Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, IA [i.e. Ind.]) 1839-1854, 1841-02-20
RICHMOND a. SATURDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY TO- Is41

confess was ratner disappointed III MS Course
remarks. did expect, and did hope, TO hear tha
Senator discuss the merits pf the proposition.
was anxious to hear his views, tor they are usua
iy marked with strong VEN OF common sens
and practical Illustration. the Senator howevc
declined the argument, and contented himself VII
saying that the measure was dead, by telling u
that Tie Senator from Missouri CIR. Benon) ha
killed it, Yes, saFs the Senator from Arkansas
the Senator from Missouri murdered II rs soon Il
it was introduced. | hope the Senator did ~
mean TO charge the malice aiorelhought which i
constituent of the crime OF technical marde;
A1r. Sewer said, Yes, sir. Wei, Mr.. President
have only TO say that, while malice Is essentla
TO constitute killing murder In the eye OF thu
law, IL Is not so essential IN the composition OF
legislator. w, should meet The questions tha
are presented for cons Liberation with caimnes
aud dcliberatlon ! do no, say that the Senato
from Missouri did not discuss this question.
am merely replying to the remark OF the Senator
from Arkansas.
1t 50 happens that differ entirely with the Sen
ntor from Arkansas in the assumption that ha has
indoged IN, that the proposition OF distribution IS
either killed or murdered. Sir, that proposition
is dead, but Iiveth; and let me tell Senators
who think that it IS dead, that they viii find It not
only living, but that il is destined 10 become the
law of the land and that, too, before many more
sessions Of Congress shall have passed by. II
should, in my opinion, long since have been The
law. Il the bill was Introduced b. the senate:
from Kentucky, fMr. Cily,) ana which passed
Congress duriag the administration Of General
Jackson, bad become the law, IL "onid have been
a most valuable measure for tho whole Uu)n, aud
especially for my State. And | assure Won, SIT,
while many OF the adhcrcnts Of General Jackson
still sustained him, it was for other reasons than
ms opposition to the distribution bI'l. The same
measure is now before Us, and | shlil give it my
hearty support; and, not like my freud from Ar
kansas shall not content myself with Il mere
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the distinct grounds CT my support: for have no
sentiment to conceal Oh this or any other mea-
sure.
Flrzt support the hi because il is the only
compromise measure upon which all can unite.
and which, with proper PROVISIONS, viii do ample
Justice to both the old and The new States. The
interest of the new States viii be amply pro-
tccted and tho rights of the old States viii be
maintained in the distribution OF the fund. Tie
difficulties spoken Of by the Senator from South
Carolina, arising from the present system, will
be partially obyated, and the voice of discomfort
between tho new States and the old, growing out
of the subject, will be forever hushed. Instead
of making tho b!I expire ny li-niia i0 IL
q few years, | would make it part of tho per
manent land system.
Secondly. | support it rs n Western measure
yes, sir, as u Western measure, and especially
as q measure called for by the best interest Of my
State. He must have been blind to tho admins
has not seen the tendency of the Government 10
draw the money from the West, through the land
offices an1 lmp0st duties and eXpCnd II cisc"h here.
| heard the Senator from Tennessee, Mr.. Ander
SON. who addressed the Senate the other day up
on this point, with great satisfaction The noble
stand he took, and the independence with which
he announced his views, comm nd my unqualified
appreciation. Daring the last three years, the t1-
bic OF expenditures will show that the expenses
of the Administration have been S33,Ss5.13o.
TINS, in 1888, $40, 427,2lS; 1889, So $4,000;
1910, S26 80 43, 3l2. Now, how mach of this fund
has been expended in the West2 II NY much in
the Northwest? Let the friends Of the Northern
harbors answer Let the friends of the Cumber-
land road, and the friends TO the improvement OF
the navigation OF Western rivers answer. Nota
dollar Of ths vast was appropriated TO the
of lake commerce. Not dollar to IN
provement OF the navigation OF the Western r.
vers. The imposition on the commerce OF the
ONO by the obstruction of the navigation, and
the consequent high tariff of tolls at the falls,
still remains. The Cumberland road-that great
Western measure, the construction OF which was
commenced under the auspices OF Jefferson, and
continued through the subsequent Admtnistra-
tons to the presen--has been suffered to sink IN
state of dIla pIdat0n, decay. and ruin. |
talked the other day win a contractor for carry
ing the mail in my State this road, and he told
me he would have 10 abandon MS contract at all
hazards. lie said it would ruin him TO try to 60
on tor the mail was so very heavy that be could
carry passengers; and. so soon as the frost was
out IN the SPRING it would be impossible for four
of the best horses he could get to travel more
than two miles hour upon it and even then
they would swamp or nire down the worst
places. and have to be raised By rails or levers.
Aud yet. sir out OF your expenditure OF near one
hundred millions ofdoars, IN the last three years,
not dollar could all the entreaties and aFgu-
ments could obtain. | saw the tendency
OF the doctrines that have left us in our presen.
condition, forcibly exempIifed at the last session.
After every proposition that had been introduced
favorable 10 the Western OBJ ects which have
named had been voted down, and il was declared
by distinguished Senator (Mr. Calhoun) that
our appropriations had been dried up proposition
was introduced to appropriate $4,000 TO the
commencement of new work nj Pensacola, on
tho Gulf of Mexico: the same Senators that vo-
ted against the Cumberland road voted for the
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