Regatta Bill Passed.

Upon April 21 a bill passed the United States Senate which may have an important bearing on the cheice of a course for the boat race between Harvard, Columbia, Cornell and the University of Pennsylvania. The bill provides that during the progress of any regatta, amateur or professional, in navigable waters, the Secretary of the Treasury may take such steps as may be necessary to insure the safety of passengers on excursion steamers, by detailing revenue cutters to enforce such rules and regulations as may be adopted. In case the bill passes the House of Representatives it will provide for the proper policing in an official manner of the course at Poughkeepsie, where it has been proposed to hold the race. Three of the four colleges represented upon the regatta committee preferred Saratoga to Poughkeepsie, owing largely to the fact that the latter course was liable to be obstructed by excursion steamers, so that the passage of this bill should operate favorably for Poughkeepsie's chances.