The record-union., 1896-06-24

gressional District and for the people
living along the Sacramento River.
tApplause.)
But I believe that engineering skill
* sufficient to construct a restraining
barrier or dam-anything that you may
choose to call it believe that engineer
ing skill is sufficient to construct some-
thing that will hold and will keep the
debris from coming down the river.
Therefore [ favored this appropriation.
And if you think it was an easy matter
tc get that-well, you ought to have
been there and just tried, that is all. I
tell you-well, I am getting tired, and no
doubt you are, and if / should tell all
the work that was done in that | could
stay here and talk for a year. In sea-
son and out of season, and | remember
at one time what | said in a speech that
| delivered during the campaign-I do
not remember whether it was here or
elsewhere-that l would knock at the
door, l would knock upon the desk of
every member in Congress, and I would
knock upon the door Of every office and
before every committee and make my
self a general nuisance believe was
kind-if 1 did not get what 1 wanted.
Fellow citizens, did just that thing.
I knocked at everyhodys door 1
worked hard in reference to that ap-
preparation because [ believed it would
do good to this country, and l succeeded
in obtaining it, and 1 feel very thank
full that L did.
Now I have briefly reoapitulated to
| a
shows considerable work, and * shows
that a man has to work If he accom-
| plishes anything in Congress. During
the session Of Congress / made speech
or two; sent copies of them to the peo-
PIE of this district and hope you received
them. But the work that was done was
rot done in making speeches. My Ckd,
| if / could only succeed in doing the work
| by making a speech every day, why,
[ would consider that i had rather an
easy job of it. But it is the outside
work 1t is interviewing members,
talking to them, going before commit
| tees, talking to them and explaining
matters to them; finding them directly
and absolutely unacquainted with
everything.
Why, it would pay the city of Sacra-
mento alone a hundred fold upon the
/ investment # you would levy a special
| tax upon yourselves and raise money
enough to bring every member of Con-
gress to California, and show him the
| condition of the rivers and the condition
of the State. But very few of them
know anything about California They
do not realize it's Importance. We are
usually disagreeing amongst ourselves,
| am sorry to say. Usually each man
| is pulling for himself, and it is very
seldom they all pull together. And if
we could only get them here and let
| them understand what it was, if we
| could only bring every one here, as 1
said before, it would pay this city alone
! hundred fold, a thousand fold upon
| the investment, if you paid the expense
| Of bringing every member of Congress
here that he might see for himself. They
could not understand it. They did not
understand it, 'They do not now They
| think no doubt some of them, that
Johnson was simply talking strong, and
| they yielded to my solicitations, and
| they thought that / really had no facts
to justify the statements that I made in
reference to the wealth of this State
in reference to its possibilities.
| Why, when I received a box of oranges
! from Butte County six weeks ahead of
| the time that oranges ripened in South
| ern California and distributed them
among the members of Congress and
| said to them: Those are produced in
| Butte County; those are produced in a
county in what is called Northern Cali
| fornia, those are produced in a county
| 100 miles north of Sacramento City"
| honestly / think some of them thought
| I was the biggest liar on earth
| Gaughter.)
Then when I received a box of oranges
from Placer County, and that also six
weeks ahead of the time that oranges
rlpened in Southern California, and dis
tributed them amongst the members
and told them they were from a county
! in Northern California and in what
was called a mining county, why, then
| am confident that they were willing
TO swear that had been wrestling with
the truth and throwing it to the ground
| 04aughter)
] was very sorry that 1 was not able
to show a box of oranges from Orange
vale in this county, in order to show
what this county could do in reference
| to the matter. Because there they have
got an idea that there is one portion of
| this State that is more productive than
another portion. We ought to counter
act that idea. | did the best l could.
and / believe that | was better than a
green hand at undeceiving them and in
showing them what could be done.
! Now, in stating the work that I have
| done in Washington and the good that
|