Arizona republican., 1908-09-28
RIVERS AND HARBORS
 ARE 10 BE DOOMED
1t Is Expected That Comprehensive Policy Will Be Adopted By the Next Congress.

Washington, D. C., Sept. 23.-(Spe- cial Correspondence of The Republ- can)-It has come to be accepted that there will be a rivers and harbors bill at the coming session of congress and the agitation for a comprehensive pol icy. on the part of the general gov ernment, toward the waterways of the United States, as urged by the Nation al Rivers and Harbors Congress, seems largely responsible for the interest now shown in this rapidly growing subject.
 Conventions without number, dur ing the past six months, embracing trade organizations and commercial bodies, have gone on record favorable to a broad policy on the part of the federal government in it's treatment of our water highways, and it would not be at all surprising to find con gress adopting the policy urged by the National Rivers and Harbors Congress of appropriating $5O,00O,OO0 annually for river and harbor improvements.
 This belief is based on the rapid moulding of public opinion favorable to a more liberal treatment of the wa terways of the country, the necessity of which is becoming more and more imperative in view of the increased output of farm, factory and mine, and the lack of rail facilities to move to market and ship-side the products which makes the nation great.
 The coming national convention of the Rivers and Harbors Congress, which will be held in Washington, De- O aninridanf with the meeting of the Presidents National Conservation Commission, gives prom ise of being the biggest convention held in the national capital this year, and themost brilliant and beneficial of all the conventions held by the con- gress. whose motto is "a policy and not a project" toward the nations waterways.
 The Brazilian ambassador and the Chinese minister have already accept ed invitations to address the cOnven- tiOn and it is expected the distin guished representative of King Edward in the United States, MT. James Bryce, will also be heard in a scholarly re- view of the waterways and canals of Great Britain and their relation to trade and commerce.
 President Ransdell has just an nOunced that MT. Andrew Carnegie has accepted an invitation to address the National Rivers and Harbers Con gress in December, which is an earnest of what may be expected from this convention and its platform.
 Andrew Carnegie, while not actively engaged in business. is still interested as a stockholder in factories and mines whose output runs into the hundreds of millions and as a shipper of iron ore. coal, steel, iron, etc, is peculiarly fitted to speak as a citizen of the Unit ed States upon existing conditions in the transportation business of. the country, and the needs of waterways to move the bulkier freight
 Not alone as a citizen of the United States can MT. Carnegie speak on the imperative needs of better water facil- ities for handling our products, but as a cOsmooolite who has made study of water and rail transportation of many countries, and as the rest of the world is a competitor of the United States his recommendations for the improvement of our waterways will emphasize the advanced position taken by the National Rivers and Harbors Congress.