Show kt mess Mississippi Suggests Stimson r Secretary of War Would Make Father of Waters Pay for forI I His Own Improvements v Y ASHINGTON Dec C. C Harness I rW W vy the Mississippi l and make the tho l waler wa- wa oater oa- oa ler ter er power development 1 pay a for tho exp ex- ex p of or improving tho the river tr was the th the gist st of ot tho message e brought today I Vy bY Secretary of War Stimson to tho the natIonal na- na rivers and harbors harbora congress SecretarY Sec Sec- ry Stimson declared that when whon tho the on assume assumed o. o responsibility t as great Grent as that o of ot spending for fOl ImprovIng a river the tho taxpayers of ot tho the country countr should got tho the benefit of ot the Incidental profits arising arising- v Representative 11 of ot Florida chairman of ot tho the Homo committee on rivers and anil harbors did not agree aree with the assertion o of President Taft yester- yester yesterday that tho Mississippi Mis Mis- day before the congress cong 3 aIS should bo be Improved under thor ther the tho r general welfare clause of ot the constitution Ion tion fearing It would lead to a wide wille of ot 7 log rolling I if appropriations appropriations were made always on the claim that the they were for the general welfare lie asserted that river rI improvements should be made only for the tho benefit to commerce i f Senator Poindexter of or Washington aid tho the time ha had come for the development develop develop- ment of ot overy resource in this country water development ns as I emphasized one of or the country's most Important needs Senator Senator Poindexter wild the railways s need waterway transportation al aid not 00 so as to have competition but because I the tho rail lines lilies cannot handle the traffic Ie spoke also of or tho the Importance of carrying car- car river er Improvement Im- Im through to completion pro provement work worl on which largo large sums Rums already had been heen spent so fiO the returns on em th the investment in would not be no- no slaved Harold T. T E McCormick vice president of ot the International Harvester company com COW pany expressed the tho opinion that U us as with the Panama canal nal a large Jorgo bond Issue suo should bo created for or the purpose lOHe of Improving on a u largo large scale the waterways waterways waterways wa wa- wa- wa of the country co R. R J. J McLean of the chamber ol 01 commerce commerce com corn merce of Spokane Wash presented a resolution which he lie said had been framed with the knowledge antI and endorsement endorsement en en- of all alt the tho governors go ot of western western west- west ern em ern states an and the tho leading commercial organizations In that section It pro- pro nosed po Jo ed to do away with the national capital pItal as a a. meeting place and to have havethe havethe the organizations organization's annual conventions con of the lucid successively eh west pi Ii JI river then east cast of ot that stream und and then thon In Sn the Mississippi alle valley Liberal appropriations for tor Mississippi river levees were une urged before the i House Bouse committee on rivers and harbors toda today b by a largo large delegation from the rivers and harbors congress The committee com coin was as hearing arguments Hui mary to making its final draft of or the thc river and harbors bill tile the total of oC Which ml may reach The delegation argued that the Mississippi Mis Mis- Ii valley a agricultural districts had put up for 1 levees a against contributed by the federal government Those who lI spoke lIole ole tolla today asked the government nt to contribute two dollars for every evory dollar doUar paid In b by the thc taxpayers along alons- the rivers 11 s r r |