The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1907-06-14
OFFICIAL WASHINGTON TO De
QUIET WHILE PRESIDENT Is
AT OYSTER BAY.
PLANS FOR THE JOURNEY
Include Stops at Kcokuk, St. Louis
Cairo and Memphis-Recent
Speech Shows He Heartily
Favors Improvement.

/ Washington fseom now until the ent
lof summer promises to be as dead al
the proverbialaiit water. President
Roosevelt has left for Oyster Bay;
| Secretary Root leaves next week fol
Utica, N. VI Secretary of Agriculture
| Wilson and Secretary of the Interior
Garfield, with three other high Off.
cials, also leave for the west. where
! they will attend the Public Lands con.
vention at Denver and endeavor to
ward off adverse criticism of the ad-
mintstratien public land policy.
There will be left practically only a
handful of officials of any conse-
quence to enliven the dullness of the
dog days
On his return from theA jamestown
Exposition, where he participated in
the ceremonies Of Georgia Day and
made two speeches, President Roose-
welt put in busy eighteen hours in
hs office, slammed down the cover Of
his desk and departed for four
months vacation at his summer home
He will remain there continuously I'M
til September 20. except for a trip on
August 20 to take part In the May
flower celebration at Provincetown,
Mass.
To Take River Trip in October.
When the leaves begin to turn in
late September Roosevelt will leave
to attend the dedication of the McKin-
ley Memorial in Canton. Ohio. He
win make an address on that occa-
sion on September 80 and. unless
something interferes to change his
program, will proceed to Keokuk. la,
where he will journey down the Mis-
sissippi river as far as Memphis,
Tenn. The trip will be made on a
seamer of the Mississippi River Com
stops being made at ST. Louis
and Cairo and a general inspection
being made Of the proposed improve
ments to navigation. At Memphis
the president will attend tn Deep
Waterway convention there, in COM
pany with the members of the Inland
w
after the convention he will return
directly to Washington.
That the presidents earnestness is
not on the wane with regard to de- |
selopment of waterways is evidenced |
n the speech he made this week be |
fore the editors at the jamestown
His address was an IL |
review of the principal |
policies of the administration, and
ne devoted considerable time to dis
,ussion of these policies with regard
o public lands and rivers and har-
,ors. In connection with this latter
)roblm he said:
shows Stond for River improvements.
The inability of the railroads of the
nited States to meet the demands
ipon them has drawn the public at
ention forcibly to the use of our
waterways for transportation. But II
! obvious that tbs is only one of
heir many uses and thai planned
nd orderly development is impossible
xcopt by taking into account all the
ervices they are capable of render
ng. II was upon this ground that
ne Inland Waterways commission
vas recently appointed. Their duty
5 to propose a comprehensive plan
or the improvement and utilization
{ those great waterways which are
he great potential highways of this
ountry. Their duty Is also to bring
ogether the points of view of all the
sers of streams and to submit gen
raj plan for The development and
of the vast natural re-
Durces of the waterways Of the
-nited States. Upon the r
Use solution Of this. much Of our
Iiure obviously depends. Even such
uestions as the regulation of railway q
ties and the con'ral of corporations
re in reality subsidiary to the primal
roblem of the preservation in the in :
rests of the whole people of the re- {
,urces that nature has given us. II
@ fail to solve this problem, no skill :
solving the others will in the end 4
vail us very greatly.
As Secretary Root is to visit
exico in the autumn. visit that un- I
will greatly stimulate trade \
stween that country and the United
tates, the necessity for providing
reap and adequate transportation Il
her than that bv rail is apparent II \
certain that the National Rivers
I'd Harbors Congress. which years E
20 foresaw the coming need Of this X
rm of transportation. win lend its
d in maintaining interest in the
oblem. {