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Show 5500,000,000 or $1,000,000,000, and cut it up and parcel the money out in this and that section of the country. I am opposed to any such proposition, because it not only smells of the 'pork barrel,' but would be a pork barrel.' " Sherman, Too, It for It. Vice-President James S. Sherman has brought to the people of the middle mid-dle west the message of the east, promising enthusiastic support of the waterway program. "We people ot the east depend on your people of the west," said he. "When we help you, we hejp ourselves, so there is every reason why we should do all In our power for you. as soon as we realize what you want and why you want it." - Speaker Cannon and Secretary of War Dickinson are no less outspoken In their assurances of support, and many senators and representatives, among them Senator Lorimer of Illinois, Illi-nois, the father of the deep waterway y DEEP MAY IS DEMANDED B ALL Great River Convention Is Held in New Orleans. PRESIDENT FAVORS PROJECT Promises the Present Administration Will Support Issuance of Federal Bonds If Fourteen-Foot Program Pro-gram Proves Feasible. New Orleans, Nov. 1. Ringing demand! for "14 feet through the valley" val-ley" and elaborate argument in support sup-port of the program for the creation of a deep waterway from the lakes to the gulf have marked the great convention con-vention of the Deep Waterway association asso-ciation that opened here Saturday. President Taft, Vice-President Sherman, Sher-man, Speaker Cannon, governors of th Mississippi valley states, Innumerable Innumer-able senators and representatives and a mighty throng of private citizens who believe in the big river project are here and all urge that it be undertaken un-dertaken and carried to a speedy conclusion. con-clusion. President Taft Promises Support. President Taft, who arrived in New Orleans escorted by a great flotilla, after an illuminating trip down the Mississippi river from St. Louis, landed land-ed from the lighthouse tender Oleander Olean-der about eight o'clock Saturday morning, and was driven to his hotel ho-tel through streets that were canopied cano-pied with magnolia branches, palmet-toes palmet-toes and southern moss, and everywhere every-where entwined in the decorations were the mottoes "Fourteen Feet Through the Valley" and "River Rate Regulation Is Rate Regulation." At the Athenaeum in the afternoon the president aroused a storm of cheers by promising that If the 14-feet project proved feasible and advisable, the present administration would favor the issuance of govornment bonds to defray the cost. Not for a "Pork Barrel." At the same time Mr. Taft made it plain that he would not stand for any plan to make a "pork barrel" of the project. He said he opposed any such general bond issue of $500,000,-000 $500,000,-000 or $1,000,000,000 for waterways ' improvement, the money to be cut up and parceled out to different sections. sec-tions. He declared that the improvement improve-ment of waterways had been carried forward in a haphazard fashion in Secretary of War Dickinson. movement, this afternoon made addresses ad-dresses full of hopeful enthusiasm. Kavanaugh Opens Convention. William K. Kavanaugh of Missouri, president of the association, called the convention to order Saturday morning anil set forth briefly the aims and plans of the organization. He said the deep waterway work is now in this condition: 1. The sanitary district of Chicago has built the deep waterway, practically practi-cally to Joliet, nearly 40 miles, and $60,000,000 have been spent thus far on the work. 2. ' The entire route of the lakes-to-the-gulf deep waterway from Joliet to New Orleans, through the Des Plaines river, the Illinois river and the Mississippi Mis-sissippi river, has been surveyed under un-der direction of congress by United States engineers, who have officially reported to congress that the building of the deep waterway is feasible. 3. The people of the state of Illinois Illi-nois have adopted a constitutional amendment providing for a bond issue is-sue of $20,000,000, -the money to be spent in constructing the deep waterway water-way southward from Joliet. 4. A bill introduced by United States Representative Richard Bartholdt of Missouri is now pending in congress, providing for the issuance by the United States government of bonds to the amount of $500,000,000, the money to be spent in constructing this deep waterway from the lakes to the gulf and other meritorious projected river improvements. 5. It is intended to ask the Sixty-first Sixty-first congress to pass a bill providing definitely that the United States government gov-ernment undertake the construction of the deep waterway from the point where the Illinois work will ,end, to the Gulf of Mexico. In the afternoon, following the address ad-dress of President Taft, Clifford Pin-chot, Pin-chot, head of the government forestry department, made an address on the conservation of the nation's natural resources. In the evening the delegates to the convention were entertained at a stag smoker by the Progressive union of New Orleans. This evening all the delegates and the ladies accompanying accompany-ing them were the guests of the Progressive Pro-gressive union at the New Orleans Opera house, where "La Juive" was given by the French Opera Company. President Taft. the past, and that a new method should he adopted. "I believe in the deep waterway," said the president. "I am for it, and I shall use all the power that I possess pos-sess in doing what may be accomplished accom-plished to give you citizens of this great valley what you so earnestly de sire. It is all a part of a still greater great-er movement inaugurated by Theodore Theo-dore Roosevelt, and properly called by him the conservation of our national na-tional resources. "The projects for irrigation and for the improvement of waterways in the future are not to be for the purpose of distributing 'pork' to every part of the country. Every measure is to be adopted on the ground that it will be useful to the whole country. They are not to be adopted for sending certain congressmen back to Washington Wash-ington or for making certain parts of the country profitable during the expenditure ex-penditure of the money. "We should take up every comprehensive compre-hensive project on its merits and determine de-termine whether the country where the project is to be carried out has so far deevloped as to justify the enormous enor-mous expenditure of money and if it will be useful when done. When we decide in favor of a project. I believe in issuing bonds to carry it to completion com-pletion as rapidly as possible. It has been proposed that we issue bonds for |