New Britain Herald Newspaper, May 11, 1916, Page 5

I APPEALS FOR CONNECTICUT RIVER Describes Damage Done Along Its Course During Flood Period (Special to the Herald.) ‘Washington, May 11.—In a speech Celivered in the house upon the Humphrey bill authorizing appro- s priations of $45,000,000 for building ievees and other means of flood pre- vention on the Mississippi and Sacra- ‘mento rivers, Representative Tilson suggested that the Connecticut river Lresented a parallel case and that the federal government might do something to guard against its floods. Mr. Tilson said that floods occur ennually in the Connecticut valley, some years being worse than others. ‘“As vou will recall if Yyou have studied the geography of New Eng- land,” said Mr. Tilson, ‘“the Connec- ticut river rises near the Canada line, forms the boundary between Vermont » and New Hampshire from north to south, crosses the entire width of toth Massachusetts and Connecticut and empties into Long Island Sound. The waters of three states are poured into the little Connecticut and never loes a year pass without great and jrreparable damage being done to the productive lands Are we to position and have the United States build levees at the danger points and revert the banks of the lower Connecticut where dur- ing the early spring floods half a Connecticut farm will fall into the river- at ance?” Mr. Tilson spoke in part as follows: “Mr. Chairman, the bringing up of this bill has served at least one useful purpose. It removes the mask from what was for the most part only a plausible pretext that the large sums eppropriated and spent in the so- ed improvement of the Mississippi river were expended for the improve- ment of navigation. In the discus- ston of this bill it has not been neces- sary to talk navigation where there is no navigation, or commerce where there is none. That is a dis vance. “It is practically admitted that this is a reclamation project, or at any rate it has been demonstrated that it is by the facts and arguments. It is a reclamation project on a grand scale, one that appeals to the imagi- nation, and, I believe, to the sound sense of broad minded men. It is a project whose magnitude and pos bilities arouse the most intense in- terest, just as the boundless expanse of semi-arid land in the West has appealed to the stout-hearted Ameri- can and has challenged his daring and enterprise to go out and reclaim it. Just five vears ago I crossed the state of Louisiana from east to west and part of the great state of Texas. It was a dry season, but in Louisiana I saw unnumbered miles of the rich- very fertile and Iying along the make it a ‘pork’ cst alluvial land on the earth covered | with water, while in Texas boundless ant ad- | lands were producing little or nothing for lack of the one thing, an over supply of which rendered much of the adjoining state valueless. It naturally occurred to me Wwhat a wonderful transfiguration the genius of man might bring to pass by re- ducing the amount of water in Louisiana and increasing it in Texa: “The sixteen millions of acres of unprotected overflowed alluvial land 2long the Mississippi must be saved, rot only for the sake of the present owners of this land who will un- doubtedly gain most, but for the sake of the people of the entire nation. We are a nation of a hundred mil- lion people. Caontinental United States alone could easily support five hundred millions, hut it will support them far better if the fertile arid lands are watered and the alluvial overflowed lands are protected from the floods. “The only question is how to bring it about. We are solving the ques- tion in the case of the semi-arid lands of the overflow lands owing to the is somewhat more difficult in the case of the overflowed lanls owing to the | fact of its being entirely in private ownership. “In the case of the irrigation pro- jects where the United State owns the lands they can be sold after being made valuable and thus recoup the treasury for what has been expended. At least this is the theory upon which the work is proceeding. The bill under consideration presents the proposition baldly that the United States shall revert the banks of the river so as to prevent over- flow and that the private owners of the land thus protected shall pay one- fourth of the cost. 