Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1912-04-08
National Commission Makes
Report of Investigations and
Recommends Legislation for
Promotion of Commerce.
WOULD REDUCE COST
OF TRANSPORTATION
Proposition, When Carried Out,
Means Construction of Inland
Canals Connecting Ohio River
with Lakes Erie and Michigan
tBy Morning journal Special Leased Wire !

IBy Morning journal Special Leased wire.I
| Washington, ID. c., April Fur
! ther legislation To protect waterways
against railway competition. TO es-
| tablish amicable relations between
the two and to promote federal CO.
| operation with local interests in con-
| struction of canals are urged in the
| first report Of the National Water
ways Commission made public today.
| The report declares that the fed
| eral government within the compara-
| lively near future must inevitably as
sumo control of some features of wa
| ter power regulation.
The commission recommends that
! army engineers be assigned 10 super
wise the proposed canal to connect
the Ohio river near Pittsburgh with
Lake Erie when $40, 100000 cash and
S5,000,000 in bonds are made avail
able by the communities Interested.
The secretary of war, however. may
demand shat these amounts be IN
creased. The commission recon
mends that when work on the canal
is begun that congress appropriate
for an adequate harbor in indian
creek on the Lake Erie end ana to
improve the Ohio river in the Pitts
burgh district. These Improvements
are to be completed when operation
of the canal begins but the govern
ment is not to be required to buy
any land and is not bound to assume
any financial responsibilities what
ever
H.
Erie to the Southern end of Lake
Michigan Is recommended and the
commission concluded from its pres |
ent information that the most fea-
sibe route would be through the Maui
NEE river by way of Fort Wayne and |
that fourteen feet would he practi- !
cal depth.
II recommends increased power for
the Interstate Commerce Commission
to govern joint rates and through
routes between rail and water lines. to
compel physical connection between
them and to compel railways to
charge less than local rates to all lake
and river ports on through traffic ex-
changed with domestic boat lines.
other recommendation are for
legislation to control public termi-
nails federal participation with locali-
ties in flood control; prevention of
deforestation on on-agricultural
lands and reforestation of denuded
tracts; amendments of laws control
ling water power on navigable streams
and within the public domain.
The commission points to the traffic
possibilities of the Lake Erie and Ohio
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