CALUMET FEEDER DAM.
Mr. Griffin's bill (H. R. 32) to repeal the act authorizing the Illinois Calumet Feeder Darn and to provide for the manner of assessment of damages against the State of Illinois, and the manner of the drainage of lands adjacent to the Calument river, coming up -
Mr. GRIFFIN explained its merits. The dam flows water over the lands of his constituents to the amount of 14,000 acres, and it made the Swamp Land ditches valueless, &c.
Mr Speaker GORDON (Mr. Branham in the chair) also supported the passage of the bill. He had opposed the passage of the original Feeder Dam bill, and with all his heart he now voted for its repeal.
Messrs. DOBBINS and DOUGHERTY also submitted favorable statements and explanations.
The bill was passed the third and last reading n the House of Representatives - yeas 80, nays 0. The House then took a recess till two o'clock P. M.
