The herald., 1896-03-29


of harbor at San Pedro recommended by
the government experts, desired by the
people, and estimated to cost, completed
$2,sOO,OO0. We cannot understand how
such q thing can be. We do not want to
believe that it will be. We hope and be-
lieve that, should the house committee be
induced, by fraud and Misrepresentation
to recommend such an appropriation, II
will be defeated upon the floor of the
house through the efforts of Mr.. McLach
Ian and the friends of right and justice. II
ID unnecessary to argue, that should Mr.
Huntington's plans with reference to
Santa Monica be once adopted by the
government, by giving it even a small ap.
preparation, that will end forever all
chance of future appropriations for San
Pedro. Let Mr.. Huntington once get his
Santa Monica scheme recognized, and to
every application which may be made in
the future, by the people of this city and
this section, for the construction of har-
Dor which will be free to our commerce,
Mr.. Huntington's lobby will have as an
answer that the government should not ex-
pend money in improving San Pedro when
tits engaged in constructing another har-
Dor within less than thirty miles of it,
which will cost $4,000, 600. 1t is idle to
hope that either an inner or an outer harbor
at San Pedro will receive further recog-
milton from the United States government
should this Southern Pacific infamy sue
coed. This aspect of affairs is one of
which our representatives in congress can
not be ignorant, and which they can not
ignore. 1t is one that addresses itself to
the commonest understanding. 1t is one
which the people here will act upon in
demanding an accounting of those whom
they have sent 10 congress to represent
them. The HERALD has not, heretofore,
seen fit to say much on the harbor ques
ton during this session of congress. be-
cause it held the belief that the proper
policy to pursue was quiet effort to secure
the appropriation for the inner harbor at
San Pedro, but recent Developments at
Washington have indicated the possibility
that The HERALD, with every other friend
OF San Pedro, has been laborjng under
false impressions as to the real attitude of
affairs at the national capital. From now
on until the end of congress THE HERALD.
will have representative in Washington,
who will be in attendance at every COM
mittee meeting and every session of the
house and senate in which San Pedro and
Santa Monica are mentioned. This repre-
sentative can be depended upon for true
and accurate account of the way in which
the interests of the people of Southern CAL
ifornia are presented, and that, in it's
own good time, We propose to lay be-
fore our readers. We shall be pleased,
no one better, to have the opportunity
of according the highest praise to the rep
resentative from the Sixth district, as we'll
as to our other representatives in congress,
for energetic and successful efforts in be.
half of the peoples harbor; but, whatever
those efforts are, we shall have the salts.
faction of knowing of them, and they shall
be reported for what they really are, and
not for what they may pretend to be. Sup.
posing the majority of congress to be com
posed of honest men, there can be no
question as to the result of this matter if
tbo for 10 ivpf ba IF
tatives in congress are used. ,T
We shall await with interest and with
hope the effect which their proper use is
bound to produce, and we shall hope to
have the pleasure of reporting their sue
cess. In the meantime we shall from day
to day continue to give in these columns
the misstatements relied on by the South
ern Pacific people to sustain this effort at
footing the government treasury and op.
pressing the psople. and we will also call
attention to the evidence which is at the
of our representatives in WASH
ington by which those falsehoods may be
refuted.
We shall do this to the double end that
our representatives may be fully informed,
if they are not already SO, of the means at
hand for refuting the falsehoods upon
which MIR. Huntington has based his case,
and that our readers, knowing the full
strength of the peoples cause and the
weakness of Mr.. Huntington's. may know
resenta tives in the way of results. Y, e