The Sentinel=record., 1909-10-31
THE PEOPLE ALL COUNTRY AND REALIzziNG NEED OF DEEP
 WATERWAYS.
Win Not Stand for the Pork Barrel System, But Must Be Done by Appropriation From
 Congress.

@NVN 01AtdHSs J1d., Oct4 3U.---NI Tie plan for deep waterway is an ac- complished fact What we need now IS aetion." declared w. K. Kavanagh, president of the Lakes-to-tne-Gu. Deep Waterway Association, in his address at the opening of it's conven- tion today. The history of the Mis-. sissippi river has been a story of in- action and of niggardly appropria- tions, which nave been fought through the Ea.ers and Harbors Committee. and through Congress without rhyme or reason" said the speaker. ~rne whole valley is sicA with the conges- tion of it's transportation system, anu only this deep waterway can relieve 1t. The people of the Mississippi val. les must have definite assurance tha1 tlis carrier is to be completed at q eeNain date, and that date must not ke much more remote than the con- pletlon of the Panama Cana.
 Mir Kayanagh said that the people yeoked to President Taft for the exc 'Altion of the great task He referred 10 the executives trip down the river, saying:
 He has seen the richest farm lands in the world crumbling from it's banks, dissolving in it's waters; he has seen levees that protect o-,0oO square miles of this rich alluvial threatened by these casing banks; he has seen the remains of uncompleted revetments that have been torn away by the river, because a negIectfuI congress had not provided for their completion, and he has seen a 1000 mile channel unburdened a single modern vessel, the docks of it's many cities unmarked by single nstalla- tion of modern terminal apparatus.
 There was a day when the Missis- slppi was considered an untamable stream, which shifted it's channel and devoured it's banks at will Today we are able to show the President of the United States two remarkable changes: One of these is a river which, in it's most difficult and most readily-shifting parts, has been bound down by the engineers to fixed channel, with permanent banks; that has been forced to SCOUT its own bed. and permit the passing of deep- CT ships.
 eThe other is great garden land of soil worth from s100 to $200 an acre, capable of producing in crops every year enough money to pay many times over the entire cost of producing t4-foot channel from Chi cago from Chicago to New Orleans, and this soil protected from waste only by those same engineering de. vices which have held the river in it's fixed bed and which make the Deep' Waterway.
 We nave shown him this. and now we are ready to ask him to extend the revetments1 which do this work into every bend on the Mississippi. and to carry this deep waterway and the protection to farm lands adjacent to it throughout the course of the Mississippi.
 We wish to go further than this improvement, reyetment and contrac- ton. and to see some broad general plan adopted. which shall cover the whole control of the water in the river shall lessen the floods, and give us a more general flow at low water and at the same time restrict the channel. We believe that this work must be carried on not piec meai Dy local divisions, and subject to occa- sional appropriations by congress. as has been done in the past nor do we believe that this work should longer be subject to the annual arguments and machinations of Rivers ana Harborg Committee"
 Mr. Kavanagh said Engineer