The Sentinel=record., 1914-07-26

the mountains on the Hot Springs Reservation, which amount includes $S9'7OO for extending the Hot Springs Creek Arch from it's present terminus on Church Street, in the city of Hot Springs, to South Water Street, ap proXimately the city limits. The in- stallation of the sanitary sewer sys- viate the necessity for continuing the Hot Springs Creek Arch, with it's present terminus at Church Street, because the impurities which are now | flowing into the creek under the arch will be cared for by the sanitary sewer system.
 ITO carry into effect the recon. mendations embodied in the report will require appropriations by Con gress as follows;
 For labor and material for per fecting a sanitary sewer system in the city of Hot Springs, the installa. | ton and operation of an experimental qualification pant, and providing puri. fication tanks in connection with such system, $96,595.
 For labor and material required l in the installation of a drainage sys- | tenn in the city of Hot Springs, to care for storm waters from the noun tans on the Hot Springs Reservation, $23IS4O.
 The sewerage system in the city of Hot Springs appears to be such as to require early measures looking to the betterment thereof, and I there fore commend your favorable con- sideration to the report herewith transmitted. to the end that the ap- propriations necessary for the con- pletion of the work be provided by Congress"
 MT. Payne. How far is Church Street from the Army and Navy nos pital?
 MT. Taylor of Arkansas. I should think about three or four blocks.
 Mir. Payne. Three or four blocks from the Army and Navy Hospital Has this drainage canal been extend Nu uhM II lo AuuItI 6lERGL.
 Mir. Taylor of Arkansas. Yes.
 MT. Payne. Who did that? MT, Taylor of Arkansas. The city of Hot Springs, largely did it.
 MT. Payne. Not the Government?
 MT. Taylor of Arkansas. Not the Government.
 In order that you may understand. gentlemen, just why these improve ments should be made and this ap- propriation granted l will explain to you that while the avenue between the two mountains to which I have referred is six or seven hundred feet above the sea level, yet storm waters coming down these mountains into the valley floods the main avenue in the city immediately in front of the hot springs waist deep to man, flowing into these hotels and bath houses on the reservation and flood ing them as also many portions of the city; and these floods come from the mountains on the reservation. causing bad waters to belch out of the now inadequate sewer system have photographs in my hand show ing these flood conditions. People come there to be cured by these wa ters, and not to be made sick because Of sewer conditions. If you ask mo why it is that the city of Hot Springs does not take care of this situation. l reply that these people. while will ing, benevolent, and patriotic, are the most burdenlborne people in any city in the United States.
 Under the constitution of the State of Arkansas a municipal corporation can not lend it's credit and issue bonds, but the only way by which it may be done is by the forming of al Improvement district by petition of the people to tax themselves for necessary Improvements. This they have done, but the tax is insufficient. and they are unable to meet this great and needed improvement: and in taxing themselves they can not tax | any portion of the reservation. be- cause it belongs to the United States l N'NfNi AhANAlAs nftg that IlNt tSilIiiiBH every year bears great burden, and why? The indigent, poor, and af- flicted come there from all sections of the Nation, and they and in Hot Springs without food and without money, and the grand, charitable peo. pie of that city will not let them starve while they are struggling for health and for life. (Applause) As l now recall, without the exact data before me, about 165000 baths were given to the poor in 1913 in these hot waters. The cures that are wrought are wonderful to think about, if you knew and had soen what l have seen 1 remember last Christ mas of meeting an old man, a soldier in the Civil War, who had visited Hot Springs, to be treated for rheu- matism. and as he was returning home he told me of how horribly he had been afflicted and how much he