. Review of reviews and world's work. with it before any international action istaken. So the Dominion Minister of PublicWorks has declared. A MIX-UP IN INTERNATIONAL COMMISSIONS. Many Niagara lovers have been anxiouslyawaiting the fate of a bill introduced by UnitedStates Senator Piatt providing for a Niagarainvestigating commission, with an appropriationof $20,000. Calls have been made upon Con-gress to pass the bill, and upon tlie President toarrange a personnel for the proposed commis-sion without undue corporate leanings or dan-gerous hydraulic engineering enthusiasms. The American Civic
. Review of reviews and world's work. with it before any international action istaken. So the Dominion Minister of PublicWorks has declared. A MIX-UP IN INTERNATIONAL COMMISSIONS. Many Niagara lovers have been anxiouslyawaiting the fate of a bill introduced by UnitedStates Senator Piatt providing for a Niagarainvestigating commission, with an appropriationof $20,000. Calls have been made upon Con-gress to pass the bill, and upon tlie President toarrange a personnel for the proposed commis-sion without undue corporate leanings or dan-gerous hydraulic engineering enthusiasms. The American Civic Association, however, con-siders this bill superfluous, since there is in exist-ence an International Waterways Commission,containing American and Canadian was created by the River and Harbor Act of1902. The American representatives reported,last December, that they wanted more instiuc-tions and cash. In reply comes a joint resolu-tion, January 31, offered in the House by Rep-resentative Theodore E. Burton, of Ohio, asking. A WASTE-TUNNEL OPENING BEHIND THE HOUSESHOE. (This tail-race tunnel of the Electrical Development Com-pany, one hundred and fifty-eight feet deep in the rockriver-bed, drains the wheel-pit above the falls, finally dash-ing its water against the rear of the torrent from over theHorseshoe. See map on page 433.) the commission to report specifically and to exertall possible efforts for the preservation of thesaid Niagara Falls. On February 16, the Sec-retary of War formally requested the Appropri-ations Committee of the House to see that theneeded funds accompany the resolution when itbecomes law. Subsequent proceedings in thisdirection will be of intense interest to all friendsof the falls. NEW YORK TO DO WHAT IT CAN. The New York Legislature seems by way ofcarrying out Govei-nor Higgins emphatic re-quest for Niagara preservation. In some de-gree, repair the mischief already done, ran hismessage. To that end bills have been introducedby Assemblymen
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