Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1883-09-23
WASHINGTON LETTER.
A BLAST IN RESERVE FOR A PRES
DENTAL AsPIRANT.
Judge Field aud the Cotton Tax-The Mis-
sissippi Lcyeo system--A Novel
Segregation .nbOr and
Capital
Special Correspondence OF ,he Gazette.

Special Correspondence OF TIE Gazette.
Washington, September lS.--Justice
Field Of the supreme court bench was
a potent candidate for the presidcncr
when Hancock was dominated. He
ngnin appears In this role ana IL may
be well for him To know that a sharp
Republican lawyer from ~an Francisco
threatens To annihilate him ar soon as
lac Is nominated, This lawyer alleges
that he has photo
graphcd excerpt from the records
Of some court In san Francisco ia
which Judge Fields used Ia preside,
showing that the distinguished gentle
man IntIiilntcd or changed the records
Of his own court in his own behalf
ie being owner of an interest worth
two or three millions, involved in this
lawsuit Ia which this wrongful iudi-
cal entry became desirable.
II might be well for the Judges |
friends 10 silence this gossip which ] |
hive heard repeated ill IL has become |
certainly tiresomc.
piIr luDGE EIiNDEns
when he says he favots Ills, raj eKpend-
iturpa In behalf of n System of
levees built In such form
that they would last for ages,
protecting the country from operlows |
and preventing changes now mnde !
every year IN the channel of the river. !
The judgemay be greatRtndcnt aud
deliver into black letter lore but he
iins never dug hole in the binck al
luviuu. OF the Mississippi lowlands.
Gould'e railways connect New Or
leans with st. Louis on the West and
Huntington on tho Mpsssippi,
st.t a
Aif.h the cost OF railway land carriage,
LIN other words Huntington aud
,laula Will not have tive coiruheroial
value OF the Mississippi. reproduced.
Whey would not have the mouth OF
The river properly opened
80 that the Great Eastern
may land At New Orlcaus. The
railway kings organized and appointed
ti.e river commission, a iunta headed
hyEads who built the bridge mt ~.
Louis ut four or ilvo times is proper
cost. Eads made money and hired
men and newspapers To sustain him
ana he has remdered the reproduction
of the navigability OF the river and
tho redemption of the lowlandS tmpos-
sihle. He has stuffed Judge Fields
braEl with that tnsutlenible tMaddle
about levceing the Mississippi. III i.
were possible, the judge should know
II Is not desirable, No mud walks can
Ice secure, and there Ia no stone
and ave might build parallel
stone Malls mile aslart from Carlo TO
New Orleans. and make these walls
2oo feetlGgh, and they would not can
tain ilontis tifty milssNwidc, aud mn .nv.
erage depth OF ten feet. Conine saon
n sea wiliia these Walls, and il the "a,
cility ot outflow We're ,.lot augmented
the rSver,s Sleighth above the banI.
would DO ton dimes ATTY or 500 feet
ltcal lGveeS are valuable, and ofteN
serve Che iusst benetid!ent purposes.
but nothing Is more absurd than
Judge Fieidslluppositiaa. hat the con-
strGcti01 of an universal leyee
system Is lpa,sible II fact, 10
levee effectively the Mississippi
and it's tributaries Erem Cairo
To New Grleano would cost a sim
greater than the national datt. Judge
Field neee only hnake Ia calculation
,M the cost of leew,s per cubic yard
sand then measure the riysg and It's
and then find the flcces-
.ggiy htghth sad breadth of lines.
rlIE @NINNl EMEpY.
Iksivert one half of, the Hood tide of
the Missouri iEG0 the Neosho which
towS into the AGlSapsas, then ,urn
the Arkansas into Lake proyialcnee
and tkain this iSto Bed river ans
mto the Atchuhlly, ilowing into The
aus Ne then woiiid thave TWO His
st.Sippis parallel viii one smother. |
Transverse canals oDnuQeting these
would supply the lowanda
N'Nh alluylval and height lacilitief
for irrigation. The cotton
and sugar nrodticts Of ia. t'nit,d
states wonld hsiGe,antly douSed, and
therefore h was tina when Ii snade n
drawing OF these ca uals or diverted
rivers ~, q map OF the United states
lor Gav licn Butler in 1857, he pro
houneed against levces, s.,ve for local
NsSS "a low districts, aud Ia favor of
iow0ous scheme OF outlets The hEN
81 these, IN Illustration OF the correct, I
n.Nss 81 the theory, tOsbe made M Lake /
nofNne. But Judge Eeild need ri /
LAYS thrusl his crude opinions On tlds 1
HlJeoe lno the newspapers. Ihose
VINO nave studied questions involved i
iiaNe reached the common conelnsian
tual lsNsts, MS 4 system, are neither
possible nor desirable, and Thai liza
pN'ie' 9h'oFy Is alone practicable.
fnE SOUTHERN COTTON TAX.
The South paid $40. Ol0, 600 Of tbaco,
loh TAX, !, WAS hwlts exaetion
lnu rs Judge Fleld SAYS, should he re'
uhded, Bat The men who luid n ma
lsau or have sold their claims 10 snac.
ia'ois' who have gone into bank