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Show WATERWAYS PLAN Washington, April 24 President Wilson's plan for co-ordinating waterway water-way improvements has encountered a disagreement between those who want the war department to control all tho work as formerly and those who want to enact tho special cabinet committee's com-mittee's plan for a national waterways council, take the war, Interior, commerce com-merce and agricultural departments In on tho -work, and carry It on with the forest, reolammatlon service and geological survey. Senator Ransdell of Louisiana, and Representative Humphreys have Introduced In-troduced a bill to place tho work with the war department. Senator New-lands, New-lands, Senator Broussard of Louisiana and Representative Crosser of Ohio, today joined In a bill to enact the cabinet cabi-net committee's plan. The former bill appropriated 45,-000,000 45,-000,000 to the Mississippi alono. The new bill would apportion ?CO,000,000 as follows: $25,000,000 to the lower Mississippi and Illinois rivers, constituting consti-tuting tho route of tho lakes ,to tho gulf waterway; $5,000,000 to the Ohio; $5,000,000 to tho upper Mississippi; $5,000,000 to the Missouri, the Arkansas, Ar-kansas, the Red and other tributaries of Mississippi; $5,000,000 to Atlantic and Gulf rivers; $5,000,000 to the Columbia Co-lumbia and Snako rivers; $5,000,000 to tho Sacramento and San Joaquin rivers, and $5,000,000 to tho other California Cali-fornia rivers and the Colorado river. oo |