Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 January 1912 — SENATOR SHIVELY WOULD RESCUE SWAMP LANDS. [ARTICLE]

SENATOR SHIVELY WOULD RESCUE SWAMP LANDS.

Introduces Joint Resolution In Congress to Provide for Straightening Channel of Kankakee River. The following joint resolution' was introduced in the United States senate a few days ago by Senator B. F. Shively, of South Bend: Authorizing the appointment of a board of examiners to make an examination of the Kankakee river at and in the vicinity of the boundary line between the States of Indiana and ll- ~=' ■ ' JJ-.-.TT-;;. r t.t. ---'V- 1 —_.j—ir i linois, relating to the'necessity and practibiiity of removing obstructions from said river and straightening its channels, and for other purposes. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatifes of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That there shall be appointed by the 'Secretaries of War, Agriculture, and Commerce and Labor a bpard of examiners composed of three members, one of whom shall be selected and assigned to duty from the Department of War, one from the Department of Agriculture, and one from the Department of Commerce and Labor, and one of whom shall be a civil engineer, to make an examination of the Kankakee River at and in the vicinity of the boundary line between the States of Indiana and Illinois to ascertain and determine as to the necessity and practability of removing obstructions from said .river ans straightening its channels and otherwise promoting the continuous and uninterrupted flowage of its waters; also to determine whether as a result of such improvement in said river as may bo found feasible and the carrying out of the project of drainage recommended in the official report of the Drainage Investigations made by Engineers of the Department of Agriculture, issued February tfoujrth, nineteen hundred and nine (Circular Numbered Eighty), the waters of said river in themselves may become available for navigation commerce, or in connection with the Illinois River and its connected waterways, or in connection with a project for the construction of a large canal from Lake Erie to Lake Michigan. Sec. 2. That the said board shall have access to and the use gs any engineering data collected in. the drainage investigations hereinbefore mentioned, and shall confer and act with the chief executives of the States of Indiana and Illinois, or any agencies which they or their respective States may designate, in formulating plans and determining the scope,, character, and cost of any improvements found necessary, and shall 3tate and specify separately the character and cost of the improvement of said river from the Indiana State line to the western boundary of the City of Momence, in the State of Illinois, and the report of said board shall be submitted to the Board of Engineers for Rivers and Harbors and to Congress not later than the first Monday in December, nineteen hundred and twelve.