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Proudly he concluded: "In aggregate this inland waterway undertaking represents a larger project than even the Panama Canal. It will provide employment for thousands . . . and should bring great benefits to our farms and to our industries...
...Government acceptance and operation of the Erie, Oswego, and Illinois Waterway Canals (whenever New York and Illinois vote to surrender them), thus linking, through the Great Lakes, the Atlantic Ocean and Mississippi River...
...Passed the Rivers & Harbors Bill, including amendments to: 1) limit the water to be diverted from the Great Lakes by the Chicago Drainage Canal; 2) limit Federal operation of New York State's canal system to barge traffic, so as not to compete with the proposed St. Lawrence waterway...
Still lusting for political expenditures, the House next took up and 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...
...began to involve the state of Illinois, which derives 60% of its income from the city. Long-legged Governor Louis Lincoln Emmerson went to Chicago with fire in his eye. His complaint: Cook County owes the state $30,000,000 in back taxes. Illinois defaulted on a $300,000 waterway bond issue due Jan. 1, averted serious trouble only by persuading bondholders not to present their certificates for redemption. The state may _ be' unable to meet soldiers' bonus bond's due Aug. i. or to pay $4,856,602 due the Cook County School Fund May i, or to keep...