Show ito TO PREVENT FLOOD n fRA NODELL WORKING FOR BIG appropriation FOR LOWER mississippi ASKS AT ONCE colonel sibert telle tell senate commit bi i tee too panama canal was built in time because bou money wa was ready when needed dy by GEORGE CLINTON washington the senate commit lee tee on commerce alch has bm dia dla cunning the question of an appropriation to prevent floods on the lower river called col william L sibert fur formerly marly a member of the isthmian lith canal commie ston and who built the galun dam and locks before it as a witness ft a day or two ago senator hanshell Hans dell of Loul slana waa was directly responsible for ahe summoning of tho the army officer the senator la is anxious that congress should up cr collate a lump bum sum of for leveo levee work on the groat great river a eum sum SuM clent to complete the work and be he wanta wants the appropriation made at once and it was as for ahlis reason doubtless that tho panama canal engineer waa was ordered to appear and give tolu mony senator Ra janadell Hans nadell dell must bo be given credit for being a aitio man lie ile was not mot anxious to aek ask the army officer witness much about the mississippi river but he did want to ask amk him hira why the panama canal waa was built eo so successfully and on line itne colonel sibert told the committee that the panama canal was built ou time because the conoy was ready for tho the work ork when it vaa was needed and bat that the engineers knowing the cash was there went ahead with the work of at the personnel for each particular piece of labor bought the machinery and started things moving and did this because they knew there would be no delay in getting the noc nee essary money congress Con grce may sanction plan it la to possible that before adjourn ment congress will sanction a plan of work which will put an end to floods in the lower and prevent the recurrence of disasters which have caused the lose loss of many live lives and of million ji of dellari dc llari worth of property it la to certain that an appropriation appl to begin tho the work will be forthcoming the only doubt that la Is whether the lawmakers will commit the government in advance to the expenditure of the additional millions which will make the labor continuous datil tho the end Is to reached senator ransdell la to an advocate of an immediate appropriation big enough to complete the levee evee system of the mississippi river so that the re currence cur renoe of the floods of other year years can be avoided the losses that have come it Is in urged are much uch greater than the sum which will be needed to prevent a repetition of the damage in the future the senator expected to and probably did score scare a point when ho he summoned one of the pana ma canal engineers to appear before his committee and asked him what it was that put the panama canal through so speedily and so well so it may bo be that to the success of th 5 isthmian waterway ate will III be due the completion of the big work IL the mis min sis sippi valley think labor la Is a clax class when the senate fin finishes lishes with the antitrust anti trust mea measures saras the country will know just jut what measure of success representatives of labor and farmers organizations have bad had in their at temps to secure exemptions for the libor ibor unions and the agricultural associations ciati ons from the provis provisions tons of the sherman anti trust law generally speaking there appears 1 to be a feeling in washington that whan the legislation Is enacted it will III be found the organizations named will be in nearly the same position thoy they ara in beday except that there will be a defined denned status for them as that of at associations which on their very face ara not formed for purposes in re of trade it might bo be said however that there Is a feeling here at least so far as the labor unions are concerned that specific legislation affecting them as from other organizations would be passed if it were vere not for the fact that in this country there art are not supposed oved to be any classes american students of economic and social conditions congress has been told bold that legislation affecting labor should not be viewed from the same standpoint as that from which for capital Is in looked upon it seems that to some extent senators and representatives in congress are inclined to take this view of things themselves A good deal of criticism has been passed in washington beca because usei those member of congress who also are r members of unions cha champion duplon labor cause as a unit in the hauie there a are r 0 sixteen representatives lives who carry union cards eleven of them are dem dam orits foar are nr republicans and one Is in it progressive they net act for labor because they think lubor labor 1 Is A dais class that it needs special lentala lion tion for purposes of protection labor union congressmen hero are the representative representatives in congress who are members of lab lubor labor or unions tho the democrats are cepro Penta tives frank buchanan Duch acan of illinois who belongs to the bridie bridge and structural iron worker workers union and was international president four year years john A key of ohio a member of the typographical union george 10 german gorman of illinois labac L sherwood Bh erwood of ohio david J lewla lewis of maryland a member of the miner miners onion union charles D B smith of buffalo N Y a member of the typographical union robert E los of pennsylvania a member of the miners lnora rn union edward keating of colorado a member of the typographical union john J cabey of pennsylvania a member of the miner miners union and guy T helvering Hol vering of kan kana the republican republicans are J cary of wisconsin who wn was a telegraph operator john R farr of penn syl sylvanita vania vanta typographical union E X roberta of nevada and albert john eon of washington a member of the international typographical union the progressive union card man in the house Is to john 1 L nolan of california who Is to a member of the international molders union these men have worked in the open and aggressively tor for the cause of labor they have been helped by such members mer abere of congress cong reee as they could influence and they have managed to secure a strategic position lon in the house five of these mon men are members of the committee on labor and it may be eald bald that virtually they control it david J lewis of maryland Is to chair man of the committee other union members in the committee are maher of new york casey of pennsylvania keating of colorado and nolan of cal Represent representative aUve haiti of illinois a member of the committee Is to a farmer and rind it should be remembered that farmers also are seeking exemption for kheir organizations from tho the action of the anti trust laws not one of these men Is a member of either tho the committee on judiciary or that of interstate commerce in which the anti trust bills originated wilson on business depression every official in public life in washington and every other man too li naturally desires to have business bual nees safeguarded big business bu elnes aa as well as little business the antitrust bills which are now before the senate after having gone through the house are supposed to supply the means of getting after illegal business busl nees and to make unpopular the forming of trusts or combinations in restraint of trade tirade will the legislation which Is now in the course of passage do what it la is expected to do the other day when the representatives of manufacturing industries of two middle western states called on an president wilson and spoke about business depression mr wilson told them that they th eyere were in a psychological state lie ile said in effect that it if there was business depression in places it was simply because his visitors vial tors had feared trouble and therefore ther eforo had caused it by doing things suggested by fear four rather than by bonsor there are a good mouy progressively inclined members of all parties in congress some people call them radicals who any the democratic majority in the two houses likewise Is to buffering euf cuff ering psychologically Is this true there are some things which are certain cartain because the they are re apparent to the moet most casual observer the anti trust measures when they were first formulated were ere exceedingly drastic and they seemed to carry out every promise which had been made during the debates of recent ezrs that laws finally would be passed which would kill every trust that existed or was supposed to exist in the united states are the bills drastic enough the bills as an finally drawn and accepted are not so drastic as originally they were the question now remains whether they are drastic enough to put illegal trusts out of business and to prevent the formation of such trusts in the autu future the democrats say that the bills when made into law will accomplish thie thle and end tho pro gre gres selves and the progressive republicans say that the bills will do bothin nothing 9 of the kind and there are some demo brats who ho seem to agree with their opponents on the other hand there are conservative republicans who say that the bills go too far end that they will hurt business generally while being aimed only at illegal business from this can be learned bow how varying Is the viewpoint concerning the anti trust bills which the senate Is now discussing it will take considerable time for the ensuing laws to prove either their power or their impotence so it ie to that the final results of 0 the anti trust legislation probably will not abo suon themselves in the coming congressional camp campaign alra |