Daily Richmond Whig & public advertiser. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1833-1840, 1836-04-02

0'uHdv- KeHdaH-R sit, sads-ani the Surplus
Mr. Grundy has reported the following bill in
the Senate of the United States 1t is If the high
est importance, both as creating a sponge which
will absorb the Surplus Revenue, present and
future, but yet more rs investing in the Pos,
Master General The most extensive and danger
Gus powers. We have all along assured the pub.
lie, that the States, its legitimate propretorS
would get no portion of the surplus, but that it
would be 50 expended n to enlarge and perpetsate
the power of "the party" Scheme after scheme
will be suggested, until one is fixed on the most
happily adapted to this end.
BILL 10 authorize contracts for carrying the
mail and public property oiIhe United States
upon Rail Roads.
Be 1t enacted by the Senate aud H.. -all- p
presentntves oithe United States OF Am.Sica in
Congress assembled, That for ths PURPOSE of oh
tanning for and securing to the United States The
use as hereafter specified, Of the rail roads which
\ naEs oeeh or may be completed within the States
or territories thereof, for the transportation of
me mail, and for other purposes, the Postmaster
ueherai he, and ha is hereby authorized 10 receive
from the States, corporations, and companies
owning The rail roads which ire now completed
or which are now or may hereafter he in a state
OF progress towards complexion and of v hich al nv
section may have been completed between point.
important IN the transportation Of the mail promo
ShiohS specifying the SUMS which the said States
l
United States for the use as aforesaid of III, sid
roads and for which the sail proposers will re-
SPecuVely agree To carry the mail OF the United
STATES ana The persons having charge thereof, as
often and al such hours as the Postmaster General
may direct, in preference 10 any other thing or
person carried or to be carried on the said road,
and IN The most rapid mode of TRANSPORTATION
used or 10 be used IN the said roads; provided
that the Postmaster General shall not be suhoris
ed TO require the mail to be carried on any OF The
SAID roads more frequently than once in each
DAY, unless more than one separate car or train
OF cars shall be run on each day for the trans
Poriaton of persons or things, IN which case fire
qBirod, a mail shall be carried in any sucb add
tional separate car or train Also 10 carry upon the
said roads the agents OF the Post Office Depsri-
meni, travelling upon the business Of the said
Department. under the orders Of the Post Master
General, and the officers OF the army and navy Of
the United States travelling under orders Also
TO carry upon the said roads in preference to any
other thing, the public properly Of .he United
states timber and stone excepted, and the persons
having charge thereof, and the troops seamen
and marines OF the United States, when, and as
often as the transportation Of the said psbic pro
perry, troops, Seamen, marines, shall be reaui.
red by the President or any other officer OF the
United States having authority 10 order the same
And the Postmaster General is authorised To make
contracts IN the name OF the United States for
the use of such OF the said roads, the interests
OF the public may require, having regard 10 the
duration OF the charters OF the said corporations;
which contracts shall secure TO the United States
the free use, in manner aforesaid, of the said
roads, and shall distinctly provide for the services
TO be performed by ihs contractors. aud shall spe
city III, SUN or sums to he paid 10y the United
States Immediately after the approval Of the con.
tracts by Congress, as herein provided, II the
roads be completed, or by instruments proportion
ate TO the sections of the said roads which are
! then or may hereafter DO completed, payable
when aud as often as the said sections shall b.
finished and brought 10 use.
Sec. 2 Be II further enacted, That all the
contracts which may be made, pursuant to the
provisions Of thlS act, shall be forthwith sub
nited to Congress IL in session; if not, then ~
| the commencement Of the next session; and II
sanctioned by resolution thereof approved hy
/ the President, the moneys agreed TO he paid by
/ the United States, shall be paid out Of any mo-
| ney IN the Treasury not Otherwise Appropriated,
upon the certificate Of the Postmaster General
| that the same - due according To- The terms Of.
/ the said contracts.
Sec. O. he It further enacted, That every con.
tract made pursuant to this act, shall for the pur-l
pose Of securing the due performance Of the ser
wees for which u stpulaeS he deemed To create
specific lien or charge IN behalf OF the United
states for the amount ut money paid thereon,
upon the road for the use Of which 10 Is made and
the lands upon which the said road is constructed
or apputtenant thereof, aud all the fixtures per-
tanning IN the said road, and the said lien or
charge shall bind the said rosd, land and fixtures,
! IN whose hands soever they may be- IN preference
To any other title, claim or demand whatever,
either OF the owners part owners OF stockholders
7fihe said road or any other person. hoay polite
or corporate, claiming the same or any interest
TO- OF part Of the value or proceeds thereof bv an
act Of law, or by any contract, sale mortgage
deed OF conveyance, forfeiture, eScheat, grant,
Judgment. decree or execution, except specific
liens existing atthc passage olthis aci and H. Nv
reason Of the forfeiture, repeal, annulment or
surrender of the charter Of any corporation, or
cf the dissolution Of any company, contracting rs
herein provided, OF from any other cause, the
service stipulated TO he rendered IN any contract
made pursuant to this act, lSli rcmpin unptr
formed without the assent ofthe United States the
President of the United Staics shall cause preprf
legal proceedings, foundcd upon the lien created
nv the contract, ~ be instituted for the recovery
fthe money paid by the United St,tes, without
interest, but such proceedings shall IN no case Dc
instituted 90 long as the United States CONTINUE 70
receive the services provided by the contract.
As commentary well worthy the text, we ia
vite attention 10 the following disclosures and
,tfic,pres from the United States Telegraph
Kendall Is stated BY aaiAsriy, as distressing the
honesty oi the States.
From the Globe
THE SURPLUS REVENUE.
Upon this subject the New YorS Star, II Sa,ur.
day lay has the following