Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1843-01-31
rwENry-sEvENTlI coNGREss--ad Session,
Thursday, January %, 1913.
4, Il A. A IN,

me bill from the House, for the relief Of the Yves
ens'aha Railroad Company, and of the Grand Gull
haiiroad and Banking Company, was taken up, n
committee of the whole, amendments proposed b.
te COMMITTEE on Finance.
rus bill proposes relieve those companies from
the payment Of duties certain Railroad iron, which
was lost on It's way from New York to the place O
It's destination; which iron would not have been du
taoie, II Il had been actually laid down the roads
w''nin three years from the time At which i. i'm
ported
The amendments of the committee having been
agreed TO, the bill then debated by Mr. KING in
opp ,.on TO its passage, end by Mr.. EVANS and alr
NaLhER IN favor Of It's PASSAGE aud there being Ut
lie: proposition 10 amend ii reported TO the Sc
"sie and the amendments were ordered to be ens!os-
r. ant the BAL 10 be read 4 third time.
TIE OREGON TERRITORY.
ne unfinished debate from yesterday, The ques
ton .! passing the Oregon bill, resumed.
Rlr LINN addressed the Senate for two hours in re.
ply 10 The objections made against the bill
Hilh the exception Of the two Senators from South
Carolina the Senators who bad taken ground OF oppo-
son confined their objections to one provision of the
o'Il--ihat providing grant of lands 10 settlers
one Of the Senators from South Carolina DIR. Cal.
houn) objected only that provision but to other
provisions and in general to the eypedency and policy
OF any action on The subject at present The other
Senator from South Carolina, DIR McDufie,) who
spoke yesterday, took wider ground, and objected TO
the oi IN every particular. II his views we'll
territory.
In answering the objections of the last Senator (Nr
AlcDuic) he would meet oil that had been made from
every quarter
II was however, matter Of qualification TO him that
so many Senators had concurred in the propreiy, poli.
CO and c1pcdency % the general objects of the BILL
and That their objections confined 10 single pro.
vision.
If he understood the Senator from South Carolina
MIR hicDntiisl correctly lie conceived that Senator
imputed 10 him n violation Of the maxims Of sound po
Icy, b. precipilang this measure without due consi.
deEaton. If the Senator would but look to the records
o! Congress for the last twenty years, he would find
that suc; m lmputa!ion groundless. a bill Of 81.
milar nature and with the same objects in view, was
urged upon Congress with grest ability By DR.. Floyd
III lc2l. hr Monroe, in his last annual message, and
Mr. Adams, while President Of The l.. s. recomnen ded
in ;orc1ic terms the attention &c Congress TO be given
TO the subject. In lS!S Congress did take il up and
bill for he occupation Of The territory discussed at
great length in both Houses /. failed in the Seratc BY
bare majority Of two votes. IL had been repeatedly
before Congress since, and almost continuously since
1898 80. There nothing precipitate in all this,
and certainly no want of due consideration For his
part, lie had always acted with studied delcacy in
the matter. When it was urged upon him that while
many difficulties to be adjusted with Great Bril-
tain it xpedient take any decided step about
minor point he reraned from pressing the subject to
final vote. Now, ne main difficulties with England
were adjusted: and there left pending BIZ;
the minor oncs, of which he considered this the most
important. So far, then, from being chargeable with
having chosen an lnauspclous and pedent time for
urging this he thought he had selected the
most app:oprate-and he would say critically approprI-
aclcrlod for taking necessary, and almost indspen-
sable step.
He understood the Senator's objections to The bill 10
be three fold. First, he objects that the bill would
N its main provisions, be nac,ion Of the treaty oil
ISIS renewed III 1897 secondly, that, If carried out il
N Ina
armed military occupation Of tie territory; and, Thu ily
that il is useless acquisition, likely 10 prove not only
al ncuab.ance, but dIsadvaniageous one, by melting
population 10 dispersion, instead Of that concentra
ton which he considers essential TO the highest state
OF civilization.
Mr. l.. here tool, each Of thcec points, and entered
upon their refuatnn with elaborate arguments, forll-
fed ty documentary evidence.
FIRST, he considered the arguments of the Senators
who bad taken rFoand that the bill! woui be nrac.
lion oil the treaty, nnd examined critically that branch
OF the subject concluding with reference 10 The pro.
position ncdc Mr. Gaila;in, in 1896 by the British
ministry, when they wanted additional stipulation
m the renewal Of the treaty Of ISIS for the right OF
Joint occupancy; which MIR. Gaatin refused TO u.
cede, and upon the very ground tia! justified this bIi;
and showed it not nfac;ion Of Inc treaty, and
that England had put Of her power to regard
it. by the very application which she had made, and
whch she - fused by our negoliator. Mr. Linn,
havng disposed of this obection proceeded to the
next
The second objection related 20 the expense Of The
proposed measure IN the outset, the Senator from )
Carolina mir Me Dul:cl had made Il mistake IN sup
POSING The appropriation required By this bill xoud
amount to S2GQ,000. 1t only called for half that
amount. This ten years, (obliged to be continued
80 ,ong,) would amount to bu, 81 100000 instead o
- 900 eco as the Senator argued. But bad not the
Senator entirely ove'lnnked the osses which
this country had suffered fer the last thirty years
through lis and its industry, by being g!adu
ally supplaned in that region by Ertish trading com
panes, At one time, we had trade, IN fnrs alone
worth hall million of dollars annually and, through
he suprencss u! eur Government il had been allowed
to dwinde down 10 $4,000. Did We not, then, incur
incidentally greater loss b. neglect, than the an""a
expenditure now proposed: la The next ten years,
Youid mol he increased advantages 10 our commerce
in he Pacc the facilities afforded by the security OF
our harhors The territory 10 our marine service ana
all the other advantages OF ns:Ting thriving population
on the tode. Of the Pacific, b= infinitely more than Tie
sam of one milton if the occupation by military
posts cos, 50 much
AS 10 the third ohpcon-;hat of the country being
composed OF rocky mountains, regions either covered
with volcanic remains grid sands, with only small
norton Of arabic land, and that subject TO alternate
d,ouph,s and inundaions Of ran-he (hlr L.) should
saw that the Senator Mr.. McDutle who entertained
these opinions certainly be unacqnained with the
vast amount of documentary evidence gained from
eyewlnesses, whose testimony does not admit OF
question OF DOUBT, ana al WHicH coHCul ~ Pio'ine
that in the Oregon Territory there are extensive val
rvs not inferior to our Western valleys in size, uni
vailed in fertility and blessed with saiubrity of eli
mate scarcely egua!ed by that Of any State IN THIS
Union Mr. L. here read vast accumulation OF docu
mentury evidence in proof this position.
Having met al their arguments in detail, Mr.. l.
proceeded with general arguments in support of the
policy and expedcncy of the bill; and concluded with
an exhor,aton to Senator'S before they decided upon
voting against it, to consider we'll the effect which
rejection Of this essential step would haye-no only
disappointing and encouraging our own citizens, bu
giving countenance TO the preie of and leaving
omen and undsputed to- rival power, every sort OF en-
croachment upon national rights.
The foregoing is gwen a mere sketch of Mr.. L. 4
arguments IN substance His speech in full will con
vey them correctly, and furnish all the documcn
tary evidence referred 10.
ATE. Mr.. LINN had concluded,
The Senate adjourned.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVE
Mr. KENNEDY Of Maryland, from the COMMITTEE
on Commerce, reported bill making provision for The
warehonsinr OF imported goods, accompanied by de-
tailed pori on the subject The bill twice read
and referred to the Committee of the Whole on the
state Of the Union and the report was ordered to ot