Show lu ANT SHIRK WO 0 K 18 NOT LIKELY TO al JOURN AB EARLY aa 6 HAD 0 BEEN i MR WILSON IS INSISTENT after after fter the senate ha has disposed of the canal toll tolls exemption the th rural credit alli must be taken up by GEORGE CLINTON washington president wilson dorwood Un leader of the democracy it in the house of representatives senta tives representative fitzgerald chairman of the house committee on appropriations and senator jeader of ot tho the party membership in the upper house all have hayo declared at ono one time or another la in favor of t sa early adjournment of 0 congress con gresi sinco since ho he first spoke on tin tio subject however wilson laa lax intimated to the mews newspaper paper correspondents assembled defore bei ore him that there would be no cur of the legislative program so as to secure an early moving day it haa has become evident from tho the attitude of the president that no mat ter tar how tho the congressmen may feel about it they aro are to be expected to caca tract antitrust anti trust legislation ana ancl then to ito add rural credit accomplishment co to the legislative list before adjournment must bo be given consideration it looked a IL while ago aa as if rong cose might get giat away by juno 1 but that was before it waa was known that thoro there would bo be such a strong fight on tha the question of the repeal of the tolle tolls exemption provision of tho panama canal act when tho the majority members of congress were talking about getting away they also seemed to havo have an idea that the president would not ask that tho the rural credits matter should be considered before next december now the members generally gen orally aro are talking about july 16 15 while washington observers of past situations very much like tho present august I 1 would be nearer tho the mark election in fall may hurry them recently the innate has become more quickly responsive to public opinion the direct touch of the people this Is one of the things which makes it depra to some people that cingros cong may get got away earlier than the old time observers bellevo believe will be the case senators like the representatives hereafter will be elected by pop fular jular vote and this may mean much in tho the way of securing fairly quick action toy by the maori majority tv eena ee natora tors on measures to which the president laa has given his sanction it la Is held by some that adjournment may not be put off to a late day because there have been intimations that if it the senate should show signs of desire dastre to be lair laggard gard in its work the representatives can bo be depended upon to remind the upper house men that this Is election year and that while only one third of the senators are affected the entire membership of tho the house has much at stake this it Is thought may result in accelerated action tha th deep interest in the repeal bill and tho interest always present in antitrust anil trust measures mar ma have caused sight eight to be kowt of jbf rural credit proposition A at t w avy rate it may be that washington has lost its sight eight while the great country districts have not done so no president wilson Is determined ter mined that rural credit legislation ahall shall be enacted at the present sea sev plan flood control fight due RecI Rec crUy UY in a communication from edmond T perkins of tit the national drainage con congles gres he lie bald that at the next hewlon sion president wilson would ask cor corree gress to appropriate appropriator money to control the floods and to regulate the flow of navigable rivers in the interest of inter fate state commerce now it would seem tatt a thing like this te is such an entirely proper econom lo 10 thing that the president ought to te be able to put his program through without dI difficulty but it la Is known in washington from happenings and not far past chrt when be he takes up the subject of 0 and harbor expenditures tures mr wilson will find hia his party in congress and the other par ties too for that matter divided into two camps of opinion on the subject one set of lawmakers ra favors one method of procedure and aurther beet at favors another method and each edmu to be militantly aggressive in purpose about equally divided now liow unquestionably the president haa has bis ble own views or at any rate ims going to study the subject aa as he had has studied others in onier to obtain la in fort formation nation upon which he can baso bla his recommendations to the lawmakers when the president takes up the sab sub f eject particularly of the mississippi river improvement and of the prevention of floods alch have devastated deva the be valley in recent years hi bie will d th that 14 rill b ft re abot ft a oa on oas hand band bal tf ea OA UM diw or la ake ta united tates senate joseph IL fla sadell of aed asil 0 newlands Newl aads of nevada both demo orata disagree radically cally as to the gov ern montal methods to bo be employed in controlling floods and in regulating navigable streams for commercial par pur poses DOOM bach each man Is to ft think thinker erwi 01 lie ibe subject and each ono one la Is convinced that ho he Is right they haro have had harp en on counters before this and all mon men in te terest rested cd in the subject know tha that when the final anal legislative fight comes it will bo be a worthy ono one benator Now newlands lands already has set et forth his a plan for flood prevention lon and the development of the inland waterway waterways in bill which la in now in con congress grAsa senator It anadell also baa has ble his plan and aad a large following of believer believers including it Is said soma of the army who bv basic atten tho the subject study it t Is in understood that senator plan represents tho the view of the people of tho the lower mississippi sections and in part those of othor sections lie ile holds that there ie ig only ono one way at present to conquer goods and that la Is to build levees and dikes ao so that streams atre aroe cannot overflow levees versus reservoir reservoirs ahli plan of senator ransdell Is put into effect will moan mean that large bums of money must be spent immediately on levees corar haa has grant ed ad A considerable sum alrea already dyt but nothing can be done even with plenty of money at band for a little while at inapt to mako make it certain that the floods of last spring will not be re pouted if it the rain conditions iball be duplicated the newlands measure Is to a broad bill it provides for a government appropriation of each year your for a period of ten year years making a total of it includes a plan for reforestation which Is a good one but it will take a good many years to grow woods and to prevent floods by means of natural conditions of the country mr new now lands plan provides for flood prevention and protection by means of huge reservoirs for water storage purposes and by the protection of water sheds from denudation and erosion the latter plan involving reforestation col C mcd townsend of the united states engineer corps Is to chair man of tho the mississippi river commission he ile Is opposed to mr new lands plan which however has received the endorsement indorsement Indor of those con who have reforestation es the mainstay of the work of flood prevention in writing on the subject particularly as it relates to the mississippi river colonel town send says while of the opinion that levees afford the only practicable method of controlling the floods of the sippi river I 1 desire to state that I 1 am strongly in favor of both reforestation and reservoir construction but limited to the tho purposes for which they are adapted just as I 1 am in favor of a reinforced concrete for small bridges though not considering it applicable to one spanking ing the lower mississippi river siebert may get alaska job col U 4 sibert a mem her ber of the lath isthmian mian canal comm commission W and builder of the galun gatun locks dam and spillway has just been ordered to washington to report tor for duty hla great work on the isthmus having neen completed army men and civil lanc too for that matter are wondering if it colonel bibert Is to be ordered to alaska there to undertake the job of constructing the railroad which Is to to be built by the gov government emment of the united states president wilson and secretary of war garrison in a way have the same problem confronting them today that confronted president roosevelt and secretary cf war tuft taft seven years ago Pres pressure suro is being brought to bear to have a civilian engineer appointed to the work in alaska just as pressure was brought to bear on a previous administration to have live civil tans appointed to the work in panama P ma chance for fame or failure the panama canal virtually having been built by army engineers and built so successfully it would seem that the natural inclination would be to glye give the next big job into the hands of the soldiers he x who is appointed as chief engineer of this gov emment work in alaska will have an appo opportunity eunity to make a great name for himself or as an is possible he may not be able to achieve the great 11 name failure coming from no fault of his own if congress delays in larce arceline arcel linc ct cst the appropriated appropriate 4 for the alaska work dribbling the supplies out at long intervals the road construction st will lag and the head man on the work probably will be blamed for something which is no fault of his if it the lawmakers show that they want the thing done and vote the money rooney free the proper men man la 12 the proper altce will complete the commanding piece of work and will WM get fame second only to that which las come to the engineers who construct ea ue tle great lath isthmian mian waterway wa watery aya d |