Salt Lake Tribune | 1913-12-05 | Page 5 | Harmony Prevails among Delegates

mnoi pets IONGJLEGJTES Broad Spirit of Nationalism Manifests Itself at Rivers and Harbors Congress. TVASnLN'OTON", Dec. . Harmony among representatives of all sections of thc country marked today's session of the National Rivera and IIarbor3 congress, In tenth annual cession here. All thc speeches of the day, while telling in each instance of tho particular needs of a certain cer-tain state or section in waterway Improvement, Im-provement, brenthed a spirit of broad nationalism, na-tionalism, tho dc-clarallon being made- by one speaker after another that he desired to sco tho country as a whole benefit from government river and harbor improvement. im-provement. Governor Glynn of New York, one of thc principal speakers, said all New York asked of tho government was "reciprocity," "reci-procity," which In tho past had not been extended. "For our 5200,000,000 spent upon our waterways for tho benefit of all tho people peo-ple In this country." ho added, "we ask thc United States to dig a deeper channel In tho upper Hudson. When wo built the Erie canal we did what tho nation should havo done And for doing this wo simply sim-ply ask Uncle Sam to do what he should do for us, what ho has done for a score of rivers In other .parts of the country. And this wo ask In tho name of reciprocity, reci-procity, In tho name of national commerce' com-merce' Representative Nolan of California spoke on the need of good Pacific coast terminals and of the commcrco tho Panama Pana-ma canal would bring. The transportation transporta-tion needs of the central west were discussed dis-cussed by James E. Smith of St. Louis, T. C. Catchlngs of Vlcksburg, INLiss.; Julius 11. Barnes. Duluth. Minn.; E. jr. Clondcnning, Kansas City, and Samuel Hill of Portland, Ore., wero other speakers speak-ers who told of needs in their respective communities. Senator Polndextcr announced tonight ho would ask thc congress at tomorrow's session to hold its 1915 convention on tho Pacific coast. Ho said: "Tho congress con-gress would have a decided influence in developing public opinion on waterway transportation if it would meet in various sections of tho country."