Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1908-06-06
Observation-Disclosures
CONVENTION CALLED FOR DE-
GENDER 9 To II.
Congressman Randsel Says lnsistence
of the People Will Bring Results
Urges That Pressure Be Brought to
Bear on Senators and Representa-
tives-Sentment 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 a 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
of sentiment among the strong bust
ness and commercial interests, the
education of the people in the POSSIBLE
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 too
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 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 a large project; it involves the
expenditure of not less than 100000,
900, and that gives pause to some who
have not calculated the advantages
which would flow back to the nation
of money. But it will pay largely on
the investment.
1.-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 that
commercial bodies begin at once to
prepare to send adequate representa-
ton to the rivers and harbors conven-
ton to meet at the national capital
December 8 to IL, 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 they reach Washington.