10/22/1909
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"You have six locks now completed, and where those six locks operate, the success of the system of slack water has been demonstrated."
"I am only a coordinate branch of this Government and the least important of those branches."
"You may insist that a policy ought to be adopted, and you have insisted, and I do not doubt that you have—indeed I know you have—made that distinguished member of Congress, the head of the Rivers and ..."
"Then when the time comes that political exigency shall prevent the appropriation of sufficient amounts from the current revenues to put the proper part of the project through the coming year or the co..."