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20 Ss a ARINE REVIEW | DEVOTED TO EVERYTHING AND EVERY INTEREST CONNECTED OR _ ASSO- CIATED WITH MARINE MATTERS ON THE FACE OF THE EARTH. Published every Thursday by The Penton Publishing Co. CLEVELAND. IRLOPMAANIL(O) Ga socadacodud0cdn0D 932 Ellicott Sq. CUIMGAG OF erarereietateter erscclerors 1362 Monadnock Blk. GINGINNATI ~.....- First National Bank Bldg. NEW YORK ..........1005 West Street Bldg. 2 Tiglaels Si ON Grey ere ctelotelereraietaiarete)« 521 Park Bldg. TD) OME ete aeerstsievetereisteKeiel lara 411 Providence Bldg. Correspondence on Marine Engineering, Ship Building and Shipping Subjects Solicited. Suhserptions U. S. and Mexico, $3.00 per annum. Canada, $4.00. Foreign, $4.50. Subscribers can have addresses changed at will. Change of advertising copy must reach this office on Thursday preceding date of publication. The Cleveland News Co. will supply the trade with the Marine Review through the regular channels of the American News Co. _ European Agents, The International News Company, Breams Building, Chancery Lane, London, E. C., England. Entered at the Post Office at Cleveland, Ohio, as Second Class Matter. January 16, 1908. INLAND WATERWAYS COMMIS- SION. Last year President Roosevelt ap- pointed a commission known as the Inland Waterways Commission which, it is herewith predicted, will eventual- ly be regarded as one of the wisest dctseoluiis administration. Senator Newlands, of Nevada, has now sup- plemented the president's initiative by the for providing Inland the creation of a special fund to be known as the Inland Waterway Fund, to be used in the examination, survey and introduction of a Dill the Waterways appointment of an Commission and for development of the inland waterways of the country. The bill appropri- ates $50,000,000 for the fund. The THE Marine REVIEW commission is to investigate all ques- tions relating to the development and improvement of inland waterways for transportation purposes; to consider and co-ordinate the questions of irri- gation, swamp land reclamation, clari- fication of streams, utilization of water power, prevention of soil waste, pro- 'tection of forests, regulation of flow, control of floods, transfer facilities and sites and the regulation and control thereof, and such other questions as relate to the development of rivers, lakes and canals for purposes of com- merce. It will be seen that the pro- visions of this measure are very sweep- ing. of the Inland Waterways Commission Senator Newlands is a member which was appointed by the president last year and which made a tour of Alas been in frequent session since April the country. commission has last. In addition to visiting all sec- tions of the country in person it has been represented at the various con- ferences and conventions which have been held throughout the country to the consider development of water- ways. Senator Newlands' bill as stated ap- propriates $50,000,000 for the work. It also provides that when the sum falls below $20,000,000 the president of the United States bonds to supply the deficiency. In other words, shall issue there shall be continuously available ie sApungance ot capital, Senator Newlands explained that he desired the sum of $50,000,000 actually aside in the treasury to be used for set no other purpose whatever and to be subject to the uses of the commission precisely as a surplus would be sub- ject to the uses of a great construct- ive corporation--in other words, that the the hampering restrictions which are in- commission be relieved of evitably entailed when sums have to be appropriated as the work advances. During the course of discussion, Sen- ator Hepburn asked if only $10,000,000 - were expended in the next five years, would the other $40,000,000 remain idle in the treasury. Senator Newlands re- plied by saying that if the commission contemplated spending only $10,000,- 000 within the next five years it would He said his expectation was that the com- mission would expend at least $50,000,- 000 a year for the next five years. This surprise Senator Beveridge, but Sen- ator Newlands advocated that within the next 10 years the United States should spend at least $500,000,000 in the improvement of its inland water- Abies wore oleht to bes pros- ecuted contemporaneously in every sec- It should be en- trusted to a commission of experts better not begin the work at all. bold announcement seemed to ways. tion of the country. that will have the power to initiate both and with ample funds to complete its investigation and construction projects--not a commission that will have to wait upon the tardy work of congress as to projects, the details of which it is incapable of dealing with. Senator Newlands' bill contemplates the uses of water and that stamps it at the co-ordination of all related once as the broadest practical measure that congress has ever had to deal with. volve everything. The related uses of water in- It is so broad that it comprehends the drop of water that falls upon the leaves of the trees, to find its way eventually into the earth and to seep, through the processes of nature, into the springs that form the small tributaries of navigable rivers. The development of a river for pur- poses of navigation does not consist alone of deepening the channels by dredging or the removal of shoals, but the prevention of the formation of such obstructions as well. To main- tain a stream in a state of navigation all the year round at ise necessary fo conserve its resources. Rational treat- ment of a navigable river would be the prevention of floods to which it All the trivers in the in the spring are subject to torrential streams may be subjected. the west have their sources in snows of the mountains and which flood the valleys and destroy much property, while in the summer they are reduced to mere rivulets in- capable of floating even small canoes. The rational treatment of such rivers involves the creation of great reser- voirs, where waters might be held un- til they are loosed again in the sum-