Minn.. 8250.000all increasesthe Missouri River from its mouth to Sioux City. Iowa. $250.000. repairs and improvement of the jetty at the mouth of the Columbia River. in Oregon and Washington. $250.000. making. with these and other additions for rivers and harbors. appropriations in the aggregate. under continuing contracts and otherwise. over $12.000.000 in the bill. and Senators from the arid regions acquiesce in these appropriations because they are national and beneficial. does it seem the right comprehension of a great situation to challenge an item of $100.000 in the bill intended to secure needed and absolutely necessary information in order to deal with problems involving the very life of the country itself? We have reached the point in that arid region. as the Senator from Colorado can well testify. where we can not now. without the investment of very large capital. invite another immigrant to settle upon our soil. Hundreds of people are passing each and every day upon loaded trains over as fertile land as ever the sun shone upon. going over the Rocky Mountains and off to the humid region of the Pacific coast. Why?
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