Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1908-06-05
RIVERSANDHARBORS
CONVENTION CALLED FOR DE-
GENDER 9 TO II.
Congressman RandseII Says Insistence
of the People Will Bring Results
Urges That Pressure Be Brought to
Bear on Senators and Representa-
tives-sentimen Growing Strong.

IF the friends of adequate measures
for the improvement of rivers and har-
bors keep up their insistence, and if
they unite in determined effort, the
coming session of the congress will
witness the enactment of the best
river and harbOr law ever adopted in
this country, and that will be followed
by annual bills, with issuance of bonds,
if necessary"
Congressman Ransdell of Louisiana,
president of the national rivers and
harbors convention, gave utterance to
the foregoing, in discussing the pros
poets for accomplishing the results
aimed at by the organization of which
he is the head. He added:
After carefully reviewing the field,
consulting with the directors of our
association who met here during the
governors conference, and reducing
our deliberations to definite eX-
preston, the foregoing gives my belief
Everything encourages us-the growth
VI oClIlIllChJ Ill6 SJIOuS DuSI
ness and commercial interests, the
education of the people in the possibil.
tiles of adequate water transportation
facilities, the active propaganda which
has been carried on; all of these
things point to success. We find that
among the members of the congress
sentiment is increasingly in our favor
They are more and more realizing that
relief from congested traffic and toe
high carrying charges must be had by
means of improving the waterways and
encouraging the water transportation
Must Keep Working.
But our friends are often intermit
tent in their efforts, and instead OF
keeping everlastingly at it, they some
times quit for a time, and permit the
subject to get cold in the minds of the
| local people
From Louisiana and Arkansas to
the Columbia river and Puget sound
the people must utilize every effort
and bring to bear on their senators and
representatives that pressure which
will bring results in action by them
1T is large project; it involves the
expenditure of not less than $500, OOO,.
900, and that gives pause to some who
have not calculated the advantages
which would flow back to the nation
from the investment of that amount
of money. But it will pay largely on
the investment.
THE entire world discussed the ca.
nal across the isthmus of Panama for
400 years; and the national platforms
of both of the two great parties con
tanned endorsements of the project for
II years before final decision was OBJ.
tanned from congress- That illustrates
the necessity in this case-that of
pressing the representatives in the
congress to carry into effect what un.
doubtedly today is the unified demand
of the business and commercial con.
Germs of the nation"
Urges Congressman.
| Congressman RanSdell urges thai
commercial bodies begin at once tc
prepare to send adequate representa-
ton to the rivers and harbors conven
ton to meet at the national capital
December 9 to II, and that coinci
IDENTIFY the same influence get to work
on the senators and representatives
and induce them to do more than
merely declare that they are in favor
of river and harbor Improvement, a
habit which has been acquired by
candidates for congress, and too often
cured when thew reach Washin etnn