Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 53, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 March 1909 — ILLINOIS AND INDIANA DEEP WATERWAY ASSOCIATION. [ARTICLE]

ILLINOIS AND INDIANA DEEP WATERWAY ASSOCIATION.

Another Meeting at Kankakee Shows Great Interest In the Movement Recently Started. Kankakee Valley Review. The Kankakee meeting of the Illinois and Indiana Deep Waterway Association held at Kankakee, HL, Tuesday, March 16, Wayne Dyer was chosen to preside in the absence of President Place. The meeting was fairly well attended and great interest shown in the proposed improvement. Jacob Keller, of North Judson, was enthusiastically listened to through his explanation of the objects of the association. Hon. W. W. Parrish, of Momence, gave a very interesting talk. Mayor Darrow, of LaPorte, told the people of the great work that has been done in the Kankakee Valley in Indiana. Chas. H. Tuesburg, explained very satisfactorily the nature of the water shed of the Kankakee Valley. V. L. Cooper, W. H. Coffin, Mayor Mann, J. H. Merrill, F. M. Trissal, A. J. Bunnell and others gave interesting talks. The next meeting will be held at Wilmington, lit, April 27th. The following resolutions were addopted.

Resolved, by this meeting of citizens of Kankakee county, Illinois, with members of the Illinois and Indiana Deep Waterway Association, composed of citizens of Indiana and Illinois, that the members of the Senate and House of Representatives of the Illinois legislature representing the counties of Kankakee, Will and Grundy, be respectfully requested to consider the propriety of asking for the appointment of a legislative committee to make an investigation on the respective rights of the States of Illinois and Indiana in the Kankakee river, and to ascertain what, if any, rights exist, or should be granted to bordering land owners of Indiana or their licensees, or to any corporation formed under the laws of that state to remove obstructions in or to deepen, widen or otherwise change the present channels of that river in the state of Illinois; and if it be found that any such rights exist or should be granted that such legislative committee endeavor to have them defined or granted by appropriate legislative enactments, and generally, to determine upon and request the enactment of such laws as may be necessary to protect or promote the interests of citizenfl of Illinois in that river, and especially to determine whether provisions should be made by the state of Illinois for its improvement so as to make it form a connection with and become a part of any proposed improvement of the Illinois river as deep

water way. And, Be It Further Resolved, that the Congressional Rivers and Harbor Committee be requested to grant a hearing to a committee of this association at any conference that may be held with officials of the state of Illinois to consider the subject of Improving the Illinois river, or at some other time; and that a request for a hearing be also made to the National Water Way Commission provided for by the rivers and harbor act of the Sixtieth Congress. And be it also resolved that a committee of five members of this association, residents of Illinois, be now appointed by the president of this association to present the request hereinbefore mentioned to the members of the Illinois legislature, and that they also hereafter appoint a committee of the same number from residents Of both states, members of this association, to present the request for hearings to the Congressional Committee and Commission, and if the requests be granted that the same committee submit the facts and arguments upon which the association predicates its claims for congressional recognition and aid for the improvement of this river.