Smyrna times., 1886-05-12
Letter from Congressman Lore.

LeCCer from congressman Lore.
EDITOR HoFFECKaR-Dea Sir Il was
surprised at the article in your paper of the
9th inst. in respect to Duck Creek improve
ment
urged before the Committee on Rivers
and Harbors appropriations for Appo-
quinimink Greek, Duck Creek, St. Jones
River, Mispillion Creek, Bro0dlIiln Creek,
Broad Creek and Indian River, but could
not get them in. They were held not to be in
terstate and otherwise out byrule established
by committee. In the House to test will
lingness to amend the bill us reported,
asked for St Jones Creek and Broad
Creek only because the engineers report in
those two cases was more favorable, and if
successful would have been followed by
other amendments for the remaining cases.
l send you Il copy of Congressional Rec
ord of 23d of April; on pages 1890 and 1891
you will see Duck Greek was not neglected
The engineer report was not favorable to
your creek, as you will see.
Your just dealing with public men in
their official work, induces me to believe
your article was based upon a partial
knowledge of facts only. You will see
from above facts and copy of Record that
Duck Creek was cared for rs far as posi-
BILE.
have no desire to comment on the mo-
tives you credit me with l only desire
you should know the facts.
Very Truly Yours,
c. B. LORE.
Washington, d. c., May 7th, 1886.
We give place cheerfully to the
above letter from our Congressman, as
this letter and the full report on the
| several claims of our streams, which he
laid before the Committee on Rivers
and Harbors contained in the Congress-
iOnal Record, places his relation to
them in quite a different light. He
desired. as this report shows, to have
good appropriations made for them
! all, but seeing that this would absO-
lutely fail, tried to push through the
two for which the Chief Engineer OF
Surveys made the most favorable re.
pOrt-St. Jones' Creek and Broad
Creek. But the question that arises
Just here is, why does the Engineers
report make such a shOwing2 In re-
gard to Broad Creek, that runs up tC
Laurel, we are unfamiliar with the
facts in the case, but if the claims ar'
like those of st. Jones' Creek, much OIL
paper and meager in fact, we mus
hold to the impressions given out il
our last issue that back of it all is
political power, but this power ma!
be other than Mr.. Lore.
The commerce of Smyrna or Duel
Creek has been a leading one Of tn
Delaware streams since the COlOnia
days, yet its place has been in the lis
, of smallest apprOpriatiOns-$lO, 900
large slice of this being wasted by tn
Government Surveying Corps.
Jones' Creek has had $4,000 and tn
f report says $4,000 can be "prOfitabl
expended :" Mispillion Creek, runnin
, to Milford doing large cOmmerci;
trade), has had $4,000; BrOadkiln ha
had $25, 5000; Indian River, $1,000
, But to come back to upper Ken
! with which we are better acquainted
When q committee of our citizeI
I went on to Washington four or fiI
! years ago, the then existing delegatiC
: from this State received them cour
eOusly but with the word uncOnst
T. tutional stamped on their respectiy
brOws, or as orally expressed, the
9 had grave doubts as to its constit
q tionality, as the desired improvemel
was for business enterprise and not Fl
n interstate commerce, but as Il
! mouth of the creek was used, al
, could be construed into a harbOr
+ vessels of other places to seek safety
stress of weather, they agreed to owe
come their constitutional scruples
asking small appropriation for ii
,r little pocket. But at the next sessiO
D, we think it was, Senator Saulsbu
Of threw his constitutional objections
er the winds in consideration of JOni
le Creek, made a grab for Uncle San
D, treasury with both hands and {
j. cording to the official report before
did come off with pile of $15, 900, wi
a another prospective haul of $1,000
ne In the figures which accompanied t
r. Engineers report and actuated it, a
ry of course cognizant to Senator Sau
N bury, were such items as these in
re- record of exports and imports of Il
ue creek: Peaches, 100000 baske
ee ,e. grain, 100000 bushels; canned a
rst evapapOrated goods lin valuel, $45
ny 600; general merchandise, 81 ,0000C
aggregating grand total of 50, 1877 on
loT A very fine showing on paper. w
la% ler beside Capt. Draper, who collat
these figures, and Mr.. Salisbury, KIN
op when and by what method all this i
RS mense traffic gets out of Jones Cree
act In the same report appears sta
mo ment of the commerce of Duck Gre
OF. from the Philadelphia and Smyi
'tss Transportation Company in respOi
,od to an inquiry which came thrOu
me Judge Walter Cummins from G
II y VIM. +. Smith. The statement is
ast carried out so as to get at the val
and in response to an inquiry on I
ay subject from the Secretary and IRE
he urer we have the following:
ny Mr.. HOFFECKE II should estim
ne the value of Duck (Or 'Smyrna) Cree
to shown by our statement TO U. S. Ag
is. General w. +. Smith, July 25th, 1885
of be say 81, 750 600, to say nothing Of can
m or evaporated fruits, cord wood railr
- ties and curbing stone which is claimed
~ ~ q large part of the commerce Of st. 10
We RiUer. Besides n comparative estimat
lth the commerce Of Duck Creek and
Gr. Jones RiUer must show the latter to
en largely overcstimated, especially so in
his matter of fruit, lumber and general n
are chandise. respectfully,
,re w g. PIERc
we Knowing ones say that Jor
ns Creek has not quarter, possibly
Ian exceeding a tenth of that Of d.
no Creek, and yet Senator Saulsb
.Ae wants to dig out a creek twenty
% va, miles, q part of it only a shall
iI1 stream of water, with an enorm
lIn outlay of money, when other ere,
or notably Duck Creek, can have &
has o,,tiau Sti., of % eoD,o SS 600 IF there is
e it Ooi;t;coI ov ingnerca ar some other
iss- aUanco ot tbe bottom of sncb n
ars posal of appropriations, then in
sve name Of common sense and just
L =