The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-07-15
|IEOKUk DELEGATES
ARRIVED /. HOME !
80 k3Sf
...srs. Hamill and Sawyer Returned
Home This Morning From the
Mississippi Improvement
Assn. Meeting.
HELPED THE DAM
HELPED THE DAN
4 Their Work in Regard to the
Resolution Relative to a Bigger
Lock They Helped the Wa.
terpower Dam.

Keokuk's delegates to the Upper
Mississippi River Improvement Asso-
CATION, Messrs. Lee Ha1nill and Haz-
4 en- J. Sawyer returned home this NOR
ming after doing more and looking
after Keokuk's interests better than
L 1t has ever been possible to do before.
Both men report very successful
and largely attended meeting with a
large part Of the delegates being from
the Younger business men Of the
river cities.
i The Keokuk delegation, because Of
the fact that they had attended 9TH
er conventions, we're able to do a
great deal more than new men could
Z have According to the words of Mr..
/ Hamill they went there to look after
Keokuk's interest and spent day and
night In doing it. The delegates had
been warned that there was liable to
be trouble in regard to the size Of the
lock Of the Keokuk and Hamilton
dam and they prepared for it. All Of
the incoming delegates were met by
one or other of the men and each
one interviewed and his support soli-
cited A hearty response was met
with in nearly all cases.
The trouble that was being looked
for was foundsin the Kavanaugh reso-
lltion that requested that a lock 1000
feet long by 800 feet wide be- recon-
mended to the government by the con
vention and had this resolution car
ried it would have been very detri-
mental to the Keokuk dam PROPOSE
ton. But the Keokuk delegation were
at the convention to see that just
such measure did not pass and
they succeeded in getting 1t killed in
the resolution committee. The Keo-
kuk proposition was brought very
forcibly before the delegates and
Keokuk given wide advertising.
Mr. Lee Hamill was member of
the Auditing and the Ways and
Means committee and Mr.. Sawyer
was a member of the Resolution
committee. Both men were busy with
their committees big part of the
time. Neither one of the men knew
that Mr.. Hamill's name was coming
up as nominee for an office which
adds greatly to the honor as IL came
unsolicited and was carried unani-
nous IS
The next convention will be held
In Alton Alton was nominated for the
honor by the Burlington delegation
who asked and practically received
the assurance that they should have
the convention in the Orchard City
/ In 1912. The Keokuk delegation were
asked when Keokuk would want to
act as host and they replied that Keo-
kuk would expect the honor as soon
as the big dam was finished.
Many excellent addresses were
given before the meeting, that OF Gov
ernor Eberhart being extremely in
teresting and much in favor of the
Interior rivers. Governor Eberhart's
theme was that the time had come
for the river navigation to seek the
aid of the railways and get the
great captains Of transportation to as
sist In building up the river trans
portation to relieve the congestion Of
the railways and prove help and
not rival of the railway transpor-
tation lines. He brought out very
clearly that If the opposition of the