The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-07-04

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the nest congress when Hot Springs failed
/ He further suggests that We should ask
I for the next meeting of the National dem
/ oeratlc convention In Texas and expressed
! the belief that Arkansas would stand 10
/ llne with the Lone Star State. He said
further that Texas represented the thrift
and rapid development of the Southland
and great good would result; to the entire
South as result of the meeting held in
1 this city.
Hon. J. Z. Rogers, governor OF Wash
| ington, wishes the congress success.
~
Mr.. John e Carlisle of Logan, Utah.
member of the executive committee for
that state. says that he expects 10 he at
Houston next April.
That tireless worker and thoroughly ef-
hcient officer. Hon. Z. Il. Moses of Great
Bend. Kan, chairman OF the executive
committee, gays that he feels assured that
the most important session Ia the history
O, the congress VII be the one held IN
this city next year. Mr.. Moses suggests
that the citizens OF Houston arrange IN
advance for the entertainment OF the
wives sisters and sweetnearts VINO VIII
accompany ire delegates. To put II IN ms
own language The West Is intensely IN
terested in the deep water ports, secured
and prospective, and there will be dis
position on the part OF the delegates at
Houston not TO hurry home, and this VIII
be especially true II accompanied by the
ladies. In many places over the West
parties could be made up OF friends VINO
would combine pleasure and business in
attending a meeting OF the congress. MI
Moses viii soon Issue a circular letter TO
the officers OF the congress, and expects
70 carry on qui: an extensive correspond
ence Ia connection with the Houston
meeting.
At the reception given Governor Roose-
welt at Ration. n. NJ, Mr.. c. ]. Gavin de-
livered the address Of welcome and Judge
Chas. NJ. Bnyne presented Teddy" with
floral emblem from the people Of Raton.
MIR Gavin was q delegate to the Wichita
meeting and will be in Houston In April.
Judge Bayne is member Of the executive
committee OF the Transmiss!ssippi com
mercial congress and VIII OF course be
here in 1900.
Under the heading. Houston Our Neigh
Dor" the Davenport, Iowa. Daily Demo-
crat says:
The people of Houston, Texas, and
other towns down that way are good
many hundred miles distant from DayeB-
port. and YET they are nearer neighbors
o, ours than We think. Houston is going
to be one of the great shipping ports, and
great ports OF entry, of this country. She
a n mil in i'm.
/ her deep water facilities, and increasing
her railroad system, and otherwise IN
branching out, and she IL going to be a
logical outlet for a great part OF the
| Western production that has been going
4 TO the Eastern seaboard And Daven-
! port is IN with her In this matter. II is
| OF interest. especially TO the Davenport
delegates 10 the recent Transmlsslssippi
| commercial congress at Wichita Kan, to
| note that Houston is already getting
| things in line for the next mcatng of that
| kind. Davenport helped her secure that
| next convention, and viii help her make
/ 1t q good one when the time comes, We
/ Will incidentally have SOME business up
! this way for the Houston deep water har-
| Dor, and Houston may have some freight
for us. II Is long way ahead, but 1t Is
not too early 10 be working for H."
! The Hennessey, o. T., Press Democrat
urges big attendance at the Houston
meeting OF the Transmisslssppi CONNER
cial congress.
Hon. f. V. smalIey OF St. Paul. third
vice president of the Transmisslssippl
| Commercial Congress, writing from Kan
sas TO New York paper. says the drift
OF commerce from the corn belt of Kan
IL. L a
! adds: with the current of grain ex-
ports already running strongly to the
gulf and surely destined to grow In
volume. II Is reasonable to expect that q
tlrst-c class commercial city Will grow VI
on the Texas coast during the next bali
century. A consciousness OF the strong
probability is already steadylng political
sentiment IN the Lone Star State
The New York paper in which this APP
pears agrees that Texas should soon pos
sess an immense export commerce, In
view OF the fact that she produces nearl,
third of the cotton crop OF the coun-
try and offers the nearest port facilitie:
for the commerce OF the great West. Il
goes further and says;
Texas may yet outstrip the State Of
New York; that depends upon the way
the Texans treat public questions. II they
| sit and debate endlessly while cheal
politicians and hungry farmers of the
revenues OF great cities strange com
merce by offering inadequate facilities
and imposing intolorahle exaotions, then
tho Texans viii not get on any better
than New Workers. But the ports o!
Texas have already begun TO draw Srain
from the fields OF Kansas and Nebraska
which formerly sought tide water at New
York, and We think the Texans are alive
to the demands OF the times. As showing
that the writer Is not uninformed as tc
the situation there is this sentence which
merits attention: 'sThe beginnings OF this
commerce are now controlled by Calves.
ton. because Galveston is the only coast
city which has been given deep water
harbor by the Federal government"
The San Antonio Express adds. "Ther,
are other seaports on the Texas coast
which have been pleaders at the govern.
4 ment footstool, but none OF them hay,
been so generously treated as the Island
City. The amounts Appropriated by con.
gress for deepening tho harbors hav,
heretofore been insufficient to do NOR,
than TO make q start and what good hal
llaf..