The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-01-11
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RIVER AND HARBOR BILL.
Some Warm Talk INDUCED in by
Members Whose States Get Lit
tie Consideration.


tie Consideration.
Washington Jan. 10-The general debate
on the river and harbor bill continued in
the House to-day until clock, when the
| death of Representative Clarke OF New
Hampshire, was announced and the House
adjourned out of respect to his memory.
Vigorous attacks on the bill were made
! by Mr. Cushman of Washington, and Mr..
! Hepburn of Iowa.
! BY unanimous consent the bill to revise
and codify the postal laws of the United
/ States was made a special order after the
disposal of the river and harbor bill.
Saturday Feb ., at o'clock was set
aside for paying tribute to the late Rep
resentative Wise of Virginia.
| Mr. Hepburn complained of the enor-
nous sums appropriated for purely local
and state Improvements. He said some
members were Directing to the eXploita-
| ton of their proportion of the bill and
asked them if they were complaining of
the notoriety of the act or the act it.
self"
Mr.. Hepburn and W. A. Smith of Mich
|
sonalities were banded back and forth.
Mr.. Hepburn assailed abe policy of the
| River and Harbor Committee in deepening
| the harbor TO meet the draught of some
ship which some freak shipbuilder saw
| fit to build.
! He declared that although $40 100000 had
been spent on the Mississippi river, no
substantial increase in it's navigation had
resulted. He warned the members of the
subtle danger in the continuing contract
SYSTEM, by which the real amount of
the appropriations for river and harbors
now looming up in the West of govern
ment entry into arid land reclamations,
suggested for inclusion in this bill.
Mr.. Cushman of Washington followed
Mr. Hepburn with another assault upon
| the bill. He illustrated his remarks with
an enormous chart. Members crowded
about to examine the exhibit made. Its
! big letters showed a list of seventeen
states which had members on the river
and harbor committee giving the sums
appropriated and authorized therefor in
the bill. The direct appropriations
amount to SLABS ,260 and authorized APP
! preparations to $24, 457, S96.
He said this total for the seventeen
states, together with items not charge
able to any state, only left $S,349, 557 in
| appropriations and authorizations for the
remaining twenty-eight states and terri
! tories, ten of which got no appropriations
whatever. A river and harbor bill, Mr..
Cushman said, should be for the benefit OF
the whole country, not for the benefit of
the members of the committee. He was
one who had been victimized by the bill.
He said his city with an export of $6,00O,-
600 had got measley sum of 100000 Mr..
! CuShman'S criticisms aroused some eX-
ceedingly spicy exchanges.
Imperial Caesar, Mr. Cushman said, had
divided all Gaul into three parts. Had
Caesar lived to the dawn of the twentieth
century, he said he would have divided
"galP' into enough fragments to give
one to each member of the River and Har-
Dor Committee of the House. daughter
He produced another chart, which he
said showed the states represented by
members of the committee got Sc per cent.
of the appropriations recommended, while
the other states got less than 40 per
| cent. One by one Mr.. Cushman paid his
respects to the members of the commit
tee producing individual maps showing
the appropriations each member had Sc
cured.
He declared that the Florida member
of the committee had secured an appro-
priation in the bin for harbor that
could not be found in the latest and larg-
est map. He concluded with an eloquent
plea for justice for his state.
Mr.. Alexander of New York, a member
of the River and Harbor Committee made
a general defense and pointed out how
natural it was that the River and Harbor
Committee should be made up of men,
bers whose sections were most interested
in river and harbor improvement.
The customary resolutions of regret at
the death of Representative Clarke of
| New Hampshire were adopted and COM
mittee, including Mr.. Griggs of Georgia,
was appointed TO attend the funeral
The House then adjourned.