Show TO SETTLE THE T ROUBLE Sayers of Texas Has an Idea About Floods Washington April Representative Spycrs of Texas who SErcr was chairman of tho appropriations committee In the last Democratic congress and has had much experience In dealing with government goverment works suggests a plan for a comprehensive comprehen-sive settlement of the Mississippi river problem rer Mr Sarers would have the United States government invite the engineers of tho world to consider the problem of controlllns the Mississippi river jjjd to present plans for a permanent system so i that the government might adopt r the Ideas of the best engineering talent Forts For-ts purpose he suggests that a competition compe-tition might be brought about by an offer of-fer of prizes perhaps 50000 for the plan which should be considered best and 0 for the second best Inducing the most skillful engineer of the worldthose who have dealt with such works as the participate Suez canal and the dykes of Holland to s |