Amarillo daily news. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 19??-current, 1914-09-02
RIVERS -HARBORS
WORK MAY CLOSE
FAILURE To PASS ArrROrKlA-
TION NAY THROW THOIS-
lNnS OFT OF WORK
MANY PROJECTS SUFFER
over Two Mud Half Million n"ilar~
oi Proposed appropriation
Would hc sed IN Texas
should Il Pass

NTfDla| 20 lNF Hf'-
WASHINGTON - g.. Sept
Statistics prepared in the office of /
the Chief ul Engineers al the re-
quest of senator Jos y Ranedcll /
of Louisiana President ui the Ma /
rionsI Rivers and Harbors Congress, /
how that there will be- urlou-hed 2
hy tho FIRST of October almost $4,000 /
government and contractors employ .
,s engaged ON river and harbOr work .
.2a.IGg to Boz exact this action .
beiu1 made impeatiyely necessary /
by reason of tine failure 90 pass th" +,
river. and uarbur- appropriation /
liI Among these more than ,'u"u /
empluyes are engineers. inspectors. J
Ioremen aud laborprs oft all CLASSES .
skilled and uHskiiol Counting i've .
persons to family The Wrlough
which really means the discharge
of these 20. 1859 employees viii Dee ST.
tally felt by lI5.N45 persons. But
. iAis does not tell hal. the story. for .
the suspension of work and the lay
ing Off of employees viii De- ieli m
countless branchc. of trade having 90
ia with the construction OF locks and
dams. the deepeniug and widening
oi rivers the af'"eiht "'
he revetmeni OF "ahNA ai,'-.a ss', Z
'i'.t-'. arc Nh' hla'e',aN
services thal eh'eI 'n'o l"' 49, u'e
opment of the nations waterways.
and the feeding. clothing and hous-
ins of the men who do the work and
th'ir families
vt lN' many p'"I''' '"'' "''' '
'"h'p' l'' '''''' 'n .'"' WV"
INA '''h tI'"IF "',,."' "'"
'|''f ''I"''I D. ''' wv
ii'W M'u'ab".i' I1 ''H """'" 900 '
'u' N"IH'f' nl', 'h' "'U'",'
eminent contractor 'up,", wv
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no ''- '"'u .'.. w '',
'pp' -,'' ,..,.!.,
'haff'd iu 'Hr N",N '.''' "'.''' ~
dad I."Nf ih ih' 7'. '.'',' '''''
ln i"' l'rll'I' '""'I''''" "'
Nissi ippl river ""iU'''''"u
men must b" 'l-'hhIt'' 'h '..'
ana second 'i7'I'''- '''...l''.-
from ape 'li'd'al u" "".' ''''
aNl' men 10 I'D" '"Ir' district "'
tween "''' "l''' """
Mississippi. and in lhr i""rih ''--
iri'l. 'rNi'ndlng from N'ii'h''h 7"
in" CUM ih' uuh''l D. lh
addition, '' Wru 100 h' 900" 'i. p"
the New brirdn. district aNN '>' .N
fhr Ni'hshurF di-Ii"l. VINO aye N''
employed upon ih' N'-''--'pI' '''
"r
lu 'He SO" London. '"h''Ii'' 'l
dlslri-i ."I men NIl' Do cropped. a"'
40 thr iir-i second ana 'hlrd N'"
York districts ''t. lh' pHl 'nt''.
"p" NiH Stop I'I '. men "' ''''a
snuNlic. tloflua. ''H hI N"h't''.
'fl. Alabama, N'' '' N''l''. -'' Do.
Kansas 'iiF. goo at H"nls'II'. diI
sos at Chattanooga. ON ln" Great
Lake more ihar I.'"" men "ii H'
laid u.i, of whom 100 are 100 IAt II.
'aro district
u DO" river ana NarhUr NII Iali.
FOO become hN ny october D. lHr
uriidhd, oregon. dlr'ti'' NII I'I"r
severely Tor ih" engineer. stat" 300
their report ihat oI ih' a..." mon di
work ou iNe improvement "l I."
tolnmnia and snake river. 'hl' ''
.1ull Do retained, h'I Joss '.
-.a4I
f'r'shHrth Wl'"lih- ana 'in'ia-
ul'i Detroit ana 'fand HaW's. lI..
utl. MllNaut'' aud Galveston. .'
fHrH Iul many 1iN"r cities 'u .I'
atlantic. Pacific an. CUT "ae'r. iH'
Drrai lafes and ih' interior aver
of iuD country "IlI .''l F.'h.t l.'
.u-p'u JON of N'rh '.. i.' ''' I"-
u' Uf fHoN ands %. ah'f'r- '' I'I.
most .ropopr'une ilW'
Senator kan-d'.i .H' h's '"'.
u1kuE fIr tight OFF HH Ui' 'H f''
ter 'udy'us ih" .ammaF mla' h'