Amador ledger., 1910-11-04

people OF AunDOluJ cOuuJy ny beiilng
them of million dollar Appropriation,
when in fact only Sl5O,OO0 was
granted. Mr. Englebright Informed
us that the engineers sent out by the
government to investigate conditions,
reported to congress that it would
take 81 ,O97, 900 to make the improve.
ments contemplated. On this basis
the sum of $3.50, 900, was voted at the
last session as a starter of this great
work the estimated cost of one years
work. 1t is merely the beginning and
not the end Of the matter, as the un-
scrupulous Raker wished to make the
people believe. Other appropriations
will be made as needed.
Judge Raker has been making the
same kind of shameless misrepresenta-
tions in other places. The Placer Re-
publican takes him to task severely
for his low down tactics. 1t says:
Mr. Raker stated that his opponent
had deceived the people of Humboldt
county into the belief that he had
secured an appropriation of 81, ,037, 600
for harbor improvements at Eureka
and that he (Raker) has astounded'
the people of that county by proving
that only S105, 900 had been appro-
priated. AS a matter of fact Mr.
Englebright in his speeches in Hum
boldt county and interviews printed in
Eureka papers has fully explained this
matter. He has shown that he has
obtained an appropriation of $780, 900
to cover one years work. The plans
providing for the improvement of the
bar call for an expenditure of ST..
037, 600 and this will be available as
the work progresses. The people of
Humboldt county Will give Mr. Engls
bright an overwhelming majority
November s.
Judge Raker expressed himself in
favor of an eight-hour law. The only
time the eight hour law has come up
in congress while Mr. Englebright
was a member was at the last ses-
sion, when it was made to apply to
government vessels built by contract.
1t was a hot fight to get the bill
passed and Mr. Englebright voted for
it. He is in favor of extending the
law to all branches, which congress
has the power to regulate.
Mr. Raker stated that Congressman
Englebright had done nothing to I'M
prove the navigation of the Sacra
mento river. Our congressman has
obtained an authorization for a sur
vey of this river from the mouth of
the Feather river to Red Bluff. The
report of the board of engineers made
upon that authorization is now before
the board of reviews. The reports
recommends a sufficient expenditure
from Sacramento to Colusa for a four
foot channel, S32, 600 for a four-foot
channel from Colusa to Chico landing
and Sc, 900 year from Chico landing
to Red Bluff for a three foot channel
for part of the year. He has also
favored an appropriation of $400, 900
for the Improvement of the Sacramen-
to river.
Mr. Raker favored diverting a por-
tion of the Sacramento river for ir.
rigation purposes, but did not state
how he was going to get the many
millions of dollars necessary to carry
out the work.
Mr. Englebrlght is not opposed to
conservation as claimed by Judge
Raker. Mr. Englebright believes in
maintaining national forests with pro
per boundaries and under qualified
management. One of the first bills
Mr. Englebright introduced in congress
was to increase the percentage of the
receipts from the national forests. to
be paid to the several conuties in
which they are situated, for the bene-
fit of the road and school funds, and
such an increase to 25 per cent was
made.
Jugde Raker Informed his audience
that Congressman Englebright had
done nothing for the mining industry
of the state. He was chairman of the
subcommittee on mines and mining,
which prepared the mining bureau bill,
and ne helped to pass it. The mining
bureau is in active operation and is
making Investigations that will be of
great service to the miners-to pre-
vent mining accidents and protect
health and lives of the miners. An
important matter was the withdrawal
bill which he helped to get amended to
give miners and prospectors the right
to make their locations on veins or
lodes within the area withdrawn.
The miner and prospector has a
champion in Mr. Englebright. and he
successfully made fight so that any
public land in the state can now be
located and patented within or with
out the forest reserves for the metal
ferrous minerals and the miner can
have the free use of timber on Ibis
claim to be used in working it.
Here are few more things for the
information of Judge Raker; Con-
gresham Englebright voted for the
postal savings bank bill. AS a member
of the naval committee he succeeded
in having included in the naval bill an
item providing for the construction of
submarine torpedo boats to be built on
the Pacific coast and saved from de-
feat the appropriation for the con-
structlon of collier at the Mare Is