The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1909-12-09
ENACTMENT OF STATUTE Sc.
CURED AND BONDS MIGHT
LATER HAVE TO BE
ISSUED.
Time NOT YET RIPE
FOR ISSUING BONDS
Several Delegates to Convention Make
Speeches-committees Named to
Deal With Various Things
--Woman's AuxiIiaryin m
Convention. f7' N

Washington Dec. S.-Strongly en-
dorsng the policy Of waterway i'm
provement Taft stirred and aroused
enthusiasm at the sixth convention of
the National Rivers and Harbors Con
Eress today. Hundreds of delegates,
representing every section of the
United States, filled the great ban
quet hall at the willard hotel, where
they sat under their state banners.
The men AMI women delegates arose
when the president arrived and gave
him noisy reception, concluding
with three cheers and tiger
Il congratulate this congress" said
Taft ION having brought the subject
of waterways to such point that the
members Of congress throughout the
country recognize it as a subject that
calls for action. They have not come
to definite conclusion upon the pol
icy that ought to be adopted but have
concluded that some policy must be
adopted with reference to the develop
ment of those instrumentalities which
nature has furnished for the transpor
tation OF goods and controlling rail
road rates.
"Your declaration says you favor a
policy, but not in favor of any particu-
lar project. | think that wise plat
form: yet when it come to the proc
tieal enforcement and accomplishment
OF something, you have got to get into
projects,
y don't think betray secret
when | say that the gentleman who
has most TO do with the imitation of
projects In congress is fully charged
with the necessity for doing some
thing in the next congress to fore.
shadow. or rather begin, policy with
respect to those rivers"
After referring TO various waterway
projects the president continued: "A
year ago Roosevelt and we're together
on platform before a conservation
of resources convention, wherein we
in order that a project for improving
the WATERWAYS when the can lie com
pleted in d. reasonable time | am
still consistent advocate of that
theory. | believe the government is
entitled to as rapid methods of davel.
oping the enterprise and putting it
through as private corporations, and
as they always issue bonGS, or gener-
ally do, in order to expedite the com
pletion of these projects, ii would
seem wise for the nation to do so
where it will accomplish the same re.
silt.
But | want to suggest word OF
caution. You are going to encounter
in congress a great opposition to the
policy of issuing bonds right off hand
You are much more likely to get from
congress a declaration that certain
improvement ought 20 be carried out
and spread upon the minutes of con
gress in the form of resolution or Z
declaration in statue. ! advise yor
to get that declaration. Then when
the time comes that political exigency
will prevent the appropriation of suf
ficient mony from the current reve
nues, to put proper part of the FRO
jeCt through the coming year or com
ing two years as economy requires
then the question of issuing bondY
will arise. | would rather get tn,
declaration first than to have tn,
bonds first, for the reason that y0l
will encounter objections By cor
gress that in issuing The. bonds an,
the receipt of the money will develop
a desire to be extravagant.
THAT may not meet your views
but have thought it over and know
something about congress. knoS
where you are going to encounter OF
position, and believe the best way /
the natural way with those gentlemen
You lead them to declare in favor 0
the Missouri Improvement, in favor c
the ST. Louis to st. Paul impro,
ement, In favor of the Cairo to 81
Louis improvement, in favor of th
Ohio river Improvement. ali of whic
has been approved by the army eng
neers, get them recorded in statute a
declaring that those things are to
carried out, and let them make thei
first appropriation in the form of tn
revenues of the country; then yo
have them where they must issu
bonds, unless the revenues afford
sufficient amount to carry the proiee
on economically with due rapidity."
The president was frequently inte
rupted by applause, and left the ha