New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-06-07
ConGratulations,

WASHINGTON, June 6.-The following is
from Messrs. Forshey and Hebert:
To the President and Members Of the New Orleans
Chamber Of Commerce:
Your representatives take great pleasnrs
in reporting the triumphant passage OF tho
bill for the Fort St. Philip canal by tho
House by l40 to 80 votes.
We have not ceased to press upon mem-
bers the practical impossibility of improv-
ing the mouths and the certainty of sue
cessful canal within three years, if that
work should be ordered, and to this end we
have brought to bear the lights of science
and professional experience.
: How we have been needed is shown by
this result, for We, have been met by COM
binations and ceaseless distortion of facts,
and by the press Of St. Louis, New York,
Chicago and Washington, which has teemed
with the advocacy of the great eleven mill
lion contract.
Thus, without dollar of expenditure
upon the press, here OF elsewhere, we have
met these combinations, furnished the tech
nical facts to our delegation in Congress
and to the ablest men in the House, and
they have used them with great energy and
talent.
We then congratulate the Chamber and
our State, and the great West, on the near
prospect of the grandest Improvement ever
undertaken by the United States.
c. G. FORSHEY,
COY .ts P.O. HEBERT.
sherman Going 10 st. Louis.
General Sherman goes to st. Louis for a
few days.
~ Senator schurz.
Carl Schurz has tho malarial fever.
Freedmen's Bank Affair.
The conference committee on the Freed
to agree. The Senatelinsists on its bill which
provides for complete winding up of the
affairs of lthe bank in this city, and all it's
branches. The Heuse bill allows the bank,
and all its branches, to continue to do busi
ness, but sets forth EXPLICITLY upon what
class of securities loans shall be made.
Agricaltaral Reports Not to Go Free.
The amendment to the postofice appro-
| priation bill, that agricultural reports pass
| through the mails free, was stricken Ou.
How tho Canal Bill Passed-The Effect
Upon the Senate.
| The majority for the Fort st. Philip canal
| turns out to have been sixty-six in the
House. The expression is 80 emphatic that
an effect has already been produced upon
| the Senate. Two jetty Senators have pro-
| nounced for the canal. The canal men of
the House have resolved to press the Sem
| ate, that they may not lose the benefit of
their victory for cheap transportation.
McCreary, Sheldon, Hawley, Coburn, Kas-
to-day with reference to inducing the Som
ate to take early action. Mr.. Stanard, Of
St. Louis, is now working vigorously for
the canal.
Mail Contract.
The Postmaster General has awarded the
mail contract from New Orleans to Cedar
Keys and Key West to I. X. Roberts.
Arrival Of Colonel sandidge.
John NJ. Sandidge, representative Of the
New Orleans Chamber of Commerce, the
Cotton Exchange and the general relief
committee, in the interest of levee prOtec-
ton by the government, is here.
Sypher ON the Levee Question.
General Sypher made lengthy speech
to-day in favor of the general government
taking control of the levees, and construct
ing and maintaining them at national ex
pense. He gave the history of levee con
struction from the earliest settlement or
the river, and showed that the States in
terested had expended to exceed $40, 900 ,O0(
in the work. He said the war, no less disas
trous than the devouring floods, swept away
| and destroyed both leveee and the disciplined
labor which had constructed and maintained
them, organised force and capital for that
.. purpose is no longor available. He showed
the great value Of the products of the allu
vial lands, to increase which would be Il
! the interest of the whole nation he re
ferred to England's effort to free hersel
from dependence upon America for cOttOl
during the war, and the policy of Napoleon
j in fostering the beet sugar culture il
France, and argued that this governmen
should profit by these examples.