Show Tile River and Harbor Bill Washington 30The House committee com-mittee on commerce is making rapid progress with the river and harbor bill which it is preparing without the usual estimates from the war department Chairman Page of the committee said today that all appropriations in the last bill had been gone over except such as were in the list of items objected to by the secretary as not of interest inter-est to commerce and navigation The bill when completed according to Mr Page would call for about 870000000 including an appropriation appropria-tion of 32500000 for the Mississippi River The appropriation for Pacific Pa-cific Coast rivers would be this year he said about 30 per cent less than in the last bill |