The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-04-17

subdivision thereof that may receive the penefits of this act shan be paid by the Treasurer of the United States. upon the warrant of the Secretary of Agriculture Issued upon the requisition of said Com mfssioners of Highways. out of any spe- cific appropriation made to carry out the provisions of this act. and that one-haif of the expense thereof shall be paid by the State or cfvil subdivision thereof. in which the highway. or section thereof Is located: provided, further. that nothing herein contained shall prevent the said States from distributing their portion of the cost among their several subdfvis- ions; provided, further, that nothing
 herein contained shall prevent the said States or civil subdivisions thereof from
 receiving credit for all labor. material
 and machinery used in the constrsiction
 of said highway or section thereof: pro-
 vided. further. that no money shall be
 advanced by the United States in pay
 ment of its proportion of tlze expense of
 the improvement or construction as here-
 In provided for. except as the work of
 actual construction progresses. and in no case shall the payment or payments
 made prior to the completion of the work be in excess of 90 per centum of the value of the work actually performed:
 Sec. a--That there Is hereby appropri- ated out of any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the pur- pose of carrying out the provisions of this act, the sum of twenty-four millions of dollars, the sad appropriation to be available at the rate of eight millions of dcIlars a year during the years 1904 1905 and 1906. If any of the appropriation herein made is not expended in the year named that portion not expended shall t.~ lutx5 &4rNRAMHtvew This appropriation shall be distributed in the following manner: No State shall receive in any one year less than sloo0oo Of the sum hereby appropriated. nor larger proportion of the sum hereby ap- propriated. than its population bears to the total opulation of the United States, based upon the census of 1900; provided.
 that in computing the population of any
 State no city thereof shall be accredited
 with more than 1e.ooo inhabitants.
 This is the good roads bill which is to
 be the nucleus of any legislation on the subject No subject of comparatively re- cent discussion in Congress has elicited more interest among members generally, The popularity of the idea of government aid and local cooperation for public road improvement and construction Is shown | in the fact that candidates for Congress, old and new, are making 1t the theme of arousing public concern in their views The Latiner bill, while receiving of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, will not be reported to the Senate until the short session next December. Meanwhile there will be abundant opportunity for
 study and education on the subject. The Senate Committee on Agriculture which has charge of the bill, are the fol- lowing:
 ~R Al ! North Dakota, Warren of Wyoming, Eos ter of Washington. Deliver of Iowa Quarles of Wisconsin and Quay of Penn sylvania-Republicans, I. 1 Bate of Tennessee, Money of Mississip-
 pi, one vacancy, and Simmons of North 1 Carolina-Democrats. 4.
 1 R. H. watkins.