The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1912-04-16
RIVER AND HARBOR
BILLS IN CONGRESS

| Washington, April 13.-lt will be
the first day of May at least before
the Rivers and Harbors approprla.
| ton bill is reported to the Commerce
Committee OF the Senate, Senator
Nelson, Chairman of the committee
having given general notice that
| hearings would De accorded to all
interested in the bill. As result OF
this determination to give ample OPP
portunity to persons interested IN
particular projects, there have been
scheduled for hearings, the Sacra-
mento River, the Allegheny and Mis-
souri, River projects, and the Lakes
to-the-Gulf proposition
Since the passage of the River and
Harbor bill by the House great
many amendments have been propos-
ed to the bill by senators, which il
made part of the budget will consid-
erably increase the amount carried
in the bill as 1t passed the lower boz
dy. Then again there may be emev
gency appropriations provided for to
restore work either swept away or
greatly damaged by the disastrous
floods on the Mississippi, the Ohio
and the Missouri which will add con.
siderably to the bill when 1t comes to
the Senate for consideration.
The late United States Senator
Robert Love Taylor Of Tennessee
frightened more lives with his ex-
baustless fund of good humor, cheer
full philosophy and sunshiny nature
than any other man that state ever
Produced Early in his career he was
dubbed The Apostle of Sunshine
and he died in this city on March
3lst, without having lapsed once
from the truth of the sobriquet. He
was intensely human and men were
instinctively drawn to him. He low
ed the plain people and in turn they
loved him. AS a platform entertain
er he was without peer. His Ia
nous lecture THE Fiddle and the
Bow" has been heard over and over
again in every state of the Union,
1t was his best effort and from 1t he
derived the greatest amount Of re-
venue
Not long ago Senator Taylor said
TO a friend that in the twenty-five
years he had been before the public
with THE Fiddle and the Bow" he
had made approximately s125,OO0.
He had a dozen or more other lee
tures--all charmingly Tayloresque-
but THE Fiddle and the Bow" fur
nished the foundation stones of his
success as a platform entertainer. II
was a veritable medly of poetry and
pathoes, music and musings, melody
and mimicry and withal redolent OF
the best and noblest sentiments OF
the human heart.
Senator Taylor or Bob" Taylor as
he was effectonately known and cal
led in his native state, wrote that
lecture at the expiration of his sec
ond term as governor when without
u dollar he returned to private life
But THE Fiddle and the Bow wal
and Governor Bob" was not long il
> gathering up enough dollars to banisf
the proverbial wolf from the door
Senator Taylor, because of his biz
. heartedness and inability to say NJ
= to an appeal for aid never saved VI
any money, and as result he would
frequently find 1t necessary to pu
some cash into his purse without de
lay. In such emergency he would
make an engagement to deliver thu
Fiddle and the Bow" lecture ant
/ temporarily at least the stress of hi
financial condition would be relieved
) He remained in the lecture field al
S ter coming to the senate, saying tina
d he needed the extra change"
d Throughout his twenty-five year,
e on the lecture platform Senator Tay
e lor entertained time and again FOL
I charity, 1t being well known in Ten
D nessee that he built numerous cnur
d ches and school houses with the
q proceeds OF lectures which he gave