National Drainage Congress.

REMARKS

HON. JAMES T. LLOYD,

OF MISSOURI,

In the House of Representatives,

Friday, November 14, 1913.

Mr. LLOYD. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to ex-
tend my remarks in the Record by including a statement of the
National Drainage Congress concerning a bill introduced by the
Hon. Champ Clark, of Missouri, September 16, 1913, establish-
ing a flood protection and drainage fund and providing for the,
protection, drainage, and reclamation of the overflowed and
swamp lands in the United States, in promotion of the general
welfare, in prevention of the dissemination of malaria and other
diseases among the several States, and to promote interstate
commerce by navigation.

The SPEAKER. The gentleman from Missouri asks unani-
mous consent to extend his remarks in the Record. Is there ob-
jection?

There was no objection.	A.

The statement is as follows:	>fvfe -

FLOOD PROTECTION, DRAINAGE, AND RECLAMATION OF OVERFLOWED LANDS,
SWAMP LANDS, AND LANDS TOO WET FOR AGRICULTURAL PURPOSES.

Statement from National Drainage Congress concerning a bill intro-
duced in the House of Representatives by Hon. Champ Clark Sep-
tember 16, 1913, establishing a flood protection and drainage fund
and providing for the protection, drainage, and reclamation of the
overflowed and swamp lands in the United States, in promotion of the
general welfare, in prevention of the dissemination of malaria and
other diseases among the several States, and to promote interstate
commerce by navigation.

To the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States:

While the appalling floods of 1913 in the Ohio Valley were destroying
lives and property, the President of the United States sent the follow-
ing telegram:

The White House,
Washington, March 27, 1913.

Edmund T. Perkins,	_	■	^

Chairman Executive Committee, National Drainage Congress,

First National Bank Building, Chicago, III.:

I regret that it is impossible for me to attend the sessions of the
National Drainage Congress. The calamity in Ohio and Indiana makes
clearer than ever before the imperative and_ immediate necessity tor a
comprehensive and systematic plan for drainage and flood control. I
very earnestly hope that your deliberations may mark a long step for-
ward in this direction. Aecept my best wishes for a successful meeting,

Woodrow Wilson.

The following telegram was sent in reply:

Chicago, III., March 28, 1913.

The President,

The White House} Washington, D. C.:

Your message, March 27 received. *	*	* The National Drainage

Congress, saddened by the tremendous flood disasters now inflicted upon
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our country, and knowing that such catastrophes are needless, accepts
the responsibility of presenting to the people and the Congress of the
United States a plan to alleviate and prevent the recurrence of loss of
life and property. *	*	*

_	Edmund T. Perkins,

Chairman Executive Committee, National Drainage Congress.

The third annual meeting of the National Drainage Congress was held
immediately thereafter, April 10, 11, and 12, at St. Louis, Mo., and the
organization accepted this responsibility, 36 States being represented by
approximately 500 delegates. After two days’ cooperative deliberation
by the national executive committee, the committee on resolutions the
section on malaria eradication, the central cooperative committee/ and
the woman’s section, resolutions were adopted, addressed to the Presi-
dent, the Congress, and the peonle of the United States, urging:

First. That it is a proper function of the Government of the United
States under the welfare clause of the Constitution to provide adequate
works to control the flood waters of the country and so conserve them
as to protect the life, health, and prooerty of citizens, a duty equally
imperative as that of protecting citizens from the attack of a for-
eign foe.

Second. That_ the Congress of the United States immediately make
adequate provisions for flood prevention, for the regulation and control
ox stream flow, and for the drainage and reclamation of overflowed and
swamp lands.

Third. That, as malarial diseases are widespread, especially in the
regions where floods occur and swamps exist, causing great disability and
suffering, loss of earning capacity, and a largo number of preventable
deaths, the several States and the Federal Government are requested to
cooperate with the section of malaria eradication in the prevention bv
methods now well established of such diseases.

. fourth. That all reclamation organizations in the United States are
invited to become part of the central cooperative committee, consisting
of two members from each organization—National, State, district, or
local—or by the governor of the State where there is no such organiza-
tion, not surrendering their identity, charter, organization, or officers,
for the purpose of advancing agreed-upon questions of national policy.

Copies of these resolutions were transmitted to the President of the
United States, the President of the Senate, and the Speaker of the-
House of Representatives.

