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THE MORNING-. OREGONIAN, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1909. TUFT PROMISES TO HELP BIVEH TMDE President Assures Callers He Will Work for Improved Inland Waterways. SAYS CONGRESS IN FAVOR To 800 Enthusiasts Who Present Pe titions, Nation's Executive De clares All Possible Aid Will lie Given. "WASHINGTON, Dec. 9. Assurance that steps of an Important character to ward the development of a system of waterways Improvement in the. heart of the country would be taken by the prea ent Conffress were given by President Taft to delegations which h received in the East Room of the 'White House to day. To 100 committeemen, representing the Ohio Valley Improvement Association, the President promised to bring what influ ence he could in favor of the improve ment of the Ohio; and later to the com mittee of BOO from the New Orleans "Lakes to the Gulf Deep Waterways' convention, he said that the interest of those In Congress who heretofore have turned a cold shoulder to the entire sut iject of waterway Improvement had been aroused. ' Pittsburg Asks Nine Feet. The object of the visit of the Ohio Valley dnlenation to the White House was to enlist the President's support for a nine-foot channel from Pittsburg to Cairo all the year round. FVror Governors and two ex-Governors headed the committee of SOO which had been charged by the New Orleans con vention to present to the President reso lutions asking for a 14-foot channel for the Mississippi. They were Governors AnseU. South Carolina; Sanders, Louisi ana; Doneen, Illinois; Hadley, Missouri, and ex-Governors Francis, Missouri, and McMillan, Tennessee. Governor Ieneen presented the resolutions. Taft Promises Aid. Mr. Taft said he had been assured by members of committees having such leg islation in charge that the whole matter of waterway Improvement would receive earnest consideration In the present ses sion. Afterwards the committee called upon Secretary of War Dickinson. , Karller In the day the committee In vaded the capltol and paid visits to Vice President Sherman, Speaker Cannon, Representative . Alexander of New York, chairman of the House committee on riv ers and harbors. None of these leaders Save the committee much encouragement. Speaker Cannon said he had voted for every rivers and harbors bill since 1883, whether his party was In power or not. WATERWAYS TJP TO V. 8. COIN Secretary Nagel Says Private or State Funds Are Not Responsible. WASHINGTON, Dec 9. More than a dozen delegates to the convention of the National Klvers and Harbors Congress, telling what they thought about the policy of Improving the waterways of the United States and methods that should be pur sued in bringing about the end desired by all, characterized the meeting of that organization today. One of the strongest pleas for National improvement of the waterways was made by Secretary Nagel of the Department of Commerce and Labor. He declared that the nature of Interstate navigation made the National Government respon sible for providing suitable water courses for commerce. Neither private enterprise nor state appropriations could be permit ted to improve these highways of the Na tion, lie said, so that, if they were to be looked after at all, the general Govern ment must do it. Without making a distinct reference to the Issuance of bonds for the work, he suggested that whatever was to be done should be accomplished la a way to in sure the completion of a comprehensive project. - How Kast Lost Told. Representative J. Hampton Moore, pres ident of the Atlantic Deeper Waterway convention, aroused an unusual degree of enthusiasm. He showed how the East had been outstripped by the Middle West and - the Far West In transportation facilities. These states, In the car shortage of 1906 and 1907, he said, caused the people of the Bast to awaken to the need of the In. land passage along the Atlantic Coast as a means of placing industries the more nearly upon an equality with those of the Middle West and of the Pacific Coast. One of the most Interesting speakers of the day was Senator- Burton of Ohio who, without taking issue with those who" advocated a bond issue, reminded them that he had a couple of "don'ts" for them to remember. He admonished them not to allow any sectionalism to enter Into their efforts for waterways improvement, and cautioned them against abusing the rivers and harbors committee. Local Committees Desired. J. A. Cullinan, chairan of the New York Canal Commission, Indicated his dissatis faction with what the National Govern ment had done for waterway Improve ment by showing that while Congress had appropriated 40,000,000 for such work in New York, the state Itself had appropriated- $350,000,000 for that purpose. Herbert Knox Smith, Commissioner of Corporations, suggested to the delegates the wisdom of providing In anything they should do that local communities to