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Show WOULD HARNESS THE FflTHEROF WATERS Secretary Stimson Delivers Address at the Rivers and Harbors Congress. WASHINGTON, Dec. 5." Harness the Mississippi and majie the water power developmeyJTryfor the expenditure expen-diture of improving tho river,"' was the gist of Iho message brought today by Secretary of War Stimson to the national rivers and harbor congress. Secretary Stimson declared that when the nation assumed a rosponsibilit' as great as that of spending fifty millious for improving the river the taxpayers of the country should get the benefit of the incidental profits arising. Representative Sparknsau ot" Florida, chairmnu of the house committee ou rivers and harbors, did not agreo with the nssortion of President Tatt yoster-day yoster-day before the cougress that the Mississippi Mis-sissippi should bo improved under the general welfare clause of the constitution, constitu-tion, for. said Mr. Spnrkman, it would bo a sari day for the country aud he feared it would lead to a wide system of "log rolling" if appropriations" were made alwava on tho claim that they wero for tho'goneral welfare. lie as-1 sorted that river improvements should i bo mude only for the benefit to com-! merce. I Senator Martin of Virginia was the I first speaker today. On tho program .with .Senator '.Martin were Socrotary of War Stimson. Representative Spnrkman Spnrk-man of Florida, Harold F. McCormick of Chicago, Maj. F. W. Donnelly of Trenton, N. J.. and George F. Clfntou of Buffalo, N. Y. R. J. McLean of the chamber of commerce, com-merce, Spokane. Wash., had prepared a resolution which ho said had been framed with tho knowlodgo and indorsement, in-dorsement, of all tho governors of western west-ern states and the loading commercial organizations iu that section. It pro-posed pro-posed to do away with the national capital as a meeting place and to nave tho organization 's annual eonvftntiorts held sTiccessivoly west of tho IiBsis-sippi IiBsis-sippi river, then cast of that stream and then in tho Mississippi valley. At tho afternoon session, araonc those to speak wero George -Cords ot Philadelphia, Senator Poindexter. Washlncrton, and Contrrftsrtnaa Small ot North Carolina. |