Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-01-28
WASHINGTON LETTER.
Personal and Intellectual Peculiarities
OF Representative Stewart.
His Aims M n Working for
the Interests OF Texas.
Inversion of Continental Trade-Gal-
weston aud New Orleans.

Stewart OF Houston, If Ochiltree be
not. IL the most attractive figure on the
floor OF the house. Each occupant of
the gallery first designates Mr.. Stew
At and first asks his name
and whence he comes. 1t
il not alone because he
towers above his fellows, but because
his face Is singularsy' pleasing, even M
his gait and bearing AID winning
smile and clear blue eyes are especially
attractive. There Is nothing of vani-
~, which is apt to wound the self-love
OF others, in his conduct, and he moves
about somewhat lazily and with an
air of iRsoUciuace, devoid of rudeness
or vulgarity, that pleases and never
oflends. There ia no afiectation of
bluntness, and If his mannerism
be studied the result is that perfection
of art which outrivals nature itself,
and he is the impersonation of easy
naturalness. But above and beyond
all this, as an intellectual man Mr..
Stewart wins rapidly the respect aud
confidence of the house. He quietly
bides his time and everybody learns
from his colloquial speeches, In COM
mittee rooms and In social life how
wisely the Houston district choose its
congressional representative. IL Gal
weston and Houston and Ochiltree and
Stewart cooperate and the Texas
delegation exerts itself In their
behalf rs an unit, as IL generally will,
Texas will be given speedily an open
highway TO the sea To the attain
ment of this enu the Texan press and
people and their representatives In
congress should, ms an unit, bend
their energies. All other questions
and interests an all personal and To-
cal jealousies and rivalries should be
subordipated TO this purpose. IL is n
crime that such a state, with u sea coast
of 900 miles and exporting products
perhaps of value of Il hundred millions
annually, should be forced, for want
of access to the Gulf of Mexico, to
transfer these products over
railways even to New York.
The loss to the people is so vast n
sum that credulity Is startled when
the facts are eXpounded. The whole
volume of these great aggregations of
annual productions, IL Galveston be-
comes proper seaport, will be gath
cred In Houston. the capital of Mr..
district, and passing through
1t rs funnel be transferred ~ mighty
ocean steamers Off Galveston. Hous.
ton becomes, in Stewards dreams, an
other Rome, and Galveston
its OstiunI; while the little
Ratchet of Ochiltree's fancy
chops out wholly different bas-relief
on the sunny seashore, and Galveston
is lifted up out of the gulf, on its shin
ing heaps of sand, Venice of old at
the head of another Adriatic. Ii these
two gentlemen and their colleagues nc
the purpose defined and the
Great Eastern may cast anchor in "A
secure harbor of Calves.
ton, the widest dreams
of both may be realized
Very certainly sums saved annually
by the people of Texas. when their
crops aud products OF their toll and
art may be cheaply distributed among
the nations, by ships rather than by
will rapidly make this the
richest and most populous, rs Ii Is the
of American wcalths. |
MIR. Stewart, thorough lawyer as heis,
and devoted through all his life to the
study of abstract legal and constitu-
Iional questions, now devotes his intel
|ectual energies TO the mastery of
and practical propositions
such as have sought TO define.
OBSTACLES 40 STEWARDS SCHEME OF
LEGISLATION.
He will learn that the railways are
al unit. That Gould and Hunting
ION and Vanderbilt and IA few other |
potentates have consolidated them. |
That their Interests are opposed, In
his behalf, TO those of Texas. The |
sl, ,.1 "a
Texas from the sea, The greater the
always profits, and the greater the
annual losses of Texas. While the
was fighting II WAS
commercial suicide.
rhe commercial map Of the country
vas then inverted. Everything was
wards the North. The Mississippi, as
always damned II up. They en-
IL was organized by Hayes and in
,ry's commerce. God intended that
lie Mississippi should regulate freight
md passenger rates In all
he continent. If IL were
,pen to-day, so that great ships of
fight thousand tons, such as anchor
It New York, could reach New Or
cans, monstrous barge lines from st.
Louis would fill them with cotton, la.
on, sugar and grain, returning To ~.
louis with the riches of Texas and of
many nations. The cost would be u
luarter of cent per ton per mile.
Nth such rates would Vanderbilt and
iould md Huutinpton ha forced IN
If they transferred products Of
he West aud South to New York.
THE MARE CLAusuM.
But the Mississippi IL mare clau-
un, an inaccessible inland sea, and
Sew Orleans, like Galveston, Is an in
ana and not seaboard city. While
he railroad kings can delude the con-
,ress and the people with levees, as
Prison walls for the drain OF n coDti-
rent; when compact lines Of Egyptian
pyramids side by side ana along either
hore of the river from Cairo 10 the
3aIize could not contain or confine
hese floods, (unless drawn Off by out
eta near the gulf just SO long
will this commercial map remain
upside down aud the Gulf OF Mexico,
IN vexed by great ships annually grow
ng greater and annually cheapeniDg
reight rates everywhere except on
his Mediterranean, will remain
useless reservoir from the detritus aud
foods from the Allegheny and Rocky
The very same devices will be em-
ployed by these great railway combi-
nations TO prevent the perfection Of u
harb0r of the coast OF Texas, and the