The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1906-11-26
RIVER CONGRESS
IN WASHINGTON
NATIONAL GATHERING TO BOOST
DEEP WATERWAYS TO BE
HELD IN DECEMBER.
BANNER COTTON CROP
viii Require Train $500 Miles Lon1
Interesting and Newsy Gossip
From the United States
Capital.

Washington Nov % In Wow OF
tho condition Of national uansporta
ton affa RS, which gives promise OF
growing more aggravated each year
the country II turning to the develop
meu Of new systems OF transpOrta.
ion Although pos esscd CT the finest
waterways Of any nation in the world,
the United States has let hem lie idle
While GERMANY France and England
have been improving their rivers and
harGors and bulldog canals this couu.
try has devoted all its attention TO the
development of railroads This policy.
while laudable in itself has cos Am
eiican merchants and manufact rers
heavily In lost trade, for Germany.
England and France, ny reason #
cheap water transportation, have been
enabled practically TO dominate The
markets Of Central and South Am,
erica
There lis tendency however 10.
ward reform in this question Of trans.
portation. The National Rivers and
tlarhors congress, which will hold its
e invention here December 6 ana r.
has been bringing the matter squarely
before the people of the country. and
u viii urge on the Federal govern
mont an annual appropriation of $50.
too 061 to pursue the work Of develop
ment with the rivers ana harbors
developed The congestion Of CON.
MERGE will be relieved and business
throughout Tho entire United states
viii take on a heal bier activity
Already here are projects approved
by government engineers aggrcgating
more than $5o0.000.00o For the last
ten years congress has no. recognized
The necessity for a more aggressive
policy in carrying ont there recon-
mcndations and the appropriations for
wa cr~ays work have been emily 3 per
cent Of the entire appropriations made
Commerce has been ignored In his
way while the army and navy, and the
pension lists have hcen awarded 40
por cent OF the whole It Is The hone
of the friends Of waterways work -
secure recognition for their plans a
the coming session
The mind scarcely can grasp the
fact that train $500 miles in length /
is needed within the next few weeks |
to carry 10 market the cotton crop Of /
the United States. Yet This Is the /
eNlimatc made by government experts
some idea of the magnitude of the .
crop may be had when II Is known |
TINT the 3G3 1859 cars needed 10 move II (
would form a train that with the en- /
CINE putting in San Fra1cisco stli
would have some goo miles of it's rear
buried in the waters of The Atlantic
ocean
Bumpct Cotton Crop Shown.
ln addition. to This heavy traffic IN
Gotten. the railroad OF the country
This year are facing even more trying
conditions in the grain.carryi7r trade 1.
There were needed I'm ne last twelve
months 5,5SS1G2 cars TO move the
bumper crops of the country from
farm to market Never i'm history
have the transportation companies
been SO taxed. and by reason of the
marvellous Growth of an forms of com
mrrce they have not KEEP, pace with /,
cond lions although locomotive and a
car manufacturers are working day
and night m au effort to keep mp with ID
orders
Political Talk at Capits d
Wa hin ION has NO great manufac
'urlug industries. no great transpor-
iation interests. mo- wide extended
commerce. 20 occupy the public mind,
SO We have 20 be- content with politics Ia
and SIC ely. u is The absence Of an {
other Interests that makes Washing ,
ton sort of political and social cen ,
Tor from whence the country takes It's ,
political platinum and its social ethics ,
lf $40 couldn't talk politics. if wc were
deprived of imagining tha' an political
wisdom omauajci from here 10 m3
vanity was puuCiured and SO were
told hal ihc social world did mot cen.
'r AFRO q The White Huuer. end The .
wives % fhe president and Dis cabino.
were not I'm realty the social leaders ,
.f The country. Iito Otbpilo. we wou'l ,
h1I our ocCupsi cu some
Congressman are comin- aud tha
nrNfp7pcr correspondents Who have
.'-en away attending to their aalI- b
eos duties Of Guiding the public mia
1faaf are nockinu back preparatory
% he-inning ouCe more tlc ordinary .
rind of keepiue fae world informed y
's fo what congress and tle admins.
ration are intending To- DO. All these
come fresh from me warm brit tIolF- p
less political battle that hes been
Ought out in the several states. AMI !.
.ach can feil jHsi what happened. how %
i happened and why 70 haup ned. AMI q
lnce more the political miH vii begin 2