Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1908-06-19
NEED S50,000,000
FOR WATERWAYS
GREAT CANAL SYSTEMS OF NATION
IMPOSSIBLE ON PENNY
SCALE.
VIEWS OF SENATOR NEWLANDS
Nevada Man Holds Each State Should
Declare for the Development of
Proposed Water Routes.
EXPERTS SHOULD HAVE SWAY.

WASHINGTON, D. c., June 10
Especial. with the adjournment of
Congress, interest in the rapidly crystal
izing movement for the development OF
WATERWAYS of the country for which the
national rivers and harbors congress en-
Enthusiastically stands, is temporarily trans
ferred from the seat of national leglsla-
ton to the coming conventions OF the two
great political parties
Senator Francis G. Newlands of Ne
vada, who has taken commanding posi-
ton in behalf of systematic approprla-
tons on the part of the federal govern
meEt for the development of our water
ways, assumes that the movement which
reached such height last year, when
President Roosevelt made his now justly
famous trip to Memphis, will not be
permitted to lag.
II assume the various water assocla-
tons of the country said Senator New,
lands, (which are very numerous, and
which have greatly multiplied since the
Memphis event, will see to it that there
is emphatic declaration In party plat
forms in favor of the full and comprehen-
sive development of our waterways,
II also assume that these party plat
forms will declare for the conservation of
the exercise of both national and state
powers in such coordination and cooper
alton as to secure the highest develop
ment of the waterways for every civilized
use, including navigation as the base OF
the nations power.
Blazing Waterway Route.
81 assume also that the question will
be taken up vigorously in all state and
congressional platforms and if this Is
done there can be no doubt OF immediate
results of an extensive nature during the
next winter.
'"The studies of the inland waterways
commission have blazed the way for COM
prehenSiVe and cooperative work and
the waterways associations should see to
it that the recommendations made are
endorsed in every platform, national,
ways act when it knows the people are
IN earnest. Delays are often times
charged to it, when as a matter OF fact
it's failure to act is due to Improperly
formulating public opinion into demand
for legislative action.
LAS to the form of legislation it is
clear to my mind that work entered upon
must embrace contemporaneous effort in
every section of the country SO that eV-
cry water district can feel that it has
an interest in it. 1t will not 40 to alb
sorb all the energy and expenditure III
one project, however large and import
ant.
Four Great Water Systems.
'"There are four water systems which
must be started at the same time-the
Atlantic coast waterway, embracing the
ware bay with Long Island sound and
Chesapeake bay with the CaroGnas, in
voIving the rivers tributary to this wa
terway.
THE second project involves a canal
through Florida and a coastal canal
along the gulf utilizing the internal riv-
ers and bays and connecting them to-
gether and the rivers tributary to them.
1.-THE third great project includes the
Mississippi and all of it's tributaries, in
Guiding connection with the Great Lakes
and involving the development Of all
these rivers at places properly dis
tributed geographically, SO that all these
developments will dovetail into a COM
plete water system, the Mississippi and
the Great Lakes.
'And the fourth great project will
comprise the Pacific coast waterways, in
Guiding the Sacramento, the San Joa-
quin, the Snake and other rivers in
which they empty.
In my judgment an administrative
or service board of experts consisting of
the officers of the engineer corps, heads
the various scientific bureaus of the
government, with civil experts and en-
gineers, should be organized and given
large powers not only for investigation,
but for actual work. And a large fund
should be created, not less than $780,
OOO,OOO at the start and continuous work
should be provided for by authorized
bond issues so that failure to appropriate
would not delay the projects begun.
Give EyDerfs ENOUGH Cvuox,
''The pork barrel methods must be
abandoned and we must determine as
we did in Panama in irrigation and for
estry, to give large powers to the admin
istrative experts charged with the work
of construction.
THE powers of Congress can best be
exercised in the creation of an admin
istrative service under the control of the
President, who will make this great
work a feature of his administration,
knowing that his reputation will depend
upon it.
'Of course nothing can be done with
out legislative authority, but the author
ity should be exercised in big way and
not frittered away in details. The only
great constructive work which the ma
ton has accomplished have been those
of irrigation and the building of the
Panama canal, and these have been
made effective because ample funds and
ample powers were given"
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