The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1914-06-11
OHIO RIVER
NAVIGATION
WILL BE GREATLY BENEFITED
BY THE BIG CIVIL APPRo-
PRIATIoN BILL.
Four Million Dollars Will Be Expend-
ed During Year 1915-Thousands
For Federal Buildings.

Neutrality-suspicious. than $4,O00,000
is carried in the sundry civil bill re-
ported to the house from the commit
tee on appropriations for prosecuting
the work on the lock and dam system
of the Ohio river that already has been
inaugurated and is going on under the
continuous contract system. Under
the act of 1910, which provides for the
construction Of number of locks and
dams below Pittsburg, the sum of ST..
$4,000 is appropriated for expenditure
In the fiscal year 1915; the total origi.
nal authorized sum for this feature OF
the work was 100000, and 81, ,O24, 900
has already been appropriated and ex
pended. Under the act of 1912, which
provides for the complete canalization
of the river. $2,2OO,O 900 is appropriated
in the bill, making an aggregate of $4,.
10000 for expenditure in 1915. This,
however, is in addition to the new ap-
preparation carried in the river and
harbor bill, which has already passed
the house and is now pending in the
senate.
This measure authorizes the Secre-
tary of War to enter into contracts for
new work on the canaIization project
not to exceed $3,OOO,OOO, of which
100000 is made available for expen.
diture in 1915. This brings the aggre.
gate sum that may be expended in the
twelve-months period beginning July
l next up to $6,176,O0O, with 81, ,OOO,O
more authorized. For the benefit Of
people who do not recall the difference
between appropriations in the sundry
civil and river and harbor bills, it may
be said that the appropriations in the
Bundry civil bill are under authorize
tions in preceding river and harbor
bills; the latter measures always make
provision for the new work, but au.
thorize the expenditure of larger
sum than is usually made Immediately
available. This years river and har,
Dor bill also appropriate S350,90O for
Open-channel work in the Ohio. More
than three quarters of a million dol.
lars is carried in the sundry civil bill
for public building work in the states
of Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana and West
Virginia. The appropriations are for
sites, continuation of work on post.
offices or completing it, or for com,
mencing the projects. The items are
as follows:
Ohio-Akron, site, 100000; Alliance
completion of building, $25,OOO; Ash
land, additional land, $4,000; Bellaire
completion, $4,000; Cambridge, com
pletion, $4,000; Dayton, completion
$4,000; Piqua, completion, $111,OOO;
Salem, completion, $38,O0O; Steuben
vile, continuation, $4,000; Tifiin
commencement, $1,000; Xenia, com
pletion, $4,000.
Indiana-Gary, continuation, $50,
600; Indianapolis, extension of mailing
platform, $4,000; Mishawaka, compile
ton. $35,000; New Albany, completion
,$38,OO0, and rent of temporary quar-
ters, $4,000; Newcastle, completion
$28,000; Portland, continuation, $40,
600; Seymour, 100000.
West Virginia-Charleston rent Of
temporary quarters and moving, 50,
400 Moundsville, continuation, $50,
600; Sistersville, completion, $4,000;
Wellsburg, commencement, $1,000.
Kentucky-Bardstown, completion
$4,000; Cynthiana, completion, $40,
600; Falmouth, site. $4,000; Fulton
commencement, $4,000; Georgetown
continuation, $4,000; Hopkinsville
completion, $4,000; Jackson, contin
uation, $4,000; Marion, site, $5.250;
Middlesborough, commencement, $S,
600.
The customary appropriation for the
maintenance of the National Soldiers
Home at Dayton, O., is carried the
appropriation this year being $571,
600. The bill carries the general pro
vision, which is applicable to all sol
diers' homes, that none of the money
shall be avilable for any home which
maintains within it's confines bar OF
canteen at which intoxicating liquor /.
sold. The appropriations provided il
the bill aggregate $107000,000.