The Charles Mix new era. (Wagner, Charles Mix County, S.D.) 1???-1911, 1910-04-22
RuMoR ARisEs, FOLLOWING sen.
sAuoNAL ATTACK ~
DURToN.
Observation-Disclosures
Onse Senator Attacks Improvement
System.-says Country Has Gone
Wild Over Construction Of Locks
and Dams.

uon Of q possibility that President
Tart may veto the river and harbor
Dill caused some uneasiness among
members OF both houses Of congress.
This was circulated immediate
" after q serious attack made upon
the river and harbor bill by Senator
Burton Of Ohio. IL is assumed that II
President Taft has any idea that the
river and harbor bill should not be-
come q law, II Is due to the charges
made by Senator Burton that the gen.
eral total of the measure is extrava.
CANT, and that In some respects the ap-
preparations for a number OF the har-
Dors IN rivers would be wasteful If
applied according L the terms OF the
easur More than this, the idea
became prevalent that President Taft
regards the bin as carrying too much
money, considering the present state
Of the public finances.
MIR. 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
had been expended there had been a
falling of In tonnage. All this meant.
ne said. that that sort of tr%ansporta.
lion 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 MIR. Gailinger.
the Ohio senator admitted that be-
tween $50, 000, 900 and $50, O0o, 900 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-
now has a l4-foot waterway from
Chicago direct to Europe, but uses 1t
70 a small extent.
Proceeding after a long interruption
by Mr.. Newlands, Mr.. Burton entered
upon the advocacy OF a system of wa
improvement under which local
should share the cost of
the work. He said this system is in
operation In Europe. After speaking
Tor three hours, Mr.. Burton suspended
the day and the reading of the bill
When the paragraph ap.
$1,000 900 towards the con.
struction Of the harbor Of refuge at
Sandy Bay. Cape Ann, Mass. was
reached. Mr.. Burton moved to strike II
out. Mr.. Lodge resisted and among
sS% thbaS diu TIA IA liz udIDOT Z
had been completed the steamer Port.
land might have been saved. The
amendment to strike out was voted
down.
Comparatively little progress had
been made IN the bill when the sen
ate adjourned.
Would Pension Nurses.
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nurse who served In the feder.
al army during the civil wal is provid
In a bill reported to the senate by
Scott from the committee or
pensions. There are fewer than 200
of the nurses now living. and the ex
pense OF the pension would be Less
$4,000 a year.
BY l49 TO SO the house refused tc
pass a bill giving 10 Major General
Daniel +. Sickles the rank and pay OF
general. United States
army. retired.
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