The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1903-02-05
SUNDRY CIVIL BILL
Reported in House Of Represen.
tatives by Chairman Cannon.
PROVISIONS OF TIE MEASURE
Aggregate Appropriations Carried
Amount to Over Seventy.Eisht
MiIIions-Some Important
Items Set Forth.

A Washington special says: Tne
sundry civil appropriation bill report
ed to the house Monday by Represen-
tative Cannon carries an aggregate
appropriation Of s7S,oO7, 1929, which is
ss,Sse,4s2 less than the estimates and
s17,355,S70 more than the current ap-
preparation. Three million dollars IS
recommended to relieve distress IN
the Philippines. The bill carries
s1Q,42s,412 for construction work on
federal buildings authorized by law
Following are some Of the appropriae
tions made under this head:
Baltimore, 100000; Beaumont, Tex
$4,000; Dallas, Tex, s125,ooo; EMS
Island, N. Y, improvements, $3.50, ,000;
Fort Smith, Ark, $4,000; Memphis,
Tenn, $175,ooo; Nashville, Tenn, $75..5
900; Newport News, Va, 100000;
New York custom house. $500. .000;
Waco, Tex, $4,000; Washington, D.
C. Laboratory bureau national stand
ards, $150,000.
The sum Of $20,233,150 Is appropri
ated for river and harbor contract
work authorized by congress, being
$14,4s6,Ss3 in excess OF the current
appropriation. Among the items are
the following:
Charleston harbor, 100000; Ken.
lucky river, Kentucky, 100000; AM
broso channel (New York harbor) );
s733, 900: Ohio river, dams 1S and 49,
below Pittsburg. $45o,ooo; San Fran
cisco harbor (removal OF Blossom
rock), $4,000; Boston harbor, $780,
900: Baltimore harbor (spring Gar
den). $4,000: Curtis bay channel,
Baltimore harbor, $4,000; Hampton
Roads, s215,Oo0: Norfolk, Va, harbor.
ss3,957; Savannah, Ca, haxbor, $780,
900; Galveston harbor, $3e0, 600; Inn.
provement channel at Galveston, $780,,
900; Appomattox, Va, river, $175 000;s
Southwest Pass, Miss, river, $1,000.
900; Galveston ship canal and Buffalo.
bayou. Texas, s500,0O0; Trinity riyef5
-Iexas,~s25O,000; Ouachitasrtyer, Ar
kansas anu II Lauisiaaa, $3.50, coo; Mis-.
sissippi river from mouth Of Ohio riy-s
er to the mouth of the Missouri, $780,,
900, and from the mouth Of the Mis-;
souri, river to St. Paul, 100000; Ten
nessee river lat Colbert and Bee Tree
shoals), s35O,0Oo; improving Ohio riv.:
er below Pittsburg, continuing con-
struction of dams to 5, inclusive,
100000: dam No. 8, 100000; dock
at dam II. 100000; dam 81, $4O0, ,000:;
Monongahela river, $455,960: Big
Sandy river, West Virginia and Ken
lucky, $4,000.
Under Mississippi commission:
From head of passes to the mouth OF
the Ohio river, s2,000,000
The excess of the proposed apDfo-
priation over the current year is ex-
planned by the committees report to
be due to the increase Of s14,464,3s3
for river and narbor work and the
100000 allowed for the relief Of
distress in the Philippines. Among
the principal items in the bill are the
following: IL
Engraving and printing, $2,73S035;
geological survey, $1,026,570; home for
disabled volunteer soldiers, $4,769, ,S0S,
an increase of over s1,00O,00 over the
current appropriation; life saving SER
vice, s1,837,110; light house establish.
ment, s3,S24,000; enlargement of mill
tary posts, s2,765,500; revenue cutter
service, s1,450,000; expenses United
States courts, s5,933,2so. An increase
of 100000 is made in the item for the
enforcement Of the Chinese exclusion
act. The sum Of 100000 is appropri.
ated for the demarcation Of the Uni.
ted States and Canada boundary line.
The bill appropriates sS0,500 for ex-
penses Of the executive mansion, aa
against s40,50o appropriated for the
current year, and $4,000 for lighting
the grounds and mansion, the curralt
appropriation being $500. -