The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1894-02-23
WHAT THEY ARE DOING.
Dolph and Hermann at the Ma
tional Capital--Efective
Workers.

Below are few extracts from an article
written for the Oregonian by "A. w. D."
in which is shown some of the good work be
ing done by two of our able representative J
in congress:
Representative Hermann has been
making fight with the river and harbor
committee for money for harbor improve
ments 1t is understood that incidentally
Mr. Hermann will try to get what he can
for Washington, but it is not likely that he
to have improvements made in the neigh.
boring state across the Columbia river.
However, there is a sympathy among the
western men for each other, and as usual
thing they are willing to help each other as
tar lies in their power.
One of the hard questions with which
Mr.. Herman will have to wrestle will be
the improvements at the dalies of the Co
lumbia He will not have to wrestle long,
for as soon as the committee mas oppor-
tunity to vote upon the proposition it will
sit down on any scheme. for improvement.
Attempts were made early in the session to
| have m Getting of the delegation in order
that some agreement might be reached upon
this Improvement. No meeting was ever
| held Mr.. Hermann will try to secure
a provision for a portage road, but
that will be rejected. In the senate it
| is doubtful what will be done, though it is
| possible that Senator Dolph will be able to
! secure something in the way of beginning
of the work for canal, or it is possible the
| boat-railway scheme will be revived.
| However, in the end it matters not how
hard any member of the delegation may
try, it will not be possible for him to secure
| any thing in the way of an appropriation
for an improvement at The Dalles at this
session.
Chow about the boat-rallway project?'
1 asked of Chairman Blanchard the other
day.
eff that thing shows itself IN this room
this session 1 shall fall in faint, answered
the Louisiana man. "We are not going
into any new projects this year; besides,
think from the report the engineers made
that we would not be warranted in building
boat railway. They were really against
it, were they not?'
"Well, you can't make Senator Dolph be-
lieve that"
| mo, I presume not.
Chow is Hermann coming along. Is he
gong to get anything this Year," asked.
is he going to get anything'" repeated
Blanchard. Don't you worry about Her
mann; he will get his share. But talking
about Oregon, that man Dolph beats any
man l ever came in contact with. He starts
earlier and stays later than any man l ever
knew. He goes into the committee On
commerce and gets increases all along the
line, and then he never let's 60. l have
served on conference committees with him
several times, and he is the most persistent
and tenacious man about the improvements
for his state of any man ever knew"
'There ought to be rule, " said Stephen
son, of Michigan. member OF the river and
harbor committee who was present, ''that
no one state should have man on the river
and harbor committee In the house and the
commerce committee in the senate. It
gives one state too great an advantage"
"That is point 1 have made several
times. Oregon is more fortunately situated
than any other state in the Union on &C
count of the position of its men on the COM
mittees which handle the river and harbor
appropriations. New York has men on
both committees, but neither of them are as
prominent or as influential as the Oregon
men. Louisiana has two men on these COM
mittees, and that state fairs about as we'll as
Oregon. But for its size Oregon is far bet
ter situated than any other state. 1t Is be-
cause she has not made so many changes"
There is no doubt about it. Senator
Dolph is the right man in the right plsee,
and it is due to the. interests of the 60
northwest that he be again returned.