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Show RIVERS ID HARBORS CONGRESSJOIEiES Representatives From AD Parts of the Country Meet in Annual Session. RECEPTION FOR LADIES Southern Delegates Urge Appropriation Ap-propriation to Build Levees Along the Mississippi. WASHINGTON, Dec. 3. Tho nood of a broad policy and of co-operation between the federal government and the states to sccuro improved waterways, water-ways, was tho koynote of all tho speeches today before the National Rivors and Harbors congress assembled hero in its tonth annual session. Representatives Rep-resentatives from nearly all parts of tho country took part in the day's programme pro-gramme All agreed vthat hotter waterways water-ways woro needed to meet and to help incrcaso tho growing commerce of tho nation. Senator Fletcher of Florida dwelt upon up-on tho value of a Mississippi-to-thc-Atlantic canal, not only to tlio adjacent torritory, but to the entire Atlantic coast. Representative Burgess of Toxas spoko on the importanco of a Missis-sippi-to-tho-Rio-Grando canal. Reception to Ladies. Tonight's session of tho congress was given to tho ladies, beginning with a reception at tho hotol headquarters to the vice president and Mrs. Marshall, to tho spoalcer of the houso and Mrs. Clark. Mrs. Sarah W. Strout of Portland, Port-land, Mo,, president of tho Women's Rivers and Harbors congress, later spoke on tho developed waterways and their relation to tho home-maker. Delegations from tho Mississippi val-loy val-loy states urged before the rivors and harbors committee of congress today an appropriation to build permanent lovoes along tho Mississippi river as a protection against floods. Tho spokesmen, spokes-men, in tho main, favored the Rausdell-Ilumphries Rausdell-Ilumphries bill, now ponding, which would provide for levees to cost $S0,-000, $S0,-000, of which the states would raiso $20,000,000. Better Levees Needed. R. B. Oliver of Missouri, President Bush of tho Missouri Pacific railroad, Colonel C. McD. Townsend, president of the Mississippi river commission, and others pleaded for early improvement of the levees. Mr. Oliver assorted that 29,000 square miles of alluvial lands in tho lower Mississippi valley wero a barren waste bocauso of the govornmont;s neglect in properly protecting them. ' Theso wastod landB aro equal in extent to tho territory of fivo states, Dolawaro, Rhode Island, Connecticut, Now Hampshire and Now Jersey," Mr. Oliver declared. "This enormous waste is diroctly duo to the neglect of congress con-gress to perform its full duty. Wo aro not horo bogging as wo wero last year when our pooplo, driven out of their homes, wero penniless and without food, but wc aro hero defending our rights and domanding as citizens from 3'ou as citizons who roprosont us that protection wo have a right to expect for our lives and property. It is the dnty of congress to tako up this prob- lorn nnd act at onco." Montana Official Visiting. A. G. Scholoa, state daln- commissioner commission-er of Montana, arrived In Salt Lake yesterday for a few days' visit. He called upon the stato dairy and food department yesterday afternoon. |
