The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1907-10-10
PUT UP TO CONGRESS.
Waterways Commission, in Strong
Resolutions, Asks Congress to
Deepen Mississippi River.

After selecting Chicago for the meet
ing place next year and calling upon
CONGRESS to authorize work for a IL
channel from the gulf Of Mexico to the
great lakes, the second annual con-
vention of the Lakes to the Gulf Wa
terways Association adjourned sine
die in Memphis late Saturday. The
delegates were rendered banquet ard
smoker Saturday night.
This meeting in the interest Of the
waterways was probably the most lna-
portant ever held in the south. Speech
es were delivered by men who have
made a life study of the nations riT-
ers and harbors, and in every instance,
a deep water channel from the gulf to
the northern lakes was adopted.
The report of the resolutions COM
mittee was received and adopted with
out a dissenting vote. The resoiu-
tions are as follows:
Il. Resolved, That it is the sense OF
this convention that the deepening OF
the waterways from the lakes to the
gulf is. a public necessity, and that it
is a national duty to take definite and
immediate action to deepen said water
ways to a depth of Il feet from the
lakes to the gulf of Mexico, through
the route already selected by the army
engineers, with all practical speed.
"2. Be it further resolved, That we
respectfully ask that said work be con-
structed according to the continuing
contract system.
SO. Be it further resolved, That the
Lakes to the Gulf Deep Waterways AS
sociation hereby extends thanks to our
co-laborers in the great work of in
land waterways improvement, the Mis-
souri, Valley Improvement Association,
the Interstate Mississippi River I'M
proyement and Levee Association, the
Ohio Valley Improvement Association,
and all other kindred associations in
this great valley, for their valuable
assistance in the past, and assure
them of our sympathetic interests in
the object of their efforts in the
important work in which they are re-
spectively engaged, and of our most
cordial and energetic cooperation
therein.
BE it further resolved, That we
hereby tender the unanimous and pro-
found thanks of this association to the
president for his mastery and forceful
address and for the great honor he has
conferred upon us by his presence here
as our most distinguished guest.
"5. Be it urther resolved, That we
hereby tender our cordial thanks to the
governors of seventeen sovereign
states, and to the other distinguished
statesmen and gentlemen who have
honored us by their presence, and
we also thank the patriotic and public
spirited people of the great and grow
ing city of Memphis for their unvary-
ing courtesy and royal hospitality.
IS. Be 1t further resolved, That the
Hon. William K. Kavanaugh, president
of the Lakes to the Gulf Deep Water
ways Association, be and he is hereby
requested and empowered to appoint a
committee composed of fifty members
to present these resolutions to the
next congress of the United States and
also to use all honorable and proper
means as the representatives of and in
connection with this association to
induce congress to act favorably there
on at its next session, and that the
said president of this association be
chairman of said committee