The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-10-26
TAFT AND CANNON
REACH AGREEMENT
Speaker IndOrses Presidents
Attitude on Bond Issue for
Waterway Improvements.
TWO NOTABLE MEETINGS
HELD In ST. LOUIS
Executive and Party I'm Route to
New Orleans to Discuss
Deep Waterways.

ST. LOUIS, Oct. 25.-Presidcnt Taft
aud Speaker Cannon apparently think
the same way regarding waterway inn
prorcment, as q part of a national pol.
icy of conserving the streams,
The speaker Endorsed tho president 5
attitude TO-DAY IN the matter of u bond
isSnc TO pay for tho improvements
While Mr Taft's uttcrances ON the
subject were not so farreaching re-
garding the creation of the fourteen
foot channel rs those Of President
Roosevelt on u similar occasion, and
therefore not entirely cheering to the
advocates of an immediate commence
mcnt of the work, yet Speaker Can
non S Endorsement gave those same ad-
vocates encouragement. The general
good was the test which the president
prescribed for the undertaking of am
bilious works.
Must Proceed Carefully.
>sLct us take up each project on IFS
merits he said. "and determine by
all means at our command whether
the country in which that project is
TO be carried out is so far developed
as to Justify the expenditure OF a
large sum of money and whether the
pro jecl will he useful when done.
"Whcn you have determined that on
the general principle Of good TO the en-.
tire country, then l am in favor of
doing that work as rapidly as it can
be done, and am IN favor OF issuing
bonds to do il, "
Rcferrig 10 this sentiment, which was
uttered IN a meeting at the St Louis
Coliseum at noon, Speaker Cannon ad
dressing the gathering at tho dedica
iion of the new federal building in
East ST. Louis later in the day, said:
Looking to Future.
.'ft is q safo and sound outlining
of a proper policy for us to pursue
in this great Middle West We have
improved The Mississippi in tho past,
and VIC shall be improving 1t hun
need al our water courses. We IN
this generation viii do our part wise
ly We will not throw money into riv-
ers to be washed into the sea We
shall do that first which needs doing
most"
The speaker Endorsed the lcvee sys
tenn, congratulatln East ST. Louis and
its neighboring towns on the compile
tion of tho river barriers, the dedica-
llpD ~ WHICH lpTul'u Ddll VI tii' biN :
celebration. He predicted the Missis
sippi yet would be permanently con-
fined TO its banks throughout its length
and urged that the states adjoining
the stream share the cost with the ma
tional government.
Two Notable Meetings.
Both meetings were notable events,
Vice President sherman, cabinet mem
bcrS, United States senators and rep
rescntativcs and representatives of
foreign governments listened 10 the
speeches mt one or both meetings. Add
ed to these were state aud municipal
officials of all degrees and close to
100000 citizens.
Tonight, the president, the speaker,
diplomats, legislators and several hun.
drcds Of representatives Of commercial
bodies of numerous states are speeding
down the Mississippi river aboard a
hotiIla of paddl dle-wbeel steamers, bound
for New Orleans There they will as
semblc with hundreds of others in the
annual convention of the Lakes-to-the-
Gulf Deep Waterway association. the
pet project Of which is tho creation
Of n permanent fourteeu-foot channel
from the mouth of the Illinois river
TO the Gulf Of Mexico.