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It must be done by intelligent co-aperation with the general government. It seems to me, it ought to be possible to work out a plan by which the United States would finance and control this wark, but that the lands specially benefited should bear at least the major portion of the expense. No such idea is contained in this 'bill, but it proceeds upon the same old theory that while the benefit is large- ly special the cost shall be made general under the same old river im- provement guise. “I believe in river and harbor im- provement wherever there is business to justify it. I believe that more money rather than loss should be ex- rended in deepening harbors, keep- ing open the channels of rivers and in opening up new waterways, but I would insist that before large sums of public money are expended on such work it should be clearly demon- strated that the commerce is act- tally there to be carried. If it is there in sufficient quantity, the most effective and most economical means of carrying it should be provided, but T am opposed to projects of the character pointed out not equal in value to the sums expended for im- provement. “The passing of this bill ag it is written will set a had precedent and open wide the door for such ‘pork appropriations as Congress has never | known before. It is frankly stated that this is just the beginning. The gentlemen from Indana (Mr. Wood) in his remarks last Wednesday said: ‘If the project commenced with this measure is carried out, as it is the intention of the committee it should be, the flood waters of the Wabash, White and Miami rivers will be controlled and the awful havoc and destruction committed by them in 1913 will be rendered impossible of repetition. “Yes and there are hundreds of other streams in the country in addi- | tion to the Wabash, the White and the Miami just as destructive to iands along their banks when floods come. I shall cite just two instances in widely separated parts of the country, both having come under m: own personal observation, “In the Southern Appalachian: the Blue Ridge in the watershed, while the highest crest of the Al- leghany range is the boundary be- tween North Carolina and Tennes- see. Four rivers rising in Virginia and North Carolina break through the Alleghany range and flow down through the upper FEast Tennessee Valley, the Holsten, Watanga Noli- chucky and French Broad. In 1901 there was a somewhat unusual flood in these rivers destroying land and buildings, mostly land, to the estimat- ed value of ten milllons of dollars. Like the dwellers along the lower Mississippi, the land owners of Ten- nessee were helpless. Virginia and | North Carolina gathered their com- bine waters and hurled them through the mountain gorges upon Tennessee, Why should not the gov- ernment come to the rescue, erect levees and revet the banks of these rivers in order to protect the allu- vial bottoms along their banks? The answer will be, it should and it will, if this bil] is to determine our policy, for I never knew Tennessee to miss a trick especially when the old flag and an appropriation are invalved. “The gentleman from Indiana (Mr. Wood) tells it is not a sectional bill. He says: That it is not intended that this | improvement is to be sectional is adequately proven by this initiatory measure, which provides not only for the flood control of the Mississippi River, but for the flood contral of | the Sacremento river in far away | California, this demonstrating that the people of the South have joined bands with the people of the West to assist each other for the common | good of all their citizens, and as readily will they respond and join hands with the people of the North | and the people of the East.’ | “Yes, and will be sure to join hands with enough ta pass the bill. The amendment of the gentleman from South Dakota (Mr. Dillon) are illuminating on this point. He proposed to strike out ‘Mississippi river fram the head of the passes to the mouth of the Ohio river' and in- sert ‘Ohio, Mississippi, and Missouri rivers and their tributaries.’ Of course he should have included the Connecticut river. After informing | us that the Missouri is the impor- tant river and the Mississipi only a 2 | tributary to it he goes an in support of his amendment: ‘It seems to be that we will be making a great mistake if we do not take into consideration these pro- positions. To do things by piece- meal will be a failure, I want to see this bill perfected so that we can all support it; simply doing it by sections In the form of levees, will mean a miserable failure. I hope this amendment will be adopted so that we all may be able to give this bill our support, but without such an amendment it is doubtful if I could support a bill of this character.’ “In other words, if we scatter the zppropriation widely, it will be done wisely so far as passing the bill is concerned. I believe in internal public improvement and there are many things that must be done. If at all, by the federal government, but I deprecate the inception of any policy which in its essence consists in collecting revenue by federal taxa- tion and attempting to distribute it again to the states, to localities or to the people themselves. It cannot be done wisely or satisfactorily except te the few receiving it. It ought not to be attempted. I fear that this bill will lead strangly in that direc- tion. Therefore, co-operation of the government in the work of building the levees,, re- verting the banks and saving the overflow lands of the Mississippi delta, T think the problem should be worked out differently from the solu- | tioe offered in this bill. while favoring the ! 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