| Show DEEP WATERWAY IS DEMANDED 01 ALL great river Convent convention lin Is held in now new orleans PRESIDENT FAVORS PROJECT promises th the 0 present administration will support issuance of federal bonds if fourteen foot program proves prove feasible now new orleans nov l lr ringing demands for 1114 K feet through the valley and elaborate argument in support of tho the program to fo the creation ot of a deep waterway from the tha lilies lakes to the gulf have marked tho the groat great convention of the tha deep waterway association that opened here saturday president taft vice alce president slier man speaker cannon governors of th mississippi valley states innumerable senators and representatives and a mighty throng of private citizens who believe in the big river project are hero here and all urge that it be undertaken der taken and carried can led to a speedy conclusion cl president taft promises support president taft who arrived in new orleans escorted by a great flotilla after an illuminating trip down tho the mississippi river own from st louis land ed ei from rom tho the lighthouse tender oleander about eight saturday morning and was derivan to his hotel through streets that were cano pied with magnolia branches toes and southern moss mass and a n 1 l everywhere entwined in the d decora e eo rations tlona were the mottoes fourteen feet through the valley and river rate hate regulation Is rate regulation 01 at the athenaeum in the afternoon the president aroused a storm of cheers by promising that if the 14 feet project proved feasible and advisable the present administration would favor the issuance ot at government bonds to defray the cost not for a pork barrel at the same time mr air tatt taft made it plain that he would not stand tor for any plan to make a pork barrel of the project lie ile said he opposed any BU buch eh general bond issue ot of or for waterways improvement tho the money to be cut up and parceled out to different beckons eions 11 9 declared that tho the improve m ont ltv forward in a haphazard fashion irl in I 1 tf ekr president taft e the past and that a new method should be adopted 1 I believe in the deep water waterway w ili I 1 said the president 1 I am for it and I 1 shall use all the power that I 1 pos poa sesa mess in fit doing what may be accomplished to give you citizens of this great valley what you so earnestly desire it la 19 all a part of a still greater movement inaugurated by theodore roosevelt and properly called by him thu tho conservation or at our national resources tho the projects pro lecta for irrigation and for the improvement of waterways in the future are not to bo be for tho the purpose of distributing pork to every part ot of the country every measure la Is to be adopted on oil tho the ground that it will be useful to tile the whole country they are not to be ltd adopted opted tor for sending certain back to washington or for malting making certain parts ot at tho the country profitable prout able during the expenditure pend iture of at tho the money we should take up every comprehensive lien sIve project on its lt merits and d determine 7 whether tho the country where the project la Is to bo be carried out ha so BO far decy loped at as to justify tho the enor expenditure ot of money ana aba it if it will bo be useful when dons done when we aci la in evor of a project I 1 bellove in fri issuing bonds to carry it to completion as rapidly na a possible it has been proposed that we bonds bonda for BOO or and cut it up and parcel the money out in this and that section of the country I 1 nm am opposed to any ally such proposition because it not only smells smalls of 0 the pork barrel but would bo be a pork barrel I 1 sherman too Is for it vire clr e president jam james S sherman has brought to the people ot of the middle west the message of the east cast promising enthusiastic support of th the waterway program wo we people of tho the east cast depend on an your people of the west a said he when we help you wo we help ourselves so BO there la Is every reason why we should do all tn in our power for you as soon as we realize what you want and why you want it speaker cannon and Sec secretary y of war dickinson are no less outspoken ilk in their assurances of support nod and many senators and representatives among them senator lorimer ot of illinois the father of the deep waterway W 7 secretary of war dickinson movement this afternoon made addresses full of hopeful enthusiasm kavanaugh opens convention william K X kavanaugh of missouri president of the association called the convention to order saturday morning and set forth briefly the alms alma and plans ot of the organization lie ile said the deep waterway work Is now in this condition 1 tho the sanitary district of at chicago has built the deep waterway practically to jollet joliet nearly 40 miles and have been spent thus tar far 0 on n the work 2 the entire route of the lakes to the gulf deep waterway from jollet joliet to now new orleans through tho the des plaines river the illinois river and the mississippi sis sippi river has been surveyed un der direction of congress by united states engineers who have offic officially lally rep reported orfed to congress that the building W t la 3 the people of the state of illa W have bare adopted d a constitute constitutional a amendment providing for a bond issue of the money to be spent in constructing the deep waterway southward from jollet joliet 4 abill A bill introduced by united states representative richard bartholdt ot of missouri Is now pending in congress providing for the issuance by the united states government ot at bonds to the amount of at the tha money to be spent in constructing this deep waterway from the lakes to the gulf gul and other meritorious projected river improvements 6 it la is intended to asle ask the sixty first congress to pass a bill providing definitely that the united states government ern ment undertake the of the tha deep waterway from the point where the illinois work will end to the gulf of mexico in the afternoon following the address of president taft clifford pinchot pinchat head of the government forestry department made an address on the conservation of the nations natural resources in the evening the delegates to the convention were entertained at a stag smoker by the progressive union of now ew orleans this evening all the delegates and the ladles ladies accompany ing them were the guests of the progressive gres sive union at the new orleans opera house where la julve was given by the french opera company |
