Norwich bulletin., 1916-05-30
Senate Passes the RiVers-HarbOrsB BiIl.
CARRIES APPROPRIATION AP-
 ACCOMPANYING s4s,OoOOOO
VOTE STOOD s TO s2
The Bill Now Goes to Conference of the Two Houses-ssnator Kenyon Predicts It Will be the Last of It's Kind.

Washington. May 29.-The senate today passed the rivers and harbors appropriation bill, carrying approxi- mately $43, 3,000O09, by a vote of B to S2 after adding many amendments.
 Will Now Go to a Conference.
 The bill will now go to conference of the two houses. The fight against it, begun by Senators Kenyon of Iowa and sherman of Illinois, gained strength until a final effort to dis place it with substitute appropriat- ing lump sum of $30,000 was defeat i ed by only one vote.
 fl Democrats Voted With Republicans | Senators Ashurst, Gore, Hollis, Hust ing, Lane, NewIands, Pittman, Pome- rene, Taggart, Thomas and Thompson l all democrats, voted with the reDub- licans to send the bill back to the committee.
 Condemned by Senator Kenyon.
 Just before the final vote was taken Senator Kenyon predicted it would be the last of it's kind to pass an Ameri- can congress.
 You are voting at least $20,O0o 600 into this bill that is absolutely unjus- tifiable," said Senator Kenyon. 'You are dumping thousands of dollars into streams where commerce is rapidly disappearing and into streams with less than a foot of water in them and into streams that you could not rec ognize as such when you crossed them. You have had an opportunity to cor rect some of these abuses, but would not. Your motto is Let the people squeaL' I have done my best and want to say that if the price of hold ing my seat in the senate is to vote for bills of this kind, the seat may go. for my usefulness to my consti- tuents in that case is ended.
 Some day a congress will be here which will not consider that the grtat- nc ct fcf T- the greatest amount of money out of , the federal treasury
 5lames Democratic Party.
 Tt is a pity that the whole blame for this extravaganza must rest upon the democratic party because the bill , never could be passed without repub-
 lican votes. There are patriotic states
 men on the democratic side of the chamber, too, who fought hard for l economy in this legislation. Fight Not Vet Ended.
 "The people are awakening to the , fact that votes are cast in congress ! very largely in order that reciprocity f may follow fawning. We have lost tIt fight here but it is not ended. We
 appeal now from congress drunk with s extravaganza to a people sober medi- ! tative and very discriminatory" NewIands Amendment Defeated.
 Shortly before the bill was placed
 upon it's final passage the Newlanda = amendment to create a national wa. t accepted, was stricken from the bill }. on a renewed point of order. made by
 Senator Gallinger of New Hampshire.
 Record of Vote. f Nine democratic and twenty-three n republican senators voted against the
 Democrats-Ashurst, Gore, Hollis,
 Husting, Newlands, Pomerene, Sha- , froth, Taggart and Thompson.
 Republicans-Borah, Brady, Clark, S (Wyoming), Cummins, Curtis, Dilling-
 ham, Fall, Gallinger, Harding, Jones
 Kenyon, Lafollette, Lippitt. Lodge, a 1 Norris, Page, Shoot, Sutherland, d Townsend, WadswOrth, Warren, Weeks - and Works.
 T Senators Ti1lman and Thomas. dem- ? ocrats, sought to cast negative votes
 but could not transfer their pairs. h Brandegee and Mclean Voted fer Bill d Seven republicans voting for the bill = were Senators Brandegee, Mclean ]. Nelson, Oliver, Poindexter, Smith o1
 Michigan and Sterling.
 The bill as it passed the house car e ried approximately $4O, ,00O, ,0O0. Chief e among the senate additions was $1,- d 0S0,0O0 for a diverting dam in the e harbors at Los Angeles and Lone
 Beach, Calf; $220,000 for the harboI
 at San Diego, Calif., and $360, 900 fol = a turning basin in the harbors of Du- l. luth and Superior on Lake Superior e $2oo,ooo for Deepening East River. 'S An appropriation for $2OO, 900, fol
 deepening East river, New York, the
 only new project inserted in the bill 7 by the house and stricken out by the S senate committee later was restored U in the senate. It was urged by tht . president and the secretary of thC A' navy as an imperative preparedness!
 measure, necessary in order to provide a channel for battleships to the navy Ie yard at Brooklyn.
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