Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 April 1888 — TWENTY MILLIONS WANTED. [ARTICLE]

TWENTY MILLIONS WANTED.

The House Committee’s Biver and Harbor Bill the Largest '*■ on Record. How It Is Proposed to Distribute the Vast Sum—The Illinois Ship Canal. 7 ;. - [Washington special.] The river and harbor bill, as finally agreed upon by the House committee, makes an aggregate appropriation of $19,432,783, and is the largest bill of the kind ever brought in. Chairman Blanchard says the bill of 1882, which was the largest up to that time, aggregated $18,123,000, Some of the appropriations are as follows: Chicagos 230,000 Erie harbr ana New Orleans.. 200,000; for purchase Aransas Pass. 100,000' Presquellnd $83,000 Galveston 500,000 Galveston Bay 100,000 Sabine Pass.. 250,000 Sandusky City 40,(JOO Cleveland 75,000 Michigan City 95.003 Toledo 150,000 Sand B’ch hb’r Duluth 80,000 of refuge.... 70,000 Humboldt,Cal. 150,000 Milwaukee.... 80,000 Oakland, Cal. 175,*000 Superior & St. Wilmington.. 93,030; Louis Bays.. 50,000 Yaquina Bay. 12',000!Ashland 60,030 Greenville.... 75,000 Portage Lake. 10,0j0 Vicksburg.... 150,000 St. Joseph.... 10,000 Ashtabula, O. 30,000 Saugatuck.... ' 5,000 Muskingum,O. 60,000 South Haven.. 10,000 Calumet h’b’r. 10,030 Marquette .... 25,000 Gr. Haven 25,000,Ahnapee 5,000 Gr. Marais..., 50,000 Oreen Bay .... 10,000 Ludington .... 60,000|Kenosha 7,500 Muskegon 45,000 Kewaunee .... 10,000 Hickman, Ky. 50,000'Manitowoo.... 8,000 Columbus, Ky, 25,000 Menominee.... 9,031 Charlevoix.... 42,500 Milw’kee harCheboygan.... 15,000 bor of refuge, 70,000 Frankfort 8,000 Milw’kee harManistee 10,000 bor 10,000 Black Lake... 5,000 Oconto 2,000 Monroe 5,000. Pt. W ellington 5,030 Ontc nagon .... 12,500 Racine 10,000 Pentwater B,ooo!Sheboycan.... 15,000 Waukegan.... 25,000|Tw0 Rivers... 2,500 Appropriations in the bill for rivers and canals include the following: Mississippi, Gt. Kanawha.. 300,000 from mouth Fox...- 100,000 of Missouri Illinois... 200,000 to Gu1t53,385,000 Muskingum... 102,000 St Mary'sF’lls Monongahela, & Hay Lake purchselock channel 1,500,000 & dam No. 7. 162,000 Missouri 625,000 Allegheny 25,003 Ohio 515,000 Schuylkill .... 25,000 Columbia 635,00 u Herr's Island Tennessee.... 265,000 dam, Pa 35,000 Cumberland .. 210,0.0 Mon ongahela St. John’s 150,000 River, W. Va 35,000 Detroit 130,500 Saginaw 55,000 Bed 110,000 Wabash 65,000 Black Warrior 100,000 Calumet 50,000 Arkansas 175,000 Plaquemine.. 100,000 Cape Fear.... 100,000 La Fourche... 51,000 Big Sandy,Va. 31,500 Cascades, Ore. 175,000 Pascagoula... 27,500 Columbia 350,000 Yazoo 32,000 Lower WillaOuachita 25,000 me.te, Ore.. 80,000 Buffalo Bayou. 25.003 Upper VVil’m’e 15,000 Red River of N 20,000 St. Clair flats San Joaquin.. 25,000 shin canal.. 53,000 San Luis, Cal. 25,000 Clinton River. 5,000 Sacto&Feath r 20,000 Chippewa 5,003 Deep sea moor- Chippewa at ingsinCal.. 150,000 Yehowß’nks 5,000 Coquille R’v’er 20,000 St. Croix 7,500 Coos Bay, 50,000 White... 5,000 The distribution of the river and harbor money is as follows: Six New England States.... $ 950,000 Four Middle States 333,233 Thirteen Southern States.. 5,365,900 Michigans2,lsl,soo Wisconsin 391,500 Minnesota. 130,000 Indiana 165,000 Illinois 491,400 Ohio 504,000 Missouri. 10,000 West Virginia 393,5Q0—54,242,900 Three Pacific Coast States.. 1,323,900 The Mississippi* and Missouri and Ohio rivers are not included in the above statement. Kansas, Colorado, Nebraska, Nevada, and lowa get no appropriations. The committee decided not to make a specific appropriation for the Illinois ship canal, but to insert in the river and harbor bill a clause permitting the Secretary of War, at his discretion, to make a survey of the Illinois and Desplaines rivers. The clause is not mandatory, but simply authorizes the Secretary to do thus and so and pay the expense out of the general appropriation. In other words, the friends of the enterprise will then be compelled to come to Washington and persuade Mr. Endicott, who can not see over the Allegheny mountains, and frequently not beyond the Hudson, to order the survey. But Gen. Henderson, who is a member of the committee, says that this is the best that could be done, and that he had to take a very small slice or no bread.