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Waterways. President Hoover was most anxious to negotiate an agreement with Canada for joint development of the St. Lawrence as a seaway from the Great Lakes to the Atlantic. The King Government was favorably inclined to such a project. Prime Minister Bennett was understood to oppose it on the theory that it would benefit the U. S. midwest at the expense of the Canadian northwest. Potent objections were also made by the province of Quebec which feared damage to its shipping at Montreal and Quebec, loss of hydroelectric power...
...passed a $110,000,000 River and Harbor improvement bill. Chief contest: acquisition by the U. S. from New York State of the Erie Canal, a money-loser. Western members, pledged to the St. Lawrence waterway, flayed this transfer as a New York plot to kill off the seaway through Canada...
...year on river and harbor development, $35,000,000 on flood control. President Hoover predicted that his program could be undertaken and carried through by the expenditure of only an additional $10,000,000 per year - or $20,000,000 if the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence seaway were included...
...Great Lakes-St. Lawrence seaway "whenever our Canadian friends have overcome those difficulties that lie in the path." Time: ten years. Cost: "After we have disposed of the electrical power, we could contract the entire construction for less than $200,000,000 divided between the two Governments...
Secretary of War Davis appeared, to tell about Hawaii's forts and sesquicentennial celebration. The Lakes-to-Atlantic seaway, as an outlet for Midland farm produce, was also on the Secretary's mind. He issued a statement in behalf of the St. Lawrence River route as against the Mohawk Valley-Hudson River route...