The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1851-02-20

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to my construction OF the obligation and dniy Of Congress
terminated whenever The fund out OF which the object
was to be accomplished was exhausted
The Sc nator has looked up old speech OF mine made
ia 1925 which have never read since II made and
has brought speech into contrast with the which
made the other day and he contends thai there is an
ouxruy between them, and that different lntepre-
lsiionis given the compact by the two speeches Now
il must recoecled thai the speech which as made in
1898 made before there had been any application OF
the two per cent fund.- TO any considerable extent II 10
any extent whatever OF The three States of Indiana, l
nols and Missouri, was arguing then that Congress
was bound 10 apply that fund in execution OF The com
pact was arguing against the position contended Tor
BY some opponents OF the bill that The compact full
hed when The Cumberland road reached The Ohio river
commended upon that occasion, as commended The ohei
day, that obligation Ohio ceased when the road
reached the Ohio river that the fund out OF which the
object to be accomplished was exhausted and there
fore that Ohio had claims upon us for the extension
OF the road furher but that Indiana, Illinois. and MIS-
had claims upon TO carry the road through Ohio
not for the sake the benefit OF OHIO, although she
might incidentally derive benefit from il, but for the sake
OF the States which il was TO be carried or towards
which it was to lead | commended then that il was no
answer say that the road IN part made. but that
we ought 90 Till the fund was expended And what
did say the other day gave four five to
the objections made by the senator the fact that the
road had not been carried to the line OF Missouri said,
the first place, that impossible 10 carry II direct
ly to the line OF Missouri because OF the Intervention OF
the Mississippi river, The gentleman says that is
for compromise, but he insists the literal execution OF
the compact in other respects. II the senator TO be
understood having given correct exposition Of the
compact no matter what obstacles may present them
selves we are bound 10 carry the road 10 the very line OF
Missouri But was provided that if should stop the
sssern bank OF the Mississippi river.
With respect TO carrying the road beyond the Misss
Hpp river and up 10 Jefferson City, the seat OF govern
ment OF Missouri, ask what part OF the compact be-
tween Missouri and the general government pledges us
to carry the road TO that city, There Stale. and
there will be for long time west oil Missouri, 10
which, in the execution OF compact, we should carry
the road through Missouri as was carried through ONO
But without any such exterior western State, clause
was introduced of its eXisence-in The act
Of lt25not in the compact but in the ctfor the survey
Of the road to Jefferson City Ii it is TO be carried there,
il clearly not within the compact and must be carried
under the general power which has been asserted
TO make internal improvements. There is authority
for it derived from the compact
Now, what was the argument in 1925 When there
was money in the treasury, when money daily
coming in, said, in answer to those who conlended We
had fulfilled the compact by terminating the road al the
Ohio river that we should carry the road beyond that in
order fulfil compacts with the States beyond Ohio
Among the answers which gave 10 the senator the
other day, said that il there enough of the two per
cent remaining in the treasury TO carry the road
10 Missouri, to il you could reach
1t with convenience, il ought 10 be done. Did
not further contend that if Missouri would wait until
the fund accumulated to extent sufficient au-
thOTize the government 10 make road from Van
dalia 70 her boundary, then il ought to be done2 |
denied that the fund existed abundance for the
purpose OF accomplishing the object you should not carry
practicable, to the line of the State with which you had
made the stipulation. But conended that had made
between seven and eight hundred miles Of road from
Cumberland to Vandala, p!ed9ng from time 10 time the
two per cent fund, and than three amount
derivable from Missouri commended that the general
government, in the execution OF the compact, had
RED the road as tar the money would enable them TO
do, and il they did not carry further it because
Of the want OF the WILL but because of the of the
mesns to provide for carrying il further
Il contend then, that between the argument OF 1925
and the argument which offered 10 the Senate the other
day, there is such incompatiby the tries
10 make out said then that If yoa could carry the road
IN bad tB
money with which 10 do IT, said in 1926 that the road
ought not TO stop al the Ohio river in iument Of the
compact of Ohio, but that it ought 10 be carried further
to catry GU, the compact with the States lying west oil
Ohio added the other day that the States lying OF
Wheeling had derived benefit from that Cumberland
road they derived benefit by travelling. and they de-
rived all the benefits 10 which road can be applied
which constructed for the public use and for the public
benefit.
& A word now with respect TO the practicaby of making
the road through the Safe of illinois. do not know
that there many here who here 1886
and 1888 So rapidly do pass ofihe stage that very
few years make great difference in the draaf,s peYso
But am II there be any here who Were here
in 1896 and 1895 they will recollect that the idea OF
king paved road through the State OF Illinois WAS
abandoned because OF the enomity OF the expense OF
making it, the materials not being at hand and having to
be drawn from such immense distance | recollect
distinctly. though have not recently referred the
that upon that occasion il made known
TO us that gravel and stone had been hauled thirteen
mes in order TO place II the road and was that
debt OF the most enormous magnitude must be con-
was paved. graveed, or macadamlzed Hence Congress
only contemplated to make road that was not macad
amized through the State OF Illinois.
Mr.. President, fear am consuming more OF the time
OF the Senate than ought on this bill but would
have detained the Senate all but for the extraordinary
privilege granted TO the senator from Missouri Ii
ii last TO the question which have stated Missouri ha.
had the application OF the two per cent fund TO more
than three times its amount il you limit her liability
TO that only expended in the State Of Illinois and ihers
10 no money out of which she be paid. That two
per centum positively and expressly pledged the
OF the expenditure which the general gov
eminent had made but that reimbursem has yet
been effected and until il is effected Missouri has no
claim the government Ii was said in the report of the
that in the OF the eight other States with
which similar spuatons bad been made by compact at
the time heir admission into the Union those States had
the two per refunded 10 them answered that the
other day. repeat the answer now In instance OF
those eight States had there been any expenditure OF
gle dollar 10 make road leading any OF them the
money, therefore, was in the treasury unapped and
surrendered 10 the several States because had not been
expended. The difference between them and Missouri
IflinoB, Indiana, and Ohio-no one OF which but Mis-
SOUR has ventured 10 ask the payment of the two per
cent. funds that IN the Of the eight States The
fund unexpended and xhausied while in the case
OF these four States the fund positively pledged TO
the reimbursement OF the general government The gen.
eral government has not yet been reimbursed and the
question is whether, without being reimbursed, should
pay this fund TO any one of those States
And word in relation 10 the ACT Of s4l TO which
the senator referred and with respect to that stipulation
OF il with regard to the Two per cent fund OF Alabama
and Mississippi. Ii will be recolecled that that
the fund in the treasury; that il TO have been
expended for the benefit OF The Union and OF
those States that u TO have been expended TO make
roads, moi within them, but leading TO them. II was
fund, therefore, in the application Of which the whole