Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1909-11-02
WATERWAYS FIGHT
WILL PROCEED
DESPITE UNCLE
Improvement Bonds viii Win
Out, Says Secretary, in Face
of Opposition of Speaker
Cannon.
Morning Journal Bureau,
613 Munsey Building.

W|usNlnSton, ~. g., NoN. l.
Notwithstanding the outspoken
opposition Of Speaker Cannon to tht
authorization of bonds ior waterway
improvements, the fight Will go on un'
til it is Won" said Captain j. +. Ell
son, secretary of the National Rivers
and Harbors congress, which meets in
its sixth annual convention in this
city, December s, 3 and 10.
Il anticipate that this will he the
biggest and most enthusiastic CONVEX
ton ever held for the purpose OF en-
phasizing the needs for a broad and
comprehensive policy of waterway
Improvement. As the fiat has gone
forth that there must be rigid econ
omy practiccd during the next fiscal
year in all the departments of the
government | very seriously doubt If
a river and barber bill, commensurate
with the needs of the country, Will be
passed during the present congress.
The National Rivers and Harbors
congress which is second in import
nee only to the congress Of the Uni
ted States, unanimously adopted IA
plank in its platform of last year
favoring a bono issue of five hun
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the betterment of the nations rivers.
harbors and canals. President Taft,
who will open the congress with an
exhaustive address upon the subject of
waterways and the imperative needs
for Il fixed government policy for
their Improvement, Is an outspoken
advocate OF a bond issue should cur
rent not be sufficient to
meet the demands for a broad and
liberal treatment of u water
courses. In addition to President Taft
his official family will be represented
on the program by Secretary of War
Dickinson and Secretary of Commerce
and Labor Nagel. Ambassador
Count j. II. Won Bernsdorff, of Ger
many, will deliver an address upon
what the Fatherland has done for its
rivers. harbors and canals. Governors
Eberhart of Minnesota, Stuart of
Pennsylvania, Harmon of Ohio, Had
ley of Missouri, Swanson of Virginia,
and Patterson of Tennessee, will be
present and deliver addresses during
the sessions of the convention.
There will also be a session given
owe to the representative newspaper
AiANih Vi Nv tNipi Il "tii ~
tor from each OF the sections having
been invited to address the congress on
the newspapers interest in waterway
improvements. II. NJ. Scott, the dis
tinguished editor of the Portland
and Lafayette Young, n
of the brilliant orators of the coun-
try, editor of the Des Moines Capital,
being among the journalists who have
accepted invitations to speak.
This question of a bond issue for
waterways is n live one and the con-
gress of the United States win have
to seriously consider il in the near
Waterway bonds are in
by President Taft, ex-President
Roosevelt, eX-Vice President Fair
Secretary of State %Philander
Knox, by 237 national and
state banks that are contributing
members of the National Rivers and
Harbors congress and by 1876, 600
merchants and manufacturers who
as individuals or through mem
bership in commercial associations are
of this largest and most in
f|luential waterway association