Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-07-18
BILL CARRIES $33, 900, 900
Sum of $4,000 for Anacostia and
Potomac Work Stands.
HARB0R CONTROL Is CHANGED
Transferred From Commissioners to
Army Engineers by Conferees.
Millions for Levees.

Adopting all of the Senate amendments
of special interest In the District, the
conferees on the rivers and harbors ap.
preparation bill have reached an agree.
| ment. AS the bill was reported to the
Senate today from conference. it pro-
vides for total expenditures on water
ways improvements Of about S33, 600 900
The Senate this afternoon agreed to the
conference report.
AS both houses Of Congress had agreed
| the improvement of the Anacostia river
and $4,000 for continuing the improve
ment and maintenance of the Potomac
river in the District. these appropria-
| tions were not involved in the conference
and the adoption of the conference re-
port by the two houses will insure the
work.
Harbor Line Control Transferred.
The conferees. however did agree to
| the Senate amendment taking away from
the Commissioners their present power
over the establishment Of harbor lines
along the Anacostia and Potomac rivers
in the District 1t is the common custom
to give the army engineers full control
District Is removed by the conference re-
port.
Another Senate amendment eliminating
the limit on the amount that may be
ficer in local charge of the improvement
of waterways in the District also was
agreed to by the conferees.
BY the conference report, also there re-
mains in the bill the Senate provision OF
100000 for the construction at the Engi-
neer School in this city of a building,
with library accommodations and other
facilities for the instruction of officers OF
the Corps Of Engineers in duties per-
tanning to the improvement of rivers and
harbors.
Increase in Board Discretionary.
The Senate amendment proposing tha,
the board Of five engineers for rivers and
harbors created in 1902 shall be Increased
to nine members was modified in confer
ence to make the increase In the discre-
tion Of the chief of engineers. And the
conferees also accepted the Senate amend
ments allowing the combining of two OF
more projects when the work can be done
more advantageously and giving the Sec
retary OF War power to provide In the
permanent parts Of any dams authorized
by Congress such foundations. sluices and
other equipment considered desirale for
eA0 Aoeut0 oStolOptueuI OF the water
power.
The appropriation for the dredging OF
Elk river to Elkton. Md. was reduced
from $500 to 34.O4O. but the appropriation
OF R1. 400 proposed by the Senate for the
Imp provement of AQula creek. Virginia,
was adopted.
Harbor Work Provided For.
The conferees agreed to the six-mil-
iion-dollar appropriation for levee work
along the Mississippi river, made neces-
sary largely by the floods of last spring;
100000 for improving the outer harbor
Of Los Angeles; $4,000 for a breakwater
for an outer harbor at Chicago: $3.50. .OO0
for levee building on the Mississippi
and Ohio rivers in the Cairo district;
100000 for the improvement of the
Allegheny river In Pennsylvania, and
100000 for Improvement Of the Cape
Fear river. near Wilmington, N. C.
There also was an acceptance Of the
Senate amendment for a preliminary in
vestigation to cost 5000 to determine
whether a system Of impounding reser-
yoirs at the headwatcrs Of the Allegheny.
Mononganela an0 O.io rivers and their
tributaries was needed and practicable
to provide water during dry seasons to
operate the present and proposed sys-
tens Of dams. and to what extent the
federal government would be justified in
cooperating with LEGAL communities in
the project