, 1899-03-02

the demand during the earlier ones.
so, Mr. President, the superiority
of this work to usual methods of river
Improvement is that every dollar ex-
pended results in a permanent gain.
These reservoirs once built are for all
time. They will not only control floods
but end their existence.
They not only protect and improve
commerce. but create it."
In answer to an in%sinuatiOn that the
west does not pay its proportionate
share Of the taxes of the country. Mr..
Warren said:
Does the senator think the western
people do o pay their share of tax
alton? Is that the proposition? take
up the river and harbor bill and | look
it over to see what it contains. | find
that there are certain states-sOme
nine of them-not mentioned there at
all in that great bill except in this pro-
Colorado, Wyoming, Montana. Utah,
Nebraska, Kansas, South Dakota and
North Dakota. Does the senator think
that those states escape taxation, and
that they are not taxed to pay this
river and harbor bill improvement that
is going on in New York harbor, and
in Delaware, and in New Jersey, and
all about the east?
81 find in looking over the bill that
for the Subdivisions of the United
States there are more than $50, 900 600
appropriated by the bill. I find that of
: the 10 or % political divisions covering
the western half Of the country there
is a paltry and measly sum of 50, 900, :
900 only. | find that by drawing a line
| from north to south through the Unit
| ed States. leaving about one-half on
the west and one-half on the east, one
gets two million, the other half % mil
lion; the enc half including the Pacific,
the other the Atlantic coast: and who
will say that the Pacific coast is not a
, promising field of or that 1t
, will not be the most important of the
two ocean in the hereafter?
Now take the entire Pacific coast.
!, Take the Gulf of Mexico from the west
t around to Galveston and we have as
: much coast west of us as we have on
e the eastern line, and we have but 81
: 600, 900 appropriated for it in this bill.
: while s2S, 900 900 or so are appropriate
| ed for the other subdivisions. Then do
/ you talk about the appropriation of
only 800, 900 being too much to go to
| the entire arid region, and say that it
|, is taking the money from the toilers of
I the east and expanding 1T in the west?
A matter of 800, 900 to a country that
e is producing nearly all the mineral and
: that stands here always paying its
: share of taxes for all the other parts
. and parcels of this and every other APP
: preparation bill.
S while talking about it, Mr.. Presi-
/ from Delaware, who so ably represent
: ed us in Paris and who has so nobly
: stood by the administration with ref
S erence to treaty matter, who is doing
: the fighting for the United States today
: at Manila? Take up the newspapers
/ and find where your troops there come
( from. You will find there in the tren-
I ches and on the field of battle the First
Wyoming, the First Colorado, the First
r Montana, the First Washington, the
= First idaho, the First Battery of Wyo-
ming, the First South Dakota, the Sec
ond Oregon. In fact, the only place
= where it costs something to be loyal
=, and patriotic today is filed with troops
}, from the same despised and belittled
arid region.
"Mr. president, senators can luxu-
@, riate within the comfortable walls of
this senate and safely pirate about pat
= riotism, but to the private soldier miles
away from home and in a tropical fever
stricken country is left the r def
| milton and appreciation of the term.
These men shed their blood and lose
: their health, their limbs, and even life
t itself without a murmur while uphold
ing the honor of the flag and the dignity
of our country, and yet it is, here on
: this floor, %insinuated that the inhabi-
: tants of the arid region are asking aims
Of the nation"