The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-02-27
WILLIAMS HAS
GRAVE DOUBTS
Democratic Leader Looks Askance at
a Ship Canal Bill introduced
by Mr.. Dalzell.
SOME SARCASTIC REMARKS
DEATH OF FORMER SPEAKER is
ANNOUNCED.

Washington, Feb. 26.-Speaker Hen
derson's death was the burden of the
prayer by the chaplain in opening the
session of the house today.
Legislation for the District of Column
bIa had the right Of way under the
rules, and the eight local bills upon the
calendar were called up in order by
Mr. Morreu of Pennsylvania.
During the considera ton of district
legislation Mr.. Sims Of Tennessee made
a severe arraignment of the form of
the district. It was un-American, I'M
Republican and un-DemOcratic. A bill
was passed giving a nauOrai charter
to the national society Sons of the
American Revolution.
Canal Company Bill.
The Dalzen bill to incorporate the
Lake Erie & Ohio Ship Canal company
was then taken up. Mr.. Davidson of
Wisconsin, chairman of the committee
on railways and canals. explained the
bill The canal. he said would cost
between S35, 600 900 and $4,000, GOO. 1t
would extend from Pittsburg to Ash
tabula, O., on Lake Erie, a distance Of
100 miles. F'Orty-six miles from Pitts
burg the Ohio and Beaver rivers would
be canalized. Thirty-one mill S would
be over the table lands between the
land a lake eight miles long was to be
created.
This stretch Of thirty-one miles. he
said, was 327 feet above the level Of
the lake. 1t will require thirty-three
locks with a twenty-foot lift and $40
been fixed at 100000 a mile, or total
of $50, 600, COO
Competition for Railroads.
Mr.. Davidson said there were an
nualIy 50.000,000 tons Of freight, con-
sisting of iron ore and coal going from
the lakes to Pittsburg for which traf-
fic this canal would compete with the
railroads.
After fifty years the canal could be
purcha sed by the Government.
Suppose this canal is turned over to
the Pennsylvania Railroad company
where then is the competition ?" asked
Mr.. Cooper of Wisconsin
THE only opposition that has been
made before the committee has come
from those roads. and 1 don't believe
for one moment that the Pennsylvania
railroad viii ever get control Of this
property" replied Mr.. Davidson.
Mr. Williams of Mississippi, took the
position that no benefit to freight rates
could come unless the canal was a free
waterway.
II closing the debate for the opposi-
ton, Mr. Williams of Mississippi. said
the charter of this canal could be
for from S4O0O,O 600 to $1,000, 600, and
while he could not prove it, Il suspect
in my heart that il has already been
turned over to the Pennsylvania rail
road or to some other great railroad
interest"
Some Grave Doubts.
Il desire to say" continued Mr. Viii
liams that there IS not a man on the
other side of the chamber Indicating
the Republican side), who thinks there
can be organized in the district Of my
friend (BIr. DaIzelD, a corporation TO
carry on business for purely philan-
thropic and altruistic purposes. When
Pittsburg ever does anything for moth
ing just let me know about il bright
and early in the morning.
Mr.. DalzeH closed the debate for the
bill and demanded the previous ques-
tion. Just as a roll call had been
ordered Mr.. Dalzen stated that Mr..
Hepburn, Of Iowa. had a resolution
which It was desirable to offer at this
time, and asked if the roll call might !
go over. To this Mr.. Williams assented
and Mr.. Hepburn briefly stated that he /
had been requested by his colleagues
from the state of Iowa to announce the /
death yesterday of David B. Hender-
sen He presented the following reso-
buttons, which were adopted:
Resolved, That this house has
learned with the deepest sorrow Of the /
death Of Hon. David B. Henderson, /
speaker of the fifty-sixth and fifty
seventh congresses and for twenty 4
years a useful, faithful and distin- +
guished member from Iowa. and that
this house herewith expresses its ap- I
probation Of the services of the de- /
ceased as a patriot and statesman.
Ordered, That this resolution be en- 4
tered upOh the journal OF the house
and that a copy be transmitted to the 4
relatives Of the deceased"
As a further mark of respect the I
house. on motion Of Mr.. Hepburn. at i
AIS o'clock, adjourned until tomorro1r- |