Los Angeles herald., 1892-05-08

asked why Los Angeles should hesitate
to ask for liberal appropriation. Not
alone for San Pedro, but there should
be harbors all along the coast. But
what the people need now, he thought,
is union and purpose. The idea of be-
ing obliged to face the insult OF this pit
iful $40, GOO and the little coffee pot of a
federal building.
"We haven't sense enough" he said,
ito realize our own Importance. What
is the state OF Oregon compared to Cal
ifornia? What Washington to the single
county of Los Angeles? And yet where
sal. You all noticed demand this
morning of Portland for 81, 800, 900 for q
post -office-a city not as large as Los
Angeles. We ought to be represented
by some one. Applause. Unfortu-
nately the two senators live in the north
within few miles of each other. What
interest have they in us? If you had
my impulse at this moment you would
take that $4,000 and throw it back.
How they ever had the cheek to assess
US at that rate I am sure can't tell"
After referring to the plain intention
of nature that big city should be made
here, and that the confguration of this
coast pointed out San Pedro, Mr.. Lynch
concluded by saying: "Nature has given
US the start. Let US improve it. If
these people won't give US what we ask,
let US put people there who will"
DR.. J. p. Widney, Col. Fl. G. Otis;
W. g. Patterson, president OF the board
of trade; 7. E. Gibbon, attorney for the
Terminal railway; M. L. Graf and ex-
Surveyor General Shankland made brief
speeches, heartily endorsing the senti-
ments expressed, and all agreeing that
the practical solution of the problem is
to put representatives in congress who
are the friends of Southern California,
some going so far as to say that it ought
to be done even if the state is divided
and we set up shop for ourselves.
The following resolution, offered by
Mr.. Graf on behalf of the chamber of
commerce, was unanimously adopted,
and telegraphed to Washington last
night:
Whereas, The Pacific coast, between
San Francisco and San Diego, distance
of 600 miles, is urgently in need of bet
ter harbor facilities and
Whereas, The national government,
through its engineering corps and by |
various appropriations for improvement,
has designated San Pedro as the proper |
location for harbor; therefore be it
Resolved, That we the people of Los |
Angeles, the second city of California,
in mass meeting assembled, hereby |
most earnestly petition the congress of
the United States in its final
OF the river and
harbor bill to provide an
of s5l 900 to complete the
work on the inside harDor at San Pedro
q q pno ondod hxy tho
and thus make available the present |
work, and that provision be made for
the work on the outside har-
Dor as recommended by the commission
which recently rendered its report in
the house OF representatives and it be
Resolved. as the sense of this meeting,
that it is of vastly greater Importance to
us to secure the above appropriations
for San Pedro harbor than that congress
should appropriate money at its present
session for any other purpose affecting
our interests.
After the harbor matter was disposed
Of Colonel Otis offered the following
which was unanimously
adopted:
Whereas, The heavy subsidy paid to
the Pacific Mail Steamship company by |
the Pacific overland railway companies
enables the steamship company to main
tain it's exorbitant charges for freights
and fares, the steamship company and
the railway companies are thus made
not rivals, as they should be. but allies
in the business of conducting the over
land and ocean carrying trade of the
Pacific coast, thereby joining hands to
Eorce the people of fCalifornia to continue
to bear the burdens under which they
have go long suffered, therefore
Resolved, That the people of Los An
yeles look with disapproval upon the
payment by the Pacific rail-
way companies of any subsidy to the
Pacific Mail Steamship company, and
we call upon congress to prohibit by law
all further payment of such subsidies.
The meeting then adjourned.