MISSISSIPPI^TO/ATLANTIC DEEP WATER^ 



WAYS ASSOCIATION 



A NOTABLE convention of the federal appropriations adequate for 

 month was that of the organiza- prompt and certain completion of the 

 tion hitherto known as the "Gulf entire project; and, in case the state of 

 Coast Inland Waterway Association." the public treasury forbids sufificient ap- 

 It was held at Columbus, Ga., Novem- propriations at an early date, we favor 

 ber lo-ii, and was largely attended by the issuance of bonds in such an amount 

 delegates from Louisiana, Mississippi, as to insure the completion of the work 

 Alabama, Georgia, and Florida, with in a businesslike way. 

 members and guests from Illinois, In- In voicing our needs, we appeal to 

 diana, Ohio, South Carolina, and the the Federal Government as of right ; 

 District of Columbia. Notable ad- and as citizens and as representatives 

 dresses were made, that by Hon. Dun- of the citizens of six sovereign states 

 can U. Fletcher, U. S. Senator-elect we claim consideration and action by 

 from Florida, attracting particular at- Congress in accordance with the re- 

 tention as an exposition of the present peated recommendations of the federal 

 condition and needs of navigation in administration and the united declara- 

 the Southern States. tion of the governors of all the states 



The name of the organization was of the Nation, 

 changed to "The Mississippi and At- Resolved, that this convention cor- 

 lantic Deep Waterways Association,'" dially and unreservedly approves the 

 and a committee was appointed to re- work of the National Rivers and Har- 

 vise the constitution. Senator Fletcher bors Congress, and endorses the policy 

 was elected president for the ensuing advocated by it, and that this associa- 

 year, with Mr. Leland J. Henderson, tion take out a membership in the Na- 

 secretary, and Mr. G. A. Waterman, tional Rivers and Harbors Congress 

 treasurer, with a strong body of vice- and send delegates, not exceeding fifty, 

 presidents and an efifective executive to the coming convention of said con- 

 committee. The resolutions adopted §^ess in Washington, December 9, 10, 

 (apart from those of a more personal ^nd 11, 1908, and urge upon all munici- 

 character) are as follows • palities and commercial organizations 



Feeling that the full industrial de- i" the states represented in this con- 



velopment of the southeastern states vention to do likewise, 



must depend on improved transporta- That this association authorize the 



tion facilities, we favor the adoption president to appoint three members as 



and prompt execution of a comprehen- directors of the National Rivers and 



sive plan of waterway improvement. Harbors Congress, and ask that these 



We especially favor and call for, as a appointees be elected such directors by 



just right, the construction of a deep said congress^ne from the Chatta- 



inland waterway along the eastern gulf hoochee River Basin, one from the east 



coast to connect the Mississippi River gulf coast, and one from the Atlantic 



with the Atlantic Ocean, together with Coast of Florida. 



the improvement of the gulf slope Resolved, that the Mississippi to the 



rivers in such manner as to open new Atlantic Inland Waterways Association 



territory to water transportation. We endorses a comprehensive businesslike 



favor the execution of the work under system of caring for and improving 



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