The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1916-01-23
PLEASE PASS THAT
PORK TO NEW YORK"
Representative Hubert Tells
House This City Really
Needs the Money.
TOO LONG NEGLECTED.

WARRINGTON. Jan. 2c-whlle mem
bcrs from Western States we're railyins
around the $500 o 900 good roads bill
In the House to-day Representative HUI
bert OF New York arose n made q few
we'll chosen observations designed TO Inn
hpress his fellow lawmakers with the fact
that New York city Is still on the mar
and entitled to consideration when APP
preparations are being passed around.
Mr.. Hubert said he did not know
whether he favored the pending bill or
not. hut that New York and New
Workers generally stood for the common
good even " sometimes ignored when
pork was being parcellcd out. lie
took occasion to say that New York
State had expended 500. 900 ,ooo in the
improvements of its roads and that the
good work was still going on.
lie then sharply directed attention to
the fact that while III II growing
by leaps and bounds in the port Of New
York, Congress had not appropriated a
penny for the Improvement of the East
River since 1912. lie also announced
that despite the fact that the New York
post office contributed yearly more than
10 per cent. of the postal revenue. the
rostmaster-ticneral contemplated rcduc-
ing the number OF mail deliveries In New
York city. lie thought II high time h a
members from the West and South
should realize that New York WAS an
important part of the Federal body poll
tic.
Three years after the close OF tho civil
war" said Mr.. Hubert. Congress passed
n law making an appropriation TO deepen
| the channel of the Eas; River to twenty
six feet by the emoyal OF rocks. Very
little has been provided for the main
tenance OF that Improvement. Up to 1912
this House had never seen TT TO appro-
PIRATE a greater amount of money fo-
the F:as, River than 20 per cent. of the
mounts recommended by the army ELL
gineers.
IN 1912 an army board reported that
further Improvement of the East River
n im~perativcly necessary. II recon-
mcndcd that a thi-ty-tive foot channel
should be dredged into New York BAY
from the Battery TO Throges Neck. =
distance of sixteen miles. which would
have given us a deep waterway entrance
from the Atlantic Ocean to the east 20
New Iork Bay and would have provided
what IL not in existence in any port In
the world. namely. a double entrance and
Il double exit to New York harbor for
naval purposes
MIR. Hubert pointed out that for mill
tary a. wei a. comfhcrcia; purposes Il
was highly important that The water en-
virons of New York city should he IN.
proved. He recalled the letter recently
written by the Secretary Of the Navy,
who said tina with the present depth e.:
water In New York IT was not possible
to dock the big ships of the navy At the
New York yard
Mr.. hubert was critical OF the pres.
I Al, .Ir,tpfGt ~ ION IF th, post ,pftfa no,
Tartineut. He said that despite the IN.
crease in the postal business in Ncv
York city announcement has beer made
that the city service was 10 he curtai'cd
despite protests made h, New York busi.
ness men. NJ. Hubert expressed tbs
hope that the postnrastcr-General would
reconsider this determination.