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Show RIVERS AND HARBORS CONGRESS DECEMBER 4 CINCINNATI. Oct. 27. The official call for the meeting of the National Rivers and Harbors Congress has been sent out by President Ransdcll of Louisiana and Secrctaiw Ellison of this cit3 The congress will assemble- at the New Willard in Washington on December 1. The call is specific in its declaration that no special project for river or for harbor improvements will be considered. It will stand for a broad policy b.y the National Government for all improvements recommended by the board of engineers of the army to tho Congress of the United States. It is the design and purpose of the National Rivers and Harbors Congress to demand that a more liberal proportion of the revenues of the government desired from commissioners shall be expended in national channels of trade and transportation, trans-portation, the amount heretofore np- Eroprinted-for such improvement having ecu about 3 per cent. |