The Sentinel=record., 1914-07-26

1 expectation, the waters of the sprinoe Tor the benefit of the sick.
 At Hot Springs there are two great mountains, one called the East and the other the West Mountain. located on this reservation. On the East Mountain are the hot springs. and as U remember, about 47 in number fur- aishing S27O0O gallons per day. On the West Mountain, which is only across a small deep valley some two or three hundred feet wide on'v cold water IS found. No part of the city ol Hot Springs is located on the Gov ernment reservation, except it be holeis and bathhouses built under lease from the Government The city of Hot Springs normally contains rom eighteen to twenty thousand inhabitants. The uses of the waters on this reservation, and especially the hot waters, are controlled ahso- iutely by the Government of the Unit l ed States. There are some 20 or 2O l pathhouses in Hot Springs. and also pub 'ic bathhouse maintained by the ~oFernment free to the indigent poor and which is absolutely iaadeauate some Of the finest ibathhouses in the world. l am told, are located on the reservation, and in addition to these an Army and Navy hospital is main tained where our soldiers and sailors are cared for in times of sickness. rms reservation and these hot waters DeIong 10 the people of the United states, and because Hot Springs is in the district which have the honor to represent on this floor I am ex. pected to and am proud to look after the needs and wants of these springs to the end that suffering people me 7 have the greatest benefit from these wonderful healing waters. Because. MT Speaker, it is known throughout our broad land that these springs are owned by the Government of tho United States. the Door. helpless ana afflicted people frort all over rho country visit them in the hope of re- ceiHing cure, and when they have re2thed there thousan1s and tens of thousands have be.h restored to ica. again. l mar be also permitted 'o state that not only d. they come there from all over our Nation. but from across the waters and from al most every country in the world
 The amendment to which have reference was recommended by the Secretary of the Interior in 1913. and his report, together with the survey looking to the improvement embraceJ in the amendment, is found in House Document No. 1928, Sixty-second Con. gress third session.
 Mir. Murdock. Mir. Speaker will the gentleman yield?
 MT. Taylor of Arkansas. Yes.
 Mir. Murdock What is the i'm. provement, in a word?
 Mir. Taylor of Arkansas. For the information of the gentleman I had better read from the report. The recommendation to which refer as having been made by the Secretary of the Interior is as follows:
 Department of the Interior
 Washington, January 20. 1913.
 sir: In the suadry civil act ap- proved August 2i, 1912. provision was made for preliminary survey of the sewer system of the city of Hot Springs. Ark, in the following terms:
 ''rhe Secretary of the Interior is authorized and directed, at the earH- est practicable date, to make a sur yey of the sewer system of the city of Hot Springs, abutting the Hot Springs Reservation. Ark, and to pre- pare plans and estimate of the cost of increasing the present storm drainage system as well as the pres eat sanitary sewer system of the city Of Hot Springs, the report of survey. including estimate of cost of the work, 10 be submitted to Congress as soon as practicable after the 1st | day of December, 1912. The expenses | incurred hereunder shall not exceed S10000: one-half of such expenses shall be paid out of the revenues de l rived from privileges and otherwise on the Hot Springs Reservation. and the other half shall be paid by tha city of Hot Springs. Ark.
 By arrangement between the de partment and the United States Geo logical Survey this work was under. taken by Mir Sledge Tatum, geo grapher in charge of the Rocky EMonntan division of that bureau. and he has submitted his report, which, with accompanying report of ]. w, Barnett, consulting engineer, and ex- hibits. is herewith transmitted for your consideration.
 'It will be seen therefrom that an estimate is submitted in the sum of s2G, 595 for labor and material in per fecting sanitary sewer system in Hot Springs and for conducting an experimental sewer puriiication plant, together with alternative proposi- tions for providing purifcation plants in the sum of $70,000 and $20,000
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