The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1848-06-16

Who WAsrEs THE PEOPLES MoNEY.-Con-
gress has now been in session more than six
months, uud 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. II 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 10 the
bill: and just so it had continued from the
of the session till this very
hour. The public business had been criminal
ly neglected.
Mr. S. would now quote for the benefit OF
the country and for the information of the COM
miltee some items from the general calender
of the business of the House which yet re-
NAMED 10 be done. There were on that cal
Iendar more than five hundred bills yet unac-
ted upon, while only some fifteen or twenty
had received the action ofthe 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
yery.a subject introduced BY whom. and on
which side OF the House? Did not gentlemen
perciepe that no gentlemen from the other sid.
of the House attempted to get the floor? Thu
choic discussion iras confa ID TO the Demo
cratic side of the House-it iros they ,rho. in
stead of doing the business of the country, irer,
occupying the time in discussion on Slavery
The debate had been opened by 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
crat had made speech on the opposite side Of
the question, and in other sections of the I'm
ion the Wings would read that speech 10 thu
people as a sample of democratic doctrine
The other side, seeing the game thus coming
into their hands, sat perfectly quiet.
| But the bills on the calendar were important
to every man in the country, and, if gentlemen
would, BY continuing this sort of debate, rot
their constituents of their just rights, MIR. S
would tell the country and the world of it,
Here were bills on the calendar from No. 8 uT
TO Nc. 500, still waiting, Enacted on. There
was one TO protect the suffering emgrants tC
Oregon, WHO being butchered by the scalpins
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. Mr.. S. call
ed on the House and on the country TO beal
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 ofgentlemen from
New York to it. Another bill provided foI
widows and orphans of men who had died in
our naval service. Then there were bills pro-
viding for the improvements of rivers and har-
bors, some of them just and honest, and, if gen.
tlemen would keep off of it such as were dis
honest and unjust, the President wasnot going
10 veto the bill.
Mr. Burt said the gentleman from Ohio was
a good Democrat. Did he mean TO pledge
himself that the President would not veto any
bill for internal improvements? II so, he no.
ped that the Democratic party would adopt
some other resolution besides those put forth
at Baltimore.