The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1882-01-05
A ROUND MILLION FOR GAL
WESTON,

WESTON.
We present elsewhere the tull text
of a bill introduced in the senate, be-
fore the holiday recess, by Senator
Plumb, of Kansas, appropriatlng one
million dollars to deepen the channel
over the bar of the harbor of CALVES
ton. The language of the bill is evil
deuce that the broad-minded senator
from Kansas has an adequate concep-
ton of the situation, for the few terse
sentences grouped in the preambies
! of the proposed enactment tell the
whole story, not alone of the needs OF
vast section, but the possibilities of
the southwest with deep. water at the
metropolis of Texas. 1t is hard to say
what fate awaits Mr.. Plumb's bill. The
south Will have to fight, figuratiyely
speaking, for anything liberal from
this congress. Add to this the re-
ported fact that the Louisiana con-
gressmen, in house and senate, are
hostile to the proposed appropriation,
and one can readily imagine that Gal
weston will be extremely lucky if she
gets this round million dollars, at this
session. We have great confidence.
however, i'll the efficacy of Senator
Plumb's friendliness to the measure.
Coming from a Texas senator the bill
would have undoubtedly been sub
iected to sharp antagonism. 1t is best,
for all concerned, that there is re-
publican and western senator ready
and willing to meet the responsibility
of bringing the matter before congress
and chsmpionIng it when introduced,
1t was eminently proper that the i'm
/ portance of such national assistance
should be recognized by senator
from some other state than Texas
The Louisiana delegation. we learn
are urging that million dollars will
be a mere drop in the bucket; that il
will take untold millions to secure
and maintain a channel OF more than
twenty feet depth. These are quer.
ulous and interested propositions,
superinduced, no doubt, by the rather
unnecessary apprehension that il
Galveston gets liberal aid the Missis-
sippi river improvement schemes may
not fare 50 well as Louisiana congress
men desire. Naturally Louisiana and
Texas ought to go hand in hand in
their efforts to deyelop the
interests of their respective sections.
There need be no apprebensions
however but what such objections or
arguments will be refuted when the
Plumb bill comes up for discussion.
The,Texas delegation will be prepared
to answer them, intelligently and
thoroughly, and if this congress has
the requisite breadth OF conception to
grant the proposed appropriation, it
will be but blief while, compars
lively, before we shall have here upon
the Texas coast port adequate to the
needs of s section whose interests are
not second to those of any other par
of the country. y million dollars il
a lump will do twice the good of the
same amount doled out through
three or four years. Any meas.
ure that is calculated to pro.
cure permanent deep water at Gal
weston is benefit to the entire state
of Texas. There is no local section.
alism potent enough to cause right
thin king Texans TO feel otherwise
and viewing the matter from this, the
only true standpoint, Mr.. Plumb vii
receive the hearty thanks of Texa:
for his friendly interest aud efforts il
this matter. If congress will grant
the million dollars we think engineer
Mansfield will undertake to show the
Louisiana congressman that it will be
something more than "mere drop III
the bucket