New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1907-02-06
HEPBURN OPPOSES
WATERWAY TO GULF
IOWA CONGRESSMAN cHARAc-
TERlzEs SCHEME AT "UToPi-
AN AND cHlMERicAL.'
SPEAKS ON RIVER
AND .HARBOR BILL
Declares Sand Bars and Bends in the
Missouri Makes Navigation OF
Stream npossible-Wouid Limit
Appropriation.

Washington, Feb. 4-Representa-
tive Hepburn of Iowa, speaking on the.
river and harbor bill, addressed the
house Saturday on the project cham
pioned by the Missouri and Illinois
members for deep waterway from
Chicago to the gulf. He made reply
to Mr. Clark of Missouri, who, he said,
wanted to build waterway 1000
miles in extent between granite walls
200 feet high. He had seen the Mis-
sissippi river when it was five miles
! in extent, with volume OF water that
would defy the puny efforts OF man
| to hold it. He characterized the
scheme as "Utopian and chimerical,"
and declared that when the proposed
waterway from ST. Louis to Cairo
| should be completed it would have a
velocity, Of from 20 to- rs miles. an
hour. THAT would be admirable for
| downstream navigation" he said,
''but how would vessels get up?
! 'EWhen you take out the sand bars
and the sinuosities from river you
increase it's current enormously, max
ing it practically impossible for navi-
CATION he declared.
/ Of the Missouri river, Mr.. Hepburn
said that the sand bars and the bends
in that stream had made it absolutely
impossible of navigation and to his
| personal knowledge not one steam
boat had passed up that river in 10
years.
| I'VE have spent on the improve
ment of the waterways of the United
States $240,00OOOO, and OF this amount
$40, 100000 had been spent on the
Mississippi" he added
His criticism Of the bill extended to
a general discussion Of the project
for the improvement of the Ohio river,
in which he charged that he had read
somewhere that the gentleman from
Pittsburg (Mr. DalzelD had said that
the people of Pittsburg wanted $780,
900, 200 to complete the project. Mr..
Dalzell interrupted to say that THE
gentleman from Pittsburg" had made
no such statement, and said that he
had not asked either for S30,000,000
/ $30,0O0,000 or $3,000,000.
Then I assume that you don't
want it, replied Mr.. Hepburn, but
that the other fellows from Pittsburs
do
Mr. Hepburn said that the steam
boat as means Of transportation was
a thing of the past, and it was his
belief that double-track railroad
would have a cheaper carrying ca
pacity per mile than the Hennepi1
canal.
Mr.. Hepburn's attack on the rive
Z and harbor bill was followed closet.
by the house, there being little at
tempt to interrupt.
Mr. Hepburn gave notice of al
amendment he intended to offer t.
limit the expenditure of the apprC
priation for the Missouri river to tn
9 protection Of it's banks and channels
not for the Improvement of the nav
cation of the stream.
4 Mr.. Keifer of Ohio opposed the bi
and gave notice of an amendment Pre-
viding that before appropriations ar
y made for a river and harbor projec
4 the president shall appoint boar
u of three army engineers to pass upo
III the necessity of the proposed improve
III ment and it's lasting benefit to til
n country
M Kin of Ex-Ambassador a Suicide.
IA Los Angeles, Cal, Feb. At
stated that Andrew D. White, tn
III grandson of Andrew D. White, expire
IN ident of Cornell university, and
r ono time am haSca dor To Berlin an