Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1919-01-11
HOUSE PASSES BILL
AUTHORIZING j. s.
To BUY D.CANhL
Big Shipway Crossing Delaware
and Maryland Peninsula is
Practically Assured.
APPROPRIATES $4,000, 900
apecial Dispatch From Every Evening s
Washington Correspondent

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Washington Correspondent
WhsHNGroS. JAH II.
The House Of Representatives yegter
dav adopted hat provision IN the River
and Farbor Bill whTeh appropuatfs
81 0n0. 600 for The purchase of the Cheaa-
peakc and Delaware Canal, not more
than g.. 5lt $50 70 Of which shall be used
for it's acquisition and The balance 10 be
applied as an initial appropriation for
rs improvement All the appropriations
for the improvement oi Maryland 3
rivers and harb0Ts wcrc also accepted
The provision for The Chesapeake
and Delaware Canal acquisition BY the
government was the subject of some
discussion Representative Frear. of
Wisconsin charged that the canal paid
nothing on ITS stock. that its bonds sold
fer fS cents on the dollar hat II had been
run 1T doiicii for years: that tho canal
had failed 10 fltmonstratc its value and
thnt the nero fact that i provided =
safe water trlp between Baltimore and
Philadelphia counted for nothing IN
detorrir ing the wisdom If the appropria-
tion Representative Madden, If illinois.
took he same attitude ard declared hat
with defclt of $4,000 O00 900 IN the
treasury. Appropriations such as ths
should moi De favored
OPPOSITION ovgrcosF
Represeutatlvc ] Hampton Aiooro,
president II the Atlantic Deeper Water
WAYS Aeocaflou and Representative
Ilnthielrm If Baltimore, IT. addresses
conpieta aly overcamc III opposition Mr.
Moore pointed ont that the canal pays
four per cent upon IFS bonds. besides
meeting ali maintenance charges ard
that III those wears when Il had been
operated 1T n deficit i had been able -
neef all II Its charges ont of earnings
~ other Years III maintained that Il
the government doepenod aud wldcned
IL canal and made Il an up-fo-Cate
aferway Il would soon prove r. value
IN water transportation lie pointed ont
that this country IS far behind European
NATIONS In providing WATERWAYS ~ 2
supplement to rail transportation and he
spoke nf the recent report nf President
Wilson gong % Manchester, tho great
british manufacturing center, and 4 bIg
liner On the Manchester canal
The result If the building of that
canal. he said Was hat Manchester
gets lts meats from America and its other
food supplies ~ cheaplY as Liverpool,
On the coast That fact, he continued,
DfiHtfti lie tgsstf1Il - Dt RtiIEittA III ttalH
country lie called attention 10 tho
embargn@s placed upon shipments last
winter bv the railroads, and said that
cities like New ! ork were told, IN effect
to get eggs from their own henroost and
potatoes from their streets while q the
same time the grenl producing fields ol
the South aud West were lush plth food
stufTs
Iii tins connection Mr. Moore criticised
the Railroad administration tor not
making usc oi the waterways n connec-
ton with rail transportation
PHILADELPHIA V. BALTIMORE.
Mr. Linthicum read IN editorial from
the Baltimore American of last Tuesday
entitled II Applies 10 Baltimore and
pointed out that Baltimore was not be
hind Philadelphia, IT whose port facilities
Representative Moore had drawn !
most roSeatc picture. representatives,
Linthicufu and Moore }ndulged ii some
good -natured badlnagc, Mr. Moore ad-
mitting that OWNS to certain conditions
that now exist in Washington Baltimore
Was enjoying i little special prosperity
Ju,t nov Nj LinthIcum admitted that
there might be those in Baltimore VINO
had gathered some benefit from selling
squirrel hlskv but that they were very
few. and even II that, the ticker they
sold was better than the stuff most pop
ular III Philadelphia. which had compelled
Secretary Of the Navy Daniel, 10 threaten
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