The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1892-05-21
FACTS, NOT FANoIEs.

my newspaper he is forced to folio"
the same tactics that he does in po,
lice court, as the following will demon
strate:
The Arlington Record demurs to the po.
sition we took, opposing the provision in
the River and Harbor bill for an appropria.
tion OF S435, 600 tor portage railroad above
this city, to be given by congress in lieu oi
any sum for the prosecution of the work al
the Cascade locks. We did oppose this
provision in the bill, and for valid rcasons.
In the first place, it is very important that
the locks at the Cascades be finished at the
earliest possible date. Again, portage rail-
ways can be considered in no other light
than temporary expedients, and such work
should be undertaken by the state. Aud
further. no portage railway bill could ever
pass the senate, because that body has al.
ready adopted the permanent plan of a ship
railway to overcome the Instructions to
We are heartily IN favor of the state of
Oregon building the portage railway above
this point as il, did at the Cascades; but we
do not believe in the government at WASH
ington substituting portage railways at
either of these places for the canal and LOCKS
at the one or the ship railway at the other.
TIMES. .MoUNTAINEER.
We never accused him of anything of the
kind. We simply said that he or anyone
else who spoke of waiting for ship railway
was, whether Intentionally or not, dong
the will of the railroad company. You
might as well speculate on building worm
fence around herd of comets as to think
of this ship railway for generations to come.
A temporary portage could be placed on
vention formulated plan for this; the leg
islature of Oregon memoriallzed congress,
asking $43l 900 for same; the people OF the
Inland Empire universally and .advisedlY
the bill, and when there was danger(?) OF
its passage he strenuously opposed it both
IN the house and committee room: Are We
not correct2 t2-Arlington Record
Mr.. Hermsnn was not our first
choice for congressman in the first dis
drict; but he is infinitely superior as
representative of the peoples interests
to Hon. r. M. Veatch, the renowned
"kicker" from Southern Oregon, and
since be engineered the very favorable
River and Harbor bill through the
Democratic house, we are sufficiently
magnanimous to forgive him every sin
of omission and commission OF which
we consider him guilty. The only
permanent improvement to the navi-
CATION of the Columbia river is some
means by which grain or other produce
can be carried to seaboard without
breaking cargo, and portage railroad
cannot do this. Scientific engineers
lave surveyed the ground adjacent to
the rapids above this city, and have
decided in favor of a boat railway.
The senate, on two different occasions,
has passed a bill appropriating suffi-
clent amount for the construction of
this ship railway, and it is unreason-
able to expect that that body would
stultify itself by adopting the tenn
porary expedlent of portage road,
even if such measure should pass
the house. When Mr.. Hermann as
certained the fact that bill for port
road between The Dalles and Cello
would virtually defeat any further
appropriations for the locks, he very
wisely dropped the matter and worked
earnestly for the permanent improve
ment at the Cascades, and as is proved
by the liberal and desirable measure
passed with remarkable success.
Quoting still further from the same
article in the Record, we find the fol-
lowing:
When the state OF Oregon undertakes this
work, as it possibly may, the real costs and
trouble of constructing will be very little |
compared with that of getting right of |
way for twice crossing, the o. R. & N. Co.'S
track.
This is "rot" CT the worst kind. The
municipality of The Dalles has granted
the Union Pacific the right of way
through one of the principal streets of
the city, and the same power would
gladly grant to portage road equal
privileges. At the second crossing,
near the Deschutes, jury of citizens
would assess the damages to the track
,f the Union Pacific, if lt,were neces-
Iary, and Bro. Brown knows that it
would be impossible to find twelve men
n Wasco, Sherman or Gillian county
sho would assess heavy damages
against a state road constructed for
heir relief in favor of the railroad
monopoly. Our brother of the Record
must know that the right of eminent
loman would hold good in this case as
n others of similar nature.
As we have frequently stated in
hese columns the state of Oregon
hould construct this portage road, and
bill! appropriating sufficient amount
hould pass the next legislature.
Washington is more interested IN
'uget Sound than in the Columbia,
nd no substantial help can be expect
d from that legislature, the majority
{ whose members are elected from
ounties directly bordering on the
reat inland sea of the north Pacific
oast
The dispatches contain the threat /,
hat the Democrats in the house will
efeat the senate amendment to the
siver and Harbor bill for $250,000 8
~ the commencement of the hoat |