The sun., 1916-12-30
RAIDERS SCORN
WILSON'S WARNING


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'wateree and Consaree there has already
been appropriated $4,000 and in last
years bill they got SIS, 900. The wateres
reported no m for the year.
Another Southern State whose Yuletide
should have been a happy one owing to
the prospects Of pork is Louisiana.
Louisiana gets pork" IN good. fat slices
In the public buildings bill running up TO
S125.000. with post offices costing from
100000 to $4,000 each In the little towns
~ Plaquamine, Mansfield. Winfield, Hou-
ma. De Ridder and Morgan City--all Of
them being put down as Improbable by
The Treasury officials.
In the rivers and harbors bill as now
framed Louisiana gets nineteen appropri-
ations totalling s2.3a7 900. Furthermore.
Its citlsens lucky enough TO live along
the river get a large slice OF the Missis-
slppi reclamation scheme, as provided In
the third OF the pork measures.
In addition to tho $4,000 appropri-
ated for the mouths OF the Mississippi.
Louisiana gets appropriations for several
baycus and rivers. The Red River, In
Representative Watkins's district. for cx-
mple, gets $4,000 on top OF an appropri-
alton OF S2.s7t.000. OF It's total com-
mercc Of $1,000 tons. more than half Is
lumber and sand.
representa- tive Watkins In the public
buildings bill gets a new $4,000 post Of
flee for the little town Of Mansfield. with
N population Of 1.799 persons and with
postal receipts Of only S11,1s3 n year.
The Bayou Peche gets $4,000. OF Its
commerce Of 5s7.s+1 tons. 37s.oo0 con-
sist of floating logs. according to the en-
gineers. Morgan City. not far from the
bayou. IL to be ornamentcd by a $4,000
post office. owing to the be%nefaction Of its
Representative. While II has q popula-
ton OF 5,477 people. its postal receipts for
the year amount to less than $4,000.
Alabama's share.
Another State away down In Dixie
that will fur very well II the pork
bill goes through Is the state Of Ala
bama- 1t gets a number OF post offices
and sites footing up to 3465. 900 and II
receives some fat slices out OF the rivers
and harbors bill. For examples, h good
old Tombigbeo II put down for an ap-
preparation OF $50. 900. having received
In former bills S437.0 00. Its commerce
consists largely Of logs. timber and sand
Representative Gray has obtained in
the public buildings bill a 100000 post
Office for Mobile. The engineers cut
down $4,000 trees on the TombiGec. The
Alabama River will have SIS. 900 spent
on II despite the fact that its commerce,
even the engineers were obliged to re-
port. has decreased Just so per cent in
the last two years. although sl.3sS. 900
has been appropriated.
Champ Cpark's state Of Missouri has
also been well looked after In the rivers
and harbors bill. Missouri has a, little
land reclamation project all its own.
II has been going on now for several
years at tho expense OF the United States
Government. This land scheme was
thought Of after Sl5.VV0, 900 Ind been
spent for navigation on the Missouri
River n is a little brother OF the Mis-
sissippi land reclamation scheme. for
which II paved the way.
A total OF 500. 900 acres Is being re-
claimed At the expense OF the taxpayers
Of the whole country and the ultimate
cost OF this undertaking will be $50. 00O,-
900. The new rivers and harbors bill,
carries $1,000. 900 for this and the las,
bill .l,5Oo.o 600.
Defended b. the Speaker.
Speaker Clark last spring defended
this land project as we'll as the Missls-
sippi River real estate scheme. In time.
he said. other rivers would have their
turn. He said he WAS not In favor Of
taking public money to reclaim private
land except as an incidental to the main
object. but there were three things about
rivers which were inseparable-naviga-
ton. floods reclamation. He de
clared that these schemes were being at
tackled because the money was being
spent In the South. He said that the
right person for the Northern Repre-
sentatives to quarrel with was not any
Representative OF the South, but God,
because He made the rivers OF the
United States run toward the equator"
The thirteen southern States. which
are. being so literally supplied with
pork" AZ the result OF the control Of
legislation now being In the hands OF
their Representatives. paid into the Fed
eral Treasury last yea in corporation
and income taxes Just $4,000 900 out OF
the $?o7,00O. 900 which the United States
as a whole paid.
This shows how large a contribution
the states outside OF Dixie will he called
upon to contribute AZ their share OF the
expense Of putting up $4,000 post
offices at Southern crossroads and 'im.
proving" creeks and bayous for floating
logs under the present beneHcent plans
OF the statesmen of the South.
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