Show FIGHT LOOMS ON HARBOR OPPONENTS SAY ITS PURPOSE TO TAKE MORE WA WATER TER FROM LAKES aults pending against chicago most since slavery days hearings will begin inthe in the supreme court in october washington ashington NV the most angilly andril y contested question in this congress will appear in tho the senate tills this week who when that body takes up tho the rivers and harbors bors bill among the hundred and sixty improve improvement menti i authorized till ill over the united states ono one la is for the superficially a innocuous purpose of deepening the illinois river back ot of that are industrial constitutional and international questions of extreme importance the advocates of the bill say eay its purpose Is merely to mako make a more navigable passage for water borne freight from chicago to the gulf of mexico opponents say the additional purpose and certain result la Is to enable chicago to take more water out of the groat great lakes A condensed summary up tip to dato date would say eay that chicago twenty years ago in norderto order to got rid of sow cut through gli from the chicago river to the great lakes anti and abstracted from the tha latter about cubic feet por per second which was turned down through the illinois river to tile the mississippi sis sippi instead of going tho the normal way vay through niagara to the atlantic ocean later chicago increased tho the amount of cubic feet the parti suits of 0 chicago say that only six inches of this fall la is duo due to chicago i i diversion and that the rest la Is duo to what they call ft a ten year cycle of low water tended ended by abnormally benall i anti and abnormal abnormally ily high evaporation several suits asked tor for an injunction against chicago tile the states ot of now york pennsylvania ohio indiana michil michigan gan wisconsin and Alinne minnesota sota joined in a second suit stilt hearing of the suits stilts will begin in the supreme court october 4 competent lawyers have told the tha writer that these cheso suits compose tuo tho most important question before tho the supreme court since the sectional suits stilts arising out ot of Bl slavery avery congressman theodore hurlon burton of ohio contends among other arguments that congress should postpone action fi about out the tha illinois river until tho the supreme court decides tile the pending ailts lilts lil ts the advocates ortho ot tho deepening ay they have lone done all that Is necessary by inserting a proviso that nothing in the art act shall operate to change tho the existing status ot of diversion from lake michigan but the aholo question pt p diversion shall remain anti and bo be un 1 affected hereby as it if this act hall had not been passed to this the answer ot of tile tho portents opponents op Is that exactly this language has the effect of legalizing what chicago had already done and the past acts ot chicago are precisely what la Is in question before the supreme court as an congressman charles A monney ot of cleveland ohio put it the pending action would bo be recognition of diversion |