Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1832-01-12
tened BY The House ns hoped th. substitute would no.

~ WIS SUBSTANTIALLY the same proposition that present
ed at the last session, when decided that the
subscribed should be paid by instruments He thought
the gentleman from Petersburg would jcopardze the bill
oy pressing the present plan. He advised that there
were several members around him who would vote against
the engrossment of the substitute Mr.. W. had last year
voted ior the bill for subscription TO the stock OF the Pc
.ersoug Kali Road Company and IL had then been thrown
In The face OF its advocates, that they would in this
year and demand amendment of the BILL IL the gen
uenan from Petersburg friendly to loan, he had
declared why was he not willing take this bill il was
originally presented This Rail Road was TO be made
through the weahes part of the State, in which there
was sufficient capital for profitable purpose where
the necessity for aid by strong other
less favored sections. lie had objection, however to
aid them far it could be done consistently with the
interest ofthe whole community He willing TO give
them 100000 dollars, ii the Legislature would authorize
loan for million and half to carry ON other mportan
improvements at the same time But, fthe sum now ask
ed Tor Were 10 be taken from the fund for Internal I'm
provement in the required the whole would be
absorbed until alter this work completed and all other
objects would until then be left destitute This would be
NOT only UNJUST but very bad policy. BY pledging the
whole fund for this work the very means for paving
the interest of loan would be taken away He could
not on these grounds give his to this plan
He would for loan, out Of which the Petersburg Rail
Road should have its just sharcbu further he could not
CO.,
Mr. Brown regretted that this proposition met with op
position from the gentleman from Harrison This bill was
the only one by which the money could be raised as
soon as the company would need it. The House had
decided that they would not consider the original bill until
the general subject of Improvements should have been re-
ported upon by the Committee, which might defer this
that delay He confessed that House would pass the
original bill would meet his preference and that of the
company But he pushed TO make this proposition
his only alternative he had also acted under the i'm
preston that this bill would be acceptable to the
House than the original BILL and he sorry il was not
so TO the gentleman from Harrison.
Mr.. Williams had not forgotten that the House refused
TO consider the original bill until il should be taken up as
part OF the general plan of Internal Improvements. 1t
would be recolected that he had expressed himself in IA
of the consideration of the bill when that decision was
made He couldn not therefore, be looked upon as unend
TO the Company or the gentemans object And he had
risen now, to warn the gentleman from PETERSBURG and his
friends that their plan would be by this pro-
position because he believed endangered the fund for
Internal Improvement, which he though majority of the
ouse would prefer dcvong TO the payment of the inter-
est on a comprehensive loan
Mr. Campbell of Brooke was one of those who had on
posed the consideration Of the original bill its discussion
the other day. From that opposition il appeared the en
ueman from Petersburg had come to the conclusion that
the House was more adverse to the plan proposed by the
original bill than they would be to this. But Mr. c.
agreed with the gentleman from Harrison in being entire
y opposed to this plan, while he willing that the Pc
tcrsburg Rail Road should share in the benefits of anv m
neral scheme that might be adopted On the occasion to
which he had alluded he wished that the subject should
be delayed to what other works general importance
might be proposed and whether he veto for this i'm
provement in justice to others But the proposition was
now varied and up in the exact form in which II
was last year presented the ousc-when they were
told that the subscription to this work could be given
at once but must be graduated according means of
the improvement fund. The question now presented IL
sell whether the Legislature should strip itself for four
years Oh inc power oil contributing to such objects as
shoud be presented pro rata The House refused last
year the demand which now made because it would
take the income oil four years pay the subscription TO
this stock Was the House prepared at this lime N
cause every other improvement in the State to stand still
Tor four years in order TO favor this work. He was not
willing to accede to such measure, the same ground
on which the plan rejected last year. when il was de-
cded that the subscribed should be paid in annual in
stalments OF $4,000. Such were the terms qiven tbe
Company last year, which were accepted, aud was
then supposed, were satisfactory. Yet, they now came
forward and asked for exactly what it was said last wear
they would ask had been stated by the gentleman from
Harrison He would for this substitute for the
two reasons he had statedas he could not favor bill
which would obstruct all improvements except the Pc
tersburg Rail Road, for four years
Mr.. Brown Observed that the application of te funds
to this object would not interfere with their concurrent
application TO objects already subscribed for The pre-
And would not be difficult to shew that the subscription
for the Petersburg Rail Road provided for by the act of
last year was perfect nulity.
Mr. Campbell of Brooke, warn the gentleman
from Petersburg that by presenting this substitute he was
the BILL His position could not be shaken as
to the effect of this BILL The Board of Public Works had
made engagements which il would he called ON TO pay
and II this subscription be paid in four years with
those formerly made, objects could be subscribed TO-
Mr. BrodnaX was pleased that this direction had been
given TO the BILL and he hoped the gentleman from Pc
ersburg would be allowed mould his own bin as he saw
NJ Notwithstanding the Opposition he had encountered
the remarks OF the gentlemen opposed TO il had been in
tended friendly advice he gated that the mover
OF the bill had followed the advice of those who were
friendly It, rather than that ohose who would load with
conditions, and render it useless The gentleman from
Harrison had compmented those who were most deenv in
eresed in the object of this BILL by saving that the Peters
burg Rail Road passed through rich fertile country and
hat us inhaDans were amply able make the improve
men from their own He was mistaken in this
statement--nor was 1t likely that such community woui
come 10 the Legislature, begging for small sum as was
required for this object The gentleman had also evnced
his berality by saying that he would give this sum IN
the Petersburg Rail Road if the Legislature would grant
loan for internal Improvement This bill however was
placed on no such ground. 1t merely asked that the
gsature would give what had pledged itself to give in
the manner In which such subscriptions given TO other
improvements And would the House refuse this request
TO section, which had contributed more than any
given area OF the State towards the accumulation of This
fund! The subscription of last year was parv one and
did not fulfil the object for which it was made He did
not recollect that at that time any decision was
touched the question under discussion The prom stior
tat this subscription should be made by instruments was
made by member from Frederick (Mr. Mason) and he
believed was accedcd TO by the gentleman from PETERSBURG
Nr McFarland) and passed almost mem con- But the incl
bciency OF that provision had been fully asceaned and
stitutc.
Mr. Preston said the bill of last year had been opposed
on the ground that II would exhaust the fund for internal
Improvement He certainly preferred the original bill 10
the substitute If the latter were adopted he was NOT Ger
tain whether he should for il at future stage I'm, Inc
should now vote against its adoption. The bill ought to be
deferred until the general subject was taken up.
Mr.. Gholson rose in consequence of remark Of thc
gentleman who last spoke and who seemed to think This
SUBJECT necessarily connected with loan bill He hoped
gentlemen IN favor of loan did not take that vev If lie
subject This bill founded on the princ;ne n
raising loan for general scheme of internal improve
ment The bill merely asked for the approximation OF
means already within power. II was not SURELY to
DC argued mat because splendid scheme Of internal i'm