The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1846-08-05

deep personal interest in the removal Of those OBJ
struelons and If he succeed in creating an ex-
element in favor Of local interest, he may also
succeed in defeating the true democracy of the State
do not say that the wings generally Of the State are
In any such political scheme; believe they are not;
but do believe the gentleman and the papers 20
which have alluded are engaged in il. Ifthey are
not, why do they eensure my colleague, Mr.. Char
MAJ, and praise the Tennessee wings, and espe-
elally the one TO whom am replying, Mr.
CRolIERl They all voted for the appropriation TO
the Tennessee river and also voted against the bill;
yet you lind the paragraph which now read in
one Of them: s.. H.. q o.
The Tennessee members fought the question fairly and
seconded In the spirit by members. different
might hays been nsted oat 10 the amendment But the
LIAEo--the amendment friend but CHArsns Housros
and hiLLiAaD. With what grace could the two former
vote or the Tsnnssses nysr whsq they themselves were
opposing me gAes biu was liking msmbess from Nsw
as AZ appropriations improve the hsrben and rssr In
thsT ,eeuens Had these memeers hsen known 70 be s-
Ss sS q "a ssr S.r. - 0s ssa sG s.ss
sn.sa Win them IN securing an appropriation to ihs Ten
The habor bin appropriaes $4,000 below the shoals
at Louisville ami $50 900 above them for tho Ohio river
This fact shows what the western Eyer Improvement
can Tor ARR great river They go for cleaning
out their finland sesand BY giving and taEingby going
or osI Sts see what they succeeded
IN securing Tor the Ohio !" ..... cd. .. 81.
other, as far as that item is concerned.
MIR. Chairman, repeat that the system Of inter-
nal Improvements in all It's tendencies and inhu-
enees, is corupung and dangerous, and that il is
generally If not universally, indebted TO comhina.
ions, more less corruptng for its success; and il
am not mistaken, viii prove It by the course Of
the gentleman from Tennessee, [Mr. CRoziIR.l I
do not mean TO say, or 10 Intimate, that every
or any man who votes for il doea- so from corrupt
or base mouyes-that he enters the market and
positively makes traffic Of his yote-ii is not ne
eessary to my argument to make any such charge
but do say, that many, very many, Of them
more or less under the influence OF that system
which obtains its triumphs by the hVors il can dis
Pense amongst It's supporters, and that mpercepti-
bly,, or othsIIose, It gains upon them until II gets
such control as 10 induce them To vote appropra-
tons to objects their better judgment will not
ton.
1t will be remembered that the Tennessee river
was the third or fourth item voted on in the House
by the yeas and nays; that the honorable member
Mr. CRozIER voted with the friends OF the bill for
epery item until the one for the Tennessee river VAS
stricken out; as that done, we find him in
hot haste moving and voting 10 reconsider preceding
item for which he had voted evidently showing that,
II successful, he intended to follow 1t up by an ef-
fort 10 reconsider the other items for which he had
voted. He afterwards voted against nearly every
item in the BILL and then voted against the bill ITSELF
notwithstanding he had declared himself friend Of
How, and why is this' A friend Of the system
voting against 1t because particular item had been
voted down! -
Here, sir, is an ample commentary on the system,
and abundant proof Of my charge. Can any man
doubt as to the motive Of the gentleman When he
voted for the previous items he must have done so
because he believed they were right or because he
wanted their friends to help him to keep in his item
When he moved and voted to reconsider, he must
have done so because he believed the items to be
wrong in themselves, he intended 1t a sort Of
punishment to the friends Of the bill for striking out
the Tennessee river. Now, sir, am willing that
the honorable member may take either horn Of the
he sssSsa ss s%s Shsn he
as a punishment to the friends Of the bill, with a
view to thwart them, ard thereby force Them to re-
instate the Tennessee river against their own judg
ments, then my charge is sustained; it, however he
believed them wrong when he voted for them, but
gave the vote to secure the passage of his item, then
also Is my charge fully sustained. The facts are
that he voted with the friends Of the bill until they
helped to vote out his amendment, and then he not
only voted against the bill but endeavored to have
reconsideration Of an item for which he had voted,
and his motion to reconsider was made soon
as his amendment was voted down. Docs any
man suppose he had, from honest reflection, in
that brief space Of time, changed his opinion!
Surely not-he will not say so HIMSELF then
why change his votei Sir, it must have
been because he that the friends of the bill want
ed no more votes for it--that they believed they
could pass 1t without the aid of the friends of the
Tennessee river, anu that they would not vote for
that river. As have already remarked, it then
becomes subject Of inquiry why he voted for the
previous items. Was it because he thought they
ought to passS He will not say 80; for as soon
as he lost his own favorite ITEM he voted to recon
slider. Then, sir, feel authorized in charging that
his vote for them was induced by other means. III
am justified in charging upon him that he voted for
ara inst fha hon pfh hal
own mind, and alone because he hoped and expect
ed thereby to keep in the Tennessee river. The
gentleman will hardly venture to deny i'll chal-
lenge him to do so. do not mean to say thar the
honorable member entered the market and made an
express sale of himself; only mean TO say that it
operated upon him 30 as to induce him to vote for
items he believed to be wrong. That its effect upon
him was that of a doucetr; and would have inhu-
enced and did influence his vote for things his judg
ment condemned, nothing can be more evident.
Mr.. Chairman, will go stsp further; and i'll
state the gentleman wrong, he can correct me.
say-and your journals show the fact--that the
member from Tennessee was opposed to the whole
bill, and with very few exceptions to every item in
it; for so he voted. He had his votes recorded
upon your journals, acting under the solemn obi
cations of OATH and will not now venture to con-
trovert what they prove and yet, Notwithstanding
all this, he was willing to vote for the whole bill, III
its friends had kept in the Tennessee river item!
The fact is susceptible Of the cearest proof Again.
sir, the very extract read by me from paper in my
own State proves my charge. There is one Of the
friends of the system complaining of myself and col
league because we would not 60 for other items;
that we were opposed to the bill; that we would
not give and take! We are cited to the western
MEMBERS who are thought to be very liberal in
such things-in giving and taking-a kind Of SDap
ping pork you poie for mine. and I,rH for yours
ask what is this but the influence of the system,
resulting in corrupt combinations Thus we have
abundant facts before u.s. provinp not ony that the
system is corrupting, but also showing clearly that
the gentleman was to greater or less extent under
its influence. .@a- ,sH .a a.a.t @ms.u.aa
This influence may have been insensible to him
probably il was--I do not imagine otherwise; and
therein consists in part the magnitude Of the dnnge
resulting from tit steals imperceptibly upon us,
until we find ourselves its open advocates -sfr ~
In that way, and by such MEANS bills that char
acer generally, if not always, their strength,
and obtain majority of the body through which
they have to pass; and can hardly doubt that IL
the gentleman had been successful in reconsdering
the items, and defeating the bill if he had been able
to control votes enough have defeated it, he would
have been admitted into the brotherhood the Ten