The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1910-02-18
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RIVER AND HARsoR MEASURE
CARRIES $500, 900, SAME As
sUNpRY CIVIL BILL.
WORK TO Be PUSHED.
Doubling Of Fund SO Project Can be
Finished In IL Years.-channel
Feet Deep From the Missouri
to Minneapolis.

10 minneapolis.
Washington, Feb. 13.-Out of the tc
tai of over $42,OOO,000 carried in tn,
river and harbor bill, which was re
ported to the house the upper Missis
sippi river receives the amount which
was predicted would be assigned Il
this Improvement, namely 100000.
The item in the bill making this pro
vision carries the total amount for tn.
river from the Missouri to Minneapo
lis, for the purpose of ultimately sc
curing and maintaining a depth o.
channel of six feet and with a view
of completing the improvement with
in a period of IL years."
In dealing with this subject in its
report accompanying The bill, the com
mittee calls attention to the fact tina,
the 100000 thus provided for in this
bill is in addition to the $5OO,0C0 car
ried in the regular appropriation OF
the sundry civil bill.
The committee says: 1.-THE river
and harbor act of March 3, 1907, fol
the improvement of the Mississippi
river between the Missouri river and
ST. Paul, provided for a permanent
channel six feet deep and 300 to 1,40O
feet wide, at cost of $40, 900, and
an appropriation of 100000 with a
continuing contract for $1,0OU,OOO, of
which 100000 was to be expended dur.
ing the fiscal year ending June 80,
1910, and 100000 during the year end
ing June 80, 1911.
AT this rate it would take 40 years
to complete the project. Engineers es-
innate, however, that, with the exist
ing plant sufficiently increased, from
$1,500,000 to 100000 can be profit
ably expended each year, thus reduc-
ing the time of completion to IL years.
"The purpose of the committee in
an appropriation of $500, 900
additional to the 100000 carried in
the sundry civil bill is to enable the
engineers to increase the plant, so that
the project, if it is desired, can be
completed in IL years."
The next largest item for the North
west is the amount of 100000 carried
for work in the harbor at Duluth and
Superior.
Other items in the bill for Minnesota
include $500 for the Red River of the
North, between Minnesota and North
5000 for the Minnesota riy.
er; $4,000 for Agate bay and $4,000
for Grand Marais.
The total amount required to COM
plete adopted projects, except the Mis-
sissippi river, totals up $7O,S29, 100, and
for the Mississippi $17,501, $50 from the
mouth of the Missouri to the mouth
Of the Ohio, s1s,5o0,OOO. thence to St.
Paul and $59,500 from st. Paul to Min.
neapolis.
The diplomatic anG consular bill
was passed by the house. It carried
an appropriation of more than $1,000.
700.
TIE senate passed the Bennett
white slave" bill which had previous
ly received the sanction of the house.
The measure was so amended as to
eliminate the interstate regulations
contained in the bill, the
object of the senate being to divorce
the immigration feature of the ques.
lion from all others.
The senate committee on the Pacific
Islands has voted in favor of submit
ting the Hawaiian prohibition question
to popular vote of the people of the
islands.
As a result of the changes made in
the clerical Office of the United States
senate, Ansel Void, of Madelia, Mimi,
was promoted from index clerk to be
printing clerk, one of the most import
ant and responsible Offices on the SEN
ate rolls. Mr.. Void came here about
six years ago as an appointee of Sen
ator Nelson.
Indian Annuities Committed.
Agreements concluded with certain
tribes of Indians for the Communication
of their perpetual annuities under
treaty stipulations were transmitted
by the president to congress, together
with a draft of a bill providing for
the ratification of the agreements and
making the necessary appropriations.
Those transmitted include, the
agreements with the Oneida tribe of
Indians of Wisconsin, the Sac and Fox
of the Mississippi tribe of Oklahoma
and Iowa. the Pottawatomie tribe OF
Kansas and Wisconsin and the Paw.
nee tribe of Oklahoma
capitalization of the perpetual an.
nuities of the tribes named on the
basis of 5 per cent interest and the
deposit of the funds in the treasury
is provided for in the agreements.
The appropriation in the draft of
the bill are 100000 for the Oneidas,
100000 for the Sax and Fox, $1sO,75s
for the Pottawatomies and 100000
FOR the Pawnee tribes.