New Iberia enterprise and independent observer. (New Iberia, La.) 1902-1944, 1913-04-05
SENATOR NEWLANDS' FLOOD
PREVENTION AND RIVER
REGULATION BILL.

Senator Francis G. Newlands,
native of Mississippi, but who
has represented the State of Ne
vada in the United States during
ten successive congresses, an
nounces that he intends to push
his river regulation and flood pre-
vention bill, which is now pend
ing in Congress, to an early vote.
The bill creates a Board OF
River Regulation and provides a
fund of $50,OOO,OOO annually for
ten years for the regulation and
control of the flow of navigable
rivers and for flood prevention
and protettion and for the bene-
fetal use of flood waters. 1t q so
provides for the cooperation Of
Government services and bU-
reaus with each other and with
States. Municipalities and othee
local agencies.
The Board of River Regulation
Is to consist of the Chief of En-
gineers of the United States
Army, the Chairman of the Miss
issippi River Commission, the
Director of the United States
Geological Survey, the Forester
of the Department of Agricnl-
ture. the Director of the Recla
nation Service, the Chief of the
Bureau of Plant Industry of the
Department of Agriculture, the
Secretary of the Smithsonian In
stitution, Que civil engineer, one
sanitary engineer, and one hydro
electric engineer, the last three
to be appointed by the Presi,
dent.
The special function of the
board at all times shall be to pro-
mote the adoption of the best
and most approved methods and
systems Of investigation, admin
istration, construction and ope1
ration In carrying out specific I'M
provements, works and projects.
The bill specifically provides
that the work to be done under
! it "shall be supplemental to and
co-ordinated with the work as
specifically prescribed by Con
gress in other acts. y In other
words. it is not to be subsh'
tute for special appropriations or
appropriations carried by the
| Rivers and Harbors bin for spe-
cific purposes, such as the Sc, 1000.
600 carried by the Rivers and
Harhors bill passed by the last
session of Congress, but is Ia be
supplemental to such appropria
tiOns.
Section ls, lines 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 an'
II contain the following: Not
less than ten million dollars an
naually (for ten years. shall b'
apportioned to the Mississippi
River from st. Louis to the Gulf
five million dollars (annually TO
ten years. to the Missouri River
five million dollars (annually TO
ten years. to the Ohio River, fiv
million dollars (annually for ten
I,vears) to the upper Mississip
River about Saint Louis.
The following is the concluding
provision of the bill:
"For the Corps of Engineers
United States Army, for building
bank protective works to preven
erosion and cutting of the bank
and consequent eaving, and t.
control the river and hold it il
a permanently fixed ant estab
lished channel. and for buildin!
and maintaining revetments
dikes, wallis, levees. embank
ments, gates, waterways, by-pas
ses. hood-water canals, restrain
ing dams, impounding basins
and bank protective works fol
river regulation, and, as a mean
to that end, the building o
works for reclamation, drainage
and food protection, and TO
budding reservoirs and artificia
lakes and basins for the storage
of food waters to prevent ant
protect against foods and over
| flows, erosion of river banks, an,
breaks in levees, and to regulate
the flow of source streams ant