Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1919-04-22
SENATE AGAIN AMENDS
$2O,OOO,00O BOND
LEGISLATION
BACK ON CALENDAR
TAKES ITS PLACE WITH OTHER
PENDING BiLlS-GOVERNM ENT
WILL BE ASKED TO CHIP IN Sf0,.
coo,ooo TOWARD PROJECT.

Springfield. H., April %. SpeciaI)
Senator Bars deep waterway bill
met another snag in the senate this
morning, when it was scheduled for
passage with out further amendments,
After the bill as previously amended
was read it was suggested that the
thirty years power leasing clause be
more stringent to safeguard the rights
of the municipalities along The pro"
posed route, as weil as to protect the
states rights in the distribution OF
power.
The amendments were added after
the bill was taken from third reading.
After agreeing to the changes it was
placed in order on the calendar ana
viii take its turn along with the othef
bills now having passed through the
final stages before appearing for
record vote.
Ask Federal Aid.
Springfield, M April % Admins
tration l,ians for asking $l0,000oO0
federal Md for the states proposed
Chicago Mississippi shipway Will be
announced in the senate tomorrow
when the S20.000. 900 waterway meas
ure is called up for final passage
w l.. Sacket, superintendent OF
WATERWAYS. and Sen. Barr, sponsor for
the bill il the upper house, confer
rel late Monday and agreed on pro
gram.
Illinois plea for federal aid, to be
introduced in the next national con
gress. will have the support Of TWEEN
tv.one Mississippi Valley and tribu-
tary states through their congress
sional delegations. Supt Sackett re-
vealed this. giving substantial assur-
ance that congress will act fayora-
bly
Plans for this. it developed today,
were perfected at the Mississippi Val
ley Waterways association meeting
at st. Louis last week
Call for $4,76o.0oo.
The association, by resolution.
unanimously recomm mended:
THAT we call upon congress for an
appropriation of $l,050,0o0 for the im-
provement of the Illinois river from
its mouth to Utica, and an appropria-
ton Of $3,710 600 for the improvement
of the Mississippi from the mouth Of
the Illinois to st. Louis.
The appropriation of $l0,000,0 900 in
the construction of the proposed wat
erwav from Utica to LockpOrt"
The carrying out of these recon-
mcndations will assure navigable
waterway from the lakes to the gulf.
More than thirty congressman and
senators attended the conference
which passed the resolution.
The congressional appropriation
will be asked with the understanding
that the waterway when completed
will be turned over to the federal gov
ernment for operation and mainten-
ance.
If the government passes the ap-
preparations and takes over the wat
erways, Illinois will not need to spend
all the $2O,000,O0O asked in the sen
ate bill, it was said tonight.
Opposition to the measure here
seems to be dissipating and there is
every reason to believe that it will
pass the senate tomorrow.
Cement Report Delayed.
Senator Daley, chairman of the
cement trust investigation commit
tee, REACHED Springfield this after
noon. He announced the committee
would not report until after con
ference with Gov Lowden.
1t is open secret here that members
of the committee are disappointed
with the investigation. Personally.
they are said to believe there are
combinations" for price fixing, but
convicting evidence was not forth
coming. One committeeman said;
1--WE discovered little indication of a
probable reduction in prices"
Decision to recommend the state
make its own cement will largely
depend on the wishes of Governor
Lowden.