CHAPTER X

.

SERVICES TO NORTHWESTERN COMMERCIAL INTERESTS AND THE CAUSE OF INTERNAL IMPROVEMENTS.

The Committee on Commerce as first organized--Unavailing protests--Mr. Chandler's first speech in the Senate--The St. Clair Flats improvement--A defeat and significant prophecy--The work, its cost and value--Mr. Chandler a member and then Chairman of the Committee on Commerce--The wide scope of that committee's labors--One-half of the entire amount expended by the United States for rivers and harbors appropriated during Mr. Chandler's chairmanship. 164

##