New Britain herald., 1916-05-20
DELEGATION SPLIT 3 ON FLOOD CONTROL
And Brandegee Gives Long Talk on the Army Bill
Especial to the Herald.)

 speech delivered in the house. Rep resentatives Oakley and Tilson had previously spoken against the bill. Speaker Clark declared on the floor of the house that he favored inn provement of the Connecticut river to prevent floods. MT. Hills speech was as follows:
 "Mr Chairman and gentlemen, a rew years ago I sat in the gallery of the Chamber of the House of Com mons in England, and I heard a speaker make this remark: If by walking across that aisle I could save the English government a million pounds, I would not take one step.' As I listened to him I said to myself, I hope the time will never come when my vote on an appropriation in congress will be governed by section- al considera tions.'
 'In 1865 I came up the Mississippi river. In 1909, I think it was, I went down the Mississippi river, and, with the exception of the magnificent growth in Memphis, I saw little change in he fifty years that had transpired. I saw a section of the country with wealth and prosperity on the east and with rapid growth on the west. I said to myself, I am not an engineer, I am not a person who Is capable of deciding how this thing should be done, but I believe that with American spirit and American enterprise it is possible to remove this great waste space between the prosperity and wealth on each side and make it equal to the others, with 8 uniform and steady growth for a common country right straight through.
 "Now. I may be wrong. It may be possible that 1evees will not do it; 1t may be possible that it needs inn pounding of the waters in the north west, but I am for trying an experi- ment which will remove this waste space in tn eheart of my country, which will improve this great water way, and give the possibility of pros perity to these people.
 "I travelled down the Amur river, in Siberit, where the depth of the water varies at different seasons from nothing to 57 feet. I have seen the river for 2,000 miles policed every day, with the water on every bar measured, with signals on the bank always in sight and when I saw that, gentlemen, and compared it with what I saw on the Mississippi river, was proud of Russia and less proud of my own country because of the conditions I have seen here
 Now, it may be 8 mistake; I do Al 1r- wealthy country. My own idea in regard to the matter is, knowing as you do about my views on taxation, that would not put this project into current expenditures in this country l would provide an income tax for just this purpose. That is what I think an income tax should be re- served for, great national enter prise like this, and I stand here to- day to advocate this proposition for the common welfare of the whole country"
 Savings Deposits in National Banks.
 Representative Hill has reintro- duced his bill to permit investment of the funds of savings departments of national banks. in modified form, and it now provides for amending section A of the federal reserve act so that it will read as follows:
 National banks conducting savings departments, with savings accounts segregated and with five per centum reserve maintained against them is required for time deposits under the Federal Reserve law, in addition to making loans and investments here tofore authorized by law may invest the whole or any part of the deposits in such departments according to the laws regulating the investments of savings banks in the states in which such banks are located: Provided, that the state law shall have been approved for that purpose by the Federal Reserve board.
 Representative Oakley has been ap- pointed member of the finance com x.ittee of the republican national con- gressionaI committee.
 Brandegee on Army Bill.
 Senator Brandegee of Connecticut made a speech full of "pep'' against the conference report on the army reorganization bill, which rejected his amendment providing for a regu- lar army of 250,000 in peace time.
 ''To say" he remarked, living in a fools paradise as we are, that we will stake everything upon the chance that nobody will attack us and that we will not be. called upon to enforce our policies or help de- fend anybody else, with out Panama Canal and our Philippine Islands and our outlying possessions in the Atlantic and Pacific; to talk about trusting in Providence or to preach moral homilies to the tigers and panthers that are raging around the world licking their chops and seeking whom they may devour; to talk about garlands of roses and the millennium and the brotherhood of mankind