The herald., 1896-04-04
BUNCOING THE PEOPLE

BUNCOING THE PEOPLE
Mr.. McLachlan's feeler availeth not.
The people Of Southern California are not
fish and therefore they are not biting to
any extent at Mr.. Huntipgton's double
baited hooks az offered on the line held by
the representative of the Sixth congress
sional district of California. The telegram
sent by the Free Harbor league.
yesterday to Mr.. McLachlan, should
set at res. the doubts that seemed
to have created havoc with the
integrity Of that gentleman's mental peace.
The people Of this section wish every dollar
appropriated for the improvement of q
harbor in Los Angeles county spent in the
bettering Of San Pedro harbor; they wish
public money spent in the interest of the
public and not in the interest CT the South
ern Pacific company. The people have
thus desired for long time, and Mr.. Nc
Lachlan should be possessed OF such deep
and comprehensive knowledge of this fact
% to make it entirely unnecessary for him
to burden the wires with pleas and propo-
sitions.
The proposal telegraphed by Mr.. Nc
Lachlan to President Patterson Of the
chamber of commerce involves demand
for q complete surrender of the peoples
fight. 1t reads:
WASHINGTON, April 3.-Mr. W. C. Pat
terson, president chamber of commerce,
Los Angeles, CAL: Hermann requests me
to notify Los Angeles chamber of COM
merce that if Los Angeles people would
unite on schemes to complete inside
harbor at San Pedro and construct deep
sea harbor at Santa Monica with provision
to admit all railroads to Santa Monica
harbor over Southern Pacific tracks by
paying pro rata cost to be determined by
can be procured at this session for said
projects. To be effectual action must be
taken at once. l leave matter with you.
JAMES McLACHLAN.
According to this, if endorsement is
given Mr.. Huntington's demand for deep
sea harbor at Santa Monica, he will lend
his valuable aid to the task of securing for
the people an inside harbor at San Pedro.
In other words, this scheme provides for
making Huntington's Santa Monica har-
bor THE harbor for Southern California,
and for improving San Pedro so that it
can accommodate better a few more lum-
ber schooners and railroad tugs. The plan
does not possess the merit of treating the
harbors equally, but clearly treats the har-
bor that has been recommended for
improvement by three different boards of
government engineers as of secondary inn
portance compared to the open roadstead
that has enjoyed no other endorsement
than that given by Southern Pacific
officials and their two subsidized engineers.
The people want both the inner and the
outer harbor of San Pedro improved. The
improvement of the first without
the latter would be of compare
lively little consequence in the
way of furnishing Southern California a
port of the kind desired and admittedly
needed. The people have been and are
yet willing to be content with appropria-
tions by this session of Congress for the
immediate improvement only of the inner
harbor but in that contentment they GER
tainly do not waive their expectation of
later appropriations for the completion OF
the outer harbor. With the acceptance of
Mr.. McLachlan's telegraphic proposal they
could bid farewell I'd the construction of a
complete harbor at San Pedro.
There is but one course for Mr.. McLach-
Ian to pursue and remain loyal to the
pledges he made as candidate in 1894
he must insist with all the ability at hi !
command on the appropriation insertion
promised for San Pedro, and resist at all
times and under all conditions Mr.. Hunt
ington's Santa Monica designs. If he can
not win before the committee he mus!
take the contest before the house. When
the matter passes from the house, it will be
Senator Whites turn to show the stuff that
is in him.