Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1901-12-23
.BRANTLY TALKS
ABOUT WORK
OF CONGRESS
TALKS OF PROPOSED LEeIsLA-
TIoN OF GREAT INTEREST TO
SOUTH GEORGIA AND 9TH
Err SECTIONS.

BRUNSWICK, Ga, Dec. 2L-Congress-
man William G.. Brantley, of the eleventh
district, has just returned from Wash
ington, where he was present and par
ticipated in the first few days session of
the fifty-seventh congress. In an inter-
esting interview he states:
There was practically nothing done by
congress up to the time of the adjourn
ment for the holidays. The house has
passed the Philippine tariff bin and the
senate has ratified the Hay-Pauncefote
treaty with England, but these things are
substantially all that has been done. The
committees have just been appointed, and
have not yet settled down to work.
Everybody, OF course, expects river
and harbor bill to be passed at this ses-
sion. and am hopeful Of having all the
interests of our district taken care OF In
the BILL
3. "The report of the engineers on the
special survey made of our outer bar
and inner harbor and the recommenda-
lions made by them still await action by
congress. They were both acted upon,
and appropriations made in accordance
Herewith, in the river and harbor Dill
that was talked to death last March.
"I naturally expect to have the same
appropriations That were included in that
bill for these purposes Incorporated into
the coming bill.
''The recently proposed project of cut
ting a. canal between Club and Plantation
creeks, so as to connect the Altamaha
river with Brunswick by an inside route,
is one that not only interests the people
of Brunswick but as we'll the people on
the Altamaha, Oconee and ocmulgee riv-
ers.
Captain Gillette says the canal is en-
tirely feasible, and can be cut with an
appropriation of only 5000. He has been
over the ground, so that, for all practical
1frr,fn
necessary before an appropriation would
be authorized.
.sIt is an almost invariable rule. how
ever, to have a preliminary survey ana
estimate made before congress VIII grant
an appropriation. The delay involved In
such procedure. Is the only onJecIioh -
II. / prepared a concurrent resolution, TO
be offered in the house and senate. calling
for the preliminary survey and estimate,
in the hone of procuring same in advance
of the framing of the regular river and
harbor bill, so as to avoid the delay.
Senator Clay had no difheulty, uhoer
the rules of the senate. in putting the
resolution through that body, but. under
the rules of the house, the resolution had
to go to the river and harbor committee
and was not reported back by them. so
as to be acted upon by the house.
speaking Of this canal REMINDS
me that the community of inter-
of Brunswick and the people IT'D
utary to the Altamaha, Oconee ana DC
trnuigee rivers ought to lead to a eommu-
nitv OF EFFORT to have all these rivers, as
well. as the port OF Brunswick. .recogniz-
I'd. 10 the extent they, deserve, by con-
gress. United effort is always more eI-
fective than individual effort. ana the
more interest our people show In tnese
matters the more hope there Is Tor them
to obtain what they need.
AS TO the matter of our public oullolng
in brunswick the supervising arcnltect
ioins with us in the desire to nave
some Increased appropriation mace LOT
IT. so that II may De completed IN accord
ance with his original design. .
''The subject upon which our people are
most interested now is the cultivation 81
sugar cane. and its manufacture into sy-
nm This industry has received new
impetus in South Georgia, dating from the
FIRST sugar cane and cassava convention
held in Brunswick. The department OF
agriculture has become interested IN the
subject. and the recent tour of our section
of the country by DR.. Wiley, CHER OF tne
bureau OF chemistry in the department OF
Agriculture. will prove. in my opinion
very profitable to us"