The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-10-29
FOR MISSISSIPPI LEVEES
ASSOCIATION STANDS
Resolutions Favoring Government Aid Adopted
and Will Be Presented to Congress.

New Orleans, Oct. 2S.-The Interstate
Mississippi River Improvement and
Levee Association concluded it's session
tonight after adopting a series of reso-
buttons in favor of government juris-
diction of the levee or adequate appro-
priations for their speedy construction
If government control is not adviable
and indorsing the proposed water way
from the great lakes to the gulf and
the Chicago sanitary canal as a part
of that project.
The feature of the morning session
was Judge Robert S. Taylor's appeal
against the proposed movement for
government ownership.
At the opening of the afternoon SEES
sion the report of the Committee on
Resolutions was presented as follows:
Resolved, That in the judgment oil
this convention. the protection of the
Mississippi valley from the floods is oil
such national Importance as not only
to justify. but to make 1t the duty OF
the general government to undertake II
and press II to the speediest possible
completion. If for any reason the ex-
ercise Of sole juridsiction at this time
by the general government should no;
be deemed advisable, then this conven-
ton urges most earnestly that Congress
make. at it's approaching session, such
appropriations as are recommended BY
the Mississippi River Commission In
its recent report.
Resolved, further, That the system
of river improvements in the valley OF
the Mississippi, from its headwaters
to the gulf, and in the valley of the
Ohio and other tributaries now pro-
vided for, and those which may here
after be provided for by Congress un-
der the supervision of the United
States engineers, meets our hearty
commentator and should be pressed
to completion without unnecessary de-
lay.
Resolved, That the attention of Con-
gress is invited to the serious disas-
tiers which have befallen those residing
at or near ST. Louis, Kansas City and
other localities by reason of the recent
great floods, and the Secretary of War
is respectfully requested to cause an
inquiry to be made with a view to the
preparation of suitable plans for the
prevention of a recurrence of such in
juries.
Resolved, That the convention of
delegates representing the states of
the great Mississippi valley. from Du-
luth to the Gulf of Mexico, gives its
unqualified approval to the movement
for the construction of a. waterway
connecting the Great Lakes at the
North with the Mississippi river and
! the Gulf of Mexico at the South.
I'VE recognize the expenditure of
s35. 900 900 by the sanitary district OF
| Chicago as a practical demonstration
| in the furtherance of this project. We
express the hope that the senators and
| representatives in Congress from the
various states represented in this con-
vention will give their encouragement
| and assistance to congressional legis-
lation in favor of the completion OF
the deep waterway, to which the Mis-
sissippi valley states have already
given their approval and to which the
state of Illinois and the sanitary dis
trict of Chicago are committed as a
matter of policy and by great financial
expenditures already made"
| The resolutions were received with
applause and were unanimously adopt
4 ed.
A committee was appointed to me-
morialize Congress with the resolutions
| adopted.
President Scott then introduced Hon
| Charles S. Fairchild of New York, who
/ said that as the government had aid
| ed trans-continental railroads, fac
taken up irrigation in the West anc
was planning an isthmian canal. h'
believed the levee project should re-
ceive equal attention from 1t.
Mr.. Richard H.. Edmonds, editor Of