The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1914-02-10
C|ST Of NEWLAND
BILL SEEKING TO
CONTROL FLOODS
Provides Expenditure of $10,000,000
Annually for 10 Years for
That Purpose,

The New Orleans Item of recent
date gives the following slmmGr
in brief of the provisions of Ia
Newlands River and Flood Control
ELL:
Provides s1O,OOO,OOO annually
$100,00O,000 in all, for the buiIdins
of lcyees, revetment of caying bank
and opening of controlled outlets o.
Mississippi river between st. Loui
ana gulf, and other sums for SQUIRE
stream control and river regulatio
north, cast and west OF Cairo an
st. Louis, and wherever a river preh
lem exists.
Gives the federal government IA
power to initiate projects, aifop
engineering plans for the regulate.
of the flow of the rivers so as t
equalzc stream flow so far as pos
sibe and to confinc such flow WITH
in fixed channels, and to carry surl
plans and projects to completion
The money is available on the bllls
passage.
Provides for the storage and di
version whore practicable Of exces,
flood waters to The dry lands need
ing moisture, thus effecting a quad
ripple benefit tai by reducing al.
controlling the volume Of floods H.
he low country; Oh by making tn
dry lands available for agricultur,
(O by making the river nayigabl
all the year by creating return
flew in the dry season; Cd by
creating hydro-electric power on al
enormous scale.
Enjoys the support Of all sectic
where the rainfall problem is acu;,
or will be acute because it pro
yides, in a fully coordinate way.
for the solution of all angles of the
problem for all tmie to come. 1t a
so ENJOYS the support of busine
men and men OF affairs general,
because the governmental policy i.
establishes is necessary to the wei
fare Of all the country as well
to the lower Mississippi valley, tn,
Ohio aad Missouri valleys and al.
the other great valleys of the coun
Try together with their SQUIRE,
streams,
Is supplemental to. ana in n,
way is a substitute for rivers am
harbcr5 bill appropriations for tn,
lower Mississippi valley, and ear
never be used as an argumlr,
against larger channel improvement
appropriations for the lower Miss
spipi rivers in the rivers and har
bors bill.
Has been endorsed by every ma
tional gathering where there was 5
free discussion Of its advocates ana
opponents. It's principle has been
endorsed by President Woodrow
Wilson, by eX-President Roosevelt.
by the river planks of the platforms
of the national Democratic and pro
gressive parties, by joint resolution
of the house and senate of ia,
Louisiana legislature, by name d
other legislatures, by commercial
bodies and exchanges in all parts of
the country, by Louisiana leyeo
board members. who considered tire
| bill in convention in New Or
leans III 1912, by Governor Hall.
Iex-Gevernor j Y. Sanders and Sena-
tor-elcct Broussard. by a great mass
meeting held in Tulane theatre.
New Orleans. May Il, 1918, by a
joint conference representing sever
al New Orleans exchanges and com
mercial bodies, repeatedly by the
New Orleans Progressive union
tnow the association of eommercel
and finally in principle by tho SEN
ate of the United States on February
| a0,'~t9lS.
/ Provides adequately for The needs
OF the Atchsfalays river country.