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EXTENSIONS of REMARKS May 14, 1969 EXTENSIONS of REMARKS HON 12596 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS May 14, 1969 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS HON. HENRY B. GONZALEZ Antonio ca.me to belleve that Gonzalez was sent that Senator BYRD'S remarks on this in fact a "consiberal" with ability to see both sides of every question. That's why he was important subject be printed in the REC­ HON. JIM WRIGHT able to muster enough support to defeat a ORD. There being no objection, the remarks OF TEXAS massive Republican campaign highlighted by barnstorming here of the late Dwight D. Eis­ were ordered to be printed in the RECORD, IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES enhower in 1961 to become the first Mexican­ as follows: Wednesday, May 14, 1969 American ever to be elected congressman from Mankind's development from the begin­ Bexar County. Mr. WRIGHT. Mr. Speaker, the San ning has followed the course of rivers. From And Gonzalez since then has stayed elected the earliest civilization, cradled between the Antonio Express and News on Sunday, by pursulng the policies that won him the Tigris and the Euphrates, to the present, April 27, published a very perceptive job in the first place. commerce and trade have moved along the front page column by Paul Thompson His liberal voting record in Congress is major waterways and in their valleys. Eco­ concerning our extremely able and high­ almost perfect with regard to civil rights and nomic and cultural growth has been the al­ ly respected colleague, Hon. HENRY B. social reform and wage legislation. But he has most inevitable result. GONZALEZ. also labored unstintingly for state and local Today some two and one-half million business projects and any bill needed to put In reviewing the Gonzalez record from people live in the Pittsburgh Metropolitan them over. And from being a candidate who Area. This is more population than in any the days when our colleague served on squeaked by in 1961, he now has such all­ one of 22 states of this country. And these the San Antonio City Council, Mr. pervading community support that not even two and one-half million people earn a higher Thompson reveals the steady sense of his worst politioal enemies would dream of level of income than do those of many of the fairness and the consistency of convic­ running against him. states. How do the Pittsburgh people do it, tion which those of us here in Congress But today Congressman Gonzalez finds compacted as they are into so limited an have come to recognize as hallmarks of that he hasn't been llberal enough to suit area? And why are all these people congre­ the Gonzalez character and career. the aforementioned County Com. Pena, State gated here at this particular spot on the HENRY GONZALEZ is universally re­ Sen. Joe J. Bernal and other "Viva La Raza" map? types who want Henry B. to say, in effect, Pittsburgh is preeminently a river city. spected by his colleagues, and I know "I am no longer a 'oonsiberal' who represents Like the tree by the waters, of which the many will enjoy reading this splendid all the people. I have reformed. From now on, prophet Jeremiah spoke, the city has spread column which I include herewith under I am representing the Mexicanos." out her roots by the river, and her leaf has leave to extend my remarks: Does any sensible Mexican-American here been green as a result, and she shall not cease Back in 1953, when he left the county really believe that this would be a good move from yielding fruit. juvenile office to try his hand at politics, for Henry B. Gonzalez? Or for anyone else? Pittsburgh has grown here to these ma­ Henry B. Gonzalez used to say that he jestic proportions because she is at the head­ aimed to represent "all the people of San waters of the Ohio-Mississippi River system, Antonio" and would never allow himself to and because for over two centuries, the site be categorized as a purely Mexican-Ameri­ SENATOR ROBERT C. BYRD of this city has been the historic gateway can candidate. STRESSES INTERDEPENDENCE OF between the Atlantic Coast and the water­ As a city councilman for three years (he WATER SYSTEMS way connections leading southward to the resigned to run for the Texas Senate), Gon­ Gulf of Mexico, westward half way to the zalez used to tell Mexican-Americans who Rockies, and north to the Canadian border. appeared in the council chamber and ad­ HON. JENNINGS RANDOLPH The geographic and historic underpinning of Pittsburgh's vitality has been her mutu­ dressed their remarks solely to him: "Look, OF WEST VIRGINIA talk to these other eight men too. We all ality of interest with the other waterway represent you." IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES communities to which she is linked over This was regarded as quite proper and Wednesday, May 14, 1969 hundreds, and even