The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-10-24
SE JANITORIAL PARTY COMING ID SHOALS
Mccormick Waterways Com mittee Due To Reach Ala
 bama Thursday

CHESTER, H., Oct 25.-(By As sociated Press. )-Fog interfered to- day with the schedule of tho special senatorial committee en route from Chicago to New Orleans holding hearings on the Mccormick deep waterway bill The steamer Missis sippi which has carried the commit tee down the Illinois and Missis- sippi rivers from Peoria will. be abandoned by the senatorial party at Cairo tonight and the remainder of the trip will be made by rail.
 The re-arranged schedule was made necessary when the steamer encountered a dense blanket of fog shortly after leaving St. Louis at midnight last night.
 The senatorial party will gC ashore and after meeting the Cairo commit tee and taking dinner will leave for Memphis at 3:z5 a. nn., arriving in the Tennessee city at $50 a. m. Tomorrow they will be guests of the Memphis Chamber of Commerce and early Thursday morning the party leaves for Muscle Shoals.
 Interested In Shoals.
 The senators are displaying keen interest In the trip to the Shoals, Major General Lansing H. Beach, chief of engineers Cf the army who. has been with the senatorial party, will act as guide and instructor dur ing the visit to the shoals.
 The remainder of the trip will be by rail and the schedule previously announced will be adhered to accord ing to the announcement made this morning.
 It was ascertained today that Sena- tor McCromick may leave the party at Memphis and go on to New York to meet his mother who is return ing from abroad. For this reason entertainment and hearings at Mem phis may be pushed forward on ar rival there.
 Cuba Big Buyer.
 In his speech last night at St. Louis Senator Mccormick said:
 Tn one recent year three million people in the little republic of Cuba bought more foodstuffs and manu- factures from the United States than did all the people of the Republic of France. Year after year the people of three antilles living under the protectorate of the sovereignty or the United States, six millions in all, have bought from us since, the war more than any nation In continental Europe. Every year the average Cuban buys from us l2 times as much as does the average subject of the British Isles
 Porto Rico has come to buy from us more than does China every year. Can any one doubt the advisability, nay the absolute necessity Of the dependable navigable waterway from the lakes to the gulf after knowing these condltlons?"
 0
 Misunderstanding Smoothed.
 The senators expressed themselves today as being decidedly pleasel with their trip down the Illinois and Mississippi rivers to this point They stated that numerous minor mis- understandings had been smoothed of conditions that could not be learned in any other way and that they felt mere confident now of put ting into the bill amendments that would servo to do justice to the vari- ous local communities that had in- dividual problems to solve.
 eve have not met with a single opponent of the principles of the measure" Senator Mcclellan stated today. That is certainly indicative that the people Cf this great valley are unanimous in favor of the bill and we have every reason to be- lieve that all of their representatives in Congress will vote as their con stituents wants them to vote on it."
 The steamer Mississippi made brief stop at Cape Girardeau here an1 then embarked again on her way to Cairo where the senators were en- tertained tonight at a dinner as the guests cf the Chamber of Commerce