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Army engineers had not yet completed their survey and report on the Mississippi Basin, upon which the committee's flood control bill must largely be based. So the committee heard witnesses and suggestions. The first hearing made it plain why Chairman Reid had called his meeting early...
After calling on President Coolidge (see p. 7), Mayor Thompson strode into the caucus room of the House office building, where the Flood Control Committee waited. Representative Reid seemed impressed by his fellow Illinoisian and introduced him to the committee as "the man who knows more about the Mississippi Flood than any other man." (Cheers.) "No man has done more for flood control than William Hale Thompson," said Chairman Reid. (More cheers...
Other speakers tried to add to Mayor Thompson's testimony about the flood. They were there, as he had shouted, "to crystallize sentiment." But Chairman Reid's "hearing" resolved itself into little more than roos-ter-boostering for Mayor Thompson...
After Mayor Thompson had left Washington, Chairman Reid's committee settled down to consider less spectacular phenomena, such as spillways, crevasses, levees and the main channel of the largest U. S. river. The planning of a national program began with requests for local relief. Representative Hull of Illinois put in a plea for stronger levees around Cairo, at the confluence of the Ohio and the Mississippi. Others from southern Illinois asked that the gooseneck narrows in the Mississippi at Cairo be widened instead...
After Chairman Reid's state had had its say, Louisianians were heard on the desirability of utilizing the Atchafalaya River as a natural spillway, and of building other spillways, to carry the gathered volume of the Mississippi into the Gulf of Mexico by short cuts above New Orleans...