The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1913-10-24
INLAND WATERWAYS CONVENTION
THE INTERSTATE ASSOCIATION
WANTS IMMEDIATE CON-
GRESSlONAL AID.
Greatest Convention Ever Held and
Resolutions Passed on lntercoastai
Canal Have Great Meaning.

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executive committee the question OF
selecting the next meeting place;
adopting strong resolutions directed to
congress asking immediate action In
completing the intercoastal canal and
providing for its maintenance and op-
Grafton; hearing addresses from Con-
gressmen R. L. Henry OF Texas and
l.. Llazro of Louisiana, and listening
to many other rousing addresses and
discussions, the two days ninth an
nual convention of the Interstate In
land Waterway League of Texas and
Louisiana formally came to a close
Saturday The closing session of the
convention was characterized by much
important action on matters pertain
ing to the intercoastal canal IN Its
construction, maintenance and opera
ton.
The sessions of the convention have
been harmonious and marked through
out by great enthusiasm on the part
of the 500 or more delegates attend
ing from all parts of the coast country
of Texas and Louisiana from New Or
leans to Brownsville. This convention
has been, perhaps, the most repre-
sentative of all sections to be touched
or benefited by the intertoastal canal
ever held. All sections have been rep
resented by delegations.
The opinion has been expressed on
the floor of the convention by promi-
nent men of both Louisiana and Texas
that the intercoastal canal work has
developed to point where 1t is time
the Interstate Inland Waterway
League was getting busy on the prop
osition of using this canal and also
on the proposition of the greater canal
that is to be dug, 9-foot canal with
a minimum width of 100 feet. The
resolutions make particular reference
to the two sections Of the canal now
incompleted, but for the construction
of which appropriations have been
made or favorable report made by the
board of engineers.
The resolutions as adopted are as
follows:
l. We especially urge that congress
carry out the recommendation Of the
government engineers and provide i'm
mediately adequate means for the
completion of the following sections
of the intercoastal canal from Calves
ton to the Sabine; from Bayou Yer
million to the Teche, eliminating Cote
Blanche and Vermilion Bay from Nor
gan City to New Orleans.
2. We urge action on the part of the
government looking to an early con-
struction of that part of the canal be-
tween Corpus Christi and Baffins Bay.
8. We recommend that the water
now open between Morgan City and
the La ,Fourche, via the Casienne
Canal, be made a section of the inter-
coastal canal.
4. We ask congress to authorize the
appropriation for operating and TAX
ing care of the canal and the work. of
navigation to such portions of the In
tercoastal canal as have been or will
be completed, together with the
mouths of the adjacent rivers and
streams, the improvement of which
has been authorized.
s. We ask congress to make suit
able provisions for the establishment
of lights and beacons for the inter-
coastal canal and its tributary waters.
6. We strongly urge our senators
and congressman to work diligently
for the carrying out of the requests
Of this league as set forth in these
resolutions.
Z. We hereby declare ourselves in
favor of canal from the Mississippi
at New Orleans to the Rio Grande at
Point Isabel of 9-foot depth and a
lOO-foot width at the bottom, and
pledge our labors to securing from
the United States government at the
proper time sufficient appropriations
to construct canal of the above d.
mansions.
8. We commend the good work be-
ing done and publicly diffused by the
National Rivers and Harbors Maya
zine in the interests of the waterways
OF the United States.
8. We urge representatives of JET.
ferson, Galveston and Chambers coun-
ties to take steps in securing the nee.
essary rights of way, 300 feet in width,
along the route Of the intercoastal
canal as the same has been or may
be, located by the government engi.
neers, and also furnish to the govern.
ment the necessary abstracts of title.
Resolved, That 1t is the sense of
the convention that the greatest
amount of information can be secured
and the greatest interest maintained
by the free discussion of matters or
subjects by the delegates on the floor:
therefore, be it
Resolved, That the officers and the
executive cOmmiftaa orc bar,bp u;