The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1909-11-05
BROOK NO DELAY
FOR waterway
President Taft's Conservative Ut-
terance Regulated.
SHIPNAY A RATIO;AL ISSUE

Delegates to New Orleans Convention
Adopt Resolutions 0Iedsing Them.
selves to Support No Candidate for
Public Office Who Will Not Indorse
the Lakes-to-the-GuIf Deep-Channel
PoIicy--Banquet to Delegates Given
on Floating Dry Dock.
Taft'S conservative utterance at the
deep waterway convention was en-
phatically repudiated when 5000 dele
gates pledged themselves Ito support
no candidate for public office who will
not unqualifiedly indorse' the lake-to.
thegulf deep-channel policy.
The resolutions as a whole declare
that the moment has arrived for actu-
al construction of the lakes-to-the-gulf
waterway; that delay by the president
and congress cannot be tolerated by
the people of the valley; that the
needs of the entire nation must be
considered simultaneously with the
demands of the Mississippi valley, and
that unless the present congress can
rise to the occasion it is time to get
a congress that can.
In brief, the resolutions passed arc
to the following effect:
Create a new national issue.
Condemn the declaration of Presi
dent Taft that existent commerce does
not prove need for the waterway.
Condemn that part of the United
States engineers report which de-
clares against the lakes-to-the-gult
proposition as commercially desirable
Demand that the federal government
enter on vigorous and definite policy
regarding the waterways.
Demand immediate starting of the
fourteen-foot waterway.
Demand the improvement as ma
tional investment and not as "piece.
meal experiment.
Favor a bond issue.
The closing session was marked by
enthusiastic expressions of faith in an
attainment of fourteen feet through
the valley" further pledges of support
of the movement and additional esti
mates of benefit to result from the
movements realization.
The convention was surprised to re
ceive letter from Speaker Cannon
in which he approved of the water
ways plan in this language:
Il desire to assure the convention
that am in harmony with the earliest
solution practicable of the engineering
problems connected with the lakes to
the gulf deep waterway.
"The adoption of such a plan, there
fore, am ready as citizen and rep
resentative to support With ample ap
preparations for; the speedy, effective
and continuous prosecution of the work
upon such waterway to it's compile
tion."
The twenty-five governors who are
in New Orleans decided to hold con
ference in the White House in Deem
Der or January, thus accepting the in
vitation of President Taft issued te
the executives at the banquet on the
steamer ST. Paul while sailing down
the Mississippi. The arrangement Of
the definite date was placed in the
hands of Governor Wilson of Ken
lucky and Governor Hadley of Mis-
souri,.
Governor Deneen of Illinois pre-
sided at the session of the governors
when it was determined to go to the
national capital.
Following the conventions adjourn
ment sine die a number of boats
waited at the docks to convey the dele
gates to the United States naval sta
ton, where, in the largest floating dry
dock in the world, long tables had
hepn set for an elaborate hannuef