The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-03-10
Changes IN ill II: I, River I and q
I1arblolrS Bill \ ca ., ! Use s. ) Big 8
Sensation
MARTIN. THINKS II \ I (, s Id il
u. WAS \ NgAlCC,l.lD[,EF:'.Nl'',Il's Z. 2, p ]
Openly Char rged, However 4 y hat
Rival Interests May Have
NJ Been at w ork to Prevent &, vent ~
Survey for IS Feet ''.' Il of Of .,1tsi8.
Water il Norfolk
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4 torg Dunieisand Martin, and thel senate
,nembers or the Committee on COM 'I
an ti,e river ana harbor bill, received me ,
stlrprise Of; ;ycnrs w hen hey 4,
day that the bin ns q proVed py
president, provided for tRo Il survey . = q
lie made from deep water g e M 2
fnntgchn nnel. iind one for q went ~ u.
foot chunile i, when they thoug I. the plii
provided for a channel ~ thirty8 =: a1u
Stiirty-Gvc feet, q respect " cly
Astonishnent EveryWt ~
5s sena tor Martin, when 4tlle bill $cpnlle ne
i ,over RON the House. succeed "a IN having
4 /, d n1cnded SO MS to PROV ide for an pprto-
irlatIor1 8 $50 600 for the nstructlon &oiE
h 4 turf, NJ iba Gin In richmond har =. alld
" aIso providing for the thirty and thirty
! flye-foot surveys mentioned, f ana LOT LOT " =
agurYey Of the Appomattox with 2 aIYleWs3 y
to providing a turning BASIN a. t.a'
burg lie looked after hese i1endment8s5 y. u
when the Bill went TO n conferenc 2 com ~,
init toe Soe the two houses, 1, and " zen no
report or the conferees va g a su bmltte
n,;i n u nssured hy thelnsthatf all the amend
ments IN which the people OF virginia
were intcres ted had been ret all IN tn the
sbll. 5wthstl,c exception of the one pro,
vding for the survey of the "a ppo'n:altloo.: u:
Az the heSanendnicnts were snu re q y. ana y
\ the difficulty great In keeping Y p Il with
them ir9sthe hurly- burly@ of the closing
hours OF the Stna te, vii en- the eport ois y
the con ferees was adopted and the bill
enacted. senator Martin accepted the as \
\ surinces OF the Cont ferees as tina y nnma m
was congratulated upon havt ~ u sot y en- en-
through nm endments OF such m porr"t.a r.. nee
To his constit ituents. 5tS
HIS surprisc, IA nd tha OF every body Sat atb
all famtlar + wi tn the 3bill. may pc 6be tilI.ng Ia
lined when itf was discovered this rnorniIiR
NJ tllata II provides. thnt III ~
Z made sof sisthe channel from, tlamptp!n g!
sRoadsiSto the N Nortolk navy! va rd s SHAH
n i,e Fwitha d view to itstrning TIM cos t@o &
securing twenty-five ul,d thirty feet q Of
wa ter ,rhe item becomes Br!d diculot.s N
view OF the fact that, there:sis already
i fully twenty-eight feet OF water from
8 Hampton Roads to tho navy va I'd. the
amendment MS ia doptcd Il tns8 the Senate
| provided Y fori8a survey for5is'ia channelS
from deep water stin3 u Hampton ~ r Dads TO
Il Norfolk navy yard. with a view to- widen
8tfnglnnd STRENGTHENING the same ,Eand to,
submit estI mates FOR Increasing he depth
thereof 10 thirty-five feet and thirty feet
rcspectively..,'4 The 5bll. as approved, ,5
& reads precisely in the Norfolk survey ten
as the amendment, except "thlrty-fIy'e"'3 = '''' 81
q IS stricken out and twenty five is put In
before thirty, Il s54
Senator Galllnger.# OF New Hampshire;;
Senator Nelson Of Minnesota, and Sena-s
SStor Berry. OF Arkansas ,S85 " b o. were i he
4 Senate members of the eyCommttteeE of Con-
ference on the bill,5 declared with$the ut
most positivcness TO-DAY that the amend I'd
5lnents were not changed in the con Terence,
H committee. and they were possibly II more,
surprised than was Senator Nc rtiil him-
self when they learned that the changes
I. had been made. Each OF them had dis !;
tInct recollection OF. telling Senator hInrttnl
that Ill tho amendments he had pro-
posed, with the exception regarding the
h survey OF the Appomattox ~ III had q been
I agreed 10 by the conferees
The clerk ,of the commit tee said to-day
he thought I he5changes We're ma ade by
direction OF Chairman Burton. of tile.
House Committee on rivers and Har rbors.i
If that be SO. nd \ acted far A beyond s:...ls
z authority. Mem GOULD not m kes ny
B statement with greater positiYeness than:
that of the Senate conferees that the
4 changes were not ordered In the session
4 OF the conference commit tee. Nj Sy
Crooked Work Hinted.
1tiis charged that here has been crooked
! work In connection with the D changes.
< It Isl more than hlnted a that y rival In
yterests. the erepresenttLtlvesf of other ports
on tho Atlantic coast Ssurrepti tlouslyi
changed the i bill 50 as ito prevent the
8sinitIalssttp8 In securing 8thlrty-flye feet OF
+ water for Norfolk 8 hprbor, e New X Yorkl
Is tho only port on the eastern coast
5yofSthe United States having ANYTHING like
this depth OF water. Senator Penroso
u tried to Incorporate in the bill a provl-
D sion for survey for thirty-flye feet at
philadelphia. He failed Il 1t would have
been very calling to Philadelphlans and
b sPennsylvanIans. generally to have had the
y bill contain n provision for a survey
Y looking to giving the Virginia port deeper
water than be DUAL lkers City has, Il ~ II
H NJ Senator Martin does not bel IeYe there
3s5 was fcrookedness In changing the ELL, He
4Sis inclined to the opinionS that when. early
lin tho deliberat Ions of the conferees, 1t
4 was decided In ~ specific case to change
the terms Of the survey item SO ms to
a provide forGno grea ter depth than thirty
feet, tho clerk of the committee went
4 through the bill and changed every item
Y of this. character to thirty feet, II It
q provided forS q greater depth, In tho
Ii Norfolk case, he took tho liberty OF
changing nthirty-fYep to "twenty-tlYe.',
s While the changes made In the, bill
withoura the knowledge Of the Senate con-
4 ferees are e9irregulnr, and possibly crlmi-
4 nal, the practical effect will not prove
very hurtful to Norfolk. There Is nearly
thirty feet Of water there now. ! \ would
I, have beensa long time before there would
Y have been much chance Of securing an
appropriation for the deepening of the
Il channel to thlrty7tiYe feet, even had the
f survey been made. There Will be small
4 difficulty, probably IN securing the order
{, Ing of the survey Mt tho next session,
Observation-Disclosures effort to do SO at the
ono Just ended, "a 81, a. +. 4,
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