Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 May 1896 — RIVER AND HARBOR BILL. [ARTICLE]

RIVER AND HARBOR BILL.

How the Appropriations of This Great Measure Are Distributed. The river and harbor bill passed by the Senate the other day is the largest river and harbor bill in the history of the nation. It appropriates $75,000,000, of which more than $12,000,000 is for immediate use and nearly $63,000,000 for continuing contracts. The appropriations have been skillfully distributed among the States. New York gets the largest sum of the direct appropriations, but Illinois secures the largest authorization for the future, her share thereof being over $6,000,000, or one-tenth of the whole. The bill as passed by the Senate contains appropriations as follows: Maine $251,500 New Hampshire ; 25,000 Vermont . 15,000 Massachusetts 424,000 Rhode Island 149,300 Connecticut 267,000 New York 823,500 New Jersey 193,660 Pennsylvania 337,500 Delaware 184,160 Maryland 492,800 District of Columbia 25,000 Virginia 324,000 West Virginia 37,500 North Carolina 242,000 South Carolina IHOOO Georgia 235,000 Florida 578,000 Alabama 314,000 Mississippi 55,400 Louisiana 258,000 Texas : 252,000 Arkansas 233,000 Tennessee ; 307,000 Kentucky 156,000 Ohio 741,000 Michigan 572,150 Wisconsin 368,440 Minnesota 127,000 Indiana 103,500 Illinois 280,000 Mississippi river 1,564,000 Missouri (State) 275,000 Missouri river 350,000 Montana 35,000 California 626,550 Oregon 506,390 Idaho 33,000 Washington 335,000 Surveys 200,000 Total $12,561,850 The bill contains provisions authorizing continuing contracts as follows: Maine $1,570,500 Massachusetts 1. 1,145,000 New Yotk 3,655,558 Delaware 4,885,846 South Caroliha 1,996,250 Georgia 3,572,500 fcrjisiana 1,488,250

Texas 1,403,836 Ohio 1.3541)00 Wisconsin 188,737 Minnesota 3,080,553 California 4,006,000 Washington 980,000 Rhode Island 707,000 Pennsylvania 894,500 West Virginia 1,200,000 Tennessee 660,000 Kentucky 1,346,000 Mississippi 860,000 Michigan 1,065,000 Illinois . .v.{.*u. j 6,360,960 Ohio river .. 2,807,250 Mississippi river 13,400,000 Oregon 4,664,000 Grand total 304,211,760 The following table shows the river and harbor appropriations for the last twelve years: 1885 .v.“ 1886 1887 14,464,900 00 1888 1889 22.410,791 69 1890 500,000 00 1891 25.292,395 00 1892 2,951,200 00 1893 22,068,218 00 1894 14,181,153 00 1895 20,055,005 30 1896 11,452,115 00 Total .. .$148,324,077 99