The Thibodaux sentinel. (Thibodaux, La.) 1905-1912, 1911-10-14
INLAND WATERWAYS LEAGUE
SELECTS PALACIos, TEXAS, FOR
1912 CONVENTION.
Resolutions Call for Canal From Mis-
sissippi River to Brownsville, Tex,
Nine Feet Deep, 100 Feet Wide.

Morgan City, La.-Selecting Pa.
lacios as the meeting place in 1912,
re-electing the same corps of officers
and adopting resolutions calling for
a canal from the Mississippi river to
the mouth Of the Rio Grande, nine feet
in depth and hundred feet wide, the
seventh annual convention of the In
terstate Inland Waterways League
came to close Saturday with a
smoker given by the citizens of Nor
gan City to the delegates and visitors
in the city. This has been notable
convention, one characterized by the
work and the good accomplished.
There have been congressman, sena-
tors, governors and representatives of
both Texas and Louisiana present,
who addressed the convention, and
without exception there was express
ed by every speaker much enthusiasm
and hearty support Of the intercoastal
canal to connect the Mississippi river
with the Rio Grande at Brownsville.
Among the speakers were: United
States Senator M. j. Foster of Louis
lana, Congressman H. E. Ransdell,
A. P. Pujo and Robert Broussard of
Louisiana, Colonel TIL. Ball of Hous-
ton, Colonel Walter Gresham of Gal
weston, William Polk of Louisiana and
others.
The resolutions committee, Mr.. Hol- |
man Of Bay City chairman, reported |
the following. which report was adopt
ed in full by a unanimous vote:
Firmly convinced that the contsruc-
ton and early completion of an in
land waterway from the Mississippi
river to the Rio Grande is essential to
the proper development and necessary
to the material welfare and CONNER
cial progress of Louisiana and Texas,
we, the delegates OF the seventh an
nual convention of the Interstate
Waterways League of Louisiana and
Texas. declare as follows:
In order that 1t may be of the great
est possible commercial utility, we
urge and insist upon the construction
of continuous inland waterway from
the Mississippi river to the Rio
Grande, nine feet deep and 100 feet
wide. We urge and insist upon the
adoption of the project in it's entirety
by the federal government and the
completion in its entirety at the ear
Hest date practicable upon the con-
tinuing contract plan.
We further urge the improvement ;
and navigation of all meritorious
rivers and bayous and streams which
are tributaries of the canal.
We advocate the enactment of such j
avs by the national and State legis-
atures as will encourage, stimulate !,
md protect navigation.
We heartily approve the policy of an >
annual rivers and harbors bill carry !.
ng yearly appropriation of not less
han $5,000,000, and warmly commend
he splendid work of the National !
Rivers and Harbors Congress in it's
lctive efforts to create national pub
lie sentiment in favor Of that policy. s
We earnestly suggest to the pro- d
ressive citizenship Of Louisiana and o
'exas, in the furtherance of whose C.
Material interests the work of this Or
anization is directed, the imperative n
ecessity of continued and never-ceas- tt
ag endeavor to attain the early frui- Il
ion of these ends, and the further ne R
essity of demanding of their repre- r
sntatives in congress their active per- p;
onal interest in securing the, early tt
Omn1eti0n Of continuous ip1opd al
'aterway, nine feet deep and 100 feet fc
'ide, from the Mississippi river to OF
le Rio Grande.