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Proceedings of the Convention, National Rivers and Harbors Congress
Proceedings of the Convention National Rivers and Harbors Congress Author:Unknown Author Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: THIRD SESSION Thursday Morning;, December JO The Convention met pursuant to adjournment, the President, Hon. Joseph E. Ransdell, in the chair; the Secretary,... more » J. F. Ellison, in his position. The Chair recognized Mr. Henry Riesenberg, State Vice- President, Indianapolis, who announced that Vice-President and Mrs. Fairbanks would receive informally this evening from five to six o'clock at their home on K Street, all delegates to the National Rivers and Harbors Congress, accompanied by their ladies. The announcement was received with applause. President Ransdell — It is my pleasure to introduce, ladies and gentlemen, as the first speaker this morning, ex-United States Senator Higgins, of Delaware. (Applause.) Address—Atlantic Coast Interest in the National Rivers and Harbors Policy By Hon. Anthony Higgins, Ex-U. S. Senator from Delaware Mr. Chairman And Gentlemen Of The Convention : The motto of the National Rivers and Harbors Congress is a "Policy, and not a Project," but I presume that none of us ever supposed that we could carry out the policy without the projects. (Applause.) It seems to me that the utterances of responsible statesmen in this city during the last two days have brought to a crisis the momentous business which called into existence this Congress of ours. We had the important statement here from this stand yesterday from Mr. Champ Clark, the leader of the minority in the House of Representatives, that Congress would already have acted in favor of carrying out what we desire if there had been submitted to Congress a concrete and comprehensive plan: and only yesterday the President of the United States, following up his message to the Congress of the same date, gave an utterance which, to my mind, is the submission to the Congress of a conc...« less