A closkk analysis of the fraudulent
Kiver and Harbor lull shows that is is
unjust as well as corrupt. The Missis
sippi and Missouri rivers and their
tributaries get $0,078,000. The New
England States get but little—sl3o,ooo
(or Maine,#ss,ooo for New Hampshire,
#lB 000 for Vermont, #351,000 for Mas
sachusetts, $l7O OttO for Rhode Island,
and 1232,000 for C.mn. client, #*>56,500
in all. Nor have the Middle States a
full share. To New York #657,500 is
given; to New Jersey, #813,975; to
Pennsylvania. #380,000 ; to Maryland
$523,000 ; to Delaware. #238,000 ; in all,
#2,121,475. The South carries off about
one half of the entire appropriations
of the bill. To improvements of rivers
and harbors in Ohio, #345,000 is given ;
in Michigan, $623,500; in Indiana.
#110,000; in Illinois, $475,000; in
Wisconsin, #854 000 ; in lowa, #52,000 :
in Minnesota, #150,000, including the
grant for the Red River of the North ;
in Idaho, #5,000 ; in all, #2,615,000.
VOL. XVII.
TELEGRAPH TICKS.
Important and Interesting Items
from the Wires Daring the Week.
WASHINGTON.
The knit-goeds bill passed the senate
Saturday withrut amendment.
The appropriations made by congress at
this sc sion exete I tho.se of last vear near
ly $80,000,000.
The president hag sent to the senate the
name of Henry K. McCoy to be United
States judge for the northern district of
lowa.
Both houses of congress, Aug. 3, passed
the river and harbor bill over the presi
dent s veto. So the bill h-comes law.
tit:ite a number of orders have been re
ceived from various parts of the country
for the new 3 per cent, bonds.
