Show FROM LAKE TO OCEAN A con conference ferenc 0 with 11 house ous 0 and sen senate ate committees washington jan 30 A large delegation of representatives of the deep waterway convention held in detroit last was given a hearing today to day before the house committee on oil rivers and harbors and the senate committee on coin commerce ineice in joint oin session ses don these iese comm committees having in charge ar e the preparation of the regular mer river and harbor tar r appropriation bill the lie purpose ur 1 I 1 of the delegation was to secure the construction con traction and maintenance of a twenty one foot channel from the head of lake Is superior u n a r ti through r judithe the various connecting connect t 11 links between t the geat great lakes and through u nr g I 1 the erie E rie canal to the t eca ica i ca thompson said the total e expenditures it in improvements on the great IT lakes a es had been lesa less than ilian the 1 he saving w ing last year ear due to the lake me was more than tho the coit COA of all improvement e mant that hm hai been accomplished in lit the past by giving axten alteen ix ten feet of water it would not only be duplicated but enhanced tenfold ten fold by the expenditure of something oter over to secure a depth of twenty feet he lie thought very little more nee need d be aid said t to 0 secure the appropriation desired canada had spent almost sixty millions of dollars upon her tier water ways and inside of five live years there would be a clear water way of fourteen feet through canadian roll soil from the head of lake superior to the atlantic when canada had a fourteen foot water way and the united states only BIX six feet through the erie canal we could no iio more compete with her than thim a wheelbarrow with ahei a freight g it tram train th thompson apson said if there was going to be a revival re aval of f american shipping shipping shi the great creat lakes was 0 the place to begin its vessel interests were large and would be enormous if they could get it to the ocean and engage in ocean voyages oy ages during the five winter months they were now i idle e the farms firms on oil the lake hail had underbid the coast farms for the construction of american war vessels and the bids were reject rejected cd not beca became tise they were no not t responsible bidders but because a e of our treaty with areat britain kr E x state senator sloan of new york addressed himself to the resolution of the waterways convention urging the appropriation pria tion of for the completion co in of the suney survey from the lakes to the S seaboard ca board |