Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1914-10-17
Dates Arc Selected in Order that New Or
leans Delegates Who Desire May Pro
coed 10 the Washington Convention
Withou. Returning 10 Their Homes.

Chamber If Commerce. who H. also IN
member wv the executive committee for
Texas of the Interstate Inland Water
WAYS League nf Lou ~iana and Texas. has
been advised hv Secretary Leon Locke NJ
the League that the annual convention
VI tlr league win ~ held December 4
and =. lt New Orleans. President llul-
land ANIL Mr.. Locke designated those
DAYS uWin. IN the fact shat M viii per
nit the delegates who attend The New
Orleans meeting to - tu Washington 20
attend ihr annual convention NJ the Ma
tioual Rivers and lIarbnr> Congress.
which will hr in session December = 10
li. inclusive. IN ~ directly ~ Washing
ton without returning a. their homes.
and saving time and expense.
The New Orleans meeting w. expected
~ IT, one If the best attended and most
interesting in the ten wears history of
the league. which was organized for the
purpose of a~gitating the appropriation
Of funds for She building nf an inter
coastal canal from New Orleans ~ the
mouth II the Rio Grande, near Browns
Vile. The canal D. now completed a.
Banin'S BAY. and ID H. the intention NJ
the 1915 convention of the league L. pro
mote the extension from that point 90
The terminal an the Rio Grande.
Mr.. Cobolini 4. :. T.. Holland of Vie
toria. Henry Gucdan If Guevdan. In. Mr..
Locke. ~ Lake Charles aud ROYAL Givcn>
and Row Miller Of Corpus Christi were
the nrimc movers ia the organization ~
the league AMI these men have been III
its helm since its inception. And To say
that they have been successful H. super
III. e.. a. - II. .. ~. ....I
already completed i a standing monu-
ment ~ that fact
The league meets IN Texas and Ioui>i.
ANA alternately. aud n This wears con.
%vrntinn II tn ~ held 10 New Orleans IN
viii w. ~ ~ the league a. select some
Texas point for the 1915 session. Last
wear the League met ~ Orange. near the
Louisiana line. and II " expected that
some lower cnlf coast pnint will h. Sc
lcctcd next. III ~ understood thar the
name ~ Corpus Christi IL "a bc placed
forward.
The manner in which the national law
makers have handled The hlrbor and
WATERWAYS appropriations this wear has
aroused the i~ndirnniinn ~ Mr. tnhnlini
who writing Mr.. Locke ~ his approval %
he selection If dates for the New Or.
leans meeting takes occasion w vent his
wrath "a the men who organized a fiji
buster against the annrnpriatinnS. His
letter ~ Nr. Lnrkc follows:
II POSTPONED answering vour apprc-
,iatcd letter awaitin" the result of the
rivers and harhnr~ bill. AZ last the end
matcrializcd hv a compromise after "
nf thr most energetic pnStulationS from
tho cra uf the discovery w Christopher
Columbus 10 date. OF the malcontents
not One was able a. charge that i'm this
bill there existed u single item W i'm
provement for political or local pur-
poses.
From Innr@ntil IT, passage the rivers
and harhorS hill has been kicked about
like Il football. ~ has been bitterly &c
n0nnrcd ~ y pork barrel measure. and
when requested a. present the >pccifca-
tirn~ failed ~ answer and went a. far
a~ w in~inuatr that the bin would re-
ward private enterprise and officials n
the r~SIcn~. NJ the government.
The claim that they arr not opposed
90 the improvement of or WATERWAYS.
hnt they err willing ~ poisson tl. publ
mind against the best asset w The nation.
In many magazines and newspapers
fhe cry nf the unrk barrel ~ raised The
postmaster general estimates he cost W
handling second class matter az six cents
per pound. Hrlurting from that the
charges " one rent per pound W. have
a net loss To the government of five cents
per pound. Drducting from that the
charges at one cent per pound We have
= net los a. the government Of five crniS
Der pound upon ~,fnnd class mail mat
tor TIL. r~.aNt nV I'll. ....s.T u--EuvwUV
postmaster general for the wear 1919
shows that 1867 .G01. Jl2 pounds ~ second
class mail matter was transported ~
the government. The loss to the govern
mcnt was -5~3>>0.515.Gn. If the rivers
and harhorS bill H. denounced a. 4 pork
barrel measure WHY . present the Spc-
ciiration> a. the above statement IL pre-
scutetlg
The waterways improved ~ date and
the remaining which will ~ improved
In future are the greatest assets Of the
nation. The rivers and harbors appro-
priationS bring more money directly a.
the producer and the consumer than any
Of the dollars invested by our govern
mcHt
The rivers and harbors Of this nation
will be- improved. Out Of every dollar re-
ccived by the government W. only ask
five cents for the improvement Of u
great rivers lakes aud harb0rs. Once
improved the cost NJ maintenance will
be reduced "a les than one rent. Eight
hundred millions Of dollars have been
expended ny this nation on our rivers
and harbors.
Hundreds Of millions are saved yearly
in transportation charges. Pork barrel.
IL is not true.
-Ex-President Taft in Corpus Christi