Omaha daily bee., 1907-02-02
RIVERS AND HARBORS BILL
thairman FurtOn's Measure Causes Much
Talk in the House
CHAMP CLARK TALKS OF PRESIDENT
Democratic Leader Sees Many Places
where Mr.. Roosevelt Can DO
Good work when His
Term Ends.

WASHINGTON. Feb. 1.--Appropriations
for rivers and harbors again occupied the
attention OF the house today The speeches
dealt largely with the proposed canal from
Chicago to st. Louis and the deepening Of
the Mississippi river from St Louis to the
gulf to fourteen feet
Mr. Clark of Missouri delivered a char
acteristio speech in behalf Of the Missis-
sippi river project. Others who discussed
the bill were: Messrs. Rodenburg of IL
linois, Rainey OF Illinois, Crumpacker Of
Indiana Madden of Illinois; Gran of IL
linois, shackelford Of Missouri, Gambler OF
Mississippi. Mahon of Pennsylvania and
Garrett of Tennessee.
Bills were passed fixing the boundaries
OF lands adjoining the Couer dAlene In
dian reservation in Idaho. permitting per-
sons owning lands in the Kiowa, Comanche
and Apache Indian reservations in Okla
homa to commute them for townste pur-
poses and creating two additional land dis-l
tricts in Alaska, located at Nome and
Fairbanks.
Rivers and HapBOrs Bill.
The house today resumed consideration
OF the rivers and harbors appropriation bill
Mr.. Clark (Mo.) opened the debate with
a quotation from the scriptures, saying
st. Paul, the greatest philosopher OF
all time, in his first epistle to the Timothy,
said: But II any provide not for his own,
and especially those Of his own house, he
hath denied the faith and is worse than an
infidel.'"
Chairman Burton, he said, was supposed
to dominate the committee on rivers and
harbors, and If that was true he could have
written his name in the scanty list of the
immort0ls by standing for the deepening of
the chanel of the Mississippi, but, he added,
Mr.. Burton's name was not there.
Clark on President.
In the coufse of his speech Mr.. Clark re-
ferred to the presidents possible future
in the following words:
Many suggestions have, first and last
been made in the public press as to the
career OF President Roosevelt, said Mr.
Clark, after his term expires. 1t has been
suggested that he be elected to the senate
OF the the United States ! am not the adviser
TO continue In the unhappy habit of send
ing republicans to that body, my voice is
for Roosevelt for that position The SUISSE
Quent proceedings would be decidedly inter-
esting
Only two ex-presidents have returned to
congress. John Quincy Adams served sew
enteen years and fraction in this house,
! dying with the harness uu his back, as no
| doubt he would have desired to do had he
world. 1t is a truth of history to say that
his fame rests more upon his service in
this house than upon his long public SER
1 vice in other positions, extending from the
| time when, at IA years of age, he was sec
rotary OF legation, to the day when he quit
the White House in high dudgeon, refusing
| to accompany his victorious opponent, An
drew jackson, to the capitol.
Another suggestion is that President
! Roosevelt shall be made president of Har-
ward university, certainly tempting po-
sition for a man OF scholarly tastes.
have frequently been charged with being
ambitions for political preferment. ! plead
guilty to the soft impeachment, but 1t may
rather be president of the University Of
Missouri than to be representative or
senator In congress- OF governor OF that
imperial commonwealth. sorrowfully rec
ognize the fact that that position Is beyond
my reach, because Of the political contests
have been engaged in.
other Plans Suggested.