Albuquerque weekly citizen. (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1891-19??, 1905-05-13
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1ie arsos record ever nod In the supreme coun
OF tLe omitted states dHtored by express wason
Monday al the eastern entrance Of the capitol buld
Ing aua vas carried by uad Of employees to the Me
court u the record Ia tho case Of the
state ol Missouri against the of illinois ana tnc
sanitary district Chicago, and u commonly known a.
the Drainage Canal
This mammoth record consists OF testimony taken by
Special Oommisl .oner ~ 3 Bright appointed lsU4
20 take stmony and return q 20 The court without hnd
ingH OF cithor TACT or law The record OF this tebtl
mony covers 1880 Bpowrittou pagss. which wneu
printed makes 1875 pages Of 500 words This Is half q
million more words that are contained in the D., ald
New Testament combined. The written record is 40
compnn od hy exhibits" consisting Of maps. diagrams
eec Wbioh cost In nOahborhood uf $4,000 and the
cost OF the TO the gauts up 10 date Is more 'nan
100000.
Aud % has only Just begun
The next largest record ever presented tu the su-
premo court the Myra Clark Gaines record. which
covered litigation lasting twenty ycars.
But this is unique In another respect Than the
size Of its record II marks epoch In the original
jurisdiction of the u b. realod but.
being suit Of against another state u coad
not he brought any state court Il comes fresh
proceeding before the highest IN tho land aud has
10 he tried questions OF fact well Jaw ine
honorable Justice m have 70 read that record and learn
ali about she facts.
The obcc, Of the proceeding is to put the Chicago
drainage Of business. Tio state Of Missouri
claims that Illinois polutng the waters OF
the Mississippi Missouri rivers and spelling me
drinking water Of 81 Louis.
The Chicago drainage canal being put out Of busl-
would loss 10 the people Of Chicago OF
$40 900 600. That haH been spent upon u up To-
date ana TIE undertaken g s not yet completed Tho
20 miles long mostly through sold rock 100
feet the base disohargng 5iGOoo cubic feet
Of water minute This 10 the which goes over
the dam tackport by which the FLOW Ia controlled.
The water from Lake Michigan. flows up what
used 60 be Chicago river enters the drainage canal
discharged the illinois aud finally finds ats
way 10 the Mississippi Il the drainage uasn
of the great lakes with that Of the Mississippi
The present suit begun simultaneously with the
lowering Of the bear trap dam which started nrst
flow OF the canal This January H. 1900 Missouri
asked for injunction stop the flow In the canal A.
years litigation the supreme decided
Missouri entitled 10 such relief II the facts
contained In their bin Of complaint The time since then
has been spend gathering testimony bearing thus
question OF facts
The real question Can fellow named Mikc
Robe swim from Chicago ST Louis without drowning
getting rokey That s the pain every day English
Of a. In the evidence all diseases carried 10y water
translated into their equivalents OF Latin named germs
Then side tries prove that such take
condition while the other side tries prove the con
trary.
Commissioner Bright has been working the oyt
denco for years Now both sides 90 stop
Testimony has been taken In ST. Louis ana Chicago
chiefly but hearings have been held New York. rhit
adelphia Baltimore well In practically every
town the Illinois river. Ia ne the summer Of 1908
the boat belonging the Illinois fish commission was
pressed into service and thu commissioner aud lawyers
took testimony the boat beginning g. Louis and
running 20 the head Of navigation hcnry, ul tnioe
hundred and thirfyoight witnesses were examined
cluding barefootod fishermen aud boys the emf
nont engineers and scientists ln America
Attorney General Herbert u. Hadley OF Miss iFi
appeared before the Monday asking have the
case set for hearing al an early date.