The record-union., 1896-05-27

oOmeDOuy JOld me that the membeT OF
Congress from that district was placed
on a platform two years ago in favor
CT an appropriation for San Pedro, and
that his convention met a week ago and
put him on a platform in favor of an
appropriation for Santa Monica The
City Council unanimously the other day
voted for an appropriation for Santa
Monica. I think the Senator from Mis-
souri, described the conditions at Los
Angeles about right. But what has Los
Angeles ITO do with this. anyway? Why,
the Senator from Missouri and I have
been in this fight for about eight or
ten years, believe. We know all about
1t, too. / am very sorry to find him
willing to have it run any further
wish ITO get rid of it forever. I never
want to hear of 1t again.
Give Los Angeles an inner harbor of
eighteen feet depth of water and it will
accommodate all the commerce of Los
Angeles for the next fifty years 1t is
ample for 1t. If you put a breakwater
outside Of the anterior harbor you are
throwing away 1892 GOO. The idea that
the Los Angeles people are to instruct
Congress as to where they shall put a
harbor! For the commerce of Los An
seles? Nobody has ever talked about
that 1t is for the commerce of the
world, and not only is 1T for the COM
merce of the world, but it is for har-
Dor of refuge, just as important as a
harbor for commerce. The Atlantic
coast has harbors of refuge all along.
We are building one now at Sandy Bay,
on the New England coast, at a cost of
S5,OO0,O 900, and we have them every
forty or fifty miles-harbors in which
tempest tossed ships can run for refuge
They are just as important for protec-
ton to life and property as are pro-
tected harbors for commerce.
The harbor that We are talking about
here is not a little harbor for a town
or city. 1t is a harbor for the com
| merce of the world, harbor for the
ships of the world, and Los Angeles
has no more interest in it and no more
to say about it than the people in the
city of Portland, Ne.
We have heard talk about corruption
and bribery, but in this body there is
| more bribery from the good feeling
which exists between Senators than
from any and every other cause known
tc man. I think that we yield our pref
erences and our wishes to Senators
when no amount of money and no
amount of honor would induce lis to do
| it under any circums tances; and I ad-
nit that l am one of the yielding kind,
for while 1T has been charged in Los
Angeles that am owned by the South
| ern Pacific Railroad i would rather
have the kindly regard of these Sena-
tors that I am addressing, and their
| confidence, than the support of all the
railroads and railroad magnates ON the
| face of the earth, and all the money
that all of them possess. The Exam
| iner' said If / succeeded in getting
Santa Monica adopted as a harbor my
pockets would be lined With gold, a
happy way they have Of talking about
public men, sir, in your State, Mr..
White; pleasant and agreeable COM
pliments they pay us-'a high estimate
they make of us. I thank a kind prov
idence that ever since my mother put
the first pocket into my pantaloons it
has been just as we'll lined with gold
from that day to this as my modest
necessities ever required.
Mr.. Hill call the Senator'S atten-
tion to the fact that the Republican
State Convention recently held in CAL
ifornta declared in favor of silver.
Mr.. Frye-I think very likely they did,
and against railroads. l do not under
stand that the Senators from California
are entitled to any more recognition in
the question of whether a harbor shall
be established at Santa Monica or shall
be constructed at San Pedro than the
Senators from the State of Minnesota:
neither did the Committee on Commerce,
although we had one Of their Senators
on the committee as a member 1t is
not harbor for California;; 1t is just as
much a harbor for my ship which sails
out from the city of Bath as it is for
the ship of the Senator from California
which sails out through Golden Gate
just exactly. 1t is just as much a home
for the safety of the ship which sails
from the lakes, if it can escape the
ocean, as it is for ship which comes from
Australia.
There is another thing which I am
sorry has crept in to becloud this case,
because I think 1t is gravely unjust. The
Senator from California; am sorry his
speech has not been published in the
| Record" and I have to take the report
of it from the morning "Post"-in con-
Guiding says:
1T will be donation of 100000 to
private corporation" said Mr.. White.
at will be taking 100000 which the
| United States engineers have recon-
mended be not expended and spending
it on an individual. 1t will not be for a
public benefit, but for the benefit of
an enterprising person who is develop
ing a large commerce over one of the
most magnificent wharves in the
world"
The distinguished Senator from Ar
kansas, Mr.. Berry, intimated that it
would be a terrible thing for the Senate
Of the United States to yield to ''the
greed of one man." All, both of those
utterances SAVIOR a little bit of the slogan
of the sand lots Of the Golden Gate,
where the name Of Huntington is con-
jured to frighten babies with and used
by demagogues to make the knees of
Weakened politicians tremble The
greed of one mani" Yet the "one man."
the Senator admits. is building up a
great commerce, which is coming over
the finest wharf in the whole world. If
that man is building up a great COM
HleTce Is he not eHlItleu 10 nave a mar
Dor to which that commerce shall come
just as much as If it were built up by
twenty different men? Is Mr.. Hunting
ton to be excluded from all the benefits
of legislation?
Why, pray tell me, If he succeeds in
establishing a great line of ships from
China and Japan, and they bring the
contributions of the Orient down to
Santa Monica Bay, then take them on
the Southern Pacific Railroad and land