Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1911-05-07
POWER BELONGS
TO GOVERNMENT
OREGON SENATOR is AGAINST
INDIVIDUAL TERMINALS.
RAILWAYS HAVE Facilities
Fnyors Public Ownership Of Harbor
ContrOl--Confcrence on Columbia
River.

Washington d. c., May G.-No
abler advocate OF sound and COM
prehensiye system of waterway Inn
provement than sen9tor George E.
Chamberlaiu, OF Oregon, has appear
ed in public life in recent years. A
man of such character personality
and attalnments as to have made him
so much stronger than his party as
10 be elected governor and senator
in state opposing his party views,
must naturally be reckoned a virile
individual factor in national affairs.
lie has made notable speeches al
three conventions of the National
Rivers ana Harbors Congress-l9O7,
1908 and 1909. In 1907 when COVER
nor of Oregon he attended the ia
nous confer ence OF governors gath
cred I'm Washington upon the invita-
tation of President Roosevelt to dis
cuss the cCnseryational of national
. resources,
Reminded of these occasions and
the policy and purposes of the water
way organization, Senator Chamber
lain said:
amy reference to the published
proceedings Of those conventions VIII
show where l stand. Certainly | am
thoroughly I'm sympathy with the
cause OF tue National Rivers and
lIarbors Congress- When l last spoke
on the subjects in which the organiza-
tion is concerned | advocated not only
the unremilting attention OF the gov
Grnment by continuous annual appro.
priations f)' inland waterway i'm.
provement, but the requirement by
purchase or condemnation of harbor
terminal floilites. 1t is beyond all
question at. important that harbor
terminal facilities should be freely
and unrest"ictedly available to ship
pers by the inland waterways. Rail-
roads have in important instances
held such t,rminal facilities in q way,
that practi ally annulled the cheaper
rates that Wculd have obtained with
terminal facilities free to the public.
There should be some power to con-
lIOl W IFbuldlt lltSt lillukoi hAllu
that power, in my opinion. undoubt.
odly belongs to the general govern.
inert. In Sen Francisco and New or.
leans there is practical public own.
? ership of terminal facilities, and II
ought to be so In every harbor OF the
country"
Born at Natchez, Miss, and reared
there on the eastern bank of the
: great river hearing the name OF his
native state literally educated in the
academies aid in the law at an east
ern college, becoming early identified
with the progress of oregon and the
development OF the great Northwets,
successful professionally and polite.
ally in his adopted home, Senator
Chamberlain has evinced a rare grasp
Of waterway and transportation prob
Ions as they apply to the whole coun-
try, and even beyond its borders.
lie spoke of one of the most inter
estlng river improvement conferences
he had eve" attended as that held
last summer at Nelson, British Colum-
bla. There he met and discussed with
: Canadians, including the dominion
premier, Sir Wilfred Laurier, the Inn
provement - the Columbia river, the
great stream which divides Oregon
and Washington, runs through 600
miles Of a vast productive area of Can
ada. The conference agreed upon the
proposition in tentative way that
there should be International coop.
Grafton In the Improvement of the
sreat river, which should give unob-
structed navigation from the headwa-
ters in Britl9h Columbia to- the rivers
mouth between the states OF Oregon
and Washington, affording by water
way shipment vast stores OF grain,
ores, fruits and other products OF tho
two countries. The proposition Is
only tentative as yet, but Is entirely
worthy of fulfillment," said the SEN
ator. "Therc is no serious engineer
ing obstacle in all the 1900 miles.
Both oregon and Washington have
already made liberal appropriations
for the public work, and no doubt
the governments of Canada and the
United States will solve the problem
In cooperative way. This would
form n most important part of the
great system OF waterway improve
ment advocated by the National River
and Harbor Congress"