Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-12-11
'92 SENTIMENT.
Opinions Pretty Evenly Divided
in Regard to Cleveland.
Hill and Cleveland May Succeed IN
Killing Each Other and Force a
New Man to the Front.
The Fiii for SAT, and Deep Water Harbor
on the Coast OF Texas at Corpus
Christi Passes the House.


Special to the Gazette.
WASHINGTON, Dec. l0.-Mr. Craiu
succeeded in passing to-day in the house
bill to promote the construction of q
safe deep water harbor on the coast of
Texas 1t will be remeu bered that John
Willett is the father of this project, and
spent many months here last session en-
deavoring TO have it passed. Willett is
now in New York. and il is said that he
has u sure field, and the passage of the
bill to-duy is largely due to his efforts.
| The bill is Us follows: The Corpus Christi
aud Padre Island harbor COM
pany is authorized TO construct
at their exclusive cost, q
sea wall, breakwaters and ya6uct off
the shore of Padre Island on the coast OF
Texas within the jurisdiction of the Uni
ted States. The said company shall
within two days after the passage of this
act locate ana commence the construe-
ton of said harbor at a point TO be Sc
lec,ed by them off the Padre Island
coast of Texas, commencing at the
waters edge aud running ut an angle TO
the shore. They shall construct via
duct of the most
APPROVED MODERN PLAN
extending seawArd until d depth OF say
twenty-seven feet or water is reached,
thence continuing in the same direction
they shall construct sea wall until
thirty feet or more OF water is reached,
thence turning southwark at an angle or
curve which shall throw the sea wall
parallel or nearly so with the shore line
of Padre island. they shall construct
sea wall 5000 feet in length, said sea
,.,I l,asa Of in rp n
or other suitable foundation upon which
shall be constructed
WALL OF CONCRETE
of such form of structure us the engineer
officer of snii company may hereafter
atop,, twenty-two feet thick, more or
less and twenty-nne feet high, reach
ing eleven feet above mean low water.
They shall also construct break water OF
sufficient length ana 80 placed as to pro-
tect the shore of the viaduct, and an
other OF sufl. length aId so placed
as TO protect the entrance TO the mhnved
space, thus forming an outer harbor suf-
ficient in extent to afford dookage for
the accommodation at its whsryes for
thirty OF
THE LARGEST OCEAN STEAMERS,
and 200 or more smaller vessels or
coasters ut one time, and shall complete
said work within four years from the
commencement of the same. When
completed the embayed space or harbor
shall be and is hereby declared to be
harbor of refuge for the vessels OF GIL
nations, and such vessels as may touch
for orders free OF charge except such
vessels as may land at the wharves.
Sec. s. That in consideration of the
free use of the embaved space or harbor
as Il harbor of refugs for the vessels OF
all nations except vessels which land at
use the wharves, and in further consid-
GRAFTON of the vast benefit to
the general commerce OF the
whole country, and IN lieu of
any money appropriation for the i'm
provemert of the said coast, the said
company shall be allowed TO charge aud
coIlec: such reasonable part Of charges
and wharfage as may be prescribed by
| the regulations that may be made by
the secretary of the treasury of the
United States in conformity with the
| laws of the United States.
4. That no wharf or port charges shall
be charged until after the said improves
mens shall have been Inspected by n
| board of three engineers of the United
| States army, appointed by the secretary
| of war for the purpose, and found to
have been fully completed III accordance
| with the terms of this act, and until such
reports have been approved by the secre-
tary OF war.
| 5. That the United States govern
ment specially reserves the right at its
option to take said works upon payment
| 10 the owners there of the actual value
| of the same at the time of taking. which
shall be determined by board OF engi-
neprs of the United States army to be
appointed by the secretary Of war for the
| purpose.
G. The rights herein granted to the
| Corpus Christi and Padre Island Harbor
| company are upon the condition that
there shall be no Discrimination made in
wharves or against any individual or
corporation In regard to the use of said
barbor or Its approaches BY land or
| water.
THE TEXAS A. AND NJ. COLLEGE.
| In the matter of the allotment 70
Texas for the support of the Agricultural
| and Mechanical college under a recent
act Of congress the secretary of the in
| terror has heretofore declined to issue to
Texas the amount of the appropriation
due the state upon the ground that the
act required the legislation to first ap-
portion the fund between the Agricultural
ard Mechanical college and the
colored normal institute. MIR. Sayres had
an interview with the assistant secretary
of the interior at the request OF the gov
ernor, who had received q communica-
ton from the department that q certti-
| cate would be issued for the amount
| due Texas fog the .fiUt ysar
IL the governor would make O re-
port to the department and agree upon
| u fair and agreeable division of the fund
between the schools mentioned. To OBJ
tain the second years installment, the
| legislature to convene in January must
| make q fair and equitable div sion Of the
fund to be paid hereafter, which division
must meet the appreciation of the inte-
rior department.
| No Telling the Outcome.