Show WATERWAYS CONGRESS I OPENED BY LL I By International sews News Service lo to The Tle Telegram i V WASHINGTON ASHINGTON Dec 6 Deploring Deploring I the warfare waged against the nations nation fl waterways by the so called railroad interests and registering a heated denial denial de denial de- de nial of the oft repeated charge that the United States treasury Is raided for private gain through river and harbor appropriations United States Senator Joseph E. E Ransdell of Louisiana today opened the national rivers and harbors congress with a ringing appeal to the delegates present from commercial In Industrial industrial industrial in- in and waterway organizations to set to work to combat the fight of railroads railroads railroads rail rail- roads to maintain a monopoly of inland transportation |