The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-10-11
RENEW FIGHTS FOR
INLAND WATERWAYS
Lakes to Gulf Deep Water
ways Association Holds
Annual Convention.
(Nationa' News Association

(Natlona' News Associations
CHICAGO. ILL.,. Oct. 11.-Prepared to
renew its fight for a stupendous in
land waterway system from Lake
Michigan through the Mississippi river
to the Gulf of Mexico, the Lakes-to-the-
Gulf Deep Waterway association will
begin It's sixth annual congress in Chi
cago tomorrow with what promises to
be a record-breaking attendance. Sec
rotary Thomas II. LOvelace of the as
ISOLATION Is in receipt of advices indi-
eating that nearly 10000 delegates
and visitors will attend the gathering.
Every state in the Mississippi valley
and most of the middle W ,stern states,
1t is announced, will be represented
by large delegations, including COVER
nors and other state officials and COM
mittees representing the legislatures,
aside from the representatives OF
numerous commercial and industrial
organizations which have committed
themselves in favor of the great wa
terway project.
Western and Northwestern states
touching navigable tributaries of the
Mississippi also will be well repre-
scented. The Gulf states and the South
west, including Texas and Oklahoma,
have shown a marked increase of in
terest in the project. Among the gov
errors who have promised to attend
the congress, are John Burke of North
Dakota; Charles S. Osborn, Of Michi-
gan; Chester II. Aldrich, of Nebraska;
Joseph N. Carey, of Wyoming; f. F.
Noel, OF Mississippi; Augustus f. Will
son, OF Kentucky: G. l.. Blease, of
South Carolina; B. F.. Carroll, of Iowa.
Emmett O'Neal, of Alabama; J. Y.
Sanders, OF Louisiana; Herbert S.
Hadley of Missouri and Charles S.
Deneen, of Illinois. special invita-
ton has been extended to Canada to
participate in the congress and it is
expected that several public officials
OF the Dominion and some of the COM
mercial organizations will be repre-
scented.
At the initial session to be held in
the Auditorium tomorrow the opening
address will be delivered by W. X.
kavanaugh. Of ST Louis, the presi-
dent OF the congress. Among other
notable speakers to be heard during
the three days sessions are Secre-
tary Of the Interior w. l.. Fisher, for
mer Governor David b. Francis of
Missouri; Governor Judson Harmon,
Of Ohio; Congressman Underwood, OF
Alabama; former Governor Joseph w.
Folk, of Missouri: Congressman JOS.
G. Cannon, of Illinois; and O. p Aus
tin. chief OF the Bureau of Statistics
of the Department of Commerce and
Labor.
The most important work of the
meeting will hinge on resolutions and
committee appointments. and it is pro-
posed to organize an executive COM
mittee which cannot fail to command
the attention of congress in the mat
ter of deep waterways. The lakes-to-
lthe-gulf project is the largest and most
important scheme for an inland wa
'terway that has ever been proposed in
this country and would benefit directly
more than one-third of the states of the
Union. An initial minimum of IA
feet depts Is advocated for the Miss
issippi river and it's tributaries with
IN Endorsed desire for final depth of
"a feet. The association wishes to
furnish the central part of the United
Estates with waterway which will en-
able the movement of the largest
freight and passenger vessels to serve
the expanse Of the Rocky Mountains
to the Alleghenies, 2,765,O00 square
miles. The regiou Is among the most
productive in the world. and, with
water TRANSPORTATION to compete with
rail, 1t will have the advantage of un.
eQualed facilities. The Illinois and
Mississippi rivers will be the main
arteries OF the proposed system. with
the tributaries as laterals. In general.