The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1922-03-02

| spring OF the opposition forces, still
counted upon Chairman Dempsey of
the Rivers and Harbors committee to
successfully sidetrack the necessary
legislation. In the meantime, how
ever, influential western men had been
IN communion with the Speaker, urg-
ing the point that as the forthcoming
bill had to do with transportation
that it should be referred to the com
mittee on Interstate Commerce. Mr..
Dempsey challenged this action and
moved that the Presidents recon-
mendation and accompanying papers
be sent to his committee.
After spirited debate the House
settled the question, voting to send
the body of the bill to the Commerce
committee on Ways and Means. Thus
these two committees will control the
bill, and the opposition must now
take their fight upon the floor of the
House where the sentiment of the
country may sit upon the issue.
G. P. Craig, of Duluth, managing
director Of the deep waterway as
ISOLATION, had headed the drive for
the canal project almost from it's in
ception. Congressman George M.
Young, of North Dakota, has also had
a large part in the matter. He was
one of the first Northwestern men to
enlist in the cause and has made
personal inspection of all points
where canalization will be necessary.
Mr.. Craig recently communicated with
Congressman Young, thanking him
for his part in the fight. Young will
also be in position to give much
further assistance since he is MEM
Der of the Ways and Means COM
NIT roo lUho thu hopIi~o. -
the bill must be considered.
| The project as a whole might bet
ter be described as the deep water
way from the Great Lakes to the sea,
because when completed it will be
found that canals have been deepened
at Sault Ste. Marie and new We'll
land canal constructed between Lake
Erie and Lake Ontario, as we'll as the
, canals at points along the St. Law
renee river, and with the construction
! OF locks at all these places. The
work has already been completed at
i Sault Ste Marie and the new We'll
| land canal will soon be completed by
the government Of Canada, Since that
work is now well advanced. For this
reason attention has been conferred
upon the St. Lawrence river where
the work has yet to be done, hence
the habit of calling the whole project
the St. Lawrence deep waterway.
| X * d: i
In the engineers report from the
international joint committee the cost
of the canal of twenty-five feet draft
is estimated at 1852 100000, and of
the Welland Canal at $6O,OOO,OO
The undertaking, it is proposed, shall
be financed by sale of bonds by the
American and Canadian governments,
and the bonds returned from proceeds
of the sale of the vast volume of
water-power developed.
The commission further recon-
mended that a treaty with Canada
be made in order to carry out the
scheme.
Despite the furries from various
elements in Congress, and the mes
sages going back and forth between
the White House and Capitol Hill, the
sation bill is far from settled, and if
the bonus is being made a political
corpse it is making some dreadful
noises in the process. Scare headlines
in the daily press herald varying
routes to the graveyard but the House
Ways and Means committee is con-
tinuing to consider the bill just the
same.
Right now the sales tax proposition
offered by President Harding is gath
ering momentum in the House and
while it has it's foes the reaction to
the proposal is not provoking the
wrath that was called forth earlier in
the week by the tax features then
being considered. Friends in the
House still predict that the soldiers
bill will pass, and that the bill will
be one which will give the soldiers
their just deserts.
. PARKER La MOORE.