In May the general educational committee of the National Drainage
Congress met m Washington, called upon the President, and conferred
with the Secretary of the Interior, the Secretary of Agriculture, the
Secretary of War, the President of the Senate, the Speaker of the
House, and a number of Senators and Representatives. This committee
was composed of the officers of the organization and prominent men and
women from professional walks of life in all parts of the United States.

As a resuxt of these conferences a subcommittee, known as the com-
mittee on Federal action, was appointed to cooperate with, representa-
tlvfS-301 Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of Agriculture
and drart a flood-prevention and drainage bill. . This subcommittee was
composed of E. J. Watson, of Columbia, S. C., State commissioner of
agriculture, commerce, and industries; Frank B. Knight, of Chicago,
111.member of the American Society of Civil Engineers and consulting
engineer and expert on excavating’ and drainage machinery; Thomas P
Littiepage, of Washington, D. C., attorney at law ; Morris Knowles, of
I ltisburgh, Pa., member of the American Society of Civil Engineers,
representing the flood commission of Pittsburgh ; J. D. Craig, of Stock-
ton. Cal., president of the river-regulation commission of Stockton;
L. D. Lawrence, of Laurel, Miss., treasurer of the Railway Development
Association and manager of immigration of tbe New Orleans, Mobile &
Chicago Railroad ; Joseph Hyde Pratt, of Chapel Hill, N. C.. State
geologist; J. S. bpiker, of Vincennes, Ind.. member of the Western
Society of Engineers, consulting and sanitary engineer; Reid Whitford,
of Charleston, S. C., member of the American Society of Civil Engineers
and engineer for the sanitary and drainage district of Charleston; and
John H. Nolen, of Jefferson City, Mo., commissioner of land reclama-
tion, State of Missouri. The Secretary of the Interior selected the fol-
lowing persons to confer with the committee representing the drainage
congress: F. H. Newell, Director of the United States Reclamation
Service; George Otis Smith, Director of the United States Geological
Survey; and Brig. Gen. W. H. Marshall, consulting engineer, United
States Reclamation Service, and former Chief Engineer, United States
Army. The representatives of the Secretary of Agriculture were Prof.
A. J Henry, of the United States Weather Bureau ; Raphael Zon, of
the Umted States Forest Service; and S. H. McCrory, of the Bureau
of Drainage Investigations of the Office of Experiment Stations.
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The Hon. Franklin K. Lane, Secretary of the Interior, on June 21,
1913, invited to meet with him in Washington to discuss proposed
flood-protection and drainage laws a number of eminent men, as follows :
Isham Randolph, consulting engineer, Chicago, 111.; Prof. William B.
Clark, of Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md.; Hon. T. Coleman
du Pont, of Wilmington, Del.; W. W. Olds, jr., attorney at law, of Nor-
folk, Va.; Gov. W. S. Jennings, of Jacksonville, Fla.; Prof. Joseph Hyde
Pratt, of Chapel Hill, N. C.; and M. C. Leighton, of Washington, D. C.,
former chief hydrographer of the United States Geological Survey.
These, with Secretary Lane, Judge William R. King, of Oregon, George
Otis Smith, and F. H. Newell, held a conference on June 28, 1913.
A subcommittee was appointed, consisting of Gov. Jennings, Judge
XHng, and Prof. Pratt, to suggest desirable legislation and report July
9, a day prior to the scheduled meeting of the committee on Federal
action of the National Drainage Congress.

This last-mentioned committee met in Washington on July 10, 1913,
and after consultation with the above mentioned, as well as with other
eminent men in the city, drafted a bill, which draft was later submitted
to the executive committee, and that committee, after making a number
of changes and additions, approved it at a meeting held in Chicago on
August 22, 1913.

September 10, 1913, the committee on Federal action and the board
of governors of the National Drainage Congress assembled in Wash-
ington and conferred with the Hon. Champ Clark, Speaker of the
House of Representatives, and with Senator John Sharp William#,
of Mississippi, relative to this bill. On September 16, 1913, the bill
was introduced in the House of Representatives by Speaker Clark, and
is now registered as H. R. 8189.

This bill is the reply of the National Drainage Congress to the tele-
gram of March 27, 1913, from President Wilson, and is urged as pro-
viding the solution of the flood prevention and land drainage and
general reclamation of the overflowed and swamp lands in the United
States.

