New Britain herald., 1916-05-30
|UAGES AND JIGS FOR WAR TIMES
Ing. TilSon Emphasizes Their
 Eeed- Other Washington News
Especial to the Herald.)


 Washington, May 30-The neces- ty of the government getting a 1antity of gauges, jigs and other Eachments so that it can be con- fted readily to the production of hnitions of war, and for other steps the direction of preparedness, was elt upon by Representative Tilson Connecticut in a brief speech be-
 the house during debate on the val appropriation bill.
 River and Harbor Bill.
 Penator Brandegee of Connecticut posed the amendment to the river harbor bill that was submitted Senator Shafroth of Colorado, pro- ing that government appropria- ns for river and harbor improve hts should not become availa ble
 expenditure until the interests
 commerce benefited by 8 parti- |ar improvement project if not tes or local communities, had put a large proportion of the money Fessary to carry it out.
 It seems to me to be an utterly practicable scheme" he said very river and harbor bill contains sorts of projects-projects carry
 from the revetment of the bank river to the building of locks and 1ns in rivers, that in many in 1ces are of no particular benefit atever to general commerce or to feral navigation. I can not con- re how an improvement that hap s to be located in one waterway, Ter river or a harbor. which is general benefit to navigation, could
 be paid for by a contribution so- ted from the various people who
 Int be benefited by it.
 was so afraid that if I alluded my own little items the senator
 Int move to reconsider them and
 ke them out of the bill was going glide gently and rapidly by them;
 inasmuch as Senator Clarke of
 ansas has referred to the parti-
 r case of New London I would
 attention to what would happen
 e. ..
 rhe appropriation for the inn Eement at New London is $17O,00O ard dredging through Long Island nd and a couple of miles up the
 mes river to a great pier owned
 the State of Connecticut and z eh the state paid a million dol 8 to build. I can readily perceive, | bat $170,000 was conditioned upon precedent agreement of some
 les unnamed in the bill, and it | made the duty of the public at or of either countries or cities
 states to get together in some
 by a process which is benevo- y and euphemitsically described o-or1ination, that probably be- they had agreed upon their pro- ionate amount the fiscal year } Id have rolled it's course and the ey would still be in the United S es treasury. 1t would imm mediately be claimed, fMourse, by the state that it had S8 it's part of this program for hnt railway a marine project, on 4ition that the government would ] ts share, and that the government 8 now fulfilling the implied con- In which the war department had He'd upon and estimated for. We fnd be in a hopeless contention #keen my home city and my home e, and, in my opinion, under this =#-opriation the harbor could not *4redged.
 Fake another case referring to liner amendment, that the senate Presiding officer was kind enough 4dd to the bill this morning at A suggestion-an improvement in ling some $71, 1000 for a harbor of Age on the north shore of Long End Sound, on the south shore $tonnecticut, to improve the har- of refuge known as Duck Island 3bor; which is a very important Dor of refuge. There Is a tremen- $ commerce on Long Island hd. This is a harbor of refuge To- 3d half way between New Lon A and New Haven. That is of ben-
 to any vessel that may happen let into storm; it is of no parti-
 r benefit to Connecticut any 1e than it is to Massachusetts or Flew York or to the growers of