The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-02-03
COULD NOT GO UP THE STREAM Hepburn Replies to
 Champ Clark. SAYS SCHEME IS UToPIAN Debate on Rivers and Harbors
 Appropriation Measure.
SAYS SCHEME IS UToPIAN
Says If sand Bars were Dredged Away Mississippi Would He So Swift AS To Become Un-
 nnvigable.

Washington, Feb. 2.-Immediately after the approval of the journal today. the House resumed consideration of the river and harbor appropriation bill, the leaders recognizing that if the decks are to be cleared of Legislation before March and the several budgets passed to carry on the several departments of the government until June 90. 1908. earnest work will have to be done.
 Representative Small of North Caro- lima insisted that if the internal trade of the country Is to be preserved addi- tional waterways would have to be ds- veloped and present waterways deap~ ened and widened. He addressed tho House particularly in favor of canal from Norfolk to Beaufort Inlet, a dis- tanee of 204 miles.
 Representative Hepburn of Iowa ad- dressed the House on the project cham pioned by the Missouri and IflinoIs members for q deep waterway from Chicago to the gulf. He made reply to Mir. Clark. of Missouri, who he said wanted to build waterway 1000 miIea in extent between granite walls 200 feet high. He had seen the Mississippi river when i've miles In extent with m volume of water that would defy tha puny efforts of men to hold 1t. Ha
 
 and chimericaf and declared that when the proposed waterway from St. I.onls to Carlo should be completed 1t would have | velocity of from twenty t0 twenty-five miles an hour.
 That would be admirable for down stream navigation. he said. But. ha
 When you take out the sand bars and the sinuosities from river you increase its current enormously mAk- ing t practically impossible for naviga
 or the Missouri River, MT. Hepburn said that the sand bara and the hAmd4 in that stream had made 1t nbaeiukalr tppossiele Of navigation ana 70 aia had passed up that rivsr n fifteen
 we hays spent en shs lsass9ssusAsz k SsEo. .0oo. .eoe, and Of this a1soisssl sas. sssaR &z3bsQoo, 900 had been spent ok thH M. #4 eleelppis" he Mddea
 AEespeets To Daandzs.
 His criticism Of the hliI uxfeAiaeH fo q general discussion of the profenf fof the Improvement of the Ohio River. iit which he charged that he read aofnaA where that the gentIeman from rittss people of Pittsburg wanted $500 soeo.aeo to complete the project. Mr Dalxall sst- terrupfed to say that the gentleMmn from Ptttsburg had made no 1ueh SlAtefuGuts anu AAfQ tAdl ne N8Q NNk asked either for $500. 900, 900. thirty mil lion of three million.
 Then assume that you don't want it.. replied Mir. Hepburn. but that 1bo other fellows from Pittsburg do."
 MT. Hepburn said that the Steamboat as a mode of transportation. was A thing of the past, and 1t was his belief that double track railroad would have q cheaper carrying capacity per mile than the Henepin Canal.
 Mn. Hepburn's attacw on the river and harbor bill was followed, closely by the Hease. there being little at. tempt to interrupt.
 amendment he intended to offer to limit the expenditure of the approprin~ tion for the Missouri River to tho proc tection of its banks and channel, or foe the improvement of the navigation of the stream.
 Mir Kiefer of Ohio opposed the biiif and also gave notice of an amendrlent,
 At 2 o'clock the river and harbor bill was laid aside, that the House might listen to eulogies on the life. charac- ter and public services of the late Eeu- ator from Maryland, Arthur F. German.