The Sentinel=record., 1909-10-31

have surveyed the route and have de- clared a deep waterway feasible and easy of accomplishment. The best civil engineers have declared it ln- eyitable," he said. Chicago has lspent s60.0O0,0O0 cutting the channel through the rocky divide, and, and Illinois is spending s20.000,00O to step it by locks down to the solt-bottom portion of the Illinois River" the speaker declared From there to the Gulf the way is clear and the plans are ready"
 MT. Kavanagh said: "The people will no longer tolerate the pork bar rel method of compelling governmen. engineers to alot funds for river i'm proyements. according to eongre,.ion- al districts, nor will they allow the development of the greatest of taeir lhighways to depend upon uncertatt appropriations.
 The speaker said that when con gross convenes this winter, it will have to consider seriously for the first time the great problem of the conservation of water, which Presi- dent Roosevelt foresaw, and among other things, the establishment of some big central bureau, probably a department of public works, to under take the entire control of our running water.
 But" said he, the deep waterway must not wait for this. In floods and in low water, a fourteen-foot channel can be easily maintained
 Mir. Kavanagh quoted President Taft as having sail that in order to solve the transportation problem we must have recourse to our waterways, Jack Smith, E Commerce St and continued: The problems of transportation multiply with the m. crease Of prosperity, and the presi- dent of the nation who is so certain that waterways are the solution of our trouble is the very one who is most determined to lead us on to the greatest increase of prosperity. Pros psrity demands guarante of this: That whatever turn the general plans for the conservation of water may take. the project for the l4-foot Lakes-to-the-Guly Deep Waterway shall be adopted and pushed on to completion.
 Although in a recent report
 established the feasibility and eff cieney of the work from eonstruc- tive point of view, the Army Engin- eers attempted to deride its commer. cial value, the presence of the chlsf executive and representative of CO., oO0,000 people Aere is evidence t.~, the people believe taat the project is worth the money, no matter what the cost, and resubmit the cost is reason able. They believe. as 4resident | believes, and as Theodore roosevelt believed, in the efficiency of
 erways. Give us the deep channels, they cry to congress, and we will build ships and carry cargoes on them
 The plan for the Waterway must be adopted as a whole, and must be adhered to from start to finish" The speaker declared that the senti ment of the Mississippi Valley is so determined on this project that con gressman who would refuse to sane. ton it could not be returned to Wash ] ington
 | There is,s he said, mo longer doubt but that the great majority of our people not only favor but are en- enthusiastically determined upon the de- velopment of our waterways. and first of all upon the 14-foot Deep Water way from the Lakes to the Gulf
 The question, Do the people rule will be answered. he asserted, when congress meets and It's members vote [ yes or no upon the question of the immediate execution of the plans for the l4-foot channel
 "All over America, MT. Kayanaga continued, the Waterway idea is growing, and with it is coming a new stimulus, a new development whic.. promises cheaper rates and quicker and better transportation to the whole country.
 Everything which contributes to the cheaper handling of freight in creases traffic and advances prosper ity. The history of the Great Lakes stands glaringly before us as the story of an enormous increase in traf ] fic, depending upon three things: The deepening of the channels. the improvement of the steamboats, and the establishment of the fastest and most economical loading and unload 1 ing machines.
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