The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1915-07-30
Friday July 80, 1915.
"PoRk BARREL" HuMsue

+ Burton and Herrick of Ohio can.
not both be possibilities, and the
S"Mother of presidents" needs to Sc.
lect one favorite son, despite the dis.
tingished service Of Mr. Burton in
saving the taxpayers over fifty mil.
lions democratic pork" and that OF
Mr.. Herrick in the European crisis
Rutland Herald.
The foregoing paragraph is from an
editorial on the several suggested Re-
publican candidates for president
next year and is quoted because it re-
peats a statement about an alleged
"pork barrel" that goes the rounds
occasionally and is a good deal mis-
understood.
h At the time Senator Burton killed
the pork barrel bill we recollect the
/ Burlington News made an earnest at
/ tack ON the bill and lauded Senator
/ Burton for his activity against it.
THE Free Press gave about half a
mile, estimated acreage, of space to
the same subject. Since then both
of them have repeatedly grumbled
sbecauseI tie government did not deep.
EN- the Itnarrowsil of Lake Champaign
Now the fact is the pork barrer'
bin they were, SO valiant against car
lried the appropriation needed for
deepening the narrows.
The same bill had generous APP
I mr. ri ;D.,
work important to all of western Yer
4mont-that of deepening the Hudson
river channel at Haverstraw bay and
above Hudson SO as to bring deep
This deepening is an essential part of
the development of the Hudson and
Champlain waterway and Vermont
shippers and consumers ought to be
interested,
The rivers and harbors bill, the one
that is called the pork barrel" prob
ably contains few appropriations of
little Justice or value but Congress-
man J. Hampton Moore of Philadel-
phia, one of the finest and keenest
and most actively patriotic men in
America declared IN an address at
New York last fan that the amount of
these unwise appropriations is very
small. s- f
1t is easy, to see how these bad
clauses get In. Each appropriation is
for some section, OF waterway and
the bill is made up of compromises of
the friends Of many localities.
Probably in order to get the Cham.
plain narrows included congressman
from Vermont and New York had to
vote for an appropriation to deepen
the Tombigbee river in Alabama even
though they weren't quite sure there
was any such river. However, prac-
tlcally every proposed improvement
was investigated and Endorsed by the
engineers of the war department
Waterway improvement used to be
opposed by the railroads but James ]
Hill, some time ago, showed clearly
that each line of transportation bene.
fits the other so that this opposition
is now greatly lessened.
Senator Burton's connection with
the defeat of the rivers and harbors
bill was, in the opinion of The Ban
ner, a contemplate and unpatriotic
position for him to take. The state
of Ohio. where Burton lites, secured
from the treasury OF, the United
States over twenty millions of dollars
to deepen the sohio river and its
tributaries. AS a member of Congress
from Ohio Mr.. Burton aided in get
ting this moneysfor his own state and
then turned around and fought
against the Improvement of water
ways In other, states. The Banner
hopes that Senator Buttons presi- |
Dental boom win coflabse early.
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