The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1902-01-03
SOME VIEWS AT WASHINGTON.


the of the Gulf of Mexico that light draught
sells safely make the trip from the Mississippi river to
the Rio Grande Mention of the bill which Mr. Cooper has
prepared and will introduce congress reconvenes
made in The Post of yesterday The full text of the
! bill given below
BE it enacted by the and house Of representatives
Of United States of America in congress assembled that
secretary Of be made and he hereby authorized and
directed make to be made, estimate of the
OF coastwise canal the margin of the Gulf of
Mexico, beginning Sabine lake at the head Of
Sabine pass the State of Texas thence the Rio Grande
its mouth. in said State.
That OF survey heretofore made such data be used and
estimates made therefrom practicable and that such
further be made to give complete
and full information OF the Of excavatng such canal
That said be made upon canal be of the width
OF sixty feet of eighty feet and of feet and to be of
the depth six feet tide That making such
estimate and report the be divided and estimated
follows First the Of said canal from Sabine lake to
Galveston bay second the cost said Calves
bay the Brazos and third the cost OF said canal
from the Brazos river to the Rio Grande.
That the OF $4,000 hereby appropriated to make
said estimate, survey and reports.
This proposition" said Mr. Cooper in discussing the
matter has for object the opening up of safe
for light draught vessels from the Mississippi river
along the gulf the Rio Grande. If developed
proposed will be of the greatest arteries OF
in the South 1t will up about 1000 miles
waterways that be utilized with profit 1t will
all the with deep utilizing the
lakes bays and bayous that section 1t will open
up, low price the large lumber industry the rice indus
try and other agricultural markets reached
at great cost believed this belief is based upon
the report OF engineers heretofore made that this canal
be dug from the Mississippi the Rio Crande eighty
feet wide and six deep for the of $4,000
less This bagaelc compared with the bene-
be derived from the proposed waterway. When the
canal is completed the boats from the Mississippi and Ohio
and their tributaries reach all the and cities
Of Western Louisiana and Texas situated the
rivers in the interior OF the States
1t understood that Representative Broussard will intro
duce bill week providing for of the proposed
canal along the Louisiana Mr. Coopers bill provides
for the survey The previous survey spoken by
Mr. Cooper and referred his bill made
ago and its results were favorable the main.
ieved that thorough survey this will demonstrate
the complete feasibility Of the plan which will have the
port OF the united Texas and Louisiana delegations
In view OF the presidents we'll known attitude toward
Admiral Schey Just story which has been going the
rounds for day past of unusual interest This
story the effect that Roosevelt Immediately the
battle Of Santiago verbal message Schley congratu-
ang him the hero of the great victory This verbal
by John Doyle, brother of William H. Doyle
collector of internal Philadelphia during Cleve
lands last administrations John DOYLE now lieutenant
in the navy and is duty in the Philippines At the
Of the destruction Of the Spanish feet Santiago however
he orderly the Brooklyn. Shortly after the battle
he sent ashore with dispatches for Washington, and
while shore accostcd by Roosevelt who asked him
deliver the following message to Schley;
Say Commodore Scey that Theodore Roosevelt until
recently assistant secretary OF the navy and colonel
in the congraulates him heartily the
battle Of Santiago"
The story straight from William H. Doyle and
there for doubling it. or Roosevelt will
deny it. il he notices ALL but it generally believed to
be true just the
y
The frequently made statement that Senator Albert J.
Beyerdge OF Indiana the youngest the United
States senate is not true That distinction belongs SEN
stor Joseph Weldon Bailey of Texas who exactly one year
younger than the Wasp of the Wabash" Beveridge was
born October g. 1862 and Bailey October e. 1864 The
youngest man in congress is Representative John Feeey
OF Illinois who is but e. Feeey lives in Chicago and rep
esents the Second Illinois district He is democrat and
he his seat by defeating the powerful republican boss
Billy Lomer receiving 34.q46 the latter ~ o6G
Feeey is younger than William J. Bryan when he
entered congress He that he attributes his success in
politics first energy good judgment and sobrey and
secondly to fraukness and drecnes dealing with other
politicians
Feecys district is what known as the pump handle
district 1t is fortyeight miles long one place and in
cudes the Union stock yards the packing district and
several big factories well the fashionable suburbs
OF the Windy City and several devoted to aericul
He is we'll informed and leveheaded and his friends
expect him to make his mark in the halls of congress
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Senator Patt of New York will soon be in pos,io o,
quote One doth tread upon anohers heels SO fast
they follow Close on the OF the big boss loss of tenn
per as result OF the character sketch written about him
by William Allen White of Emporia Kansas comes m. an
nouncement that he has been unsuccessful fight about
committee which has been since last fall large
roomy and well furnished on the senate floor vyss
chosen by the senior from New York as his ~
own notwithstanding the fact that it already been nrr
emped by the committee foreign relations Platt who il
chairman OF the committee printing moved the archives
ana other effects OF that committee ino the room and re-
fused to listen threats caoefy or urging of anv kind o.
the part OF the members OF the foreign relations committee
all OF whom believed that they entitled to the room
and ought to have it. The dispute finally taken I'm b
me committee on rules which after going thoroughly into
the decided adversely to Plat As result The ia
and his committee effects slowed away in ,oom
IN the basement and the truth of the adage UNEASY lies
the head that wears Grown" is again attested.
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