The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1910-04-20
RIVER BILL MAY
GET THE VETO
RUM0R ARISES, FOLLOWING SEN.
sATIoNAL ATTACK BY
BURTON.
SAYS RIVER TRAFFIC ANT|QUATED
Ohio Senator Attacks Improvement
system.-Says Country Has Gone
Wild Over Construction Of Locks
and Dams.

Washington, April 16.-The sugges.
ton OF a possibility that President
Iatt may veto the river and harbor
bill caused some uneasiness among
members of both houses of congress.
This rumor was circulated Immediate
~ after serious attack made upon
the river and harbor bill by Senator
Burton of Ohio. 1t is assumed that if
President Taft has any idea that the
river and harbor bill should not be-
come law, it is due to the charges
made by Senator Burton that the gen.
eral total of the measure is extrava.
giant, and that in some respects the an.
preparations for a number of the har.
oors and rivers would be wasteful if
applied according to the terms of the
measure. More than this, the idea
became prevalent that President Taft
regards the bill as carrying too much
money, considering the present state
of the public finances.
Mr.. Burton declared that the coun-
try had gone wild over the construc-
ton OF locks and dams. He instanced
improvements of this character, con.
tending that Notwithstanding millions
mad been expended there had been a
railing off in tonnage. All this meant
ne said, that that sort of transporta-
tion is going out of existence.
Replying to questions from Mr.. New.
lands, Mr.. Burton said he believed at
tention should be concentrated largely
on the more promising projects. He
advised an adjustment between the
railroads and the waterways, contend
ing that without such adjustment the
roads inevitably would drive business
from many Of the streams.
Much Spent on Ohio.
AS the senator progressed he
aroused more or less opposition and
was engaged in controversy by SEN
'ators Page, Lorimer, Gallinger, Bailey.
and others. In reply to Mr.. Gallinger.
the Ohio senator admitted that be.
tween $20,o00,oO0 and $30,0Oo,0oO had
been expended on the DEVELOPMENT of |
navigation on the Ohio since he (Mr.
Burton) had become chairman of the
house committee on rivers and har.
bors.
Speaking of the possibilities of a
deep waterway from Chicago to the
gulf OF Mexico, Mr.. Burton ridiculed
the idea that ships could go through
canal and river and sea to New Or
leans and to Europe. People who are
carried away by this view, he said. for
get that via the Welland canal Chica.
go now has 14-foot waterway from
Chicago direct to Europe, but uses it
to small extent.
Proceeding after a long interruption
by Mr.. Newlands, Mr.. Burton entered
upon the advocacy of system of wa
terway improvement under which local
should share the cost of
The work. He said this system is in
operation In Europe. After speaking
FOR three hours, Mr.. Burton suspended
for the day and the reading of the bill
When the paragraph ap-
propriating 100000 towards the con-
structlon OF the harbor of refuge at
Sandy Bay, Cape Ann, Mass, was
reached, Mr.. Burton moved to strike it
out. Mr.. Lodge resisted and among
other things said that If the harbor
had been completed the steamer Port.
and might have been saved. The
to strike out was voted
Town.
Comparatively little progress had
been made on the bill when the sen.
tie adjourned.
Would Pensinn Nurene
A pension of $12 a month for each
emale nurse who served in the feder.
u army during the civil war is provid- .
ID In bill reported to the senate by ,
senator Scott from the committee on I
tensions. There are fewer than 200
IT the nurses now living, and the ex. =,
'ense of the pension would be less
han 100000 a year.
BY 149 to So the house refused to 8
'ass bill giving to Major General ,
daniel E. Sickles the rank and nav of 9
lieutenant general, United States |
rmy, retired. =
The house passed a bill declaring
hat General Fred d. Grant was mus. '
cred into the service of the United +
states, April 20, 1863, and when at the d
ge OF 10 he served as aide to his faith q
r, General U. S. Grant, at Vicksburg. c
~ this action, General Grant was t
1ade eligible to membership in the h
.Oyal legion. +.