The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1907-03-09
coNGREssMEN COMING.
Members of Rivers and Harbors Committee
TO Tour Louisiana-WiII Inspect Dam
at Donaldsonvi1le and be Re-
quested to Cooperate in
Mora,oa,,k s,r T.oo1,z
Movement for Locks.

Movement for Locks.
A Washington despatch to the New
Orleans Picayune states that on Tues
day, March 26, the city of New Orleans
will have the pleasure of entertaining
for few hours party of congress
men larger than any that has ever be-
fore visited the south in one body. On
that day forty or more representatives
will meet at the st. Charles Hotel,
coming from all directions and from
all of the states, but their mission will
| not be common one. One group will
consist of nineteen members of the
committee on rivers aud harbors, who
have accepted an invitation from the
Louisiana delegation in congress to
visit this state and inspect it's great
industries and waterways. The Sec
ond group will comprise twenty MEM
bers OF the large party which sailed
for Panama from New York on We'd
nesday, and who have accepted the
invitation of the United Fruit Com
pany to make the return "Trip on one
of their steamers to New Orleans. The
third group will be composed of the
Louisiana senators and representa-
tiEes who will receive their colleagues
at the ST. Charles and accompany them
on the trip through the state, which
will consume four or five days.
Representative Broussard organized
the party which is to pass through
New Orleans on the return from Pan
| anna, and was largely instrumental in
getting the rivers and harbors com
mittee to promise visit to the state
at the same time.
1.-THE purpose in urging the mem
bers of the rivers and harbors COM
| mittee to come to Louisiana was not
simply to have them see river and
harbor improvements says Mr..
Broussard, "but to have them visit
all parts of the state and view our
vast resources and great commercial
interests, that they may see and under
stand our present and future growth.
We want them first to view the great
river and the ievee system. They have
| inspected the Improvements at the
mouth of the river and will not &c
there again this year; but We wish
them to see for themselves the neces-
/ a;tr ~ 1CoI-e ~ I1loo,3n,,,i,a on5 nor
aldsonvil1e; to view our state capital
inspect the salt and sulphur mines, the
sugar, rice, oil and gas belts, as vel
as the cypress and pine lumber re.
gions, and look upon the numerous
streams which we have to depend upor
to get our commodities to market
C. II. Ellis, general manager of the
United Fruit Company, requested MIR
Broussard to organize a party o.
twenty among those Who are making
the Panama trip and bring them te
New Orleans on the steamer Ellis
This party will include the following
representatives Robt. f. Broussard
Louisiana; William A. Rodenberg
Illinois; James A. Hughes, West Vir
ginia; E. G. Ellis, Missouri; Bird s
Mcclure, delegate Indian Territory
Ben G. Dawes, Ohio; T. Often, Wis
| consin; Charles f. Scott, Kansas
Andrew J Barehfeld, Pennsylvania
/ Pleasant T. Chapman, Illinois; j. T
Robinson, Arkansas; Fred Lands, In
diana; Ernest f. Acheson, Pennsyl
vania: J. E. Ransdell, Louisiana: Syl
vester c. Smith, California; Finis ]
Garrett, Tennessee; ). w. Langley