This bill establishes the power and indicates the method by which
the Secretary of the Interior may construct the works that will control
disastrous floods hereafter, thereby preventing loss of life and destruc-
tion of property, protecting overflowed lands, and draining the swamps,
and thus reclaiming the millions of acres of such lands and other lands
too wet for agriculturial purposes. It provides that the expense of this
work shall be borne by the owners of the land and other property bene-
fited, and that the United States shall pay only for such work as will
promote navigation by enlarging, improving, or altering navigable
streams, or constructing drainage ditches suitable for navigation, or
for that work which is primarily in defense of the general welfare by
the improvement of the public health. It defines the rules by which
these great works are to be constructed, vests the necessary authority
in the Secretary of the Interior to do the work, leaves in the hands
of Congress questions of policy and appropriations, and safeguards the
financial interests of the United States.

The bill was designed to give the Secretary of the Interior full power
without attempting to be too specific and definite as to the exact
manner in which the work shall be done. It gives him authority to
employ competent engineers and experts to work out systematic plans
for comprehensive projects that shall embrace all the lands in each
basin as a unit. Such a policy wTill enable the Secretary to establish
a definite plan of flood-protection, drainage, and reclamation work for
the entire country, and thus avoid the waste of money and effort
through the construction of local works in unrelated units.

This bill is not confiscatory; neither does it infringe upon State or
private rights. It does not give the Secretary of the Interior the right
to reclaim individual or State lands without the consent of the owners.
He is empowered to undertake the reclamation of private or State lands
only when petitioned so to do by the owners of such lands.

This bill recognizes that the prevention of floods and the reclama-
tion of our overflowed and swamp lands is one vast problem and is
the most momentous the people of the United States have yet to solve,
and that its solution, in order to be complete and successful, must
proceed along the broadest possible lines in each locality of every
State without unnecessary delay. It recognizes that the Government of
the United States is charged under the Constitution with certain
duties in the way of protecting its citizens and preserving their be-
longings, and that the performance of these duties should be delayed
no longer. ,

The magnitude of the flood-protection work with which this bill
charges the Secretary of the Interior is so well known as to require
no comment, being over $200,000,000 in 1913 alone. The magnitude
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of the harm done by malaria, a disease that flourishes only because
there are swamps and flooded areas in the country, was stated by
Dr William A. Evans, former health commissioner of the city of
Chicago and writer of health articles for many papers, in his address
before the National Drainage Congress at St. Louis, in April, 1913,
when he said :

Loss through malaria deaths, per annum---------------------

Cost of disability and illness from malaria—---------------

Depreciation of real estate and loss in earning power of
labor, due to malaria------------------------------------—

$10, 200, 000
92,000, 000

60, 000, 000

Total annual economic loss-------------------------- 162, 200, 000

In arriving at these estimates Dr. Evans frequently cut in half the
generally accepted estimates. The terrible suffering that must be en-
dured by humanity so long as malaria is permitted to exist is a matter
of the deepest concern to the whole Nation.

The magnitude of the task of draining and reclaiming overflowed,
swamp lands, and lands too wet for agricultural purposes is not so
well known. The overflowed and swamp lands comprise an area of
nearly 80,000,000 acres. In addition to this area, as large as the
four States of Maine, Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois combined, the Depart-
ment of Agriculture has estimated that 150,000,000 acres of agri-
cultural land under cultivation are not producing within 20 per
cent as much as they should, because of insufficient drainage. The
overflowed and swamp lands are located in 40 States, the Territory of
Alaska not being included in the estimate, as follows:

ESTIMATED AREA OF UNRECLAIMED SWAMP AND OVERFLOWED LANDS IN THE
UNITED STATES.

Reclaimable for agricultural and grazing purposes. (Abstract from
reoort of the Department of Agriculture, Apr. 21, 1908. S. Doc. 443,
60th Cong.) :	,	~

Acres.

Alabama________

Arkansas-------

California_____

Connecticut—___

Delaware-------

Florida--------

Georgia--------

Illinois-______

Indiana________

Iowa___________

Kansas_________

Kentucky_______

Louisiana______

Maryland-------

Maine__________

Massachusetts__

Michigan_______

Minnesota______

Mississippi----

Missouri_______

Nebraska_______

New Hampshire-

New Jersey_____

New York_______

North Carolina-

North Dakota___

Ohio-----------

Oklahoma-------

Oregon---------

Pennsylvania---

Rhode Island___

South Carolina-
South Dakota—

Tennessee______

Texas__________

Vermont________

Virginia_______

Washington-----

West Virginia—
Wisconsin------

1,479, 200
5, 912, 300
3, 420, 000
30,000
127,200
19, 800, 000
2, 700, 000
925,000
625, 000
930, 000
359,380
444, 600
10, 196, 605
192, 000
156, 520

