Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, IA [i.e. Ind.]) 1839-1854, 1843-04-01

LEE. MILLER. MYERS, MOORE, STRAIN,
STORM, TEMPLETON. THOMPSON Of j.,
VANDEvEER, WATT. WHITMAN, WILLET,
BRADY, CALDWELL, ELLIOTT, HACKETT,
PUETT, and TANNEHILL.''
Hero ,hon was a locofoco vote for an estimated
System Of sixteen millions Of dollars, not including
the Wabash & Erie Canal. Nor is this the worst
Of the matter. The Journals Of that year show
the Locofoco Candidate for Governor. JAMES
WHITCOMB not only in faror of and rosing for !
this estimated System, but recording VOTES
ron MOST sTUPENDoUs UNNECESSARY ADD
TONS to the Bill. And we proceed to the full
proof Of tho charge.
BY a refere the Senate Journal for the
year 1885, pages 1850, the following will BIO read,
viz:
4.M, Payne recommi, the Bill tho Commit
Canals and Internal Improvements with Instructions
20 amend the Bill in the following particulars, viz
Is, Provide for the Survey and location Of turnpike
from the town of New Albany via Coydon, l.eaven-
worth Ia;P sHa 70
'2d, Also for the and location Of .rnpiss road
Road, the eligible and point direc-
Of Jasperwh branch from the eligible point
on said las. mentioned read via Genyve Rock port
and another branch to Troy-and appropriate ONE HUN
DRIED AND SIXTY THOUSAND DOLLARS.
3D. Also for the survey and location Of rail road from
THOUSAND DOLLARS
p,s. rAREE DoLRR
s.5th. clay turnpike from Mount Vernon by way of
Harmony to cynthsana nnapPfopria's ONE HUNDRED
..6th As,horize Board Public Works subscribe
an behalf of the State TEN THOUSAND DOLLARS
Of n Perry.ville & Danville railroad, &c.
!
DOLLARS
portland appropriate ONE HUNDRED AND TWEEN
TY THOUSAND DOLLARS.
S'h 'ol"pr ZEN s9e %H IfS m@ 70
,.s sist "----- - = - '''-
Mr.. WnrcoMB voted in the EGATlVE.-
Hero only n modest proposition to ADD one
million sir hundred thousand dollars to the Sys-
tem-against proposition TO lay which upon the
table Mr.. Whitconb voted! But as MIR. Boon's
motion to lay the Bill as we'll as the amend
,nenis upon the table we will chari,ably construe
this vote Of MIR. Whi,comb as favorable to the Bill
only; and proceed to furnish unequivocal evidence
Of his votes in favor Of heavy and ridiculous nd-
d,ions to tho System.
BY a reference to the same Journal, pages 440
Al, tho annexed proceedings will DO read, viz:
emf Pue,t moved amend the 9th section of the Bill by
Re,olvrd, Tia, the Board of Public Works hereby
directed to order of which to construct
rail or tnrnpke road from Geenca''e by way OF koekye
viii: ilne.; and thu, TWO HUNDRED ThoUsAND
DOLLARS be authorized to be BORROWED to cons,ruci
zion Msresf''
Mr. Whtcomh's vote stands recorded IN favor
of the amendment, We have yet more to add,
Oh this score. Upon the same page last referred
10 the following will he found:
ssAfr Thompson moved amend the Bill follows:
Bc further enacted that tho State is hereby author
lied and required TO deay half o. the expense
TO its intersection with the Charlottesville Il New Albany
Railroad; and tho Board of Internal improvement, shall
appropriate such be to effect the
bovs object and shall appoint equal number of Directors
and allow the State half of tho profits of said oad
Mr.. Whi,comb voted in favor Of the above a.
mendmon.! Nor is this all. By reference to
the came Journal, pages 442-3, the following pro.
ceedings will appear, viz:
''Mr. Thompson moved % amend follows viz:
Sand Board hereby authorized and ec ted
90 cause a survey clay turnpike
Jasper, and from Troy TO ioersect said roadand
DOLLARS"
There is another important fac, connected with
tho passage Of the Internal Improvement Bill
which cannot be overlooked here. The People
are we'll aware that oil the mischiefs which hav 9
grown gu, Of this System originated in the Rep
rescntatiue in the Board Of Internal Improvements
by which each member Of that Board was made
peculiarly the representative Of the work on which
He RESIDED. The result, Of this legislation was
inevitably, the simultaneous commencement o.
works in all portions of the Sta,e-an occurrence
which has led to all the disasters experienced
CrTnIs FEATURE WAS ENoRAFIED ON THE Bill
OF 1886, WHICH WAS VOTED FOR AND PASSED BY
Nh. WHlTConR ASD his FRIENDS!
We have now fully established the facts tina
tho Locofoco Party passed the System Bill, led by
Mr.. whiicomb, with full knowledge of its ther
estimated COST We have gone beyond this, it
presenting the recorded votes Of Mr.. Whicomt
in favor Of heavy and silly additions to that Sys
tenn; and 70 have alluded TO the fact that the