The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1912-03-22
WORK ON
STATE RIVERS
Kentucky Stands Twenty
Seventh
Among Commonwealth in
Amount Of Money Spent on
Streams.

washington. -. C., MaTCn Hs-l>ell'
sucky ranks twenty-seventh among the
forty eight States of the union in this
amount of money spent on her rivers.
from the establishment of the Govern
ment TO June 80, 1911, according to a
statement just transmitted to the Senate
by Secretary of the Treasury. McVeagh.
in response 10 a Senate resolution
The total spent on improvements OF
rivers and streams in Kentucky was
si,s07.O7i distributed as follows:
Big Sandy River. $l7i,s1l.
Cumberland River, above mouth OF
Jelico. 5000.
Cumberland River, south fork, sll,967.
Green River, s67O,i2S.
Kentucky River, sS,623,2T.
Licking River. $i3,Oi5.
Rough River. s95,iS2.
Tradeswater River, s16,O6S.
Besides the above the Government
mas spent si.O5O,5S2 on the Cumberland
River in Kentucky and Tennessee;
$3,1O2,07i on the falls of the Ohio at
Louisville; Sa,Oi4.52i on the Louisville
and Portland Canal; sI.735.127 in
general improvements of the Ohio River
and s., 1856, on the Tennessee River in
Kentucky Alabama and Tennessee.
JOHNSON TO FIGHT DIVORCE.
Representative Ben johnson, of Ken
lucky, chairman of the District of
Columbia Committee, declared himself
today as opposed to the attempt being
made TO enlarge the legal grounds for
divorce in Washington. There is now
but one ground for absolute divorce
adultry. Declaring divorce to be a
great national curse, MIR. johnson says
every State should have such a law,
and that so long as he is chairman of
the District Committee he will use
every effort to enact the proposed
legislation.
If 1 can accomplish nothing else in
life besides preventing the District of
Columbia from becoming national
divorce MILL" he said, my life, with all
of it's failures. will have been to some
advantage to my country's honor"
The Senate Committee on Census to-
day agreed to report the Cantrill Tobaccl
Census Bill to the Senate with recon
mendation for it's adoption. Several
amendments were adopted but they
were minor and physiological. Senator
Bradley was directed to draft the report
by unanimous vote.
LANGLEY RETURNS.
Representative John w. Langley re-
turned today from a weeks visit to
Frankfort where he went to size up the
redistricting and political situations.
The have left me only one Demo-
cratic county in my district MIR.
Langley said, 81 hated to lose a lot of
good people in the counties removed
from my district. OF course, the chang
makes it much easier on me. / have had
three hard fights for Congress and feel
that am entitled to little rest"
Kentuckians here do not believe Lang
ley will encounter opposition for re-
election.
Representative Langley today received
a delegation of G. A. II. men from the |
Gen. Geo. IL. Thomas post, and its
commander, who invited him to deliver /
their Memorial Day exercises here next
May. He accepted conditionally.
Collectors Taylor and Petty. left at
4 O'Clock this afternoon for Louisville.
Before leaving Mr.. Petty said he thought
the Whiskey outrage Bill now pending
would be valuable legislation and that
dlstillers were entitled to some legislation
OF that character.