Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 69, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 December 1909 — $500,000,000 TO BE ASKED FOR SHIPWAYS [ARTICLE]

$500,000,000 TO BE ASKED FOR SHIPWAYS

Big Delegation Starts For Rivers and Harbnrs Convention, Chicago, Dec. 7, —“Immediate affirmative deep waterway action on lines of a broad policy laid down for the next ten years to come will be demanded of congress by the delegations from Chicago and the Mississippi valley states and prospects are bright for success.” This was the prediction made by T. Edward Wilder, head of the special delegation from the Chicago Commercial association, which left today to attend the national rivers and harbors convention this week. Governor Deneen, Governor Eberhart, Homer A. Stillwell, E. S. Conway. Lyman E. Cooley, R. R. McCormick, Isham Randolph and Edward J. Smejkal are among the Mississippi valley leaders who will travel as the Commercial association’s party under Wilder’s lead. "Prospects for action on the part of congress during this session appear decidedly favorable,” said Wilder. “The effect of the tremendous delegation which the middle west Is sending will certainly help the movement, which our congressional leaders will originate. We shall go to Washington prepared to advocate the issuance of $50,000,000 In bonds every year for ten years, making a total issue of $500,000,000, the proceeds to be used in Improvements of all the Waterways In the country.”