The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-01-07
||RGE UNCLE SAM To
|BU|LD AUTO HIGHWAY
Mother Washington and
National Capital Names of
Two Proposed Roads.
<ALL BIG CONVENTION
lotor Manufacturers Will
Try TO Enlist COOPERATION
Of Farmers and Others.


..-.l 10 The Tribune
rssBINGToN. Jan Sin admitting
.,lIhcdy that the federal govern
has tho power 70 huild national
II President TAFT in bis recent speech
. .,torIs,s settled the question or tho
.thiiional right Of congress To ap-
-state federal funds In aid OF ma
n system Of improved nichways. This
|antlon by President Taft. coupled
d ihe fact that President Thomas
Hsrson also believed In the power Of
. sederal government TO build roads
',s<a the states. viii he brought for
la al the federal aid good roads con-
|r.Ion NJ The American Automobile as
'-.ation in Washington, January is and
This convention has been called par
n Aid. In an effort 10 arrive at some
|irIie programme behind which all
efs Of the roads can nut tlcir in
re necessity for getting together on
3 Important question is Indicated by
4 fact that some thirty-five different
n Realms with the subject Of federal
liciDation in highway Improvement arc
F pending in congress. Some OF these
rrlde for commissions TO investigate
: subjsct: others call Tor immediate
pFopriations for extensive schemes of
lhvay improvements: still others pro-
n for tho construction Of particular
|dx tIich as the proposed Lincoln me-
risl road from Washington 10 Gett1's-
re. the Mother Washington memorial
.hway from fredericksburg. Va. TO
national capital. and various other
|clhc stretches OF turnpike. These bills
sf been introduced by senators and
,fsssntatiyes from every part OF the
lnlry
|spy OF The senators and members who
" Introduced these bills have con-
ted 70 address the convention and eN-
Ia their measures while more than
y other members of congress have al
|dy promised TO attend the sessions.
: governors of several states have al
|dy taken steps 60 appoint delegates TO
convention, while the fortS-two state
Dciaiions and 3lj local clubs affiliated
n the a. a A. as we'll as many bust
y farmers and other organizations
sendinS delegations.
Imong men prominent In public at-
Fs who have expressed themselves In
OF Of federal aid for good roads is
vernor Austin l.. Crothcrs OF Mary
d, who writes.
, not only indorse such national lesis-
on, but believe that before the pres
Democratic congress adiourns IL
Md enact laws giving most liberal fl
nal and moral support
'naior Joseph r. Johnston Of Ala
"a says 81 AM sincerely in favor Of
tsring the public, roads, and in Civ
federal aid"
Theze are merely specimens OF some
pse4lons from scores OF public men.
alng those who have promised To
'hk az the Washington convention. and
fuss the question OF federal aid from
'ious standpoints, are Senator'S +. NJ.
rmons OF North Carolina. Claude a.
1nson of Virginia, John II Baukhcad
ahhama, and Representatives Il. r.
iscn and William Richardson OF Ala :
ra, Edward 7. Taylor OF Colorado,
Ahm s. Howard OF Georgia, II. NJ.
'sner Of Iowa. Phil p. Campbell and
~ anthony. Jr., Of Kansas, j. Charles
rlmrum of Maryland. u. w. Shackle-
n end William Il. BorIand of Missou-
Li J. Whitscrc OF Ohio. James +.
4E.s OF South Carolina. II. II. Flood
4 ttginia and j. 4. Hughes Of West
r'ris
21zlrs these. others who arc expect
naddress the convention are Champ
~, speaker OF the house of repre-
znrcs; c. S, Barrett. president Farm
a mon. and T. i. Brooks OF its lcgiS-
tYe committee. Dr. T.. Stage Within.
(, 1.,Ieiary of tho national committee on
':son labor.
the convention will be held in the Ho-
Baiclgh instead OF the New Willard,
Sas planned