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Show A HUMORIST IN THE HOUSE. In speaking nn the river and harbor bill in the House on Monday last, Mr Candler nf Mississippi kindly ex-plilned ex-plilned to his fellow Representatives (who appeared to shire the countr) s doubt about It) that Itiver Imptovc-niert Imptovc-niert Ii for the purpose of making commerce adding to trade and Increasing In-creasing business ' This was male soon afte" Mr Burton who was In ehrrgc nf the hill had complained thit (1200 000 had been expended nn the Coosa, river that It would take $10-00 $10-00 000 moro to lompletc th work projected, pro-jected, and that when It was done i boat would huvc to so through thirty locks and the river would furnish only four feet of navigable water In view nf these facts navigation would he slow and costly even itflcr the work was done, nnd the committee had not recommended the contlnuarce of that effort to ' make commerce add to trade and increase business Whereupon Where-upon Representative Thompson of Alabama, Ala-bama, In whose district the Coosa river riv-er Is arose In red wrath to demand wh that Jl 200000 was to he wasted b) refusing to continue the appropriation appropria-tion Hut (10 000 was given to the Hcuppernong river In North Carolina, and the member from tho Scuppernong district wus wild w'th wrath, he wanted Jtooo more Worse )ct three ciceka In North Carolina were left nut of tho hill altogether, where the) had been wont to repose placldl) with various va-rious thousands mirked down opposite oppo-site their mines tho neglected streims being Town Creek, Tlshlng Creek and Contemned Cieek Mr HIuib of Tennessee was shocked nt th" Idea that nnl) I19 0O0 was put In the hill for work from Itlvertor to the mouth of the tennesseo river a distance of .iti tulles and he asked Incredulously If that wns nil the chief englneet recommended re-commended On being assured that It was he agonising!) Inquired If thera was not an unexpended balance and on being assured that there was something some-thing left of the HOOOOO appropriated for this partlculiu stietch C the river by the act of 1899 an I that the stretch w is well provided for. he sub-sldec, sub-sldec, but It was ptiln that ho con-sldered con-sldered himself defrauded he wasnt getting his share The Tennessee river abov ( hattanevoga gets JWOOO, Colbert Shoal and I tee Tree Shoals get JMi0( and H0O0OO respective!), an 1 the estimate for tho rlvei from P.lverton to Chattanooga Is JISOO000 nnd ns the chairman of the committee said 'It will probnbl) cost a million more ' A lock and dam ut Hurpcth Shoals In tho Cumberland river lie-low lie-low Nashville gets SiaOOOO and Mr Onlnes eif Tenneasee uilses In Indignation Indigna-tion to demand wh It has been cut to that IlKitre from 50O0 He Is assured as-sured that the full amount Is carried auctliei Item adding the J105 000 then he demmded 500 mote for maintenance mainte-nance foi each c esc and got It' Mr Iteeves of Illinois marveled nt the greed of the Itepreeentntlvea from North Caiollna when )3 till nil 91 had been expended up to June 50 1100 on Cape Tear river at and below Wilmington, Wil-mington, that S71 T6 07 was spent at the same place In the )eur ending June 30, 1901 that there la an unexpended unex-pended balance) of i1fSS93 and thut It wns pioposod lo spend JSS5 0OO moio at that point At the mention of tho $29 6 SI unexpended balance Ml He). Iarn of North Carolina grew excited, he wanted to know wh) that inone) hadli t been expended when there weie so man) good wn)s of spending It Vrol further, dldn t the gentleman from Illinois know, caitiff that ho Is that tho engineer in charge of Ihe wink had recommended II 35000 for the Upper Cape l'eai und tho nlrBurd-I) nlrBurd-I) committee hadn t put a cent in the bill for that' Mi lu-eves explained that to put In Ihe bill nil the appro-piluttoiu appro-piluttoiu remnimendc 1 by tho engineers engi-neers would make the amount between I2cH)000 000 and MOO 000 000 Hi i bill as It stands cuirles cash appropriations appro-priations of l.'l Oil 107 ami authorizes work i squiring futuie appropriations of J3b TI 10o h total of W GSS Jl I as It then stood ns passed IVI lay J50 -6S8 27 And set ti a mcmheis of the House feel aggrieved and attuck the committee liecause It doesn t carry more No principle of public benefit Is mentlone I In thes wrangles It Is slmpl) n question of how muc h of the public nionp) the ltepiesentatlve tan get for his district When Mr Jones of Washington mildly inquired in regard to one nf Ihe Items Would It not he well to hnvo some piovlslnn b) which th Government might ascertain nhethci r not some benefit has ax. rued from work that has been done' Mr. ilurton carelessly lcpllcd that The reports of the e-igtnerrs who have reported upon it are to the effe t ll at It has not been of an asau ed or permanent per-manent benefit And yet In the words of Representative Candler of Mississippi Missis-sippi niver Improvement is for the purpoc of making commerce adding to trade and Increasing business and nowhere I there a more Inviting field than this to which I Invite ou ' What palpable frauds the) are' And their true character will be brought out the more when the Irrigation Irriga-tion bill eximes up they will have frightful attacks of Jlm-Jams over It and will foresee ruin and Constitution-breaking Constitution-breaking In th mere proposal not to approprla.o money b) the millions for Irrigation but only to allow the laird sales and land oillce fes to go to the Irrigation work Hut these heroic treasury-raiders will see a great light when their bill geta to the Senate an! especially when they And that the Irrigators Irri-gators arc strong enough to force them to terms |