The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1909-02-27
WATERWAYS MONEY
EMERGENCY BILL APPRoPRiATEs
7 $s,s71,s25 FOR IMPROVEMENTS.
AIDS WESTERN STREAMS
illinois, Indiana, lows and Michigan
Rivers to Be surveyed--Ilouse sIaps
at Roosevelt by Continuing Lin
itatlons on Secret Service.

Washington -Chairman Burton Of
the house committee on rivers and
harbors Friday introduced the emer-
gency and maintenance bill for water.
ways improvements which carries .
total appropriation of $s,971.625.
II provides for large number OF
surveys, for the maintenance of i'm
provements previously authorised. and
for continuing the operation of gov
eminent dredges and other works.
The president Is requested to open
negotiations with Great Britain for q
treaty for securing the maintenance Of
ample water levels for the uses of
navigation In the great lakes by the
construction of such controlling and
remedial works in the connecting riv-
ers and channels of the lakes as may
be agreed upon.
The secretary of war is also author
lied to nix Just and reasonable COM
pensation to be paid for the use Of
water and water power now or here
after owned in the st. Mary's river by
the United States.
Six hundred thousand dollars is APP
propriated for examinations and sur
veys, contingencies and incidental re-
pairs for rivers and harbors for which
there is no special appropriation.
Among the most important waterways
for which preliminary surveys and ex-
aminations are provided, aside from
the inland intracoastal waterway along
the Atlantic and gulf coasts are:
The Chicago and Rock rivers, ILL.,
nois; the harbors and rivers at or
near Chicago. including Chicago har-
Dor, the Chicago river. Calumet har-
Dor, the Grand and the Little Calumet
rivers, Lake Calumet and the Lake
Shore from the mouth of the Chicago
river to the city Of Gary, Ind, for the
purpose of reporting a plan for a COM
plete systematic and broad improve
ment of the harbor facilities for Chi
cago and adjacent territory.
Other surveys are: The Wabash
river, Illinois; the Des Moines, Cedar
and Iowa rivers, Iowa; the Marquette
and Muskegon harbors; the Pigeon
river and the Livingstone channel of
the Detroit river, Michigan; the Mis-
sissippi river between st. Paul and
Minneapolis; and reservoirs at the
headwaters of the river. the Mime
sofa river and reservoirs at its head
waters, the Rainy river and the Du-
luth (Minn.) and Superior (Wis.)
harbors; Ashtabula and Lorain har-
bors, the Maumee river at and above
Toledo, and a survey OF the Ohio river
with view to the selection of sites
for the additional locks and dams be-
tween locks No. 8 and No. rs and for
the preparation of plans.
No single channel or improvement
Is to be allotted more than $4,000
out Of the appropriation for emergen-
cies. The bill repeals the. act that
authorizes the Mount Carmel Develop
ment Company to draw water from
the Wabash river In Wabash county,
ILL.,, and authorizes the secretary Of
war to grant lesases for the use OF the
water created by the government dam
at Mount Carmel.
Two more disputes between the
president and congress were revived
when the house committee on appre-
priations reported the sundry civil ap-
/ preparation bill.
| One was in regard to tho limitation
OF the use of the secret service Of the
treasury department. The other was
the appropriation for the examination
Of accounts Of railroads, under section
20 of the Hepburn rate law.
The house. despite the presidents
special message. decided to keep up
the limitation of the use Of the secret
service. Mr.. Roosevelt declared such
action an aid to criminals.