New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-02-04
THE GALVESTON PROJECT.
,,,oovo,rsry CRITICISED IN THE HOUSE
COMPARING THE APPROPRIATENESS"
WANTS FAIR DIVISION.
vrr1xeRArn TO THE rRInUNSi

WANTS A FAIR DlNloioN
Inv rxrxoRApu TO THE rRInUNKl
WASHINGTON, Feb. 3.-The deDaVo ~ W.. Ia
uouse to-day on the River and haroo' w snoorers.
soas,derahle attention. Several Oh 'n0 u.nhurn
', u.ssrs Reed washhurn, hepD"'
a~S pr,oc offered some pungcnt ci,'''. ,.as
srho vvork of the River and Harbor Comn,, %
s,outlv defended by Messrs. Breckehriueo -, ,ybo
Alabama Stone willis, and others 4 MI Cor internal
has always favored liberal appropriate, ., ,e,tber
,mproyemeuts declared that the penu for the
,.,r nor iust that 1t makes big appropriate, ,oo,
."'i n 49, ,rcs which does not exist save III mss
,,,. mo provision whateveris made ior pi".o
49, Is large and rapidly increasing
Thus not a dollar given to improve 'no o"f ,,b the
oanal which unites Lake Supoiio' 90 many
lower lakes, and yet seven ,st year as
-, nossed through that canal ia ~ We
vessels P"s' - inc mort of Galveston; the yes,
als in the former having tola ~ only 594 900
Of tons and IN na c more enter ana clear
tam the mort OF Duluth every eh,nments of coal and
ton ana Una. Duluth exceed the total eel vestn
enis OF ali kinds Galveston III ,no while Du
is 81 receive only SCI The total ,se Ss
and expenditures for haroor pyorR Phadeipha
g nnlhs "ehareson and savannah amount on 70
only $4,000 and Congress is asked
psrh i'm project which will carry the tota vU rho a%
haroor oeyon, on the six harbors before named
which, together have forty-hlhe uin0' "
merce Galveston .bo Galveston prO-
iect and the large appropriation Ior te "nara Cam
sinpi He said that tho only eng'ueer .t uei rcn
stark who had ever dared to risk his Poiess ~ he
tation nv giving an opinion OF the proDape cos the
latter i'm had ESTIMATED that te wv h,jia,no
nhsnnaI alone woud cost $66, OoO.OUO, anu tho ""o
of the levees indefinitely greater . .,o committee
Reed said every nleinDer VI s,.in,o ,hot
vhn had snoken had tried create the impression .
tha Army an riueers are incompetent anu 40 ny 49,
their bnsiness and therefore, that they ns' Iii q.
snhordinate TO others, while at the saie u o,nn,t
snnnosed TO be framed and is defended ny 'ue
tee on the ground that its provisions are III dasutsed
Sfth The mans and estimates OF these same ueSPise"
engineers. ,,-.., ond Jones of Ala
ba-ma were greatly exercised over the secuon1S' Iid
,aised nv Mr,srs Price and Washbufn, VINO n
attention to the fact that considerably ho,e S ,n
Of The amount to be appropriately the o 20 tb solid
pended in the sixteen States Hblch co"Po'' Wv
Mr. ZONES said: 81 am told that In New-hngau,u q
heefsteak costs more money than man oa a. hnaf
dsy and consequently. he has TO 40 "i'ho"' Wv
steak" .-, -, .ho ,,loin sneaking
nj MIR OrNell of Missouri, who SAID hole ~ -
will think that object this bill on the GROUND .'
&c roo hg since have here have urea 10 =.
Consistent and have voted for everything Ny ~
Il not that the appropriation for the lower he
TOO large but that the amount for the upper pan vi
river between the mouth OF the limos anu tio ,J
~ the Ohio River Is to- small. Gentlemen we uela
fnr division OF the pork there Is enough LOT US az
and IL mast he divided fairly III not III the he
poet we'n kick River and Harnor pii sno ", men
made for the benefit OF the present gehera'io" "a W
and not for remote poserity"