59.500
2, 947, 439
5,832,308
5, 760, 200
2, 439, 600

512.100
12, 700

326, 400

529.100

2,	748, 160
200, 000
155, 047

31.500
254, 000

50, 000
8, 064

3,	122, 120
611, 480
639,600

2, 240, 000
23, 900
i 800,000

20.500
23, 900

2, 360, 000

Total_____

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79, 005, 0235

It is not possible at the present time and under present conditions
to reclaim profitably all of the overflowed and swamp lands for crop
production, but a large per cent can be reclaimed and utilized for this
purpose* Much of the remaining portion can be improved by reclama-
tion works, and practically all of the 150,000,000 acres too wet for the
best agricultural results can be improved by better drainage and their
present productivity increased by one-fiftb.

A few citations of what has been accomplished by the protection,
drainage, and reclamation of overflowed and swamp lands will demon-
strate in a general way the benefits to be derived from land reclamation
and illustrate what may be expected from the reclamation of all our
overflowed and swamp lands.

The La Marsh drainage district consists of 2,400 acres on the west
side of the Illinois River, near the city of Pekin, III. It was organized
a few years ago under the Illinois State drainage and levee acts.
The land originally consisted of swamp and marshes or lands subject
to periodical annual and destructive overflow. Money was raised by
the issuance of drainage bonds by the district to pay for the protec-
tion and reclamation works. The land at that time was valued at from
$12.50 to $20 per acre. The corn crop of 1911 raised on these 2,400
acres was sold for $85,000. The cost of protecting, draining, and
reclaiming the district had amounted to $84,000, or about $35 per acre.

The Island farm, at Island, Minn., was reclaimed from the big Flood-
wood swamp, at a cost of $2 per acre for drainage £md from $3 to $10
an acre for clearing. There are 4,000 acres in the farm, valued to-day,
exclusive of building, at not less than $60 per acre. The land was
practically worthless until reclamation work was perfected.

Great areas in southeast Missouri, which a few years ago were un-
healthful, sparsely inhabited, and generally neglected, have been pro-
tected from overflow and drained, and in place of the swamps and
marshes, few farms and homes, and straggling villages, there are to-day
many homes, fertile fields, numerous and prosperous towns and cities.

A number of such illustrations could be found in Illinois, Indiana,
Ohio, Iowa, Minnesota, Missouri, New York, South Carolina, and other
States. Local reclamation work in the lower Mississippi Valley has
been und£r way long enough to make it unquestionable that the land
will produce each year enough to pay the total cost of works for pro-
tection, drainage, and reclamation.

In too many localities these works created by districts, individuals,
or corporations, and even by States, are unrelated. Their success is
too nearly dependent upon the manner in which the main drainage
channels are constructed; the streams and rivers are kept open and
within their hanks, or of sufficient size; and—which is becoming a grow-
ing problem—upon their ability to defend themselves from the waters
thrown upon them by the districts located above. Multiply these un-
related, selfish local drainage districts and works by 10,000, and it
is apparent why the work as a whole should move along under the
direction and supervision of a central authority and in accord with
a fixed and recognized standard.

The bill introduced by Speaker Clark provides this central authority
which may determine and maintain such a standard. The first section
creates a “ flood protection and drainage fund ” to be used by the Sec-
retary of the Interior in the examination and survey for and the con-
struction, operation, and maintenance of drains, canals, holding basins,
reservoirs, levees, dikes, revetments, mattresses, tree planting, sluice-
ways, pumping plants, and other works wherever needed for the pre-
vention of flood or for the protection, drainage, or reclamation of over-
flowed lands, swamp lands, and lands too wet for agricultural purposes,
all of which are pronounced dangerous to the public health among the
various States. This fund is made up of the money received from the
sale of public lands in those States—not included in the reclamation
act providing for the irrigation of arid lands—in which are public
lands, and also in Alaska, from June 30, 1901, with the legal excep-
tions for educational purposes. The wording of the reclamation act
was followed as nearly as possible in this and other sections of this
bill.

Section 2 authorizes the Secretary to undertake the works mentioned
in section 1, and to make full reports to Congress each year on or before
July 1, giving details of what has been done and of what is being done
and of what is contemplated.

