Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1850-12-28

Bfcss aooui nHeen years 10 purchase
du ing the administration OF Gen. Jackson who had urgently
recommended the But the bill in bad company
and shared the late Of all who keep such company whether
people bills II shared their fate and vetoed among
the refagrant proof the mischief of incorguous conunc
lions The result Of that loss Of the has been The
rise Of the stock from $l7 S222 the share, with the
tanty OF its rising about S265 in five years, expressing
Western commerce all the while, already has been OPP
pressed Tor eighteen years. with grisvous tax
The toll is enormous-5O per tom and upon all boats
whether Hat keel steam; and in all conditions, whether
empty foil The enorm Of this can be judged from
few plain dafa applicable to oil boats Thus, the cost Of
an Ohio river steamboat complete for running, about $50
per ton and the number Of times that she pays fifty cents
upon that $50 depends upon the number Of times that she
Pa.ses the canal This Is different according the ports to
which the boats may trade. Between st. Louis and Louis
vile frequent because the main ports max
ing the round trip every week between Cincinnati and ST.
Louis next doing the round trip in eight days. then Pitts
burg and st. Louis next doing the p 10 two weeks, and
then all the Ohio boats above the canal going New Or
lesns and making the trip up and down average Of
three weeks TO four In this way Of the boats have
pay the tar twice week twice In eight days; Others
twice In two weeks and others again twice in three four
weeks the boat only had 70 ay il and went free
the remainder OF her life might dothere might be no
great ground Of complaint But such repetition, rapid.
and incessant-twce week at the Shortest and twice in
three or four weeks at the ongehe aggregate becomes
enormous.
to single boa-one plying between st. Louis and Louis
ve and Of medium sine, two hundred tOns-shough the
sze makes difference the tax being the ton and the
tonnage cost Of the boat the boat Of this size will
cost OOO and, making the round trip weekly, will pay
$500 week Suppose six weeks to be lost BY Ice In the
rivers and eleven deducted for passages the Falls
when the Ohio il above the stage and may have
forty weeks in the year in which to pay the tax. This
half the Gust of the boat 10 two years she pays taxes for
going through the canal her whole cost and on, every
two years long she And this holds good Of oil
boats in the st. Louis and Louisville trade and, with some
deduction for less frequent this the with all the
hnata ho
fightfu Il loses the character Of tax and takes that Of
fine, mulc penalty, inflicted the boat for q tresps
Yet this fine existshas existed for twenty yeau-he
United States receiving her proportion Of the penassand
thus pocketng fines upon Western and Western
:raveng for the amount levied The boat is necessarily
reimbursed to the boat by levy the freight and pas
sepgers.
1t il time to put an end to such enormites and nv bill pro-
poses 10 do it. and that eectuay and Immediately. The
first section directs the remission Of the tolls all the stock
held by the United States in its name That is 29O2
shares being upwards of fourth and nearly third Of the
whoe that the proposed immediate remission would be
relief to that The second section authorizes and d.
reefs the Secretary of the Treasury purchase the remaining
individual stock and appropaes $780, OO0 $500 SHARE
far that purpose and RENTS all tolls upon that except
what is necessary the preservation Of the canal Thehid
section authorizes the Secretary Of the Treasury to
transfer Of the stock purchased under the operation Of the law
Of Kentucky Of 1912 and accept the sole ownership of
the canal upon the Of that act The fourth section is
Of precauton only and for which there will probably be
necessity, but which added complete the structure Of
the BILL and to ensure the success Of i object applies to
the stock purchased in for the United States and with
the money Of the United States and far know, with
the Of the United States It was thing done
under Of the General Assembly Of Kentucky and BY
resolve Of the private stockholders The United States
to have had nothing do with it. but propose sanction
the arrangement and to provide for its f6lment OF the
stock purchased in trust upwards Of the onehid and
near the onehato be precise, 2S02 is to 7O96-be
longs to the United Sates and being purchased with her
money, needs trustee hold for except upon the
condition Of complying with the Of Kentucky to which
she party. The bill which propose to introduce
provides for that compliance that the only object which
the Kentucky Legislature had inview will be accomplished
have presented The evil Mr.. President, and the
remedy the evil grevous oppression upon Western COM
mercethe remedy immediate relief from that oppression
BY expenditure Of $780, 900 of the public treasury
Western has itself extingushsd the private stock
down to that amount by the tolls which it has
been paying Win Congress grant this sum 70 cure such
evil Will il do this little for internal while doing 90
much for external commerce do complain of what is
done for foreign commerce but deem it fair this
sion to compare the branches Of together
external and intena-and to the merits Of each, and
how little 10 done for and how much for the other.
assume the internal Of the United States to be
greater than it's external and TO employ people, and to
be innocent in It's Transaction because involves US
with foreign Power and less in s care be-
requires the protection of fleets, the guardian
ship Of ambassadors and consuls, and but little aid from
FORTS lighthouses, sea-was or beakwaes Foreign com
erce, the contrary, draws heavily and annually upon all
these danger to the Government expense othe
treasury. The estimated for the support Of the navy
chiefly kept up for the protection Of foreign commerce. and
for defence in the in which it may involve us for
the ensuing year. &c. for support Of the light
house establishment the estimates are, for the oil and lighting
Sl62 Os 59 for repairs Of lighthouses $685. "a; for
expenses Of shboa 6sl524 for expenses Of beacons
and buoys ,00S OF for annual salaries Of lighthouse
keepers $ll9 403.33a for completion Of lighthouses
S33 OOO Support of ministers and consuls $780, O0O sup
port OF abroad $l25, 900; for the survey
$780, 0OO for continuing the Delaware beakwate $780,
besides $780, begin and Eve previous combinations
Of ss7O,OOo. 100000 100000, $4,000, and
$4,000.
These are of the expenses incurred and that annu
ally for the protection Of foreign a but the
greater part except the in which this protection
chemically proclaimed for free trade and sailors rights
do cite these items Of expenditure great they are
for the purpose Of Directing to hem but to show how lavish
we the public money In support Of external
and in that point Of view. and the highest illustration Of
over foreign commerce. must notice. little in
detail Of the items Of appropriations which have quo
ted-th for the survey. This work in the British
service done by the navy. It under the direction Of
naval officers and is executed BY the and the ships Of
the navy But with MS the navy il not trusted with IT, It
10 done BY civil superntenden and under the supposon
that will be more skilfuy done than under the direction
Of naval officer do not NEEDLE with the question Of the
by British officers. Ny business is with Congress, and
to show its extraordinary the interests Of foreign
commerce. This preeminen instance Of that Upon
the assumption that civil superintendent direct tho work
more skilfuly than naval ocerupon assumption that
naval officers cannot do this work we'll enough-upon
that mere assumption, hardly amounting to suspico and
that against pr0bablty-a director from civil life put q