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Show I'i Aix money appropriated for the im-jj im-jj ' provement of tho Missouri river is jj money thrown into a mudhole. Yet it j 1 is proposed to appropriate $000,000 for ifl that purpose. The Missouri river com- i missioners, three in number, receive fat ( j ' salaries, and of course they must havo i j something to do, even if it is only to Bpend jearly a million dollars on a ; stream that is no longer of any uso for ( navigation purposes. It can't oven be j depended upon as a boundary lino be- j 1 , tweeu the states of Iowa and Nebraska, ! iso shifting aro its sandbars and chan- nel. |