Section 3 authorizes the Secretary to withdraw public lands from
entry when required in carrying out the purposes of the act, and to
restore them when found not necessary; to restore to public entry the
public of ceded Indian lands, after they have been protected, drained, or
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reclaimed, specifying the number of acres which can he taken up as a
“ drainage ” entry, which shall not he more than 160 acres, and speci-
fying the amount of payment for these lands, being the regular fees
plus the cost of the work, and how the purchase money shall he paid,
the total cost of the drainage or reclamation of the land to he assessed
against the land.

Section 4 authorizes the Secretary to let contracts for construction
and to construct parts of a project or a complete project; it specifies
the manner in which the Secretary shall dispose of the protected and
reclaimed public and ceded Indian lands. This section contains a pro-
viso that when the lands in a project are owned wholly hy individuals,
corporations, State or States, the owners may use the surveys and
examinations, and let contracts, after they have organized the lands into
a drainage district, and otherwise proceed under the State laws; and
the further proviso that the Secretary may take over surveys partially
completed, plans partially outlined, or works partially constructed hy
individual landowners.

Section 5 gives the Secretary the right to accept other than public
lands and include them in a project where they are contiguous to or in
the same basin with an area of public land to be protected or reclaimed,
when the landowners petition him to do so. The Secretary is empowered
to “ include such State or private land, with the selected (public) land
in a comprehensive protection, drainage or reclamation project, and
construct the main and outlet canals, levees, and appurtenant struc-
tures necessary to the whole project/’ The cost is to be assessed against
all the lands in proportion to the benefits derived. These assessments
against State and private lands are to be collected by the State or
drainage or levee district under State laws. To protect the Govern-
ment and prevent interference by Federal with State authorities. Sec-
tion 5 specifies that the Secretary of the Interior shall not proceed
with such works until the drainage or levee district has issued bonds
to the amount of the total assessments of cost against the private or
State lands and delivered the bonds to him.

The Secretary is authorized to purchase the bonds at not less than
par and to dispose of them. In lieu of the bond issue the Secretary
may accept not less than 25 per cent of the total area in the project
as a cession from State or private landowners, and then pay the entire
cost of construction. This is upon the assumption that 25 per cent of
the reclaimed land will be valuable enough to reimburse the Government
for reclaiming the entire area of State or private lands. If the work
is being done by State or States or drainage districts, the money de-
rived from the bonds shall be turned over to them as required to carry
on the work under the supervision of the Secretary of the Interior.
This section will provide drainage districts an immediate market for
their bonds at not less than par, provided they construct their work
under the supervision of the Secretary of the Interior and in accordance
with plans prepared by him.

. Section 6 empowers the Secretary to use the fund for the operation
and maintenance of the works; that the works shall belong to the
United States until all assessments of costs are paid, though these
works shall pass to the landowners and be maintained by them under
State jurisdiction and law after payment has been made to the Secre-
tary for the major part of the lands.

Section 7 authorizes the Secretary to consult and cooperate with the
Secretary of War when any contemplated work provides for the im-
provement or enlarging of natural channels or the excavation or con-
struction of navigable canals, or which by reasonable enlargement or
other alteration might be adapted to navigation purposes. If the War
Department reports favorably upon the waterway feature, then the
Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of War shall cooperate in
construction of the project and the Government shall pay for that part
of the work relating directly to navigation, the channels or canals to
remain under the control and jurisdiction of the United States, but to
be used so as not to impair their usefulness for protection or drainage
purposes.

Section 8 seeks to bring about cooperation between States where over-
flowed and swamp areas and flood-visited districts which extend from
one State into another. This section gives the Secretary of the Interior
the power to construct works to protect or reclaim these areas when
the several landowners or States shall request him to do so, even if there
are no public lands in the area. The cost of this work is to be assessed
against the land, as provided in section 5, except that the United States
shall pay that part which relates directly to the improvement of navi-
gation.

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Section 9 gives the Secretary the right to acquire rights or property
by purchase or condemnation to carry out the act.

Section 10 authorizes the Secretary to lease the lands reserved or
acquired under the act and to sell the same.

Section 11 authorizes the Secretary to accept from any State or
States, drainage or levee district or districts, or other landowner a
cession of reclaimable lands which can be included in any project and
to use and dispose of the same.

Section 12 -appropriates $20,000,000 from the • general funds in the
Treasury to form part of the “ flood protection and drainage fund.”

