Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-04-26
NO FUNDS FOR
RAR|TAN RIVER
$400, 900 Allotted for I'm
provement of Raritan Bay,
it is Announced
FOR WATERWAY WORK
One Million Dollars for Deep
ening Staten Island Chan
ell, is Also Included
FOR WATERWAY WORK
BY GEORGE I'll. MANNING
(Washington Correspondent of the
Perth Amboy Evening News)

IL oAINCAsoA1 la AAALA~tANAAfo
washington Correspondent of the
Perth Amboy Evening News)
WASHINGTON. April 2s-one
million dollars for the deepening of
Staten Island Sound and 100000
for improving Rarltan Bay was in
clrded in the allotments for river
and harbor work in the next fiscal
year made by Secretary of War
Weeks before his departure for
Alaska today. No allotment WAS
made for Raritan river, for which
$4,000 had been recommended by
the chief of engineers. The rec
ommendation for Raritan Bay had
been 100000.
Many of the New Jersey river
and harbor projects received slash
ing cuts. The allotment for the
Delaware river below Philadelphia
was 100000, while the recon-
mendation of the chief of engineers
had been s3,000.000; above Phila-
delphia, no allotment was made al
though $25,000 had been recon-
mended; Raritan Bay was cut from
100000 to $400.000: the Rarit1n
Rive from t2os0o8 to nothing; ABB
900. and the Hackensack river from
100000 to nothing. No allotment
at all was made for Newark Bay,
for which s650,000 was recommend
ed but it is said that this project
will be provided for. 81
The total of the allotments made
toda was s40,463,2S0. leaving a
balance of $16,126,6S0 out of the
s56, 6,589,910 lump sum appropriation
made by congress for the river AMI
harnor work of the country in the
fiscal year beginning July /. 1t s
possible that more allotments will
be made after the secretary returns;
but little hope ~ ilela. ut for this.
save in isolated cases. in view oi
the fact that there have been per-
sistent rumors up to this date that
the President would direct Secretary
Weeks to withhold all $50 6,000,0 900
appropriation except the s27 100000
recommended by the budget bureau.
Considering the bitter opposition
of the administration to the action
Of congress in doubling the budget
estimate for the Rivers and Harbors
appropriations, it should be consid-
cred cause for qualification that SO
much as $40, 900 has been turned
loose.
1H6 amount now dAlOlLSu ID cdl0
by General Beach, Chief of Engin-
GERS, to be the minimum amount
necessary for immediate use in or
der that work may be undertaken
on approved projects generally
throughout the country.
"In some cases." he said; the
amounts are less thar those stated
IN the Annual Report OF the Chief of
Engineers for 1922 as those that
could be profitably expended during
the fiscal year ending June 80, 1924,
but they are regarded as sufficient
in all cases to care for immediate
needs, and if it develops later that
they are insufficient, such additional
amounts as may be necessary will
be allotted.
"It is regarded as necessary to
have a balance on hand to cover
emergencies and unforseeable de-
and this can be done
without detriment 10 the progress OF
the various works. No allotments
have been made for those projects
which have been adopted subject to
certain conditions of local cooper
alton where these conditions have
not been fully met. Should the con-
ditions be met later on, the allot-
ments will be promptly made"
Allotments for New Jersey. COM
plete, are: Passaic River, $4,000;
staten Island Sound $1,000,000;
Raritan Bay, 100000; Shoal Har-
bor and Compton Creek, $4,000;
River. $4,000; Della
ware River, Philadelphia TO the sea, |
s2,OO0,000; Mantua Creek, Oldham
Greek, and Maurice River, $1,000 |
each; and Absecon, $4,000.