Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), August 22, 1912

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Washington Whisperings Washington D C August 19 1912 Taking the items carried in the Sundry Civil bill for waterways on which there is absolute agreement between the Sen ate and House and these added to the several amounts appropriated in the River and Harbor bill which is now a law the total sum set aside for improv ing the rivers harbors and canals of the county for the fiscal year ending June will reach in the neighborhood of forty three millions within seven millions of the amount set by the National Rivers and Harbors Congress as a proper an nual appropriation to put the water ways of the United Sates in a condition to do their proportion of the work of transportation For the past two years the biggest of the waterway organizations the National Rivers and HarborsCongresshas been on record in favor of a yearly appropriation of fifty million dollars It has bent every energy to the accomplishment of the principle for which it stands and now with the present appropriation of nearly fortythree millions and a like sum prob bly at the short sessions of Congress next winter it looks as if the campaign of education conducted by