Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1915-08-28
BURTON BOOM IS
CAUSE OF ACTIVITY
BY UNTERRlFIED

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lmerely Of the Twenty-third district Of
Ohio
SecOnd-No man in public life in
tthe last decade has done more to heap
upon the pork barrel its deserved
odium than Burton. Specification
There was a plan afoot one year to
build a costly ice harbor to protect
vessels at a certain unimportant har-
( Dor Burton thwarted the plan sim
Iply by showing that II would be
I cheaper for the government TO burn
AN vessels going into that harbor ana
replace them with new ones in the
ispring'
Third-"There are two ways Of
/ framing river and harbor bill'' re-
marked Burton in his early career
The more popular method has been
TO make such concessions to all the
different states and localities that you
win have an overwhelming support
for the measure The other method
and the right one, is to select those
projects which would benefit the
whole country and then finish them
with promptness' Specification
Burton had overwhelming support for
his measures
Fourth-Burton never eats unless
he is hungry Specification--He is a
clipper old bachelor of nearly Ga
Dealing with the admission made
by Burton himself, according to the
prospectus in Golfers, that he turned
down his home folks on a $4,000 600
appropriation for Cleveland harbor
on the ground that he was serving
J the whole country and not alone his
/ congressional district, the democrats
( turn Eloatingly to the record. There
they find that Burton became a mem
Der Of the river and harbor committee
OF the house in 1896 and remained
one for thirteen years being chair
man during the latter ten of the thlr-
teen Also they find that from 1895
TO the day Burton left the house
United states money was poured out
in constant stream for the improve
ment of Cleveland harbor. "Of
course, they say, Burton could turn
down the home folks on any scheme
they might propose He was running
the works and they could leave it TO
Burton with entire safety for he gave
Cleveland practically all the money it
could spend
The squirt for Cleveland harbor
started in 1895 with one project to
cost 100000 and another TO cost
.S494,OOO. In 1899 congress adopted
another project to cost not less than
1871 600. In 1901 Burton being
chairman Of the committee, Cleveland
harbor got its real grab at the treas
.ury The bill passed that year au-
thori2ed the expenditure of S2,S0O,OOO
on that hart0r, and the bill of 1907
authorized the increase of this by an
additional 100000 The same bill
carried an authorization of $4,000
for the construction of wharf and
warehouse by the government in case
the consent of the Cleveland Yacht
club could be secured. The bill OF
1910 saw Cleveland harhor blessed
with an additional $4,000. These
appropriations together with various
authorizations for dredging and other
improvements cause the chief of en-
pineers to say in his annual report
that the total expenditure for Cleye-
land harbor under all protests to the
close of the fiscal year ending June
80. 1914. was S7,294, 5l0,59,'
This is not a bad record for town
which has not very great claims to
treasury paper, not half the claims !
Of Duluth, for example,
Claims for Burton Opposed
II would perhaps be impossible to
find a river and harbor bill that suited
everybody. Most of them have been
tainted with pork II is the claims
made for Burton that he was a sort of
superhuman on the subject of COM 1
merce and had an almost divine intui- /
ton on how to promote il that makes
the opposition to his candidacy rise up /
TO smite his record
But ii Is not Burton favor for Cleve- 7
land which must be admitted to be a /
very respectable, a very large and a |
very doubtful town. politically, that |
the democrats bring up as his worst I
mistake, conoeding that such stu
dent as Burton can be guilty of error,
but the two very remarkable and ex-
pensiye projects which came to moth
ing, one to deepen, widen and improve
the complexion Of the Grand river in l
Michigan at, near, about and abuttingl
upon the home and boom of William
Alden Smith, a crony of Burton I'M
the senate. For improving the
Grand river in the district Senator'S
Smith then represented Burton report
ed S450.000 The chief OF engineers
also reported last year lie said
There was no regular commerce.
on the It's miles of improved river
between Grand Rapids and lamont,
bat between Lamont and Grand river.
a distance Of about twenty-one miles,
a sdewheel steamer, with draft OF
twenty inches, has been in opera
ton since July. 1911. The improve
ment has no effect on freight rates.
and it is improbable that it ever will
have"
Cape HarbOr Next.
The other project project and pork
begin with the same letter in river
and harhor bilIs) wos that Of 1907
TO build harbor Of refuge near CAPE