MISSISSIPPI'TOATLANTIC 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 oi 

 Coast Inland \Yaterway Association." the public treasury forbids sufficient ap- 

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

 ber 10-11, and was largely attended by the issuance of bonds in Mich 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 representative ~ 

 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 liar- 

 vise the constitution. Senator Fletcher bors Congress, and endorses the p >licy 

 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 Xa- 

 secretary, and Mr. G. A. \Yaterman, tional Rivers and Harbors Congr 

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

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

 committee. The resolutions adopted & c5 < in ^ ashington, December 9. 10, 

 (apart from those of a more personal and II, [908, and urge upon all mumci- 

 character) are as follows : !' allties -' 1 commercial organizations 



Feeling that the full industrial de- represented in this con- 



velopment of the southeastern states vention to do likewise, 



must depend on improved transport.!- ociation authorize the 



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



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

 xivc plan of waterway improvement. 



\Ye especially favor and call for, as a appour 



just right, the construction of a d. M congres -one from the Chatta- 



inland waterway along the eastern gulf hoochcc River '.asin. 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 Mi-^i-sippi 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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