Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-02-21
SCHLEY Will
REVIEW PORT
PLAN ATONCE
House Committee In
Second Resolution
To Engineers Indi-
Gates Its Interest

Colonel ]. L. Schley has been auth
prized by the board Of Army en-
gineers to review the Point Isabel
harbor project, and will complete
that work and file Recommendations
as soon as possible.
Information to this effect was re-
celved in a letter from Colonel
Schley TO Commodore Cobolini, chair
man OF the Valley port committee,
colonel Schley stating that il the
Valley had additional information it
should be transmitted Immediately.
Representative John N. Garner
states in a communication to the
chairman of the port committee that
he il assured the necessary appro-
priation for -harbor work can be in
cluded in the rivers and harbors bill
now being framed for presentation
to the present session, providing a
propeet receives the favorable recon-
mendation Of Colonel Schley. Mr..
Garner stressed the necessity Of i'm
mediate action, as the bill will soon
be ready for submission. A request
that the project be reviewed was
transmitted by the rivers and harbors
committee of the house Of represen-
tatives to the board of army engi-
neers in the following resolution
passed by the committee February ID:
Resolved, by the committee on
rivers and harbors OF the house
of representatives, that the board
of engineers for rivers and har-
bors, created under section 3 of
the river and habor act, approved
June 10, 1902, be. and is hereby, re-
quested to review the report on
Brazos Island harbor, Texas, sub
mitted in house document No. ITO,
65th congress, third session, with a
view Of determining whether any
PROJECT at the present time, par
ticularly as to local cooperation"
Committee Will Cooperate
The rivers and harbors committee
is anxious to cooperate with Repre-
sentative Garner is ~expediting the
development of the Point Isabel har-
Dor project, according TO Representa-
tive ]. J.. Mansfield, member Of the
ner relative to the resolution, which
is the second passed by the COM
mittee this session, Mr.. Mansfield
says:
referring TO the Brazos Island
Harbor, Texas, in which you have
manifested so much interest, / wish
tolenciose herewith copy of a second
II blution adopted by the rivers and
MIRRORS committee.
"The board of engineers has sug-
gested that the second resolution
would enable them to study, in addi-
tion to the question of waving local
cooperation in so far as it applies
to maintenance, the question of the
necessity for additional notifications
of the existing project. II was sug-
gested by the board that il may be
found necessary to construct 1etties
for the protection Of the outer chan
mel, and il so, such recommendations
could be embodied in the same re-
port which is Il be made upon the
question Of maintenance by local
authorities.
"The office of the chief Of EN-
gineers, as we'll as the board, now
have both resolutions, the n adopt
ed Feb. s, and the other on the date
above mentioned, and / think in so
far as our committee is concerned 1t
has with both resolutions indicated
its wishes and given to the board
the authority to review the project
from those viewpoints suggested by
you.
az believe / can say without hest
tation that all the members of the
committee, both republicans and
democrats, because of your valuable
assistance given the committee in all
Of its programs for river and harbor
DEVELOPMENT, are quite anxious TO
cooperate most heartily with you IN
~expediting the development Of the
Brazos Island project in which you
have manifested so much interest
Lauds Gamers Work
Representative John McDuffie OF
Alabama, who was in the Valley TO
attend the Intracoastal Canal asso-
citation convention and who made a
survey of the Valleys harbor prof.
ect, also tenders the assurance that
as a member of the rivers and har-
bors committee his cooperation VIII
be extended. In a communication 10
Representative Garner, under date OF
Feb. Is, he said: d.,
"Yon have doubtless been advised
Of the committees action with ref
erence to the Brazos Island project
in which you expressed your very
deep interest.
aside from the merits of the
project, the fact that you are inter-
ested in il makes a strong appeal TO
our committee. We recognize that
in YOU the rivers and harbors advo-
Gates in congress have a very valu-
able friend. Your outstanding lead
ership on the democratic side has on
several occasions since | have been
a member of congress brought favor
able results for u waterway pro-
gram. We are pleased to feel that
in the next congress as leader OF the
democratic party we will have in you
verv staunch and able friend"