WOULD uLD WIDEN WATERWAYS Congressman Ransdell Is In Interested Interested Interested in Improvement of nf Rivers and Harbors APPROPRIATION TOO SMALL LOUISIANA MEMBER SPENDS SPENDS DAY IN I N SALT LAKE I Congressman Ransdall Ransdell of Louis Louisiana lana iana spent yesterday In the tho city leaving last l evening for the east Mr Ransdell has just completed a tour of the Pacific coast territory beginning at Spokane Wash Vash and ending at al Los Angeles Cal made for the purpose of learning the needs of or the coast section in the way of rivers and harbors improvement lie He Is Isa I Ia isa a member of the rivers and harbors com corn committee committee of or the lower house and also chair chairman chairman chairman man of the executive committee of the National Rivers Rivera and Harbors Improve Improvement mont ment m nt association which was organized last January in Washington D C at a of delegates from all aU over the United States Spates called largely largel at Mr Rans Hans dells suggestion Mr lIr Ransdell accompanied by Mrs stopped at a t the Wilson hotel During the day they visited the Temple grounds and attended the concert in the Tabernacle in the afternoon This Is my m first vis visit it to the west said Mr Ransdell yesterday The rivers and harbors committee is constantly be besieged with demands for appropriations for various sections and I came west to Inform myself better as to the needs of tile the th territory The rivers ana aria Harbors as association association association has a threefold purpose First it is hoped to create a demand for a more liberal and broadminded policy toward the tha waterways of the nation The appropriations appropriations appropriations made by congress for Cor this pur purpose purpose purPose pose at present are niggardly in the ex extreme extreme Secondly a demand will be made fo an annual rivers rie s and harbors appropriation appropriation appropriation instead of the present method of passing a bill once every three years All AU other appropriations for government work orl are made annually Finally FinaU the as association association association asks for a bill blU carrying instead of as at present Only Three P R r Cent Some idea of the stingy policy followed regarding the tile improvement of oC rivers and harbors may be had when it is shown that the rivers and harbors appropriation tion amounts to but 3 per cent of the an annual annual annual nual appropriations by bv congress for Cor all purposes while the appropriated annually for tile army navy and pen amounts to about 40 per cent of the total The rhe average government pi for all purposes for the past ten years rs has been Mr Ransdell maintains that the most effective way of creating cheap transportation transportation transportation tation rates rutes and solving the rebate re ate problem problem lem is by the tile improvement of water waterways waterways waterways ways He declares d clares that while railroad legislation may ma regulate to a certain ex extent EXtent extent I tent and prevent the continuance of ot dis discriminations criminations the shippers of the country 1 will wm never n ver be bo permanently benefited until water transportation can caiz be se sc secured secured I I cured in iii competition with the rail raB routes i As ts an instance of this mis he points to the j situation in the great Inland empire as asit asit I it Is known embracing the tile wheat grow growing gro growing I ing sections of Washington Idaho and I Oregon the j yearly early product of which is estimated at bushels Washington alone producing bushels It costs 11 ii cents a bushel to ship wheat from Spokane Wash Vash to the ports of Tacoma and ana Seattle miles mites away At the same time according to Mr Ransdell the seven states tributary to the tile great lakes by I virtue of the Improvement of lake trans transportation and the Erie canal can ship their grain to New Now York over 1000 miles for 5 cents per bushel With the tile Improvement of the Colum Columbia Columbia bia bin river rhel as far inland as Lewiston says sas Mr lr Ransdell the Inner basin growers would effect a i saying of at least 5 cents per bushel in ill transportation to the coast Improvements I on the Coast While hile on the coast const Mr MIS Ransdell visited Tacoma Seattle Bellingham Port Town Townsend send and other points on Puget sound j He paid a visit to the Grays Harbor coun country country try and went up the Columbia river as asfar asfar far as The Dalles Danes where a Im irn Improvement improvement provement is asked and to the mouth of he th river where a vast sum has already bf b en n spent in attempting att to deepen the channel to allow vessels to pass in and out In California he inspected the Sac Sacramento Sacramento Sacramento river going up as a far as Marys larys Marysville Marysville ville me at tho the junction of the Yuba and andl Feather eather l rivers where Is being spent half by the state and half by the national government to restore the stream to navigation which was ruined by debris from the mines He went vent up the tile San Joaquin to Stock Stockton Stockton Stockton ton and stopped at San Francisco to in inspect inspect I the Oakland harbor which he says I is i 1 in need of a large appropriation as a i result of the tremendous growth Oakland has experienced since the San Francisco I disaster last April He wound up his tour by Inspecting the breakwater at San Pedro Mr lIr Ransdell is 18 a native of Louisiana and ana is heavily interested in Ill cotton co ton plant planting plantIng i ing His home is at Lake Providence La L He was first elected to congress to j till fill an term in Prior to his election he lie was a member of the levee I I board of the Fifth Louisiana levee dis din district district and has bas always taken an important part in the thc improvement of the Mississippi I IsH sippi sH pf He was a prominent member of the late constitutional convention which adopted a new constitution for Louisiana I In 1898 is s and has served in the tue and Fifty ninth congresses I