Daily Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1876-1884, 1878-02-28

details, and put these measures into
the form of law, the trouble COM
mences. The craftsmanship of some
rises no higher than to calculate
the influence of each vote OH the
chances of re election, and while
these mere politicians bubble about
hair-splitting theories, their old
masters of the North seize the OPP
portunity to divide, conquer and
still hold them In bondage.
The silver bill drags its slow
length along through a wilderness
of words in the Senate, but is all
the time gaining strength by the
reflex influence from the people,
and must become q law, veto or no
veto.
The delegation representing the
Mississippi river improvement, are
working faithfully and efficiently
in that cause and there is good
prospect OF success. They now pro-
pose to ask for an appropriation of
$15, 000,0 600 to be justly distributed
in the improvement of Western
AID Southern rivers.
4 Delegates are also arriving to at
tend the National Commercial
Convention to be held In Washing
ton on the 10th of this month. The
Convention will ask Congress to
adopt such means as shall extend
our foreign commerce to all the
countries that now ask US 10 come
and trade with them. 1t is con-
fidently believed that this can be
accomplished by increasing the
number of American-built ships,
and doing this in way to greatly
augment the revenues of the Gov
ernment, and the aggregate wealth
of the nation.
THE PACIFIC RAILROADS.
The present and prospective rail-
roads to the Pacific form an absorb
ing topic just now, both in aud out
of Congress. A bill has been pre-
pared to compel the Union Pacific
to comply with the law enacted
several years ago directing that
road to pro rate with the Kansas
Pacific. The Union and Central
Pacific have such wonderful facil-
ity for escaping from all kinds of
obligations that it is hard to say
whether q second law will be more
effective than the frat.
This leads me TO refer to the one
great central and unanswerable az
gument in favor of the Texas and
Pacific. This argument is the me-
cessity of n competing line through
the Southwest. that shall achieve
the double purpose of opening to
settlement great empire of unde-
vcloped wealth, and at the same
time redeeming a whole nation
from bondage to the most grinding
and INSCRIPTIONS monopoly in
America. A dozen or more bills
are in the Senate and House Com
mittees on this measure, but the
one offered by Alex. II. Stephens,
providing for a trunk line from San
Diego to Fort Worth, with single
eastern to the Mississippi, is tho
most popular, and is daily gaining
friends from the East as well as
the West and South.
SENATOR ARMSTRONG.
In the advocacy of this measure
Senator Armstrong is II whole te am.
The fact is, Missouri's new Senator
is one of the most efficient workers
In Congress. He speaks but little,
but being a man of strong convic-
tions, exalted patriotism and the
most liberal and statesmanlike
views of public policy, he has the
ability to impress his opinions
upon others, and in the committee
room and with individuals he does
an immense amount of the best
kind of work. He never shirks
duty on account of its labor, and
once engaged in an enterprise never
dreams of failure. The same kind
of talent, ability and persistent eff
fort made Erastus Wells, for years,
the acknowledged leader Of the
Missouri delegation in Congress.
Il. J. L.