thousands, of miles by even edifying by leaders of the Mexican­ her river connections: Huntington, Cincin­ American community at that time, includ­ Mr. RANDOLPH. Mr. President, on nati, Louisville, St. Louis, New Orleans-and ing men like Albert A. Pena Jr., the county April 18, 1969, my colleague from West Kansas City, Omaha, and innumerable other commissioner, but it fell rather quaintly on Virginia (Mr. BYRD), addressed an audi­ cities, when one thinks, for example, of the the ear of conservative elements on the ence of civic and business leaders in Mississippi and Missouri Rivers. north side of town, particularly the so­ The Mississippi-Missouri is the third long­ Pittsburgh, Pa. He discussed that area's est river system in the world, exceeded only called "pure Anglos" among them. mutuality of interest with farflung river To put it mildly, they didn't believe Gon­ by the Nile and the Amazon, and longer than zalez. valley communities from the Gulf Coast either the Yangtze or the Congo. to the headwaters of the Mississippi and Including all of the developed tributaries, And when he staged a record-breaking such as the Monongahela, the Knawha, the filibuster in behalf of Mexican-American civil Missouri and the Ohio Valley in water resource development for pollution Arkansas, and so on, the Mississippi com­ rights as one of his first acts upon election prises the longest navigable waterway system of the State Senate, these conservatives felt abatement, flood control, water supply, in the world. justified in their suspicion that Gonzalez and navigation. As a major member of this great inland was a mere publicity seeker who wanted to Senator BYRD'S effective remarks were river community, then, Pittsburgh shares be a hero on the West Side of San Antonio centered on Pittsburgh at the head­ with these distant ·cities the common op­ and was trying to kid everybody else with waters of the Ohio, but they have a pro­ portunities and problems of her waterway his repeated declaration, "I represent all the linkages, those of water supply, navigation people." found relevance for all other river com­ munities in their graphic delineation of development, pollution and fiood control. It soon became clear, however, that Gon­ Pittsburgh has held a position of leadership zalez was a senator who recognized needs the unity of the river systems and of the in the extensive pollution control program Of the business community and who WOuld interdependence of water resource de­ of the Ohio Valley. Acting under authority not back legislative bills of an impractical velopment programs. of the eight-state compact of 1948 and under nature simply because somebody said they The Nation is afflicted with disastrous standards of the Ohio River Valley Water would do the Mexican-Americans a lot of Sanitation Commission (commonly known good. floods; the pollution of our lakes and rivers threatens public health; our needs as ORSANCO), the city of Pittsburgh, in In brief, State Senator Gonzalez turned association with 68 adjacent communities out to be pretty much of a legislative hard­ for water for communities and industries established one of the earliest, and the nose-liberal in the area of civil rights and are rapidly mounting; our navigation largest. municipal water quality control conservatively disposed when it came toques­ system is inadequate for the growing works of the Ohio Valley program. This fa­ tions of how the taxpayers' money ought to requirements of commerce. cility was dedicated in 1956. be spent. Senator BYRD's emphasis on the wide­ Industry has joined with government in While supporting any workable program spread mutuality of interests involved in the extensive anti-pollution efforts that have that would help the poor, he didn't believe water resource development serves to en­ been made, and substantial progress has re­ in heaving petty cash around like the Aga sulted. But much still remains to be done, Khan on a shopping tour. He described him­ courage the broad public support and according to the Federal Water Pollution self at the time with the neologism, "I am cooperative effort needed for an ac­ Control Administration, which keeps a close a consiberal." celerated program urgently required in check on the Ohio Valley situation. The business community and a whole heap the national interest. In this connection, I noted that the Wall of Anglo-Am~ricans on the north side of San Mr. President, I ask unanimous con- Street Journal had an article on March 17 May 14, 1969 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 12597 dealing with the Ohio pollution problem. It eventually hold for controlled release in the In a few years, action will have to be said the river is still polluted, despite years dry season, represent a serious potential flood taken to enlarge the lockage capacity in the of effort to clean it up.
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