The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-09-13
APPROPRIATION OF
 $750,000 FOR LOCK
 r REMAINS INTACT.
Senate Committee Virtually Adopts Revision of Water way Bill by Engineers
 of War Department

Washington, September 12-(special) Revision of the rivers and harbors bill by engineers of the war department, and the virtual adoption of this report by the Senate commerce committee today showed that the proposed appropriation of S750,o00 for Lock F. Black Warrior river, would remain intact. and that only s25,00o would be topped off the various items for Alabama. This sum will be taken from the proposed appropriation of $loo,ooo for the Alabama river
 If the Senate committee act on the report of the engineers. the bill will be cut about s2o,o0o,ooo. leaving the total at ap- proximately $s3.ooO.00o. It is expected, how ever. that s2S. S.oO0,O0o will be the maximum accepted by the Senate.
 Representative Taylor was notified today by the engineers for rivers and harbors that the data on Lock l. for which they had been sent 10 Alabama. had been re- ceived. and the report had been submit ted to Secretary Garrison. The engineers had expected to send the report to the committee on rivers and harbors today but were unable to do so because of the half holiday. No inl1ing of its tenor was allowed to escape until it should be approved by the secretary.
 The data will be used by Mr Taylor in urging the passage of Senator Bankhead' 8 joint resolution to permit the contractors 10 proceed with the work. on the chance of being paid through passage of the rivers and harbors bill
 Of course. the Alabama items in the rivers and harbors bill may be cut on the floor of the Senate in which event an enort will be made to restore them to full measure when the bill goes to the House and Senate joint conference com mittee.
 Filibuster Resumed
 Washington, September 12-Ilimina ton of $1S.000, 900 from rivers and hars DOTS bill appropriations by the Senate commerce committee as additional war emergency relief to the treasury failed today to appease opponents of the measure. and the filibuster against if was resumed on the floor. After the committee had announced that the tota. had been reduced from $53,OOO 900 to $34.000,000 Senator Burton, republican. leading the opposition. issued a state ment, declaring that the fight would continue
 A large part of the s1S,0OO. 900 re- duction was secured by horizontal re- ductions, on the theory that each prof ect should receive funds to keep if alive until another bill can be passed at the next session.
 The reductions made" said Senator Barton's statement, do not diminish by more than few hundreds of thou sands the ultimate expense of expand ing river and harbor improvement. What the opponents of the bill object is to such vicious items as the Cumber- land river above Nashville, the ultima te expense of which would be $4,500,o0o A proposed system of lockssa and dams in the Tennessee, indefinite in the fina. expenditure, still remains in the bill Again, the Sacramento and Feather rfv- CTS reclamation project, which does not belong in a rivers and harbors bill. is contemplates the expenditure of S5.S6O, 900.
 AS an illustration of the action If the committed. a project in Boston har- bor intended to make it easy and safe for deep draft boats to enter and an authorization of S1 000, ,000 Philadelphia. are omitted. while the, Brazos. Trinity, Red and Ouachita river provisions re- main, although reduced. , A very lar6e number of ineonsequential creeks and streams on the Atlantic coast aud elsewhere still occupy a prominent place.
 Under these circumstances the op ponents of the bill feel compelled to continue their opposition with view Ito obtaining the elimination of glar- ingly objectionable items.
 The filibuster was continued in the Senate all day.