be benefitted by waterway Improvements should furnish suitable terminals. STRIKERS RENEW THREATS Man Shot and Mob Wields Clubs In Sydney Colliery. SYDNEY, N. S.. Dec. 9. Violence In collieries of the Dominion Coal Com pany has broken out afresh. At Do minion colliery. Glace Bay, today, a crowd, of 300 strikers, armed with clubs gathered about the entrance and threatened the men who were going to work. The police arrested four. Angus McLean, employed at No. 3 colliery, was shot and seriously wounded by unknown persons. LABOR MEN ASK INQUIRY industrial Education Problem Goes Up to Government. WASHINGTON. Dec . Industrial edu cation, which formed a lively toplo of discussion at the Toronto convention of the American Federation of Labor, is to ba taken up with the National Depart ment of Commerce and Labor, it was an nounced today. ' . As a result a committee was appointed consisting of President Gompers, Vice President John Mitchell and James O'Connell and Secretary Morrison to con fer with Secretary Nagel and Commis sioner Neill. with a view to having the Labor Bureau make a thorough investiga tion into the subject. GORE SEES BUSY TIMES AHEAD Blind Oklahoma Senator Says Mes sage Omits Much. NEW YORK. Dec. 9. United States Senator Gore, of Oklahoma, was in New York today. "I am inclined to think we shall have plenty to do in Washington this Win ter," he said, "with President Taft try ing to launch his policies and . at the same time attempting to carry out the Roosevelt policies. The President's message was something like the Pleia desconspicuous for what was missing. For example, there was nothing .about -""mill tfiYirM wiiiHWMnr-niMtfiiatoMiMii 8ereetry of Oonmim 'and Jm3xt Nasel, Prominent Speaker Before Rivera mud Harbor Conngreas Yesterday. Interstate commerce, so we ars" in- a fog as to -what h wants in that direction." MH.LION-DOLIAR CUT 'IS ASKED Naval Coal Supply Appropriation May Be Heavily Curtailed. WASHINGTON, Dec. 9. A $1,000,000 cut in the appropriations for the coal sup ply for the Navy was recommended today to the House naval affairs committee by Rear-Admiral Cowles, Chief of the Bu reau of Equipment of the Navy. This means a corresponding curtailment of the activities of the vessels in pur suance of the. general policy of reducing ail Government expenditures. , FIRE ROUTS OUT GUESTS KALAMAZOO IS SCORCHED BY 9750,000 BLAZE, Jjow Water Pressure Responsible tor Spread of Flames Other Cities Send Aid. KALAMAZOO, Mich., Dec. 9. Proper ty valued at $750,000 was destroyed here last nignt, five firemen were In jured and 160 hotel guests were driven scantily clad into the streets by a fire that burned the Burdlck House. Nearly a square in the business district was laid in ruins and more than 30 business concerns suffered losses. The fire started at 10 o'clock last night and wasonly extinguished after an all night struggle by the combined fire fighting forces of Kalamazoo, Battle Creek and Grand Rapids. Starting in the basement of the Star Bargain House, a 5 and 10-oent store, at 118 West Main street, the .flames, fanned by a strong southwest wind, spread east ward along the north side of Main street totally destroying the Burdick House, a fine four-story hotel and store building covering more than half a city block. On an arcade running north through the Burdick building to Water street were located half a dozen small commer cial establishments, and these were burned out. Sweeping eastward on Main street, from the Burdick, the flames ate thei way through the Postal Telegraph and American Express offices and other smaller business places.' While the flames were raging In the hotel a man suddenly appeared at an up per window and cried for help. Before a ladder could be put in position to rescue him, he disappeared, and It is believed he perished in the fire. To the low pressure on the water mains can principally be attributed the great extent of the fire. So great was the shortage of water that at one time only two streams could be directed upon the fire, and these bare ly reached to the third floor. The Battle Creek firemen arrived on the scene at ! A. M., but owing to lack of water, were of little service. The Grand Rapids firemen arrived at 6 o'clock and Joined in the attack. With their aid the fire was soon brought under control. The temperature was about 10 degrees above zero and the fire-fighters suffered severely from exposure. LONG WALK SAFELY' MADE Woman Wins Wager on 4 S 5-Mile Tramp Through Snow. DENVER, Dec. 9. Miss Arizona Owens, who completed her 435-mile walk from Shoshone. Wyo., to Denver, last night at 7:30 o'clock, appears little the worse this morning for her experience with an al most continuous blizzard during her 16 day trip. "To make a living." is Miss Owens' ex planation for the unusual Journey, witch she says was made on a wager that she could accomplish the feat in 17 days. 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