Edwardsville spectator. [volume] (Edwardsville, Ill.) 1819-1826, 1820-03-14

reserved 70 Indiana and illinois, fespec.
lively, to make roads leading TO them,
in the one case about ten, and the other
twelve years after the Cumberland road
was commenced, was at that time intend
ed, or understood, either by those states
or by the Uni.sd States, to be subject to
defray the expenses of that road? It
could not be possible. 1t seemed, Mr..
c. said, nuch more likely to have been
reserved for tie purposes contemplated
by the resolution which he had offered,
to extend that road to the borders of
those states respectively and unless it
was so appropriated, or at least in making
roads leading 10, and not towards them,
he did think they would have just cause
of complaint against the government.
Since the admission of these states, Mr..
c. believed fund of about $4,000 dol
lars had already accrued from the sale
of lands, which should be now lying in
tho national treasury. This sum, al
though it would NOT complete the road,
would defray the expense of marking
and layii 2 it OUT, and go far towards
opening it, so as to render it passable /;
and as the fund continued to increase, it
might be employed to complete it. In
deed, said Mr.. {. it seems to me to be
so obvious that the intention of Congress
was, that this money should be appro-
priated to the improvement of roads, to
facilitate the entrance into those states,
that reasoning cannot make it palmer !;
and any diversion Of it to any other OBJ
iect, therefore, is a iolation Of the COM
pact betw ten those states and the United
States. He trusted that the resolution
would be considered and adopted.
The reolution was then considered
and adopted, without division.
Mr.. COX offered also the following
resoiutionEoy consideration
Resolved, That the committee on the
public lands be instructed to inquire into
the expectancy Of providing by law for
the payment of so much of the money
arising from the sale of the public lands
in the state IF Illinois, since the first day
of Ianuary,.lsl9, as has been reserved
by law for the encouragement of learn
ing, to said state.
Mr.. G. observed, that the object Of
this resolution was, simply to enable the
state of Illinois to obtain the three per
cent. fund arising from the sale Of pub
lie lands which had been reserved by
Congress to be appropriated by the state
to the encouragement of learning. This
course, he said, had been considered
necessary, since the Secretary of the
Treasury might not otherwise feel au-
thorzed to pay it over. This, Mr.. G.
said, was the course taken by Indiana to
obtain her road fund, reserved in the
same way.
This resolution was also adopted with.
cut division.
MISSOURI RuL.
The House resolved itself into COM
mittee of the whole, Mr.. Baldwin in the
chair, on this bill.
Mr.. Rankin, of Mississippi, took the
floor, and spoke more than an hour
against the Restriction.
Mr.. Hendricks, of Indiana, took the
other side Of the question, and spoke
about an hour in favor Of the Restriction.
Mr.. CathbPrt, of Georgia, followed,
and occupied the floor also about an
hour against the Restriction; when
The committee rose, on motion of
Mr.. johnson, Of Virginia, (who has the
floor to-morrrew.)