Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1890-04-30
CREATING ANXIETY.
ArOnses Rival Pr0jecis---Coi. Tay-
Tor Again.

The Assured Success OF the HennepIn
ArOnses Rival Projecis--.Coi. Tay-
Tor Again.
Col. Isaac Taylor, formerly state canal
commissioner, has written another letter
to the Peoria journal on the probable
success of the Hennepin canal at the
present session of Congress. Col. Tay-
lor says:
am informed that it is aboat settled
| in Washington that Gen. Hen1erson's
appropriation of $500 600 for the Hens
| nepin canal and $1,000 to continue
work on the lock and dam at Columbus
IA on the lower Illinois, will be sup
ported generally by Illinois congressman,
and | am also told that it is thought best
| 10 support his measure to secure the sup
port of the general and friends of the
Hennepin canal when the great water
way project comes before congress. In
answer TO this proposition | desire to
say that both appropriations il passed
without provision for the great water
way are antagonistiC to it, When the
waterway Improvement is made all Of
the locks and dams from Henry To the
Mississippi will be taken out. 1t certain
iy would be sound policy so to do. and if
the waterway Is To be passed in the near
future why take 5000, coo out of tie pub
lie treasury To be thrown away on this
improvement The friends of tie Hem
nepin canal are willing aud anxious TO put
money on the lower Illinois improvement.
The friends of the river impro Yement
should not ask one dollar for the lower
Illinois. The Hennepin canal policy is
no v and always has been TO reach Chs
cagO via the Hennepin and Illinois &
Michigan canals. IL is not policy in
harmony with the great waterway meas
ure. Careful estimates have been made and
it is found that goods can he shipped
from Rock island down the Mississippi
and up the Illinois to Hennepin, after the
river is improved, at about the same cost
that would be incurred in locking over
the divide between the same points via
the HenDepin canal.
Ii the friends of the meritorious i'm
prOvement connecting the lakes with the
Mississippi. by great waterway via the
DesPlaines and Illinois rivers, desire sub
stantial assistance from the friends of the
hennepin, they should demand it before
the Hennepin appropriation is passed
Let the friends of river improvement say
TO General Henderson. we do not desire
your 5000, 900 forthe lower Illinois, but
we will submit this proposition: We will
give you S350,000 for your enterprise
with but small merit, to help you get
your project on 1.-THE government books"
and We will be satisfied with S350,0)0 ap
preparation in the same bill, for our great
Improvement of vast benefit to the peo-
pie in the west. and will go on the
books" at the same time. If the friends
of Hennepin will not submit to this fair
proposition, in my judgment, the true
policy of Illinois river friends to pursue
is, to sntagOnize the bill. If this policy is
not pursued. il will be long time before
we have the desired improvement be ween
the lakes and the Mississippi. Respect,
fully, Isaac TAYLOR.
Col. Taylor is apparently somewhat
envious of the favorable disposition
that the present congress- is disposed
to show toward the Hennepin but
he need give himself no anxiety rs
to the treatment other water pro-
lects may receive at the hands of the
great canals friends. They realize the
advantage and the necessity of water way
improvements and will always be found
aiding them whenever they promise ben>
ehcial results to commerce, but Hen nepin
champions are not of that manner o. men
who will. overlook any enmity that is
shown them as the outgrowth of spite in
the struggles of the past or envy in the
present hoIr of triumph.