Show RIVER AND HARBOR BILL IS EXPLAINED Mr Bu Burton ton the Chairman Corrects Corrects' Some Popular Impressions About the M Measure asure WASHINGTON ASHINGTON March 17 Immediate Immediate Immediately ly after the approval of of the journal th the House went nt Into of the whole and commenced the consideration of the river rf and h harbor b bill Mr Burt Burton n of Q Ohio lo who Y o W wes was s in n charge pf th the measure made an opening st statement ment He said the existed that the bill c carried bom oV over r for the ensuing fiscal year whereas s It It car carri but 24 24 24 Q w oo of al appropriations the re remaining re- re 36 being simply author author- I d to jo be appropriated d under the contract contract con con- tract system Mr Burton also denounced the Idea that tr-at unworthy projects for the Improvements Improvements Im Im- im- im of or basins and creeks absorbed a a proportion of I the appropriations In the bill The appropriations were not di divided divided dl- dl vided up un according to States and local local- tl ties The gr great t projects In n which the whole ro ril country o out r of f was the a Interested e absorbed g carried ar and n. n f h. h |