Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1842-02-15

| HARBOR MEMORIAL.-The Exclusive memoir
al' for harbor at Milwaukee, has at last passed
the Legislature. The representatives from
this County, we believe discharged their duty
faithfully In this mater-they contested its passage
inch by inch, and did not fail to expose this meas
ure OF favorltlsm, at every stage of its progress
through the Council. An incident connected with
the final adoption of this memorial by the Council
may not be improper to mention. 1t shows not
only what men are by nature, but what they are
by practice in Territorial Legislature. On the
I'd inst. the Council adopted the amendments to
the memorial, offered by a member from this coun-
ty, by vote of 7 to 6. These amendments placed
the three points (Southport, Racine and Milwau-
kee) upon equality. On the following day Mr..
Arndt member from Green Bay, who had voted
with the majority on the previous day, moved re-
! consideration of the amendments Mr.. Arndt en-
deavored to excuse himself, for the silly predca-
ment in which he appeared before the Council, by
saying that he voted for the amendments by mis-
take! Certainly the ntellects of the worthy Coun-
cilor from Green Bay, must have been wan
derlng in dense fog about those days. or else he
could not have made so alpable a blunder on
plain question, which had been for many days be-
fore the Council. This movement of Mr.. Arndt of
course effected reconsideration-the amendments
were rejected, and the memorial in its original ex-
elusive character passed the Council.
We do not mention the foregoing in cident, as the
only one ola similar character, which has been ex-
hbted in the legislative halls at Madison during
the present session. The people are probably gen.
orally aware, that the legislature have been beset
the past winter by large lobby, 80 or 40 of
whom from Milwaukee and its vicinity. Very
few of these lobby men are capable of brbing any
body with money, for mostly they have empty
pockets, and are hard-pressed to pay their grog-
bills. But In promises they are abundant-they
are ready to confer prospective wealth and power
upon any one, who will favor their schemes-they
talk of railroad stocks, bank Stocks lucrative
offices, and fine situations. They are ready to
pledge their credit to an indefinite extent, for the
obvious reason that such pledges possess no ntrin-
sic value
If any of the friends of the exclusive memorial
atter themselves that this measure will help them
at Washington, we apprehend they are deceivng
in its present shape, the facts connected with its
adoption by the Legislature, will not be withhold
The majority in the Council who voted to adopt
this memorial, set up the absurd plea that the
public will of the Territory, demands the construc-
ton of a harbor at particular point; provided
that but one appropriation be obtained for the
western shore of the Lake. AS well might the le-
gslature pretend, that they are obeying the will of
the moon, as the will of the people in selecting any
| particular point, on the lake for harbor What
care the people of the entire northern counties of
Wisconsin, which point obtains an appropriation
or what care the people of the western counties.
| whether a harbor is built at Milwaukee. Racine.
or Southport-either point in the event of an an
preparation, would accommodate the towns on the
Mississippi 1t is therefore ridiculous in the OK.
treme for the legislature to pretend that they are
acting in obedience to the will of the people, in the
matter OF designating any one town on the lake in
preference to another. That the legislature express
the will of the lobby, congregated about them is nc
doubt true.