El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1901-01-28
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morning session was devoted TO papers
and discussion relating to methods of
maintaining commercial organizations.
My chief regret is that every member
of the Ell Paso chamber of commerce
was not there to hear the views and
plans brought out. Ell Paso should
have a large delegation at the Dallas
convention in April. Prof. Carrera
gave the convention, the governor,
President Prather, and several other
persons whom we thought it desirable
to reach. incisive talks upon the i'm
portance of developing the mineral in
dustry of the state, and the value and
Importance of mineral exhibits at the
large expositions.
THE state organization will not be
merely commercial. The name selected
by the committee on organization was
Texas Commercial and Industrial asso-
citation. Mayor Higgins of Waco called
attention to the fact that there is al
ready a state organization, known as
the Texas Real Estate and Industrial
association. So the word Industrial
was dropped from the name of the new
organization, but Mayor higgins said
that he was heartily in favor of hav-
ing the new organization absorb the
real estate and industrial association,
and he thought that more effective
work would be done through one Or
ganization than through two.
An Exhibit at Buffalo.
1.-THE Ell Paso delegation obtained
from Governor Savers pledge that
he would give official sanction to the
project for an exhibit at Buffalo The
governor said, You Ell Paso people tell
me what you want in this line, and L
will do anything 1 can to help you
Senator Turney and Representative
Bridgers being away from Austin, the
Ell Paso delegation called upon Rep
resentative Van Sickle of Alpine and
laid the matter before him. He said
Senator Turney was expected back in a
couple of days and he would the2 ar
range with him for the introduction of
a joint resolution providing for repre-
sentation at Buffalo. With the official
sanction of the governor and the leg
islature. it ought not to be difficult to
raise the necessary amount of money !
through the various commercial or
carnations of the state by private sub
scription. The state constitution does
not permit the legislature to appro-
pirate money for such purposes.
The Quarantine
1.-The quarantine? o, yes, We had
long and spirited interview with the
governor on the quarantine: We point
ed out to him the inconsistency of
maintaining the quarantine station at
Old Fort Bliss, and submitted to him
a sketch map showing that the rail-
way trains run into the state of Texas
two miles over the Southern Pacific
and nineteen miles over the Santa Fe,
through several small hamlets and one
town of three thousand people. before
reaching the quarantine station. The
governor expressed great surprise at
this and called in DR.. Jones, DR..
Bunt's assistant CDR. Blunt being i'll
and absent.) The governor demanded
of DR.. Jones an explanation. DIR.
Jones stated that the quarantine sta
ton had been located at Old Fort Bliss
by DR.. Norton as measure of economy
because the Southern Pacific and San
ia Fe railways came together there,
and one station would serve for both.
This explanation did not satisfy the
governor and he was emphatic in his ,
criticism of such action. The COVER
nor of course recognized how such adj
of the quarantine as this
must discredit it and lay it open to
the charge that it was an ineffective
"It was evident that the governor
did not understand the motives which
actuate the people of Ell Paso in de-
nouncing the quarantine. He asked at
different times during the interview !
whether the opposition to the quaran-
tine was not merely railway opposi-
ion; again, whether it was not op-
position by commandments mere
y, interests that were willing to take F
my risk rather than have business in
erferred with; and again, whether it 7
vas not actuated by desire to let in
cinnamon. We vigorously denied all
hree of these explanations of ElPaso's
opposition to the quarantine. We told
he governor that no other city in the
tate was so we'll educated as to the u
-alue and Importance of quarantine as u
Il Paso, that no other city was so ac- IL
TO rigorous enforcement of