The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-08-11
BANKHEAD BELIEVES WORK ON WARRIOR MUST WAIT AWHILE Practically Impossible to Get Rivers and HarbOrs
 Measure Through BUSINESS IS STILL
 NERVOUS OVER WAR But Senator Believes Unprecedented Era of Prosperity Will Follow
 Reopening of European
 Markets

According to Senator John H. Bank head, who was in Birmingham yesterday there is probability that the present ces- sation in government work in Alabama will be indefinitely continued. He based his statement on his belief that 1t will be with exceptional difficulty that the passage of the rivers and harbors bill in this session will be accomplished.
 In the first place. explained the sem ator. the rivers and harbors bill was sdetracked in fhe interest of antitrust legislation. When the antitrust bills are enacted into law-and they will be, with certain amendments-the congressman will be worn to frazzle. And then they will naturally obey an impulse to rush home for the purpose of preparing against the elections in November.
 Tt is to be regretted by all Alabamians that the present conditions have arisen For the rivers and harbors bill carries an appropriation for Alabama streams of s200o.00o. The item in favor of the War rior river is s75oooo. Had that amount been obtainable this fall, the work on the river which has been continued for almost 9 years would have been com
 
 is destined to prove one of the distinct blessings to industrial Alabama.
 ''rhe Shackelford good roads bill pro- viding appropriations of $25. 900 for aid in good road building throughout all the states has also been sidetracked. l dc not entertain much hope for the success of either of these meritorious measures during the present session
 The east-like all other sections of the county-is greatly excited in regard to the European war situation especially In reference to the effect the war will have on American financial and industrial com ditions. It is the consensus of opinion that the war will not last long. While 1t does last however, there will be ar era of nervousness on the part of business in America As soon as it Is over,s we will be called upon feed the world while European crops are being planted and grown, and to repair the damage to the world caused through the destruction oi war. There is little question but thai America will become the market of the world and that period of unprecedented prosperity will have arrived
 In the meantime, the government al Washington is to be depended on to ex. tend helping hand. We are especiall, interested in plans to protect the south ern planter who has raised a fine croI of cotton. Nothing definite in this direc tion has vet resulted. One very goot suggestion is that the government ad vance gold and tSke cotton as security Cotton is as stable as gold. and ther, Is no good reason why this suggestion should not be acted on favorably I my view is shared by majority of mem bers of Congress. then the farmer whil, the price of cotton is low can afford t. hold his cotton until the normal marSe reasserts itself
 Fine conditions are bound to prevail This is an intermediate period, as i were, one which might be characterize, as moment of suspended animation"
 Senator Bankhead left in the afternoo, for Washington.