Herald of the times. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1830-1846, 1833-01-17
HERALD OF THE TIMES.

Tariff. And at the next succeeding
Session of Congress he made the follow
ing motion:
"That committee be appointed to en-
quire into the expediency ofsettng apart
the bonus, and the nett annual profits Of
the National Bank, as a permanent fund
for Internal Improvement Jour II. Il.
Cd session, 18th congvess, page 73.
Shortly after he reported bill to that
effect. When this bill came up for con-
si6eration, considerable debate ensued.
The following are extracts from Mr.
Calhoun's speech on that bill: he said,
cit was mainly urged that the Con-
gress can only apply the public money
in the execution Of the enumerated pow
ers. He was no advocate for refined ar
guments on the Constitution. The in
strument was not intended as n thesis for
the logician to exercise his ingenuity on
1t ought to be construed with plain good
sense; and what can be more express
than the Constitution on this very point?
The iirst-powcr delegated to Congress
IL comprised in these words: "to lay and
collect taxes, duties, imports, and excis.
es, to pay the debts, and proride for The
common defence and general seeifare of The
United States. Ills speech, Nat. Intel.
22d Feb 1917.
"Uninfucnced by any other considera-
tions than love Of country, said he, let Us
add this to the many useful measures al
ready adopted. The money cannot be
appropriated to more exalted use. p
His speech, Nat. Int. eod Feb. 1917.
AT the session that Mr. Calhoun brought
in this bill, to appropriate the Bonus of
the Bank Of the United States, amount
ing to $4,000, 900, and the proceeds Of
that Bank arising, from 100000 Of cap
ital, owned by Government, to Internal
Improvement, at that same session he
voted against the repeal ofthe internal
duties, and among the reasons which he
assigned, IN public speech was, that
the money arising from that tax could not
be spared from the making of roads and
canals. And he actually kept an odious
tax upon stills, which fell for the most
part on poor men, who occasionally made
little money from their own spare grain,
to enable him to make roads and canals
for other States.-Sec his speech in con-
gress against repeating Internal Duties,
Nat: Intel. IN .4pril, 1916
"lie also, at the same session, voted
against reducing the duty on brown su-
gar from three cents TO one cent and
half per pound, for the same reason, the
money could not be spared from roads
and canals. Jour. II. R. Cd session,
IAN congress, pages 400, 436, 442.
MIR Madison negativcd Mr. Calhoun's
famous Bonus Bill, because it was di-
rect violation Of the Constitution, which
so much disappointed Mr. Calhoun in his
favoriie scheme Of expending the public
money, That he made road of his own
accord, which cost the government SlO,-
600, and of which the government knew
nothing until he applied to Congress to
appropriate the monev for his benefit -
Indeed these were but the beginnings Of
Mr. Calhoun's road and canal career
At the latter end fhis Secretaryship, he
ordered more surveys than the whole re-
venue Of the United States would accom-
plish in forty years. See Jour. H. r.
I'd session, l4M congress, 537-see Slate
ropeys, I'd session, 18Th congress, Doc.
No. 32-.4iso, Cd session, 18Th congress,
Doc. No. 10. Il