San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-07-03
A CLEAR CASE OF GALL.


tack Speaker Reed on all possible oc-
casions is expected as a matter of
course. That it should attack him on
impossible occasions as well and, fail
ing to find any real grievance, should
manufacture one is not accepted as a
matter of course, from journal of the
Posts standing. The latest display
of this spleen is in it's issue of June
2Sth, in which 1t savagely and in
sanely attacks the speaker as the re-
sponsible cause of the refusal Of the
house committee to call up the Gal
weston special appropriation, and
calls him more hard names than are
dictated by hard sense. The
Post realizes that the at
tempt to abstract s6,2OO,OOO from
the national treasury for Galveston's
benefit is q failure, and charging that
failure to Mr.. Reed ABUSES him as
. Nihilist would an Emperor; calling
him the American Gar who controls
the legislation of the nation, mega
tivlng any measure that he may
chose, destroying representative gov
eminent, and exercising more power
than any president that ever sat in
the white House; never for moment
considering that Mr.. Reed is respon-
sible to the country for the just exer-
else of his power IN protecting the
interests of the people. The Post
seems to have taken up the running
for Its mate at the other end of the
"Bayou Canal" that formulates
Norman Maxims" for the Post to
copy. Otherwise, how could the Post
remain blinded to the fact that the
most eminent hydraulic engineers
of this country say now, and have
repeatedly said, that the plans of
the government engineers at Calves
ton cannot succeed and that the ex-
penditure of SC, 200. 900 on theGalveston
bar is simply an experiment. and
more. This opinion is based
upon the results of the $2,OOO,O 900 al
ready expended on that broad ex-
panse of shoal and quicksand. 1t can
be readily understood why the Gal
weston people have put up over
quarter of million to force that bill
through congress. They see how it
would boom any town to turn a mil
lion year loose for indifinite years,
and though they do not expect deep
water they do banker after that Sc, 200
600. Mr.. Reed is as we'll acquainted
with these facts as is the Galveston
Lobby; and, according TO the Post,
does not hesitate to characterize the
bill as steal. So believing, it is his
duty as the head OF the popular
branch of the national legislature to
interpose what power he possesses to
defeat that bill. What advantage
will 1t be to Houston to have Calves
ton expend million year in build
ing up her local trade by the expen-
diture of Government money, when
no hope Of deep water exists? Houston
Is a railway cen ter and can profit only
by deep water. 1t would seem that her
wisdom would be to multiply railway
communications with the port so soon
to open at the mouth of the Brazos.
Deep water there is fixed fact; and
II SO, there Is no need of drawing upon
the national treasury for $6,2O0,0OO
for experiments at Galveston, only
forty-two miles distant. If congress
desires to spend money for Galveston
merely for municipal benefit, let her
do it, but, according to the Post,
Speaker Reed does not propose to be a
party to this ansaction. The press
ure of that $500, 900 lobby at Washing
tor, headed by that prince of corrup-
tionists, Legate of Kansas, known
as "slippery Jim," and recently con-
victed of bribery, is of itself enough
to put Mr.. Reed upon his guard, and
would justify him or any other mem
Der of congress in denouncing the bill
as steal. The time is not far dis
tant when the country will thank
Speaker Reed for his open, honest
manly course In connection with this
attempt to subsidize Galveston to the
extent of So ,2OO, 900 from the national
| treasury.