Show PORK IN THE BARREL River and Harbor Appropriation Bill Appears I to Contain Portion for All Save Arid Land States Supply Measure < Carries Sixty Million DoIIarsShouId Western Members Succeed in Securing Appropriation for Storage Reservoirs Reser-voirs It Will Likely Be Increased Five Millions MoreArthur c the One President Who Vetoed a River and Harbor Measure 1 TRIBUNE BUREAU 501 Fourteenth Street WashingtonD CTDec22 1000 I In 18S2 President Arthur vetoed the I river and harbol bill because It carried car-ried a total of 512000000 which the t President regarded as excessive Congress Con-gress promptly passed the bill over the veto Since tliat time there has been an average of one river harbor har-bor bill passed pvery two years Mr Cleveland allowed one to become law without his signature but no President has ever tried since Arthurs time to override the will of4 C igleis in tHe matter of such appropriations 7 AN ENORMOUS TOTAL Tear after year the totals have Increased In-creased until at the beginning of the j twentieth century the House oc Rcpre sentativcs proposes to authorize an expenditure ex-penditure of SCOOOO000 for river arid harbor Improvements upward of one third of which wilJc available during the next fiscal year and the remainder to bo expended under the continuation contract system As th re is more or less pork In tho barrel I for nearly cveryon6 the bill Is not likely to be cut seriously in the I House and It la I even probable that additions will be made In the Senate MONEY FOR RESERVOIRS Some of the Western members have made strenuous efforts to secure appro priatlpns In the bill for the erection of storage reservoirs at the headwaters of the rivers in the arid regions for ir rigation purposes They have not been successful as yet but they may be eventually which event there Is like ly to be an addition of 5000000 more tothe total South Dakota Nebraska Kansas Wyoming Colorado Utah and Idaho are the States In which It Is honed to SGCUVC torag reservoirs uiLougli the e medium of the river nnd Harbor bll MOTION FOR REVIEW DENIED Secretary Hitchcock today denied a motion for review in the land contest of ° lV1P01Iurd aal st the Union Pa erne Railway company Involving 1 land Iflthe sail Lake Qlty < district Utah o The application for a hearing on Pol lards contest stands rejected I POSTMASTER1 APPOINTED FW Bassler vas today appointed postmaster Ilt Mineral l Washington county Ida vice I W H Gray resigned PENSIONS GRANTED Utah Original Hiram O Brown Salt Lake City 86 IdahoOriginal Daniel W Bellows Houston S I |