The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-12-27
WHO DID GET
THAT SURVEY
SENATOR ANkENY AND CON.
GRESHAM JONES BOTH
CLAIM THE CREDIT.


keny and Congressman Jones has
eliminated in both claiming the credit
Tor securing survey of the Columbia
| river between Bridgeport and Kettle
| Fails. Senator Ankeny today tele-
graphed Secretary Moore of the Com
| mercial club that he was pleased to adj
wise the club that the secretary of war
complying with his, (Senator Ankenys 81
request has authorized a survey of the
Columbia from Bridgeport to Kettle
Falls
Under Washington date line. w. r
Clark. a Washington newspaper cor
respondent telegra pied the Seattle
Post-Intelligencer yesterday that
through the efforts of CONGRESSMAN
Jones the secretary of war had au-
thorized survey of the Columbia be-
tween the points mentioned. The POST
Inteiligencer correspondent, in his
story, incidentally takes slap at Sen
ator Ankeny, telegraphing as follows:
In securing authority for a survey
of the Columbia river with view of
its Improvement for navigation he
tween Bridgeport and Kettle Falls,
Representative Jones has illustrated
the value of knowing how. Senator An
keny on one of the first days of the
session introduced a bill i'll the senate
directing the secretary of war to have
the BridgepOrt-Ke Falls survey
made. The bill was aimed at the right
thing, but as there is to be no river
and harbOr bill at this session. it
would not have been passed. Repre-
sentative Jones had been at work on
the Kettle Fails project for some
time before the appearance of the An
keny BILL ard he held that no legisla-
ton was necessary. Within a few DAYS
he justified that opinion by securing
an order from the secretary of war di-
recting that the Bridgeport Kettle
Falls survey be made.
Boosts for Jones.
Continuing the correspondent takes
special pains to give Congressman
Jones especial credit for his work in
getting the survey ordered.
1t was not an easy thing to do.
there We're complications in the wav.
In the river and harbor bill of 1908 Mr.
Jones had inserted a provision for a
survey of the river between Wenatchee
and Kettle Falls but owing to some
misunderstanding that arose through
the submission of data by several of
the commercial organizations inter-
ested, the board of engineers recon.
mended survey of the river only to
Bridgeport. This survey was made
under recommendation for $4,000
for improvements and this amount was
appropriated in the last river and har-
Dor bill and is now expended There
was no survey made above Bridgeport.
Just before congress adjourned last
spring Mr.. Jones secured the passage
OF a resolution through the river and
harbOr committee, of which he is
member, and in which such action
originates, calling for a review of the
report under which the survey was
made only to Bridgeport Under this
resolution he filed letters with the river
and harbor board setting out the inn
the industries and possibilities of the
country to be benifitted and asked
that the matter be referred to the local
engineer for report and this was done
He also requested Colonel Fish, of
Kettle Falls, and the Commercial club
there to prepare data showing the i'm
portance of this survey and the ter
ritory it would open up to river trans
pOrtatiOn. This also was done, and he
filed the data, together with a letter of
his own, with Maj. Chittenden, the To-
cal engineer. He also took up the mat
ter personally with Major Chittenden
and upon his return from Hawaii the
first of June he again took it up with
him and was advised that favorable
report had been sent to the war de-
partment in Washington. He there
upon took up the subject with the de-
partment and secured a favorable re-
commentator from the river and har-
Dor board to the chief of engineers.
The chief of engineers advised Mr.
Jones that, after careful consideration
of the matter. the department did not
feel justified. under the resolution of
the committee, to authorize the sur
vey. report having once been trans
mitted to congress.
Convinces Officials.
"As soon as Mr. Jones reached
Washington this fail he consulted with
the chief of engineers, contending that
the report transmitted to congress
showed in fact that no preliminary
survey had been made of the stretch of
the river between Bridgeport and Ket-
tie Falls. and that therefore the war
department had not complied with the
provision in the river and harbor act
of 1905, and that. under that act, the
department was authorized to make