something is doing
The improvement of the Ohio River is not alone to improve the Ohio River and help the States along its border.
You have six locks now completed, and where those six locks operate, the success of the system of slack water has been d...
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 ...
Then when the time comes that political exigency shall prevent the appropriation of sufficient amounts from the current ...
I recognize the gentlemen who applaud, as coming from the Columbia River district.
They have not come to a definite conclusion as to the policy that ought to be adopted, but they have come to the conclus...
One of the things that I think we ought to do is not to decry the past.
You are getting, as the boys and girls used to say in 'finding the button'—you are getting warm.
I don't know that I have any right to be here to talk about waterways, unless it makes a man an expert on the subject to...