Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-11-16
ATTEMPT IN VAIN
Rock Island Delegation Fails to
Get Upper River Before st.
Louis Meeting.
CHICAGO IN THE SADDLE
Original Purpose as Stated in the Call
Adhered to After a Strug-
gle.


st. Louis, Nov. 1G.-The final session
| of the first convention of the Lakes to
the-Gulf Deep Waterways association
was held today. The report of the com
mittee on permanent organization wa.
unanimously adopted. The objects o.
the association are to promote the build
ing of deep waterways by urging ap
preparations from national and state
governments and by showing the neces
sity of these projects; to establish per
manent headquarters; urge upon al
national state and congressional con
ventionS irrespective of party the ne
cessity of deep waterways, and estab
lish a permanent bureau of publicity.
Members of the association are lin
|ited to residence in the lake and gull
states and states in the Mississippi
valley.
II. &. Conway Chairman.
ST. Louis. Nov 1G.-CS especially BY the
election of E. S. Conway of Chicago as
permanent chairman, and w. F. Saun-
ders of st. Louis, secretary, tAe first
step toward the permanent organiZa-
ton of the Lakes-to-the-Gulf Deep Wa
terways association were taken yester-
day afternoon at the first days session
of the waterways convention. The par
tial report of the committee'on perma-
nent organization was submitted by II.
b. Halves of ST Louis. chairman. and
provided only for these two officers.
Addresses were made by former Gov
emor David r. Francis of Missouri,
who took the place of United States
Senator E. w Carmack of Tennessee,
who was unable to attend; Congress-
man Henry #. Rainey of Illinois, and
Thomas C. Wilkinson, president of the
Upper Mississippi River Improvement
association.
Rainey ON Rate Solution.
Congressman Rainey described the
trip of the congressional party, the
guests of Congressman Lorimer. from
Chicago to New Orleans. in a small
boat. He said AZ deep waterway asso-
Citations in towns along the Illinois and
Mississippi rivers had been formed by
that party, and that these associations
were the nucleus of this convention.
Mr. Rainey said this country had been
divided into spheres of influence by
seven great railroad groups. which do
not infringe upon each others terri
tory. tfy., afre- -. rfy.t,,ra -e. l-.4sr
I'VE cannot regulate freight rates by
legislation" he said. ''The only way of
our great natural waterways to COM
merce by making the channels naviga-
bic by boats capable of carrying thOus-
ands of tons of cargo
Rock Island Loses Out.
The hardest fight of yesterdays ses-
at least for the time being, in the de-
feat of an attempt on the part of the
Rock Island delegation and others to
widen the scope of the meeting. rha
call for the assembly specified that it
was for the purpose OF securing the
of the waterway through
the Chicago drainage canal. Illinois
and Mississippi to the gulf The Rock
Island delegation and others who had
organized for the purpose. introduced
a resolution, Mayor McCaskrin acting
do opOhCSHidH, CdliilS OH TcOils Te5S W
appropriate ,$5O,000,O00 annually for
the improvement of the Mississippi
from the gulf to st. Paul.
At this point the meeting came near
getting away from Chairman Con-
way, who is a Chicago man and natur-
ally cares little for the fate of the
river above the mouth Of
The Illinois, Scores of delegates rose
10 their feet and demanded recognition
md for time it appeared as though
he friends of the upper river might
win the day. But at last Congressman
another Chicagoan. was given
he floor and order was restored. The
contended that before
he uper river is improved it will be
necessary 10 have an adequate outlet |
Main Purpose Defeated.
From dispatches from st. Louis it |
ppears that the main purpose of the |
rock Island delegation TO st. Louis |
vas defeated yesterday and little prac-
ical benefit to this city can come
# it, Realizing that the call for the
Meeting left the upper river out of !
the delegation from this |
ity organized on the way south and |
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