Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1826-03-28
CONGRESSIONAL al.
MONDAY. MARCH 90, 1926.
In SEN AVE

CONSIDERATIONS:
Resolrsd, That the Committee on the Judiciary
&c instructed to inquire into the expediency of pro-
viding law library, for the use of the Supreme
Court.
MIR. Reed, OF Mississippi, tlen rose to offer a
resolution, which embraced some principles on
which he believed the Senate had not hitherto been
called upon to act
Mr. II. concluded by submitting the following
resolution
Resolred, That the Committee on the Judiciary
be instructed to inquire into the expediency of au-
thorizing, by law. the Courts of the Untel States
TO issue process, both civil and criminal, and to
cause the same TO be executed against persons resi-
dent upon lan1, occupied by the Ipdians,' within
the territorial limits of any State. And that the
same committee be further instructed TO inquire
whether there is airy mode By which the United
States can yield their assent, that any State NAV
exercise the power of issuing civil and criminal
process against persons resident upon lands,
occupied by Indians, within its limits; and neither
such assent, on the part of the United States, be
necessary 10 the exercise of this power on the part
oil any Individual State
CUMBERLAND ROAD, SC.
The Senate then again proceeded TO the consi-
uera'ion oil the bill e making appropriations for
the military service, for the current year, Mr..
Sobo's motion to strike out the following Item
oens the pending ques,ion-viz: {. For The CON
'inuation Of the Cumberland Road one hundred
and ten thousand dollars, which shall be replaced
out OF the fund reserved FOR Ia wing out and ma king
roads under the direction OF Congress, by the
several acts passed for the admission of the States
OF Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and Missouri, into Tie
Union, ON footing with he original States
! Mr.. Smith said it he understood the objection
OF the gentleman from Georgia, it was that such
PROPOSE ion hid never before been introduced
n:o military appropriation bill. In that, MIR S.
said, lie was quite right: when the Cumberland
ROAD was commenced, ii was put utder the direc-
| ion OF the Secretary of the Treasury, then Mr..
LaiIa'in, and it was compile ed entirely under the
direction OF the Treasury Department. All the
appropriations which were passed after the first
act, tor The continuation of the Cumberland Road.
were inserted IN the general appropriation bill; but
smce then, new System. and perhaps nu cli bet
ter one, had been adopted Tie business of roads
and canals has been transferred 10 lhe War He
pariment, because they have there the aid of the
/ Engineer corps An act was passed in the wear
| iSzo, directing the survey of route 10 be made
! from the RICH, banl; of the Ohio, Opposite to
| wheeling, to Ike Mississippi. The rouie was run
and surveyed, and report Was made on it, Some
objections were made 10 the report, that the route
did NOT strike The metropolis of any of the States.
and, by the act OF last session another survey was
directed The fourth section of that act has been
considered, In some measure, pedgingrhe Co
! verhment to the continuance OF the road Mr.
). said would be proper for him 10 state, that
ne act OF 1870 stipulated specifically ila, nothing
lhercin should be constructed as hlssein the
| United States to make such road The sum an
| pFopiated by the act simply for running the
route on which Tie road was 10 pass. TIE act of
ASIA, appropriated $I5O,o00 for the Road TO
commence at Canton, in Ohio and 10 90 10 Zane.-
Vile. The fourth section of that act appeared
something like pledge of tic Government of the
United States 10 continue the Road, and, under
that idea, the House of = representatives had
this appropriation of $4,000. Mr.. S. said. he
was disposed TO continue the Road, if it could be
done coniormabiy to the Constitution of the hi
ted States. This Cumberland Road has proceeded
as FAR as the Ohio, and is 10 be continued on 90
Missouri; the object of which is tha, there shall
be a short course from the Seat of Government 10
81. Louis, in Missouri, by which MANY dsys would
be saved TO the Unitc States in the transportation
OF the mail, and facilities would be- afforded for
travelling. He did not look on the old beaten
argument of iis raising the value of the land a. of
anY weight: experience had proved that il was
Elusive. But he looked TO The general convenience
oi The country. Mr.. 5. concluded by observing.
that, having carried the Road as far az the Obio
he should give his vote for its continuation
Mr Cobb said, when he made the motion TO srik e
out, he did not do it with the design of going I'M
the discussion OF the Constitutional power when
the subject was under discussion las; year, he had
delivered his ideas on it, aud he had no desire TO
repeat them; should he do SO: the effect thew
had on the Senate was got such az 10 enrorrsoa
him at all 10 embark in tie discussion again He
would however, still insist that the reasons which
he bad assigned Tor making this motion were sufi
Gent 10 induce the Senate to ADOPT It, The an
preparation here called for is atleast thing con-
tested on principle, and on constitutional princi
Piles, too; and it ought not to be inserted in bill
the general objects Of which clearly constitu-
ffr,na AL
tons Tor the Military service In favor Of these
appropriations, he wished 10 vote they are leej-
Innate and constitutional; bur when in this bill .
making appropriations for the Military service is
inserted an appropriation having no connection
whatever with il and for q different and dis,inc,
OBJECT, which he believed to be unconstitutional
he must vote against the whole bill, if il was re-
tanned. The appropriations for Qualifications. Mr.
/ Z. said, have been dis ingushed from the Niar,,
Appropriation Bill, and separately passed upon:
and here was ten thousand times more reason for
distinguishing the appropriations FOR what was call
Ell system OF internal improvement, than there
IS Tor distinguishing The appropf .tions Tor forti-
iical IONS, from the military service
The gentlemen from Kentucky, Mr.. Johnson, y
Mr. G. said, seemed to think il was rather herd thai
he shoald oppose this appropriation, when lie insin
uated that he { Mr.. e. in favor of another
appropriation, which has not yet been acted on.
for removal Of obsiructonsin the River Sayannab,
In the FIRST place, MLC. said, he he'd not yet vo,-
ed on that Dill. but he considered it as a distinct
object, depending on distinct principle from the
other consideration. During the Revolutionary
War; the United States, Tor the defence of lie
place, directed certain Instructions to be placed in
the River Savannah at the end OF the War they
were not removed, and they have remained ever
since, to the manifest injury of the harbor and the
question here 10 be considered, was, not whether
th ! would adopt system, Of internal improve
ment, but whether they would remove the obslruc-
tons from the harbor, where they had themselves
placed them.