Section 13 imposes a fine not exceeding $5,000 or imprisonment not
exceeding five years, or both, for willful" interference with, injury to,
or destruction of any works constructed under the act.

Section 14 provides that the President may set apart and reserve town
sites within or in the vicinity of any project, and authorizes the Secre-
tary of the Interior to have the same surveyed, subdivided, appraised,
and sold. The fund's so secured may be used for municipal improve-
ments, and public reservations shall be conveyed to the municipal cor-
poration when the same is duly organized.

Section 15 . gives the Secretary authority to lease the surplus power
or power privileges of any development of power necessary in the con-
struction of any project; the leases shall be for not longer than 50
years, and preference shall % be given to municipal purposes, and the
moneys received shall be covered into the “ flood protection and drainage
fund.”

Section 16 authorizes the Secretary to perform whatever acts that are
necessary and to make the proper rules and regulations to carry into
full force and effect the provisions of the bill.

The United States has reclaimed private lands under the reclamation
or irrigation act. The Eighth Annual Report of the Reclamation Service
shows that in the Orland project, located in the State of California, of
14,000 acres (p. 59), only 200 acres were public lands. In the Garden
City (Kans.) project of 10,677 acres (p. 85), all were private lands.

In the Carlsbad project of 20,073. acres (p. 134), the ownership is de-
scribed in the report as “practically all private.” There are 10,000
acres in the Hondo project (p. 134), and all of them are private except
240 acres. All of the 20,000 acres in the Leasburg project (p. 140)
are private. All of the 180,000 acres in the Rio Grande project (p. 143)
are private. All of the 60,000 acres in the Strawberry- Valley project
(p. 184) are private. There are only 433 acres of public land in the
Williston project of 120,000 acres (p. 152), and 67 acres of State land
and 11,500 acres of private lands.

If it is constitutional and proper and good for the Government to
reclaim private arid land, .is it not . just as constitutional, proper, and
good for it to reclaim private, overflowed, and swamp lands?

The Constitution gives the United States the right to act in matters
touching two or more States, upon petition of the" States. In this con-
nection it may be pointed out that every great flood which devastates the
country is- an interstate problem, and its solution requires correlated and ,
coordinated work among several States. Thus, without considering the V,
constitutional power of Congress to provide for the general welfare of ■: j
the United States, the question of flood protection comes within the /
power of Congress, upon petition of the States affected, even if it does /
not come within the interstate-commerce and navigation provisions and /
powers.

While there may he many differences in detail, and more differences
as to the solution of the details, there can he no serious questioning of
the statement that the flood .problem and the drainage and reclamation
problem and the problem of navigation and interstate commerce by
waterways are so interwoven with each other that no one can tell
exactly where one starts and the other ends.

The numerous, most destructive, most dangerous, most persistent, and
nearest enemies of the people of the United States are internal ene-
mies—forces of nature. These forces kill more persons each year than
were slain in battles and died from the effects of gunshot wounds on
both sides during our destructive Civil War, and the property destroyed
each year by floods is worth more than the cost of our war with. Spain.

The passage of this bill will start the successful opposition to and
bring about the eradication of these internal enemies—floods; diseases
resulting from floods, swamps, and marshes ; destruction of property ;
poverty due to nondevelopment of land rich in agricultural possibilities;
and poverty and suffering due to the ravages of preventable diseases.

The passage of this hill by the United States Congress is respectfully
urged hv the undersigned officers of the National Drainage Congress.

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OFFICERS.

President: Edmund T. Perkins, consulting engineer, 1110 First Na-
tional Bank Building, Chicago, 111.

First vice president: E. J. Watson, commissioner of agriculture, com-
merce, and industries, Columbia, S. C.

Second vice president: Col. William C. Gorgas, United States Army,
chief sanitary officer Panama Canal, Ancom, Panama.

Third vice president: Edward Wisner,, landowner and capitalist, New
Orleans, La.

Fourth vice president: D. E. Kind, industrial commissioner Missouri
Pacific Railway, St. Louis, Mo.

Fifth vice president: J. L. Craig, president River Regulation Com-
mission of Stockton, Cal.

Treasurer: A. M. McLachlen, president McLachlen Banking Corpora-
tion, Washington, D. C.

Secretary Executive Committee: Philip R. Kellar, First National
Bank Building, Chicago, 111.

BOARD OF GOVERNORS.

The president, E. J. Watson, John H. Nolen, Joseph Hyde Pratt,
Frank B. Knight.

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