Evansville weekly journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 184?-18??, 1848-06-22

VINO WASTES THE PEOPLES MoNEY!-Con-
gress has now been in session more than six
months, and the House it seems have passed
just eight bills, while they have before them
untouched upon their calender FIVE HUNDRED
AND ELEVEN. The cause of this shameful de-
lay in the transaction Of the peoples business
was manfully exposed during slavery debate
on the Sd inst, by Mr.. Sawyer, locofoco
member from Ohio. 1t will be seen that he
lays the fault entirely and exclusively at the
doors of his own democratic brethren:
Mr. Sawyer said-While the Bill (the ma
val appropriation billy was waiting the action
of the House, gentlemen had got into the dis
cussion of a subject entirely foreign to the
bill: and just so it had continued from the
commencement of the session till this very
hour. The public business had been criminal
y neglected.
Mr.. S. would now quote for the benefit of
the country and for heinformation of the COM
miitee some items from the general calender
of the business of the House which yet re-
manned 10 be done. There were on that cal
endar more than five hundred bills yet unac-
ted upon. while only some fifteen or twenty
had received the action of the House. All the
bills providing for the pay OF our brave soldiers
were still to be passed, while the House was
engaged in discussing abstract questions on
slavery-a subject introduced by whom, and on
which side of the House? Did not gentlemen
percieUc that no gentlemen from the other side
of the House attempted to get the floor? The
10hole discussion avds confined to the Demo
cratic side of the HOuse-it lraS they Uho, IN
stead of doing the business of the country, aUer6
occupying the time IN discussion on SIaycry.-
The debate had been opened by a gentleman
holding the extreme of Southern principles;
and the practical result would be, that in some
portions of the Union that speech would be
quoted on them as exhibiting the party's doc
trine, while an ultra Wilmot proviso Demo
Graf had made speech on the opposite side OF
| the question; and in other sections OF the Un-
ion the Wings would read that speech TO the
! people as a sample of democratic doctrine
The other side, seeing the game thus comm
| into their hands, sat periectlyquet.
But the bills on the calendar were important
to every man in the country, and, if gentlemen
would, by continuing this sort of debate, rob
their constituents of their just rights, Mr.. S.
would tell the country and the world of it
Here were bills on the calendar from No. up
TO No. $40, still waiting, Enacted on. There
was one to protect the suffering emigrants to
Oregon, who being butchered by the scalping
knife OF the bloody savage; yet, while they
were falling massacred in the wilderness, and
gentlemen knew it, the could sit here day af-
ter day discussing negro slavery. MIR. S. call
ed on the House and on the country TO bear
him witness that. it was not his fault. Here
was another bill providing half pay TO the wi
dows and children of men who had died in the
service of their country. There was another
for removing sunken rocks in the harbor of N.
York; he called the attention of gentlemen from
New York TO it. Another bill provided for
widows and orphans ofmen who had died in
our naval service. Then there were bills pro-
viding for the improvements of rivers and har-
bors, some ofthem just and honest, and. if gen.
tlemen would keep off of it such as were dis
honest and unjust, the President wasnot going
to veto the bill.
Mr.. Burt said the gentleman from Ohio was
good Democrat. Did he mean 10 pledge
himself that the President would not veto any
| bin for internal Improvements? Ifso, he ho-
ped that the Democratic party would adop
some other resolution besides those put forth
at Baltimore.
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