Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1850-01-17
VIRGINIA LEGISLATURE.
HOUSE OF DELEGATES.
Thursday. Jan. I0lI
srAuNroN ANp CONVICTION II


The bill 10 increase the capital stock Of The Louisa
Railroad Company, for the purpose of continuing the
railroad from Stlnnion to Coynglon, was read a third
time.
On mo'ion of Mr. Harrison, p. w, the vote order
ing the bill 10 b. engrs-cd reconsidoted and MIR
moved 10 omrnd by stIskng out the following clause
of the 18th section
And provide further. that when The said road shall
be completed To punt ator Covnglon. the State
shall ppvde, as soon may he. for its extension from
the said pout. Ia the head of sieamba at uaypaon an
the kauawha Tiver'
The friends Of the bill signiGed their willingness 10
accept ,he anondmrnt, aud 1t adopted.
he bill MAS again ordered 10 b. enetossed and hay
ing been actually engrossed beforehand motion of
Mr.. Price, II read third line aud put on its ms
sage.
Mr. Price declined to discuss the merits of the bil
which was now limited to the single purpose of conin
Nln1 the Louisa Railroad 10 Covngton He declared
his belief that If tha bill failed all the other improve
ment bulls ot the session wnu be lost. The anl-im-
provenent party uf TIE House were all here 10 vote
galnst It and he called upon his friends 10 sustain H.
MIR Claiborne thought the amendment lust adop,ed
rendered the bill much less meriturous than il was he
tore. lie argued that the State had gone far enough in
lis Improvement policy for the present. and ought to
pause No sufficient object he cuniended was to be Mt
tanned by carrying this road to Coying'on Another bin
soon TO come up appropriated s. 500 900 to complete
The James River Canal to Covineton If was the pnl
ley OF the State, he feared it was to carry that cana,
through 10 the Ohio. the railroad would be anaoonisti
cal with that policy. And would The State d., This in
order 10 crafty very few Counties The canal he
SAID would be al Cuvngton before the tunnel was made
through the Blue Ridge In regard 10 the amendment
he asked II any man believe that it was not the intenon
o the friends OF Tie road 10 carry it over the Allegheny
mountain Mf Z. asserted from his own knowledge
having once been an Ohio hoaman that frecht c,nd be
shipped from any point on the OHIO To New Orleans
cheaper than by canal or railroad to Richmond lie
salu 'a''ner that 1t could be shipped from Illinois, Mis-
sour, Iowa, &c, to New York by the Lakes chea oer
ihan by either the canal railroad 10 Richmond And
ne SAID farther, without fear of contradiction that far
Ve months OF the year there feet water in The
upper Ohl1 and Thar there were some 20 sernns mars
oeloW nnyahdoe. This railroad. he cnntenled could
newer ontaih te western travel, either from the North
efn roates. or from the railroad line 'rom Memphis.
Mr. fergns'n inquired where Mr. c. obtained his facts
about the Ohio ,iver.
Mr. c. replied thlt he got them as steamboat, pilot
ana clerk IN the OHIO, and also by walking backwards
hVe or SIX tunes keelhoat between GuyanJotte and
cincinnati IL was sustained. tao, he said by his friend
from Mason Mr. llrks) who had peen taught in the
same sch1ol Of experience. Mr. c. entered ms protest
especially against The passage Of a bill like this whose
friends had threatened 10 against all Others il theirs
WASN'T passed
MIR Pendeton denied having ever thrown out an
offensive threat lie had said the friends of improve
hent ought to nnie but he declared that he would vote
only Tor such Improvements as his judgement approved
MI Dofman REPLIED al some length, 10 Mr.. Clai-
borne, dlsarowing any peculiar local influence on his
mind IN favor OF his b for the road would not toucl
itockbdge and sustaining the general policy Of utter
nal Improvement. tie argued that the railroad would
support Itself, aud would not couhc with the jane.
RIVER canal which he believed to be the great work o
TIE State. tie avowed himself The ardent advoca g n
the water line. and declared that he would vote for n,
Improvement which he believed anaounisiical To it
he canal has paid the interest on all he money anee
ny me state, end It's revenues were every year ncreas