The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1913-10-07
GOVERNMENT TO AID
in MISS. HIGHWAY
CONSTRUCTION
ENGINEER APPOINTED TO SUPER.
WISE AND INSTRUCT COUNTY
ENGINEERS.
.OMBIGBfE CASE IS REOPENfD
Locks And Dams May Yet Be Con-
strueted So AS To Give Year
Bound Service To Columbus, Miss.
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Cost s2,seo,ooo. !
(By Frank D. Lander, Jr.)

Washington, D. c., Oct THE Fed
eral Government has agred to cooper
ate with the Mississippi State High
way Association in their efforts to
build modern highways from Corinth
to Gulfport and from Meridian to
Vicksburg. The Secretary Of Agricul-
ture has notified Senator Williams
that the department will gladly fur
nish, If desired, an expert road engi-
neer to take general charge of the
work and to organize the local county
engineers.
Senator Williams asked the depart
ment for a corps of constructing engi-
neers, but received the reply that it is
beyond the policy of the department
to furnish more than one. 1t is be-
lieved, however, that this expert, who
is to be a man of long experience, will
be invaluable in organizing and giving
general directions concerning the con-
struction and thereby insure a unifor-
nifty that might not be attainable il
the various county officials worked in
dependently.
Senator Williams has communicated
this information to the officials of the
association at Corinth, and 1t is hoped
this advice will hasten the beginning
of actual construction.
Asks Britain's Cooperation.
Representative Harrison has intro
duced a resolution in the House au-
thorizing and requesting the President
to invite the governments of Great
Britain and other countries to appoint
representatives of such countries to
join representatives of this country to
consider the question of eliminating
gambling features on cotton exchanges
in all countries.
1t is generally conceded that an act
similar to the Clarke amendment to
the Underwood tariff bill, which placed
a prohibitive tax on trading in cotton
futures, will be passed at the next reg
ular session of Congress. 1t is feared,
however, that although this act will
take the control of cotton prices out
of Wall Street, it will really only
transfer this control to Liverpool.
The object of the Harrison amendment
is to strike the last crushing blow at
gamblers control of the prices of cot
ton.
The resolution has been referred to
the committee on foreign affairs, of
which Representative Harrison is a
member. Representative Flood, chair
man of the committee, has been quot.
ed as favoring the resolution, and 9th.
er party leaders have given it their
endorsement. No trouble is anticipat.
, ed in having 1t favorably reported and
passed, and it is sure to meet with the
endorsement of President Wilson. The
resolution carries an appropriation oi
:, $4,000 to defray the expenses of thi.
Government.
q Tombiebee Case Re-opened.
/. The hearing before the Board o
q Engineers on the project to put lock-
and dams in the Tombigbee river frou
n Demopolis, Ala, to Columbus, Miss
q resulted In the Board, by unanimou
4 vote, authorizing another survey Of tn
~ section and another estimate OF tn
m probable cost and probable CONNIE
"a cial advantages to be gained. A corp
a Of engineers has been detailed
~ spend about six months on a caref,
survey and this corps win begin worl
II Is thought, within month.
The cost Of the project has bee
"A estimated at $4,000. 900. and the BoaI
decided adversely because Of the gre
ha expense. It Is believed the engineel
re- may arrive at lower figure upon I
~. examination. The re-opening Of Il
mi. case is a source of satisfaction to ;
for the Mississippi delegation and esI
N cially to Representative Candl.
raj whose chief object during his 10
Iaw congressional service has been To
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