Show DEEP WATERWAY IS DEMANDED BY ALL Great River Convention Is Held in New Orleans PRESIDENT FAVORS PROJECT A Promises the Present Administration Will Support Issuance of Federal Bonds If Fourteen Foot Program Program Program Pro Pro- gram Proves Feasible New Orleans Nov 1 Ringing Ringing demands for 14 feet through tho valley valley valley val val- ley and elaborate te argument In support support sup sup- port of the program for the cr creation of a deep waterway from tho the lakes to the gulf have marked the great convention convention con con- of the Deep Waterway association association asso asso- elation that opened here Saturday President Taft Vice President Sherman Sherman Sherman Sher Sher- man Speaker Cannon governors of th Mississippi 1 valley vaney states Innumerable innumerable able senators and representatives and anda a mighty throng of private citizens who believe in the big river project are here ere and all urge that it be undertaken undertaken undertaken un un- and carried to a speedy con con- President Taft Promises Support President Taft who arrived In New Orleans escorted by a great flotilla after an illuminating trip down th the Mississippi l river from St. St Louis landed landed landed land land- ed from the lighthouse tender Oleander Oleander Oleander Olean Olean- der bout out eight o'clock Saturday morning and was driven to his hotel hotel hotel ho ho- tel through streets that were were cano canopied canopied canopIed cano cano- pied with magnolia branches toes and aDd southern moss and everywhere everywhere everywhere every every- where entwIned entwined in the decorations were the mottoes Fourteen Feet Through the Valley and River Rate Regulation Is Rate Regulation At Atthe Atthe Atthe the Athenaeum In n tlC tae afternoon the president aroused a storm store of cheers by promising that If the feet 14 project proved feasible and advisable the present administration would favor the issuance of government bonds to defray the cost Not for a Pork Barrel At the same time Mr Taft made it plain that he would not stand for any plan to make a pork barrel of the project He said he opposed any such general bond issue of or for waterways improvement the money to be cutup cut cutup cutup up and parceled out to different sec sec- He declared that the Improvement Improvement improvement Improve Improve- ment of waterways had been carried forward in n a haphazard fashion in rz 1 r t 1 l President Taft the past vast and that a n new method should be adopted I believe in the deep waterway said the president I 1 am for it and andI I shall use all the power that I possess possess pos pos- sess In doing what may be accomplished accomplished to give you citizens of this great vall valley y what hat you so earn earnestly de de- sire It is all a part of a still greater great great- er movement inaugurated by Theodore Theodore Theodore Theo Theo- dore Roosevelt and properly called by him the conservation of our national national national na na- resources resource The projects for irrigation and for forthe forthe forthe the improvement of waterways In the future are ar are not to be for the purpose of distributing pork to every part of the country Every measure is to be adopted on the ground that it will be useful to the t e whole country They are not to be adopted for far sending certain congressmen back to WashIngton Washington Wash Wash- ington or for making certain parts of or orthe the country profitable during the ex expenditure expenditure ex ex- of the money We should take talce up every comprehensive comprehensive compre compre- project on its merits and determine determine determine de de- termine whether the country where the project is to be carried out has so far as to justify the enormous enormous enormous enor enor- expenditure of money and if it will be useful when done When we decide in favor of a project I believe in issuing bonds to carry It to completIon completion com completion as rapidly as po possible It has been proposed that hat we Issue bonds for lor or and cut it up and parcel the money moncy out In this and that section of the country I Iam Iam Iam am opposed to any such proposition because it not only smells of the pork barrel but would be a pork barrel barreI Sherman Too Is le for It Vice President James S. S Sherman has brought to the people veople of ot the tho middie mid mid- dlo die west the message of the east promising enthusiastic support of the of ot waterway program We people the east depend on your people of the west said he When we help you we help ourselves so there Is every reason why we should do all aU In our power for you as soon as we realize what you want and why you want It Speaker Cannon and Secretary of ot War Dickinson are no less outspoken in their assurances of support and man many senators and representatives among them Senator Lorimer of Illinois Illinois Illi Illi- nois the father of tho the deep waterway T l 13 r Secretary of War Dickinson movement this afternoon made addresses addresses ad ad- dresses full of hopeful enthusiasm Kavanaugh Opens Convention William K Kavanaugh of Missouri president of the association called the convention to order Saturday morning and set forth briefly the alms aims and plans of the organization He said the deep waterway work is now in this condition 1 The sanitary district of Chicago ha has built the deep waterway practically practically cally to Joliet Jollet nearly 40 miles and have been spent thus far faron faron faron on the work 2 The entire route of the lakes to the-gulf the deep waterway fr from m Joliet to New Orleans through the Des river the Illinois river and the Mississippi Mississippi Mis Mis- river has been surveyed under under un un- un der direction of congress by United States engineers who have officially reported to congress that the building of the deep waterway is feasible 3 The people of the state of Illinois Illi- Illi nois have adopted a constitutional constitutions amendment providing for a bond issue issue is is- sue of the money to be spent in constructing the deep waterway waterway water water- way southward from Joliet Jollet 4 A bill bin Introduced by United States Representative Richard Bartholdt o of Missouri Is now pending In congress providing for the issuance by the United States government of bonds tc the amount amoun of the money to be spent in constructing this deep deex waterway from the lakes to the gull gulland gulland gulland and other meritorious projected rivet river improvements 5 It is Intended to ask the Sixty Sixty- first congress to o pass a bill providing definitely that the United UnIte States government government gov gov- undertake the construction of the deep waterway from the poInt poin where the Illinois work will end to the Gulf of Mexico In the afternoon following the address ad dress of President Taft Clifford Pinchot Pinchot Pin Pin- chot head of the government forestry department made an address on th the conservation of the nations nation's natural natura resources In the evening the delegates to the convention were entertained at a stag smoker by the Progressive union o of New Orleans This evening all an the delegates and the ladles ladies accompanyIng accompany accompany- Ing them were the guests of the Progressive Progressive Pro Pro- Progressive union at the New Orleans Opera Overa house where La was given by the French Opera Overa Company Com Com- pany paDY |