The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-10-06
bUNNELL IS
STILL AFTER
APPROPRIATIONS
Err CONTINUES. AGITATION
FOR REMOVAL OF THE
ROCKS AT MoMENCE."
NORTH JUDsoN MANUFACTURE
Writes Candidates For Congress Re-
garding Improvement of the
Kankakee River.

n. 81. Duuieii, ploihli0h' hh"h"
facturer, of North Judson has written
an open letter to Congressman Barn
hart. of the Thirteenth district, and
John l.. Norman, the Republican
candidate. who is running against MIR
Barnhart. this year, and to Congress
man Crumpacker of the 10th district,
and his Democratic opponent, John
b. Peterson. in which he asks them
to explain just where they stand on
the proposal to have the government
improve the Kankakee river by re-
moval of the rock obstruction near
Momence. Ill. Mr.. Bunnell tells them
that these distractions interfere with
domestic and interstate commerce as
well as drainage and sanitation, and
that the matter is one of great con-
Germ to the people of the counties
through which the Kankakee river
flows. and that the people OF the
kankakee valley have right to know
where the candidates stand OH the
question of making the Improvement
In his letter Mr.. Bunnell says that
the subject OF the Instructions in the
Kankakee river has been discussed by
the people of that section for more
than 30 years and that it has receiv-
ed little attention from Congress.
The members of congress from the
districts affected have been voiceless,
he says, Notwithstanding there is a
good precedent for the direct appro-
priation of money from the national
treasury for the removal of these oh
structions.
The Illinois river, he says, is but
a continuation of the kankakee and
Desplaines river, and hundreds of
thousands of dollars have been spent
by the government for the improve
ment of the Illinois river. Mr.. Bun
nell points out that the state of Indi-
ana can not compel Illinois to coop
crate in the removal of the Obstruc-
tons. He says, however, that the In
diana legislature did, at one time,
make an insufficient appropriation
for the work. Mr.. Bunnell's letter
continues:
1.-the people of the Kankakee val
ley are entitled to as much considera-
ton as are the people of other parts
of your district, and they do not COM
plain because their representatives
have been active in securing appro-
priations for dhe Improvement of
harbors along Lake Michigan or for
questionable public enterprises along
the Calumet, nor because public build
ings, among them federal court
building in which a term of court has
never been held, have been added BY
the general government, but they are
certainly justified in complaining
about neglect to include them among
the deserving beneficiaries of public
favors. They are certainly as deserv
ing of notice as are the beneficiaries
of special legislation in other parts
of the United States, and much more
deserving when it is considered that
their benefits are only incidental to a
work that when accomplished will
promote the general welfare The
Kankakee river is, to say the least,
as important as the Tadpole creek,
down in Georgia; Raccoon run, down
in Louisiana, or Mosquito harbor,
down in Mississippi, for which river
and harbor bills carried appropria-
tons. 1t matters not whether OIL
other subjects you 'insurge' or
standpat.'
81 trust that you may not take Of |
Tense If You are called upon to show |
your hands on this subject of con-
gresslonal appropriation for the re-
moval Of Momence rock, and Incl
dentally those of you who have serv-
ed in congress may, if you choose, ex-
plain why you have been so quiet
about this matter heretofore"