The Weekly Tallahasseean., 1901-02-21

i Wiz olA bACSO ASNSAS anu DdT OOT~ anu
all this commerce, receives too much
at the hands of the River and Har-
Dor Committee?
But, Mr.. Chairman, that Is not all.
The income which the government
derives from Florida entities her to
generous treatment at the hands of
this body. FrOn all sources from
the custOm-houses, internal-revenue
department, post offices, etc.,-fOr
the year ending December 81 last,
Florida paid about $2a,OOO,0OO into
the government till, and from nv
own town, the city of Tampa, which
gets only $l5O,OOO in this bill, the
government received for the same
period the magnificent sum of'about
$t,500,000, or more than was paid
into the National Treasury by the
whole State of Washington combined
for the fiscal year ending June 30,
14OO.
| iFlorida receives in this bill, in cash
and in authorizations, little more
than $l,70OOO0, or about $4,000
per annum, suppo>ing that the cash
aIid the amount authorized can all
ba' spent during the next two years;
sol it will be seen that she does not
gdr one-half of what she will pay
inlO the National Treasury during
thf same period of time.
Dn that connection / wish to ad-
v@ @rt to another matter to which the
gentleman alluded. He intimated,
or at least | understood him as inti-
mi mkting, that l had favored my dis
trtct at the expense of the other dis
trict Of the State of Florida. If my
friend will look at the figures, he
will change his mind, for out of the
sci ekenteen hundred and odd thousand
ddllars given to Florida 81, 1886, 600,
or about three-fOurthS, goes to the
SECOND District, represented by my
colleague, not counting $4,000 ap-
prppriated, together with the sum of
$d5,0U0 given by the Fifty-fifth
Congress, for the building of a
hedge to be used throughout the
State.
Thus it will be seen that have
ndt favored my district, but have
given to the Second District the
oIn's snare of the appropriation, and
thbt, too, whilst in the First District,
which l have the honor TO represent
h4e there are many more projects
demanding and which should receive
the attention of Congress than hap
pen to be in the Second Congress
SIGNAL District, so ably represented
bv my colleague, Mr.. D&vis;and yet
that district does not receive any
mpre than its just Dues. even if it
co4lld be claimed that it has received
mare in this bill.
Then, too, the gentleman stated,
as tone of the reasons for condemn
ind the bill, or the members of the
Cdmmittee on Rivers and Harbors,
thjt one river, viz, the Anclote, in
mi district, could not be found on
thu latest edition of Rand & Nc
' Ndlly's map. Well, Mr.. Chairman,
> | 4 pm sorry the gentlemen could not
tinh this river on the map which he
. hal opened to examine, but [ am not
in bny way responsible for his failure
, so to do. l did not make the map.
If had, can assure him the river
wdu uld not have been overlooked,
bns would have been placed ON the
ma p, properly marked, named, and
deIigned, for, in the language of the
gettleman, ''the river is there"
it rises, in~the lake region, on the
boider line between nv own and an
adj Dining county, and flows thence
in westerly direction into the Cult
of Mexico, some thlrty-five or forty
miles north of the entrance to Tampa
tIt5s also a commerce bearing stream
! of Importance not only to the local
litH but to the shipping interests fOl
: quke a distance up and down the
: 4st and as far south as Key West
Jukt off the mouth of this. river are
sol be of the finest fishing and spong-
, ing grounds in the Gulf.
An immense traffic is carried or
, lin gthese two industries, as well al
mdny others, which the carrying ca
: pa1ity of this stream aids very ma
te5ally; but when the government
project for the improvement of thi'
, stiam is carried out the river vii
: noS only be more serviceable in tht
WY Just suggested, but will furnish
a arbor of refuge to boats and othel
J shp pping engaged in that business.
when a nOrthwesterly, or south
& we SFterly gale is blowing these YES
seb are compelled to seek a saf'
. lhasbor, and at present the nearest
. at Tampa Bay, more than 40 mile