Show RIVER AND HARBOR APPROPRIATIONS The river and harbor bill as about fixed up continuing contracts and all amounts to o390311532 Of this the I Mississippi river gets 11005000 or onc llf th of the whole The Mississippi the Missouri and Galveston harbor get 15 G5 40 or more than onefourth of the whole The west coast gets 2330500 to be expended probably nearly all on the Columbia and Willamette rivers Thc Great Lakes get 13714300 Boston harbor gets 54805C9C New York 3009 502 and 1 Pennsylvania gets 53789013 The claim of New York is that New lYork i needs a channel a mile wide and thirtyfive feet deep from the piers in the city to the sea and Philadelphia claims a similar channel from the city to the Delaware Capes and noting the Increasing sizes of ships those Improvements Improve-ments are necessary Boston and all Massachusetts have been clamoring for I years that they are losing trade because be-cause the Government will not make a rae and direct channel up Boston harbor har-bor to the city Arid so It goes The 3Democrats are preparing to charge unparalleled un-paralleled Republican extravagance In these improvements At the same time the commerce of the country needs I Ihefce deep wal channels The rest of II I the appropriations arc of Ices importance I import-ance We lib Icyc that with every np propiiatlon for JIJlPfQIJ1G rivers and harbors some money Is I expended on I Inferior streams and that as Congress Is constituted tliose concessions have I to be made to gcL the votes to pass the bill for the mot needfed Improvements I I The appropriations for improvements I on lake harbors Is all right surely because be-cause in point of fact there is more commerce on the Great Lakes than there Is from the main seaports and It is growing with steadily accelerated I rapidity and ships are being increased in size more and morn for the reason 1 I J 1 JIy that It does not cost very much morel I more-l run a big ship than It does a small one while a big ship Is the ono that i carries the freight |