New Britain herald., 1927-12-21
REED ASKS FEDERAL CONTROL OF FLOODS Senator Would Have Govern
 ment Pay All Costs
 FAY0RS NATIONAL PROBE
House Control Committee Introduces Measure Mapping Out Plan for C,lrbing Mississippi Overflow at Expense of All Citizens.

Washington, Dec. 21 LPl - The federal government was designated 70 assume the entire cost and rc- sponsibility of controlling the Mis- SisSippi rivers destructive floods in a bill introduced today by Chairman Reid of the house flood control committee
 Besides mapping out a plan for curbine the Mississippi's inunda- lions, the measure directs the fed cral government to investigate de structiVe floods on all other nayi- gable streams of the country and submit 10 congress a program for their control
 Named the Hood control act of l92S,' the bill by directing the gov crnment 10 shoulder the entire ex- pensc runs counter to the plan de- signed by Major General Jadwin. chief of army engineers. and rec commended to congress by President Coolidge. Tine Jadwin plan proposed that the government should bear So per cent of the cost and The valley states the remaining 20 per cent.
 The measure does not specify the amount of money to be appropri- .ated and would designate the Mis- slssippi river commission as the agency to carry out the task The commission in a report to General JadWln recommended an expendi- ture of SITS, ,ooO while the army engineer program fixed the flood control cost at s1S6. 900. The Jadwln plan recommended also that 'he commission be made an ad- Vlsory body 10 the army engineers, deprivng it of it's present complete control of the projection.
 Although drafted alone by Rep- resentative Reid, who is from southwestern Illinois where floods are frequent menace, the bill is said to cmbody many Of the views of the opponents in congress of the Jadwin plank.
 My views differ from those em- bodied in the reports to congress only as to the question of the gov ernments policy regarding pay nent, Representative Reid declared in a statement accompanying his bill. Upon the correct decision of this depends whether or not con- gross really wants or intends that disastrous floods like that of 1927 shall never occur again or whether only a gesture is intended.'
 Two other minor differences with the Jadwin plan were included in the bill. The commission would be increased from seven to 13 members with larger representation Of civilians over army engineers. h. stead of it's present reporting to the chief Of army engineers, it would submit its findings direct to con- gross.
 The measure did not outline spe- ciflc engineering recommendation for the control Of the Mississippi, following the Jadwin plan in gen cral, although proposing the use Of reservoirs and storage basins If deemed feasible. It did enumerate, however, as an index for the en- gineering program that the rivers flood stages should not exceed cer- tain heights along it's course which would place its flow below the exist ing leVee tops.
 The enlarging and strengthening of levres, together with tie build ing of additional cmbankmcnts and the construction of spillways, flood ways and diversion channels where deemed necessary by the engineers constituted the flood control devices proposed in the bill,
 In his statement, Mir. Reid said the flood problem was the most. important to be solved by con- gress.' He described his measure COntlnued On Page Fiyel