Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-03-28

WASHINGTON LETTER.
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A Vision Of the Future Houston the
Great Senportor Texas.
$780, -
S'cam's Swift Wing Shall Watt Her
Trade by Land a,w Sea.
Deepening Bar and Bayou the Simple
solution orthe Problem.
The Worlds Peace Society and lis Labor
of Love.
u ,cial correspondents Of the Gazette.

sp ecial Correspondence of the Gazette.
Washington, March 23.--The propo
si!ion made by some gentleman I,
clean out, Widen and deepen Morgan.
bayou 80 that Houston may become ;
seaport and the bayou ,tsel
a land-locked anchorage and
harbor, has damaged, unfortunately
perhaps, the prospects of tho Calves
ton Wharf company, which sought
about ten million dollars 10 be ex.
pended ON Mr.. Eads' scheme of con
structiDg great sea wall OF Calves.
ton. Morgan, the whilom commercial
commodore Of the gulf, To avoid Gal.
weston aud It's port exactions, dug out
n channel FOR his ships and construc ted
wharves costing half million dollars
on the hayoua few miles below Huus.
ton, The depth OF this ship channel may
be readily made equal 10 that on the
bar at Galveston and the tide water ul
the bayou may he always kept ut the
same depth with that ON the outside
bar. The greatest ships constructed
in England are built on Just such a
bayou or Underwater inlet, d6cpened
by dredges and thus converted iUto a
safe aud accessible anchorage. Wheth-
er this inlet at Houston may thus be
utilized is question of economy on
the one hand aud OF civil EN-
cheering on the other. Can the
bar at Galveston he removed
finally without the sea wall9 IL the
board OF engineers decide that 10 may,
then Houston supplnnts Galveston OF
the commercial, AZ 10 is already the
railway, center OF Texas. III this inn
provement Of the bayou be possible, az
has been demonstrated 10y Morgan,
then Clinton and Houston will spa ed
lily become an unit, aud half million
people will dwell there within the
next len years. Since the great Central
railway and It's associated corporations
own Clinton and the country about
the commercial village, all these will
cooperate in having the bayou become
the clyde OF America. Galveston Is
undone and Houston becomes greater
city than New Orleans, worthy OF the
fame Of him whose splendid deeds and
memory the name OF the old capital of
Texas was design,d 10 commemorate
THE BEGINNING or THE END.
Through the past three years the
WORLDS. peace society and arbitra-
ton league has been Issuing It's
publications, urging the establishment
Of an American comm, rcial and peace
league. To consummate It's purposes
divers bills, through the Intervention
OF congressman c0ncurriug in its
views, have been presented and con-
sidered. These propositions and
schemes of beneilcence. designed to
render American interstate wars ulti.
mately Impossible aud all differences
adjustable 10y arbitration, have heen
embodied in Representative Towns
htnd's resolution authorizing the pres
ldcnt 10 invite cooperation of
all American governments, north and
South. in securing the establishment
of commercial Hague" To be
known as the Customs Union Of
America. This is designed, Of course,
primarily, 10 strengthen and enlarge
commercial intercourse and cloEcr
political relations among all these
countries. Messrs. Reagan, Wood.
ward and Davis have been appointed a
subcommittee TO confer with the sec-
retarles Of state and Of the treasury;
the first, having cogniIance OF ques-
tons Of peace and war; tho latter Of
commercial quel tons. This eubcom
mittee will report Tuesday, when
Mr.. Townshend viii expound ia en-.
tense the scope and bearing of his reso-
lutions. Here we find the beginning
of the end sought to be attained by the
league. Dollars aud cents
lead the way 10 unity aud peace, and
local independence eanwhile IL unim-
puired