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as we can safely and sanely do the ciation ; Hon. J. A. Ockerson, of 



uork the work that is necessary to the Mississippi River Commission; 



carry on our great internal commerce James Rawlms, representing the Com- 



and foreign commerce, I have no doubt mercial Travelers of America; Calvin 



th;it conservatively speaking, we will Tompkins, of the New York Board of 



have expended from $15,000,000,000 to Trade; Frederick Skene, state engineer 



s_>o,ooo,ooo,ooo. of New York; Gov. Charles S. 



"Now, nobody here wants Congress Deneen, of Illinois; Representative J. 



in thi' next sixty days to commit this T. Lloyd, of Missouri; Senator Robert 



country to an expenditure of $20,000,- L. Owen, of Oklahoma; Col. C P. 



000,000, and for this purpose to issue Goodyear, of Georgia, and others, 



bonds. 1 am always in favor of the The report of the committee on 



I 'nited States paying its debts, and if resolutions, in its report, made a num- 



it is necessary for its great work in ber of strong recommendations, all of 



peace or war, I stand ready to say, which were adopted by the Congress 



Issue bonds. But expenditures must at the session of December 12. 



be safe and sane. I would not want These resolutions provide, first, for 



to do this work or any other work, a bond issue of $500,000,000 for the 



except as it can In- sandy done." improvement of the interior waterways 



Speaker Cannon said that, after all, of the United States, to be issued on 



legislation was a matter of compromise, the same lines as those of the Panama 



He said he believed ultimately there Canal bonds, the money to be available 



would be a fourteen foot channel from w h en necessity demands. 



Chicago to St. Louis, and personally Second, they call upon Congress, for 



he favored it. But, he said, when ac- j mme diate action in the way of appro- 



tion was taken to consummate this proj- pr i at i ons to complete certain work al- 



ect, there would be gentlemen here read begun, and to inaugurate new 



with "naming brands to get something WQrk ag recomme nded by the board of 



for the Ohio R^ver and some to get engineers. Third, they demand 



metrnng for the Missouri, and for & ^^ appropriation for continuing 



contracts on rivers and harbors during 



1 am not saying that these improve- ,. , ^ 



ments , night not to be made. I am say- the present session of Congress, 



ing that we would not be practical, The resolutions then empower the 



safe and sane to embark upon them appointment of a committee of Con- 



now gress to draft bills for introduction, 



"I am not ready to do so. I want nrst > to provide for a bond issue, and, 



to be entirely frank with you. If it second, for a commission to study wa- 



were possible, and I do not regard it terway conditions abroad, in order that 



possible, that the rivers and harbors the very best plans for foreign water- 



committee, and we have to follow the way improvements may be used by the 



lead df the rivers and harbors com- United States in its treatment of its 



inittee. should report a bill to Congress own waterways. 



providing that there should be issued The following officers were elected, 



In md- for the next ten years, year by most of them being reelections : 



ir, to meet the expenses of these President, Joseph E. Ransdell, of 



projected improvements, I would not Louisiana; secretary and treasurer, J. 



vote for it' F. Ellison, of Cincinnati. Directors: 



I'ollowing Speaker Cannon's ad- Atlantic seaboard, William H. Lincoln, 



dress, Senor Joachim Nabuco, ambas- Boston, Mass.; Olin J. Stephens, New 



sador from Brazil, spoke to the Con- York; J. Hampton Moore, Philadel- 



( 'ther speakers at the session phia ; Frank D. La Lanne, Philadel- 



were: Secretary of the Interior Gar- phia; Rufus K. Wood, Baltimore, and 



tield. James W. Van Cleave, president: Herbert C. Warren, New Haven, 



the Xational Manufacturers' \sso- Conn. South Atlantic Seaboard, D. U. 



