The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1900-02-13

OF popular enthusiasm that argues well
fcr most successful culmiaahon
The efizous' mass meeting at the Cot
ton Exchange was one OF the iarges. and
most representative gatherings ever held
in Houston to prcnc.c pubiis enter
prise. Not only was every sea. thar had
been provided in the large nssenbiy roolu
ct the exchange occupied hut citlzans
were standing arourd Tho walls two ana
thrce deep.
II was a splendid evidence OF the IN
terest taken in Housdons deep wa,ef
movement for. as was stated during tne
progress OF the meeting, the assembling
" mis- congress here is an impo TN.
'neaps towards tho accompli snm,nt OF
that end
Mr. W. y. Cleveland called the meet
Ing to ord.r ani nominated Captain j..
L, Hutcheson as chairman.
The nomination WAS received with an,
plinse Captain 1Iutches On, III. assuming
tho chair, said that this meeting was
called wrh special reference tor. sugee l.
ing plan and the proNsr way OF enter
tanning the Transmississippl Congress Goat
VIII meet here April "a 10 a. lie
0lgressed 10 say that he had just received
a telegram announcing the fa3t that tbs
Dill for the Houston deep water enter
WASH FaS0cu lIE SENATE tOahy ana now
soes to The president for his Signature
lApp.luse) He briefly summarized the
history OF tho present deep water move
ment by saying that in framing tao bill
at the last session OF congress he chair
man OF the rivers aud harcos committee.
Nj. Burton, was unaltcrah.y opposed to
tho Buffalo bayou protest, AMI when the
blll passed the house language was eu-
ployed in the bill, that committed the gov
ernnent 10 a sixteen foot channel our
congressman, however, had succeeded IN
getting the twenty-five foot provision into
the bill, extending from Hous on to the
jetties at Galveston Mr. BIZ ton, the
ch1liman OF the rivers and harbors com
mittee, contended for a sixteen foot chan
mel aud when this proposition was sub
mltied TO the local committee that COM
mittee commended for twenty 1--WE feet.
They felt that they would rather have
he project tsil altogether than accept
o sixteen foot channel When the hill
went iuto Tho senate Senator Mills. always
a friend Of the project. cngrafcd the
twenty-five foot CLAUSE hut IT. was subse-
quently stricken out In conferoncr, Mr.
Burton contendirg that the appropriation
of $4,000 was intended solely for
sixteen foot channel These facts were
fer prudential reasong kept from the pub
nm AMI tbrouvb his e.frnrf. -b,Irr,or D..
l;,n mad virlde1 arI M ,venty.f,,, 100,
channel Was nov, assrred ana thn eo,.
cruncnt now stands committed to put
$4,000 into n twenty five foot channel
Mr., Kidd--"Three cheers for Thomas H.
Ball"
They were given with enthusiasm.
vac ,ptitIad 20 r,,ro te,,, ~"
Win INA natfsr as !, et-r,s,l,, s.,a'i ~,
mad linto cnnBda3ce n tHc n,soin, ~
tho Trausmlsslssppi Congress but now
jhaJ tho baby was born he looked forward
N the Trsnsmlssjsslupi CONGRESS- 40 a
suleul.d opportunity for ACCOMPLISHING
rcsuhs ard every member uf thai corprsss
houd b. welconird 10 Houston n ,yas
something in which every cit,zen should
feei IN intereet nnl every man in unust,n
rbould hon "A make tba r,,4,,tn, ~ AZ,
@ nere7s a su,regs Fvsr1 o,,e sh,nli
holm In thiz en5 ara ~, ~ III. h,,,Jsl'
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oaFe There shorld Il, mn lasg,-d ~ tLi,
v.,rls ue ,vho bAst..-. ~ a-
must worl, wi.b a ronS,r+s1 ,c.io,
eA.y, ar r,s,,t-,r 80 nj ~
We ara In ,nrnas, IN ri "a, ,r,,
w. have nverv assor,,ra ~ a., nr,,,
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80, $500 -, 80 49, sO'iui teF9 20
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ptn p r5 ioe,o" %. MAJOR osank nv lou'
'''s""''a'" ""s iHAdo seefe'ary'
Calls were made for Presley X. Ewing.
lie said that this meeting was f3r WORK
rather than Tor talk, and he had no speech
70 make other than to emphasize what
Chairman Hutchinson had said, Ia impress.
ing upon the citizens their duty lie re-
ferred 10 the going OF the Houston COM
mittee to Wichita 10 attend the last meet
ing OF The Transmlssissippi Congress and
The ehorI made there 10 have the Houston
project Endorsed. The Trauamississippi
Congress represented twenty-nve States
and about that many million OF people 4
more representative body OF men was
Win do moro toward iufluoncing legislation.
,hnn amy body otmen thar could be gottcn
deep water and nc dement's 10 han" ham, wv VIM ~
arc you going TO do towards cniertoin,nc
Defore tbis meeting 'S No"s 'I io;,,, nov S