The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1910-03-01
LoRlMER WRITES LETTER 70
LEGISLATURE MEMBERS
AGAINST pENEEN BILL.
CHANNEL OF "a FEET
Is What Deneen Has Declared For In
Illinois River Project. and
Lorimer Declares IA
is Enough.
Special to The Bulletin.

Special to The Bulletin.
Springfield, Ill, Feb. 2S.- The letter
addressed by Senator Lorimcr to TIL.
members Of the legislature in whick
the junior senator locks horns WITH
Governor Deneen on the Schmitt. Il
administration deep waterway bill, u
calculated to still further embitter tha
fight between the governor and LORI
mer. II 1t Is possible to get thf
Schmitt bill out of the hands OF tll
house committee ON deep waterway
,of which Smeikal. Of Chicago, Is the
chairman, where 1t was buried by
Speaker Shurtleff, their is likely to be
| a hot fight on the floor OF the house
and Governor Deneen thinks the bill
will pass II it ever gets out OF the
committee.
| Governor Deneen tonight made a
lengthy answer to the letter Of Sen.
| ator~ Lorimer. Governor Deneen con
tends that it would require channel
"a feet deep to carry away the "a
tcubic feet OF water per minute which
is discharged through the channel be-
tween Lockport and Brandon's Road
during the food nowe In the spring
and fall. though Lorimer says such a
depth Is not necessary.
Lorimer's contention Is that no rea-
son could be given for a depth Of II
feet from Brandon's Road to Utica
and the governor shows that depth
Of II feet Is obtained In the forty-two
locks Of the Canadian st. Lawrence
river system Of channels and the Erie
canal, being enlarged to II feet. Re
eMrslnE the charge that tho. governor
states that the federal army engineers
estimated the cost OF the waterway
! from Lockport to st. Louis at s31.-
100000 and from Lockp0rt to Utica at
s25,356 600, and the internal Improves
commission had estimated the project
at s19,s57517 Regarding Lorimer's
4 declaration that 1t would be impos-
sble to find sale for the immense
electrical power that would be gen.
lerated, Governor Deneen replies that
q dam is being constructed across the
mississippi river at Keokuk, Iowa
(which will generate 100000 electrical
horse power or $1,000 more horse
Ipower than the deep waterway. II D
Ideep waterway Of fourteen feet would
y ,.n oe.,enapoa nc ciotr.nI hv
lsorimer, says Governor Deneen, con-
gress Is evidently about to make
lserious mistake In ehacting law on
the advice OF the president for nine
foot channel from Pittsburg to Cairo
ION the Ohio river a nine foot chan
incl, from Cairo TO New Orleans on the
Mississippi river, and eight foot chan
mel from Cairo to st. Louis on the
Mississippi, and six foot channel
from St. Louis to st. Paul on the
| Mississippi, and from st. Louis to
Kansas City on the Missouri river"
"This argument is answered" says
iGovernor Deneen 'by the experience
! In the commercial countries Of Europe
which have expended a vast amount
of money for channels OF no greater
ldept'
| The governor declares that should
the supreme court Of the United
States declare against the state OF
Illinois In the Economy Light and
Power Company case and Of the fed
eral government in the suit instituted
| by the federal government In Chi.
cago against that company private
water power companies will be i'm
nensely benefited by the delay
BY Legislative delay said the gov
ernor, the state will be compelled tt
repurchase from private water powei
corporations water power which has
been paid for by the tax payers OF the
sanitary district Of Chicago at a cost
OF $S0.00o,o00, when completed and
appropriated by the power companies
without expense to themselves.
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