Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-07-08
ACTION TO Be TAKEN
At CANAL HEARING
Important Meeting, to Consider
Subject, to be Held at Wash
ington, Tomorrow.
Special Dispatch From Every Evening :
Washington Correspondent

| Special Dispatch From Every Evenings
Washington Correspondent
Washington, July s Action IS the
| keynote word of hearing to he held here
| tomorrow on the inland waterway system,
one link of which will connect Chesapeake
| BAY with the Delaware river and open
| M TO greater extent the port facilities
| and commercial future of Wilmington.
Senator Salisbury, by n resolution call
| ing on Secretary Redfeld for definite
| information as To- the commercial and
| defensive value of the canal system linking
| Boston. New York, Philadelphia, Will
mington, Baltimore and Norfolk, took the
| first decisive step last week in the chain
| of events lending mp TO tomorrow
| conference.
1t is expected that n committee APP
| pointed following the recent meeting
in the mayors office nj Philadelphia,
and one Of whose members is Colonel
| George a Elliott of Wilmington, will
have adopted resolutions and recon-
rnendntions by tomorrow which will he
| useful IN procuring results.
The hearing is to be before Interstate
Commerce Commissioner Prouty. on
behalf of Director Of Railroads William
e. McAdoo The principal opponents
will he Representative J. Hampton Moore
of Philadelphia, president of the Atlantic
Deeper Waterways Association; Senator
Simmons chairman Of the Senate COM
mittcc on finance. and Representlve
Snnll chairman 81 the House committee
on rivers and hartors
Ned rHE wATtRW.sYs
Thc chief reason 10 be advanced for
development Of the canal- and the pllr-
chase and construction Of bargcs 10 he
used on hem IS TINT tho existing rail
congestion makes imperative supple
mental means Of transportation il the
impending coal famine Is ~ be lcsscucd,
and If he war work Of he country Is to
be carried out with the greatest possible
efficiency The recently proven advantage
Of having inland waterways by which
vessels can proceed between the ports
mentioned, u IS considered can not bc
more grcaily illustrated than by the recent
lncursion III German submarine uasps N
American waters
Mr. Moore has been promised The
information asked for in HE salisbury
resolution Us promptly IS il ran be Oh
tained II possible, this wll he laid
before Judge Prouty a. additional proof
81 the necessity for aciion SUM ~
money carrIcd IN tho railroad admins
tration It'll is 70 be used for ne purchase
and construction of bargcs Mr. Moore
has information that Tins IS now being used
for barges to bc used ~ Transporting
goods down the Mississippi river to the
gulf ports Commerce which II thus
diverted from the eastern ports Rill BE-
more than compensated. il Is held by the
development d the chain Of canals among
the Atlantic scaportS mentioned
THE RESOLUTION
Senator salisbury resolution reads
rs follows
That the Secretary u Commerce
- hereby directed 10 furnish for hr usc
Of the senate such information as 3
available concerning the advantage and
value 10 the commerce a the country
Of the acquisition, construction and
maintenance of the canals connecting
Chesapeake bay with the Delaware river.
that river by canal across the state Of
New Jersey with New York harbor and
the canal connecting Massachusetts bay