The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-06
DEEP WATER PLANS
 FULLY ENDORSED
Memphis Convention Closes
 After Busy Session
QUICK ACTION NECESSARY
Resolutions Are Adopted FaVoring lm- mediate Action By the People and Congress Will Be Asked
 To Favor Same.

Memphis, Tenn, October 5.-After se- lecting Chicago for the meeting place next year and calling upon Congress to authorize work for a 14-foot channel from the Gulf of Mexico to the Great Lakes, Lakes-to- the-Gulf Waterways association adjourned sine die late today.
 This meeting in the interest of the waterways was probably the most impor- tant ever held in the south. Speeches were delivered by men who have made life study of the nations rivers and harbors, and in every instance a deep water channel from the gulf to the north ern lakes was advocated.
 The most notable speech was that de- livered by President Roosevelt yesterday, in which he said that the 14-foot channel was a necessity and the great question of the future will be how to secure 1t. The addresses of Representative Theo- dore E. Burton of Ohio, chairman of the house rivers and harbors committee; Representative Joseph F. Ransdell of Louisiana, a member of the same com- mittee: United States Senator Newlands, a member of the Inland Waterways as sociation, and others were carefully lis- tened to by a large and representative audience,
 Tie report of the resolutions commit tee was received and adopted without a dissenting vote and. the convention 0d- journed
 At mght banquet and smoker was rendered the delegates.
 The resolutions are as follows:
 l. Resolved, frhatiit is the sense of this convention that the deepening of the wa terways from the lakes to the gulf is a public necessity. and that it Is a national and imperative duty to take definite and immediate action to deepen said water ways to q depth of IA feet from the lakes to the Gulf of Mexico through the route already selected by the army engineers. with all practical speed.
 2 Be 1t further resolved That we re- spectfully ask that said work be con- tract system.
 3. Be 1t further resolved, That the Lakes to the Gulf Deep Waterways as- sociation hereby extends thanks to our CO., laborers in the great work Of inland waterway Improvements, the Missouri Valley Improvement association, the In- terstate Mississippi River Improvement and Leyee 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 in- terest In the subject of their efforts in the important work in which they are respectively engaged, and of our most cordial and energetic cooperation therein.
 1. Be 1t further resolved, That we here by tender the unanimous and profound thanks of this association to the Pres ident for his masterly and forecful ad- dress and for the great honor he has conferred upon us by his presence hero as our most distinguished guest.
 ,. Be it further resolved, That we hereby tender our cordial thanks to the governors of r 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 growing city of Memphis for their unvarying courtesy and royal hospitality.
 (. Be 1t further resolved, That tho lioon. William h, kaVanauBn, president of the Lakes to the Gulf Deep Waterways association, be. and he Is hereby re- quested and empowered to appoint a committee, composed of 50 members, to present these resolutions to the next Com gress of the United Sta tes 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 thereon at it's next session. and that the said president of this asso- citation be chairman of said committee.