sions are authorized from appropriations
already made and not expended, and the
Secretary of War is authorized TO make
notifications in projects already under
way, as follows:
Cumberland Sound. $4,000; Lake George
channel and connecting waters below Sault
Ste. Marie Michigan, 500, 900; Buffalo
Harbor SIC, 900; Charleston, S. c., Harbor.
amounts heretofore authorized for ma
terials; land for debris dams and impound-
ing works in California, $4,000; Lorain
Harbor Ohio, contract authorized with
out regard to estimate made; Upper White
River, Arkansas, 100000 for lock and dam
No. /, and 100000 for lock and dam No. 2;
ocmulgee River, Georgia, $4,000; va
quina Bay, Oregon, unexpended balance OF
$25. 600 made in 1896.
Mr. Burton Chairman of the Committee
on Rivers and HarbOrs, at first attempted
to secure consideration of the bill by
unanimous consent. Mr.. Sulzer asked Mr..
Burton If the bill carried any new legis-
lation. The answer was that 1t did not,
except in that it diverted certain sums.
Mr.. Clark of Missouri enQuired when
the committee would bring In River and
Harbor Appropriation bill. The answer
was that one would be presented to the
House next December. Mr.. Livingston,
Mr.. McRea, and Mr.. Maddox were Of the
opinion that the bill was of too much i'm
portance to be disposed of under unani-
nous consent.
Messrs. Bromwell, Hepburn, Berry and
Cox engaged in discussion as to the
propriety of bringing the bill up under
unanimous consent. Mr.. Southland OBJ
jected, whereupon Mr. Burton moved that
the House go into Committee of the
w mole lot tHe VI tHe piil
This motion prevailed and the first read
ing was, by unanimous consent, dispensed
with.
Speaker Henderson called Mr.. Hepburn
to the chair. This selection caused much
mirth in the House Mr.. Hepburn is
known as a strong anti-river and harbor
man, and is not amicable terms with
Mr.. Norton, in charge of the pending bill
Mr.. Hepburn, 1t is understood, was pre-
pared to attack the bill and lead in the
assault on 1t, when Mr.. Henderson desig-
mated him as Chairman of the Committee
of the Whole.
Without material amendment the bill
was passed.
Yhe Mnsi<nn Code Bill.
UNGer a satisfactory Arrangement re-
gardin6 the printing Of remarks in the
Record" the House, In Committee Of the
Whole. then resumed consideration of the
bill providing a code OF. laws for Alaska
Only three pages of the bill had been