Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-01-14
MEET HERE ON MONDAY
National Congress to Discuss
Improved Waterways
OF COMMERCIAL IMPORT
To Arouse Interest in Rivers and
Harbors.
DELEGATES FROM MANY STATES
Opportunity Given for Addresses
From Representative Men From
All Sections of Country.
DELEGATES FROM MANY STATES
Special Dispatch to The Star.


VIM. II, Love today announced that all
plans for the meeting OF the National
Rivers and Harbors Congress in Washing
ton next Monday had been completed.
While the official program OF proceedings
will not be completed until tomorrow night
each delegate will be given the opportunity
to make an address, and these remarks will
be confined to the subject of national rivers
and haribors legislation.
The purpose of the assembling of the con-
gress is to arouse interest In the improve
ment Of the rivers and harbors and inland
waterways, and promises to be particularly
interesting to Marylanders in view of the
fact that with the deepening of the Baltt-
more ship channel to thirty-ive feet new
conditions may arise that may bring about
the widening and deepening of other water
ways in the state
Chairman's Statement
Robert Ramsay of this city, chairman of
the executive committee of the congress. in
discussing the scope of the work intended
to be accomplished by the congress, said
today:
1T is absolutely essential to the develop
ment of the commerce of our country that
the attention of our national government
should be again called to the pressing neCes-
sity of providing the ways and means for
the carrying of this most important
work, The demands made hitherto in con-
nection with this work have been moderate
when considered in connection with the
scope and necessity of the work.
The Policy of Congress.
1.-THE policy of Congress in this matter
has not been liberal in the past and it is
therefore the duty of the commercial In
terests of this country to take the OPP
portunity presented by this congress to de-
mand that more liberal appropriations for
the improvement of navigation be at once
accorded us. These appropriations are as
equitable as any public expenditure and are
of paramount Importance In protecting and
promoting commerce.
The money expended by the government
in the improvement of rivers and harbors
Is really an investment in transportation
facilities, the returns from same being prac-
ucally shared in by the whole people.
The congress is composed of every COM
mercial institution in this country. We
know no section, no special interest, moth
ing but a determination to have our legItt-
mate demands listened to by Congress, in
order that the commerce of our whole coun-
try may be benefited by the result"
The List Of Delegates.
The complete list of the delegates to the
congress as given out by Secretary Love
this morning follows
Arkansas: BlytheviHe st. Francis River
Improvement AssociatioH-John B. Driver
president; John A. Fox, secretary; w. J.
Driver, w. j. Lamb. West Memphis st.
Francis Levee District (see Memphis
Tenn, for same organization)-H D. Tom
linson, Butler, Ark; A. H. Hammett,
Wynne, Ark; J. A. Bradsher Harrisburg
Ark; II. +. Roleson, Mariana Ark; H. n
Pharr, Memphis, Tenn; w. B. Miller
Marked Tree, Ark. Little Rock Board OF
Trade-James P, Clarke Charles c. Reid.
California; San Francisco River Improve
ment and Drainage Association of Califor-
nta-John w. Ferris.
Florida: Jacksonville Board of Traded.
q. Amber Tampa Board of Trades NJ
Sparkman, M. G.; Peter o. Knight, w. r.
RULER. +. c. Bowyer. Z. NJ. Hendry, J. w
fitzgerald, E. r. Gunby. w. A Varnedoe,
E. Berger, Dr. William c. Richardson
Illinois: Peoria Illinois River Valley AS
sociation-Wilis Evans
lndiana-Evansville Business Mems Club
F. B. Posey, w. H. Keller.
Iowa: Burlington Upper Mississippi River
Improvement Association - William A
Meese.
Kentucky: Louisville Commercial Club
w. {. Williams, chairman; " II. Engel-
hard, F. w. r. Eschman.
Louisiana: New Orleans Board Of Trade
William p. Ross chairman. New Orleans
cotton EXchange-John NJ. Parker, Ferd
Gumbel, ]. G. Duncan. TalluIah Board of
Leyee Commissioners. Fifth Louisiana
Levee District
Alabama: Mobile joint river and harbor
commissioner. c. Clark. speaker: Capt. j.
y. Waterman, Col. Z; l.. Russell, Col. f. b.
Merrill A. s. Lyons. Byrd NJ Robinson r.
M. P. Inge, R. Fl. Clarke, VIM. F. Tebbetts,
W Craighead Huntsville-R. E. Pettus
Chas: p. Lane. - Ward. Decatur-H
A skeggs, G. e. -Albes. New Decatur-s.
s. Blackwell, H. B. Beard scottsboro-
Virgil Bouldin. S. W. Frazier Florence
Emmett O'Neal. A. E. Walker, w M
Campbell. observation-disclosures T. Kirk
John Delony. sheffield-J. C. Harris, Snow
den McGaughey, Joseph H. Nathan, L. J.
Andrews Riverton-J. Il. McWhorter
Tennessee: Sheffield Tennessee River I'M
provement Associa tion-Kno L
Wilder, G: F. Milton, E. C. Camp. Rock
wood-Willard Warner. jr. South Pitts
burg-Jeptha Bright. Chattanooga. A.
Patten, Newell Sanders, II. s. Chamber
lain, c. w. Olson.
Kentucky, Indiana and Missouri: Padu-
cah-James Roger, B. Bergman. Evans
ville-Harry Gilbert. st. Louis-J. f. Mas
sengale, w. B. Register, Thomas r. Roul-
hac
Maryland: Baltimore Board of Trade
Joseph R. Fard, Walter B. Brooks, jr..
Joseph C. Whiting. Merchants and Manu-
facturers' Association-Reuben oster,
chairman: John r. Sherwood, Willard
Thomson. Walter B. Brooks, jr, E. J. Codd
Joseph c. Whitney Rufus X. Wood. VIII
liam G.. Atkinson. Merchants and Miners
Transportation Company-Joseph c. Whit
ney. Chamber of Commerce. c. German
Joseph Di Giorgio, w. T. Spice.
Massachusetts: Boston Chamber of Com
merce-William H. Lincoln. Boston Mer-
chants Association-Amory A Lawrence,
James Richard Garter. Associated Board
of Trade-Arthur C. Farley, Frederic II.
ViauX.
Michigan: Grand Rapids Board of Trade
William Alden Smith.
Mississippi: Greenville Board Of Mississip
pi Levee Commissioners-Charle Scott, lie
Roy Percy, Capt. c. H. West Rosedale
Interstate Mississippi River Improvement
and Levee Association-C. S. Fairchild,
New York; Stuyvesant Fish, New York:
Farley Finch, Iowa; W. B. Seattle, Penn
sylvania; ]. L. Vance, Ohio: Allen GRAY.
Indiana; Judge J. NJ. Dickinson, Illinois:
w. e. Troutman Illinois; Charles j. Multi
ken. Illinois, Col. Green Clay, Missouri:
Marcus Bernheimer. Missouri; j. E. Smith
Missouri Col John s. Brannin, Kentucky;
Il. w. Knott, Kentucky; C. L. Robertson,
Kentucky; w. A. Percy, Tennessee; III. N,
Pharr, Tennessee; Albert s. Caldwell, Ten
nessee; w. II. Stovall, Tennessee: w. b.
Miller, Arkansas; Capt. Patrick Henry, Ar
kansas; Maj Greenfield Quarles Arkansas:
F. M. Rogers, Arkansas; +. j. Bowers.
Washington. D. c.; Gen. T. c. Catchings,
Mississippi; John M. Allen. Mississippi; DIR,