The Colorado statesman., 1922-07-15
.LAKES-TO-OCEAN
WAITE ERWAY PUSHED
MIDDLE WEST is DETERMINED
THE ST. LAWRENCE PROJECT
SHALL De REALIZED.
CHANCE FOR TRADE OFFERED
Opposition of Atlantic Coast States
Consressmen May Be Removed by
Votes for Ship Subsidy, Which They
Especially Desire.
BY JAMES P. HoRNApAY


Westinghouse seems that interest
in the st. Lawrence river waterway
which, If ever opened. will connect the
Middle West directly with the Atlantic
ocean Is not to be allowed to languish.
The people of some IS states In the
central part of the country are deter
mined that the waterway shall be
built, and they are fortunate In having
the Harding administration on their
side. The present hitch In getting the
enterprise under way is due to the
unwillingness of the Canadian govern
ment to enter into Il treaty with the
United States, which would be the first
step in the great enterprise. The State
department believes that the attitude
which the Canadian government has
assumed for the time being is due to
Canadian politics, and that within the
next few months 1t will be possible
for Canada and the United States to
make a treaty.
Obviously there Is a fine opportunity
for the international waterway crowd
in the Central West to do some trad
ing in the congress with the ship sub
sidy crowd in the East. One public
man suggested that If there is trading
there will be some fighting between
the two forces. The Central West is
good deal more interested in the pro-
posed waterway than in ship subsidy,
while the Atlantic coast states are not
only not interested IN the success of
the st. Lawrence waterway, but are
openly opposing the enterprise. This
eastern crowd wants ship subsidy
above everything else at the present
time. There is a good deal of talk
behind the scenes among the middle
westerners to the effect that If the
easterners expect to get their subsidy
bill through the congress they must
withdraw their opposition to the deep
no indications of compromise be-
tween the two forces.
Recommended by Joint Commission.
The supporters of the waterway
project are encouraged by the report
of the international joint commission
on boundary waters, representing the
Ohlleu lnt lDOlulHlOn Vi
Canada, which says that the st. Law
renee project is entirely feasible.
This commission studied the project
for about two years. 1t agrees with
Charles Evans Hughes, secretary of
state, that the United States and Can
ada should enter into an agreement by
way of treaty for the proposed i'm
DrOyement
The international commission also
recommends that the new Welland
ship canal be embodied in the scheme
and treated as part of it. Other
recommendations by the commission
are as follows:
That there shall be an exhaustive
investigation of the extent and char
acter of the damage through fiowage
involved in the plan of development
finally adopted.
That, assuming the adoption of the
plans of the engineering board, or of
other plans, also involving n readjust-
ment of the international boundary,
In order to bring each of the power
houses on its own side of the bound
airy, appropriate steps be taken to
transfer to one country or the other,
as the case may be, the slight acreage
of submerged land involved.