The St. Lucie County tribune. (Fort Pierce, St. Lucie County, Fla.) 1905-1920, 1911-11-03

COMMISSION.
Itooressed Publication Of
[hior Wright's Report?
|ONt PLEADS GUILTY
..Isgton Times Lays Blame To
!. Jaliaferro and Congressman
fra in League With Interests

m ia League With Interests
4 from the scandal uncovered
s fIngton arises to high heaven
!, has bee, playing false in the
q Of South Florida in withhold
10 long the Everglades report
I,.rer Wright and investigation
ust few days have pretty near
M the source of the trouble.
wn representative Clark, in
M.oD with some other members
mess, aided and abetted by sell
nterested corporations, seem
a the muddle to an extent which
difficult for them to explain to
Isfsetion of the South Floridians.
3 papers known as organs of
/ have purposely or ignOrantly
I'd the case, and only the Wash
Zines, which was at first led
trough transformation. has ex-
he common decency to disown
RAJ article and come out with
% truth.
Beach County gives the follow
tsssiing account of the matter
hes the blame where it seems to
Mator Taliaferro and Congress-
nnk Clark lie in with the F. +.
bay IN slppressing favorable re-
gon the Everglades ?
Eas the Wright report suppress
1.-TWO questions have been inves-
Gg the Washington Times and
hysis as printed by that paper is
h interesting in the extreme.
syer also promises during the
sWresSiOnal session to have some
nting developments.
vtele is from the pen of JudsOn
aver and the Times devotes more
Hse columns to it. .
gs are made of the suppression
abe reports upon the practical
u draining the Everglades
rlhe influence of the +. f. G..
gbecause Of the fact that the
slaimed ownership of 800. 900
hth it desired to develope and
fcsuse of this fact it did its
y Of the feasibility Of draining
lnnge of territory as the Ev-
contained.
piss every report of the drain
patton was favorable to the pro-
w. Wiley, of national fame, re-
hyOrably upon the project in
nee legislative committees did
lRand three governors, Jennings,
nand Gilchrist, echoed the same
bats.
3 Florida was admitted to tho
ilrrh 3, lS45, the government
|alls ownership of the 5000 square
q Everglades, but, later on.
NE same over to the state on
pl that it should be drained.
I'D Of draining, or commencing
y lhe state turned over the lands |
''rlway, which agreed to devel- |
q, but refralned from so doing |
Nat the grants were revoked. |
Halfed much litigation but the
VIE finally regained.
g The big railroad holdings was
ahe Florida East Coast Drainage
sfCompany, a subsidiary OrgaI-
y The +. +. e. railway. and Off
W entirely controlled by it. 1t
4g to develope and sell these
ehe !. E. c. railway, the Flag
aes's and all the politicians who
.nen those people pulled the
Swere beaten to a standstill by
mon people, who elected Brow
'9hul, Just because he was one
zane common people, the state
= 70 get ready for the huge.
EpAn, already formulated.
nei the north the subsidized
= nlled with the ERRONEOUS re-
ssrding the possibility Of ever
Y Of partially draining, the vast
aaa OF course in Florida there
4, nue. and cry that the state
oankrupted long before the
@0d be put through.
wings the tale down TO the time
'aeral government. Engineer
vas sent from Washington to
'ae the engineering and eco
.0Olem, and while his report
Me obstacles, on the whole
y! favorable to the project.
- !. was carefully edited, maps
:. % accompany it and it was
n; 1 about February, 1910.
hung fire. When Engineer
\, ~ deputized to make his in.
- y :. o. the project Elwood Mead
u the drainage division of the
= OF agriculture, but by the
I port was complete Mead was
! .y c. G. EIliot-whO still I
pa'lon. Florida parties and
u!ed In the state were anx'
n ne report published pre-
'wnkht made it. But some
80 prevented its issuance.
4, learned that the entire
Pa killed, the plates
~ had been thrown in the