Show DO k SENATORS FAVOR GOOD ROADS rowing growing belief that government should concern itself with alth con of highways national roads como come in for repeated rep reference deference efe rence in tho the senate debate rel at ing ng to the tha post onico appropriation bill it la Is evident that there Is IB a distantly constantly growing belief that the tha federal government before long should hould concern itself with the contraction construction st of trunk line roads thus en cou raging and making more con eilent the great flood of interstate travel during the debate in the senate senator swanson of virginia made mada tills this comment wo we are now confronted with the proposition whether the federal government shall or shall not extend aid for tho the development improvement and construction of 0 highways tho the time has arrived or will very soon arrive when the people of tho the united stites states will demand that the federal government shall extend proper aid whatever may be the views of some it Is a question that must be inevitably met and one that cannot bo be shirked sh irked when a government comes to extend aid for roads there are two ways by which it c can an be done it if can furnish the money and construct the road itself or or it can aid stimulate to and lend inducement to the local authorities to do the work of road construction and improvement 4 senator hey burn of idaho believes when the government enters upon this class of work it should be tor for he be construction ot of roads up to the standard of the highest use not all at ane time but continuously andgrade and gradually not roads one part of which would be worn out before the other was constructed but a system of progressive gres sive construction that would raj r suit bult within a reasonable t time fine in a estem syster if of permanent good roads senator Seri ator williams of mississippi la Is a contender tor for first class construction said lie he you must make one road good than ithen you must mako make another good and then a third and then hen t it a fourth there must be some scheme whereby they could be done with fairness to the states and the several as chions of the country senator lodge of massachusetts contends it we are to enter upon the policy of federal aid angood in good roads it will involve an expenditure of 0 more millions than the panama canal cost and it ought to be done only after most careful consideration cok consideration and on a broad well understood well arranged plan so BO hat for the millions expended we ve may get value in the return we desire in good roads senator bourne ot of oregon who it Is chairman cf cc the senate committee on and post roads said 41 1 I arp heartily in favor of good roads my opinion Is however that we have not stith sufficient elent information to take intelli grot action as to the best method metho dof of procedure |