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Show INCREASE IN APPnOPniATIONS. Cl. s.m so.""' ' """' "" ,n,P""" raents Thso lit I'seil To. In 1M President Arthur vetoed the! river and harbor bill because it carried a total of 815,000,000, which the president presi-dent regarded as excessive, Congref-a promptly passed the bill over hla veto. Since that time there haa Wen an average aver-age of one river and harbor bill paased every twoyeara. Mr. Cleveland allowed one to become a law without bis algna. ture, but no president has ever tried t since Arthur's time to override the will of congress In the matter of such ap-proprlationa. ap-proprlationa. YrfJ-alter year the total have Increased, In-creased, until at Ihe beginning of the tntntlelh century the house of representatives repre-sentatives propose lo authorize an ex-' ex-' ptndlture of 160,000,000 for river and 1 harbor Improvements, upward of one-' one-' third of which will b avallableduring the next fiscal year, and the remainder lo be expended under the continuation contract system. |