The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1850-10-22

Inc Harbor and River Bill.
We copy the following appropriate re-
marks from the Washington Republic
of the 9th ult.
Two days have now been wasted in
the House of Representatives upon idle
parliamentary expedienis to stave off &C
ton upon the Tariff aud the Harbor
and River bill. B, reference to the
proceedings of the House on Wednes>
day evening, it will be seen that the
business was embarrassed by the moves
ments oi the Locofoco members, for the
purpose of preventing the disposition of
the Army bill, from the apprehension
that it might clear the way for the great
measures which are looked for with so
much anxiety by the Northern and
Western STATES.
The cooperation of the Northern and
Western Locofocos with the Abstrac-
tlonists and Disunionists, has in the first
instance, deprived the country of the a.
mendmen,s so impcratively reonired in
the existing Tariff For this the Los
cofocos of Connecticut and Pcnnsylya,
MA are responsible. II these gentle,
men had responded to the wishes and
: interests of their constituents, the Tar
= iifwould have been amenCed. If Booru.
, CLEVELAND, aud WALDO, Of Connecti,
cut; Mann, MCLANAnAN, and Ross. of
Pennsylvania, had not thought it ineape-
dient to change the present Tariff the
suffering Interests of the Northern and
Middle States might have been efficient
ly releyed-and by Legislation that would
have Injured 10 the benefit of the whole
: country.
Blu, the cooperation Of the LocofOcos
4 with the Disunionists and Abstracton-
lists has produced other results. 1t has
4 defeated she railroad bills demanded by
the Western States. II has defeated
; the Ilarbor and River bill. For several
y years the people of the lakes and the
Mississippi have been calling for the i'm
o provement of their lake and river navi-
:. CATION. So decided has been the pop
n ular demand OH this head, that Congress
n has repeatedly yielded to it, in spite of
10 Baltimore conventions, the dogmas of
l.. the let-alone and do-nothine schools, and
the cherished doctrines of the elite of
the distinguished Democrats of Rich-
K. mond Mr.. Tyler vetoed, and Mr..
ts Polk vetoed and now, when, for the
N first time for many years, we have a
WuIG Executive prepared 10 comply
with the wishes of the people, the Lo-
10 cofnco committee in the House, during
=. "A session OF nine months continuance,
70 omlis to press the subject upon the
{ House and there is general cuope-
- ration of the Lncofocos of the West with
10 the bar-spitting political metaphysi-
d Clans Of the South to deprive the great
West of this almost the only demand
that she makes upon The Legislators OF
the Union.
The "noise aud confusion of the
no close Of the session have been as fatal Ia
o. the Locoiocos of Michigan, Illinois
Ohio, Wisconsin, Indiana, and Pennsyl
vania-as far as The iIarbor and River
bill is concerned as they were to Gen.
eral CAss, at Cleveland, when they pre-
vented him from expressing his seEti.
menis on this very interesting question
Their yeas and nays on the various prop
oslions for smothering and defeating
this bill indicate the disposition which
breathes in the few words-hardy moi
n than yea or nay-in which the Gene
ly raj declined the invitation To be presen,
,r nj the Chicago convention. The West
ed ern people have been sold by their Lo-
ne coinco representatives IN this greet sub
ect. Property and life must continue
to- be exposed on our western waters, N
! Il, al.
" DuRKEEs, BRowNs. and other stars in
nv the great western constellation of Loco
ad focoism, may continue 10 mingle then
IA beams with the esfulgence of the SED.
DoNs, McQuEENs, JoNEsEs, MEADEs
Ia BURTs, and McMULLENs Of the Sou tn
no There is no real affinity between the
c. opinions and the wants of the Western
to people, and those of the Abstr actionists
and Disnnionists. The Western people
r. are eminenlly progresslve-bu they send
ed representatives to Congress who, directly
ed or by indirecion, play into the hands ol
nd men who are e0,lrely behind the age,
H. and who would be glad TO carry the
n. country back TO the good old times when
n. the Mississippi was navigated by rats
e. and fla.boats. Here is this River and
S. Harbor bill-with the slightest honest
of and wel-direcled effort it might have
of been passed, but Western Locoiocoism
IS deierentially gives it the go-by, out OF
by complaisance 10 the scruples of chivalry!
The only way in which the lake and
river people can get River and Harbor
bill, is by electing WnIc representatives
who will not sell their interests to doc
riaairies and dogmatlsts.