Show INCREASE IN appropriations uncle sam spends 1111 more ore money on improve menta ments tl TI an lie uee use I 1 to in 1882 president arthur vetoed the river and harbor bill because it carried a total of 81 11 which the president regarded as excessive congress promptly passed the bill over his big veto since that time there has been an all aver age of one river and harbor bill passed every two years mr cleveland allowed one to become a law without his signs ture bu but t no president has ever tried since arthur s time to override de the will of congress in the matter of 0 such ap prop nations year after year the totals have increased until at the tile beginning of the twentieth century the house 11 ouse of depre senta tives proposes to authorize an ex bendit are of 60 for fo r river and harbor improvements upward of one third of which will be available during the next fiscal yeli and the remainder to be empi under the continuation contract system |