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Show Senator Townsend Expresses Ex-presses Hope Congress Will Enact Measures. ,Speaks for Comprehensive and Scientific Plan for Entire Nation. "I linpn before ;i ! 1 o t In ; r ronuri'ss expires ex-pires wu shall have before in a general -'lipmo for liuil'linK minis whir.h will ural.ly appeal lo a majority of euii- ereh i. ' 1 This t;iti-im-nt l,v jjnnator Charles K. 'I'owriBHiiil ii( Miclnnun, Iho probal'le :iet chiiirinaM of tlio senate committee on po.-tolTu-es anil post roa'ls, makes it !.';ir liiat the Six ty-nii 111 congress will k. i' i i i i si fun " ii 1 r r;i t i on to a compre-nciiHivi: compre-nciiHivi: plan which niav result in the a.loplion nl' a fcleral system ami t lie I'outinu of a foiloral eoinmisHion. la Ilia coiirni: of his argument on the. alnen.linent lo Hie federal ai.l road act, which carried with it an appropriation of lido, mil), Dim, distributed ariiin the several sev-eral states, ami $'.,oi)ij,ooij for roads in I hi! federal' forest reserves, tho senator i rom Michigan thus sot forth the situation: sit-uation: "I think now, of all times, the present, pres-ent, is tho worst to curtail, or to attempt to curtail, in any way tho activities of Iho Rovernuient in public improvements. I do believe that, inasmuch as wo have, i as Senator Jones from Washington lias Elated, a (joint! machine, an organization ji'or building roads, and, inasmuch, further, fur-ther, as it is conceded that tho general welfare demands that tiie government i.nust encourage those enterprises of a public uaturo which offer legitimate ; f inployment to labor and, at the same Units, supply a public service, it seems I ; wisu to iini to increase road building. Phis class of improvement was chocked by the war, and now, in this period of reconstruction, the work should be re- aewed on a larger scale. 1 Comprehensive Plan. : ' I believed, and still believe, that we 'iiighf to have a nat ionalized system of roads. .1 hope before another congress xpires wo shall have before us a gen-rnl gen-rnl scheme for building roads which .vill favorably appeal to a majority of 'ongress. lint it is too late to enact lew legislation iu this congress. I sug-: sug-: jested a more comprehensive and scien-1 scien-1 j. ifie plan to tho committee, but it could tot bo considered. Hut this uppropria-I uppropria-I ion is us wise an investment as we can j nalto now in these disturbed conditions, I uiwever difficult our financial situation nay be. 1 hope tho various state hijsh-,vay hijsh-,vay commissions will seo to it that it is ! -o expended that it will contribute to a intional system, which T am sure this (counfrv must alopt sooner or lator. Lot the .states Imild tlu: Ititurals, tmt let un liavc a system ol.' national highways ex- t ; tending tlirunh every btate, ca.-it and j west, noft Ij and south, t "I havo not been pleased "with the I adniinist ration of this law in tho do-j do-j partmont of aricuiture. I think the money 1ms not been as wisely expended a 3 it should have been ; but we arc learning in tho matter of road building. Tho states themselves are co-operating now, and every year makes them wiser in tho matter of road eonstruction, and I cannot believe that very much of this muney will be wasted. Therefore, while ii am net heartily iu favor of this sys- tern, because .1. believo there is a better ioue, nevertheless, it heinjj; inaugurated and thin being the present opportunity 1 to render aid iu this etnergeney of reconstruction, re-construction, I feel it wise to pass the bill. ' ' |