The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-10-30
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 that the waterways association invites the speaker of the House and his asso- ciates. a quorum I may say, of the com mittee of the whole of the states of the union, to study, with view of controlling so that we may make the most of her, and we are just going to do it. Just now neither the speaker nor l am inclined to confide in you at present. But such movement as this. which gathers force not alone in the Mississippi valley, but throug ghout the country, is certain to bring about results which cannot but be useful not only to the country at large, but especially those who are locally af- fected by the stream.
 Now, my friends, I have to make speech in New Orleans on the subject of the Mississippi river, and if I have not dealt in figures here 1t is because I am trying to hold those figures that I have for the sordid consideration of the men who insist on knowing the facts, instead of kindly audience like this, who real iEe the exigency of spreading them clear down the Mississippi river to New Or leans from St. Louis.
 And perhaps I can say one more word. Not of this particular trip from St. Louis to New Orleans, but of the larger trip which I have undertaken from the Atlantic to the Pacific, down the Pa cifo and back through the territories and the south to Washington. I under- took that trip in order that might know more of America and my American fellow citizens.
 "I am ending the trip, and am glad to end 1t by another visit to my friends Of the south.
 T have one ambition-perhaps I have others, but this is one and one that fig ures largely in my dreams-and that is that when I lay down the staff of office the people of the south may feel that by reason of my administration the bonds between them and the other parts of the country have been drawn closer"
 Cannon Called For.
 At the conclusion of President Taft 8 address there were continued calls for Cannon" Uncle Joe.''
 MT. Cannon spoke of the work accom- plished by the first waterways conven- tion at St. Louis in 1873 which led to the deepening of the south pass in the Mississippi delta, on the plans proposed by Capt James B. Eads and intimated that as that great work had come after a trip made by congressmen and sen ators who went from St. Louis to the Brazos river. then to the south of the Mississippi and up to New Orleans, SO might this trip from St. Louis to New Orleans result in another great work for internal waterways.
 Secretary Dickinson made a few re- marks, after which the presidential party returned to the fleet and re-embarked at :bO a. m. for Baton Rouge.
 President Taft extended his automobile ride to Longwood, the antebe1lum and still incomplete mansion of the Nuts and to the grave of s. s. Prentiss, just beyond Longwood, distance of one mile from the city. The President was inn pressed by the arrangements of the court of honor and the co-mingling of visitors with the ladies and gentlemen in the gubernatorial boxes.
 Will See Football Game.
 Arriving in New Orleans the President and members of his cabinet will lSnch with the Archbishop of New Orleans at his house. The President goes from there to the convention hall, and after speaking on waterways will go out to witness the football game for the cham pionship between Sewanee and the Louisi- ana State university. He will be the guest of Governor Sanders at this game. The President will dine quietly at the Pickwick club and attend performance of French opera in the evening Sunday morning he will attend the Unitarian church.
 The President was escorted to the fed eral building tonight, where he was in i troduced to a large crowd and made a brief address.