Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1848-01-18

league yesterday voted in courtesy 10 its advo-
Gales, tor The ensrossment OF the bill. They were
| expected al nome 10 vote against the BILL unless
amended as he had proposed 1.-The bill should be
| passed without a call Of the ayes and noes, and
their names appeared only in favor of the engross-
menI OF The bill, their position with regard 10 il
might mol be understood. This was his only rea !.
son for demanding The ayes and noes. The vote
OF yesterday on eDgrcssing The bill was decisive
He had no hope OF changing the result.
The call for the ayes and noes was sustained.
Mr. STOVALL addressed The House, 10 warn
the Legislature againslthe liberal appropriations
making TO Internal lmprovements-he argued
against them as unpolitlc, unless provision by
increase taxes was made pari passu with the ap-
preparations TO meet them. He had no expecta-
lion OF defeating the bill before the House; but Sc
lected the occasion to point out the danger ahead,
should the policy which had been pursued atlhe
last and the present session of the General As.
sembly be not abandoned. He referred 10 stats.
tics, relative TO public debt, &c. 10 sustain his pO-
siiion.
He was replied to by Mr.. JASPER, who con.
~; -. Thai il was rot GGs aii1r Gos ..he;her the
State would embark in system of improvement,
but whether she would abandon or complete the
works she had begun. Incomplete, they could be
of no value-but completed, they might yield
the resources of The State, by increasing its popu-
ation and commerce He argued, that lhe. clear
and indisputable policy OF the Stale, was 10 finish
the work she had begun, and thus get back some
OF the money she had expended.
Mr.. DORMAN and MIR. JASPER both re-
piled 10 Mr.. Stovali's view of the public debt, and
his discouragins prophecies OF The consequences
OF The internal improvement appropriations OF the
last and The present session.
Our crowded columns will not allow Us 10 fol-
low The debaters in even partial sketch.]
In answer TO interIogaoies OF Mr.. DOR
MAN, Mr.. STOVALL said be would not stop
the Southwestern Road where it was; but he
would mol make further appropriations 10 il The
present year. He would be willing to vote some
Thing to it next year. MIR. D. could not The
utility OF The delay. |, would be better 10 COM
plee the work at once, that the advantages
would secure 10 The Stale by increasing lis com
meIce and increasing The revenues Of the canal,
might be enjoyed promptly.
The woe was taken and resulted as follows
Arls-Messrs STROLLER, (Speaker,) Watson, Hart.
Snowden, Layne, parvie Powell, sheffey. Johnson OF
Augusta, Hamilton, Stewart Thompson Of Botetour
Brown of Berkeley, Mclaughlin, Bambrick, Mossley,
McGinnis, Thornton. Camm, Rector, liili Of Fayetts
and Nicholas, Howard Of Floyd, StiIlman, Wood
Wall, Allen of Giles and Mercer, Guruant, Carroll,
Price, Allen Of hampshire, Seymour. Lancaster Turner
Of Henry, McSlnnsn, Thomson Of j., Parks, Morgan,
White, Beard, Meredith, Oldham. Browne Of Mathews
and hliddesex, Greer, Tenzey, Vawter, Gardner, MI
chae Cowper Edgington, Boswell, Turner OF Patrick,
Dice, Tunsall, Laner, Cackley, Cooke Scott Of Pres
ton, Stone, Jasper, Stu, Cook, Harper, norman, Bare,
Marlz. McEllrnney, Morrison, Wnndrr Hill Of Shenan.
doah, Tate. Gillespie, West, Jacobs, seplenson-74.
Nogs-Messrs Allen Of acc0mack, Custis, Cheatham,
icruggs, Burwell, Harrison of Brunswick, Maclin Of
Brunswick, Moncure of Caroline, Lacy, Jones. ROAM,
TalIaf-o Brooks, Macln OF Greenesviilr Major, sto-
VAIL Hicut, Howard Of James city York and Williams
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