Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-12-10
DELAWARE CANAL BILL
STRONGLY ADVOCATED
BEFORE COMMITTEE
j. Hampton Moore and Others
Present Arguments for Its
Acquisition by the
Government
NO PORK" IN PROJECT
BIZ q Star Corrcsnondcnt


WASHINGTON. Dec. tO.-Members Of
the House Rivers and Harbors Committee
today were urged to report favorably an
appropriation for Federal acquisition Of
the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal.
Representative j. Hampton Moore of
Philadelphia; Representative Charles A.
Llnthcum. of Baltimore, and other Off
GERS of the Atlantic Deeper Waterways
Association, appeared at the hearing be-
fore the committee to snow that until the
Government takes over privately owned
waterways it never will be possible to
develop properly the intcrcoastal chain.
The Chesapeake and Delaware Canal"
said Mr.. Moore, "is doing 1000 900 tons Of
business annually under the most adverse
conditions. That waterway is now n
relic of antiquity. II the Government
should take 1t over widen and deepen it,
freight rates would be lowered, because
the present barges could carry greater
cargoes with the same crews"
Are you sure" asked Representative
Charles T. BUoher of Missouri, that
there is no pork in this project?"
Mr.. Boohcr is very bitter because the
army engineers have reported against
continuing the Improvements undertaken
along the Missouri River.
~ am sure" replied Mr.. Moore. that
If the pork-barrcl experts should go over
this proposition with n iinc-toothed comb
they could not find n trace of pork"
PATRIOTISM AND PORK.
"a distinguished member of the House.
speaking before this committee yesterday
said any appropriation for rivers and
harbors east of the Allegheny Mountains
is patriotic, but that any for waterways
west of the mountains is pork" said Mr..
Boohcr
The papers of your city have been
crying pork so / want to know what
pork is. What is your definition OF
pork?" Mr.. Moore was asked.
Pork" replied Mr.. Moore good-natur-
edy, lis not what you get but what the
other fellow gets. | know that Judge
Booher feels kecnly about the Missouri
River situation, but most of us find out
after a few years service in Congress
that we get along better by cooperation
than by assault
Representative Moore quoted from
statements made by Secretary of the
Navy Daniels and Secretary of war Gar
rison to show that those Cabinet officers
favor the development of the intercoastal
chain because of the military and
strategic advantages that would be given
in time of war. Mr. Moore said. however.
that in his opinion the House Rivers and
Harbors Committee should not turn the
proposed development over to the Naval
Affairs Committee.
Project \ COMMERCIAL ONE.
1--WE are not in favor" said Chairman
Sparkman of the Rivers and Harbors
Committee, "of relcgating the improve
ment of any waterway to another COM
mittcc unless the chief use of 1t would be
by the Navy. This proposed improve
mentl Is more important from COM
mcrcial than a military standpoint"
Wilfred II. Schon, Of Philadelphia.
of the Atlantic Deeper
Waterways Association, told the com
mitee of the expenditures being made by
the city of Philadelphia and asked for
co-operation b. the Federal Government
in developing water transportation.