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Last week 25 disgruntled House Democrats forced a party caucus which they hoped would send a committee to the President protesting against inadequate patronage distribution. Large blocks of Democrats in the Senate bridled at the President's St. Lawrence waterway proposal (see p. 15). And though no one talked seriously of his losing control of his huge majority, there were two rounds which gave the President last week the political thrill he loves...
...project for constructing a through waterway from the St. Lawrence River to the Great Lakes has had a curious history. One of its most ardent sponsors was William Hale Thompson, the former mayor of Chicago, who embroidered it to include the Mississippi River and make Dubuque and St. Louis great international ports. So many arguments have been put forward on both sides that the fundamental problem has been very effectively obscured; the winter closing of the St. Lawrence and the fact that the taxation might not fall primarily upon the beneficiaries are balanced against the export stimulation which cheap transportation...
Yesterday the British-American treaty on the waterway was brought before the United States Senate. Political observers prophesied a long battle between Eastern and middle-western interests, with a new card in the hands of the latter through the Civil Works Administration's role in national improvements. But the longest, the most influential, and the most decided of the attacks on the treaty came from Senator James Hamilton Lewis of Illinois. Mr. Lewis said that the waterway would give Great Britain an important wedge into our boundaries, and that the United States could not afford this wedge at a time...
...Albany doorstep by Alfred Emanuel Smith, and which he has come to cherish, is the projected hydro-electric power development on the St. Lawrence in New York State. The President prodded the matter along last week by urging the Senate to pass the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Deep Waterway Treaty with Canada, necessary preliminary step before any dam can be built...
That sentence revealed Paraguay's strategy. It forced Argentina, Brazil, Chile and Peru to declare neutrality, thus cutting off landlocked Bolivia from importing munitions. Paraguay on the broad Parana River, which like the Amazon is an international waterway, can bring supplies straight up from...