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

veRed by contest between ST Louis and Alton for lis
point OF termination His words are

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arose between the States Missouri and Illinois rather
believe between The towns OF ST Louis and Alton as TO
what shoud be the terminus OF the road"
Collision! What sort of a collision Arms and VIC,
ience or wish the part OF each TO have the ROAD
come 10 itself presume Il was the latter, and mat
SO Tar as mere was any such collision, y was queeu
WIN respect TO Illinois by sending the road TO her capital
and as Tar as il concerned Alton, il was quoted by
the reports hrs of the three commissioners. Messrs
Mckee Lacock, and David Shriver, and, secondly, OF
Mr. Joseph Shrver acting sole commissioner. each Of
which were authorized by law 10 fix the point OF term
nation on the Mississippi, and both OF which commits.
sions dId hx II at ST Louis In fact this collision, as 1t
is imposingly called nothing but the natural desire
every town the line OF the road to get the road to it.
se-a collision which is seen in the location OF every
county road IN the country. and which seen al all
points along the Cumberland road from the Potomac to
the Okaw. and which settled in every instance by
the proper auihorylhe commissioners appointed 10 lay
Oh the road They settled in this case and, what IS
most unfortunate for the senator's argument Their report
shows That there was no question IN ihe minds OF the
not in the question II Portage des Si0ur-a Mis-
souri, village, distance below Alton This is fally
shown in the report OF Mr. Joseph Shrver, laying out
is with Portage dss Sour, then and not with Alton that
the formidable collision should have been arranged which
has ended in the deplorable catastrophe OF stopping the
progress OF the Cumberland road
No stone to pave the roadno gravel to gravel 1.-THE
enormous expense OF getting stone and gravel the reason
why the road is stopped SO says another OF the sena
tors reasons ard here are his words
"Wh respect the road ITSELF after it reached Illinois,
il was found impossible gravel TO stone IT, There was
proof before this body ecolec fourteen years ago.
when member, that Tor the purpose ofgrading
had been carried thirteen miles. There was stone
gravel be found within the limits of that State
the of the road make made in Ohio and
Of Indiana And, according the last appropriations
made for carrying the road throus Illinois, it was especial
with stone or graveling the road This was because oi
the expenses which would be otherwise
stoned by transporting the stone and gravel
Now, the proof, the senator calls it, OF stone,
only ntimatlon OF its scarcity, and was appllca
BILE 10 the country between the Great and Little Wabash
before the road reached Vandaa on the river
and the Of Congress which he refers only applied
to that point aud superseded by the act OF 1885,
which made the usual full paving appropriation OF $3.50
900 for each of the three States, without any lima
lion at all upon the application OF the money. But
there is witness to testify now before the Senate,
and to disprove the proof which the senator alleges
road between vandalia and Jefferson City, and from
whose report have already read. will now produce
what he says the special point OF paving and macad
amizng this road He says "Paving feet wide,
six inches deep. macadamized, for the first sixty miles.
lin lllnois.) $4,000 a mile; for first twenty eight
miles. lin Missoari) $4,000 mile; for the remaining
eighty eight miles, 81 800 mile in all, 1916 900 for
the whole distance Of III miles, being an average Of
1888 &C for the paving and macadamzing" This is the
testimony OF The witness; and thus the imposslby OF
paving aud macadamzng turns out TO be no mposslby
at all and the expense OF doing turns out to
be The cheapest that ever done upon the road and in
fact but about fourth part OF what cost east of the
Ohio river, and in favor OF which the senator from Ken
lucky ioed hard and for SO many years The whole
actual of the Cum berand road east OF the Ohiowas
three millions OF d0llarS-dlsance l3l miles Inc
whole estimated cost OF the road from yandalia Jefer-
son City 1896. .35sdistance lit miles! That Is to
say, cost two millions more, aud distance So miles less
than the Vandaia and Jefferson City road and yet this
to be objected TO account of the enormly OF the
pense, and the objection from one who was the great
champion OF the gIea, expenditures!
Exhaustion of the fund another assigned by
the gentleman for discontnuance of the road He
to exut in that objection He brings IT forward ofien
and dwells upon it with exultation He says:
Zone s has not gone the Mississippi river, be-
fund exhausted when he'd Vandalia
There longer any means for prosecuting the road
arising from the two per cent fund, beyond Vandaa
Even before the road reaches Vandaa the two per
fund upon the sale Of the public lands Missouri
sted, and than three times exhausted What
the road shall continue beyond vandaia
' They ought TO be willing TO walt until the fund
be accumulated from the sales OF the public lands In Mis-
Lat the fund accumulate let further sales take place
states from The sacs Of public land. in Missouri and she
may call upon the OF the United States apply
IL the road was no, carried the Missouri line, there
various for IT, One was the exhaustion OF the
fund. The fund may hereafter accumulate, II unappropr
aied, perhaps 10 amount sufficient to carry the road
the line OF Missouri"
give the senator the benefit OF his words, for
have contrast them with his own conduct Exhaustion
OF the fund Future accumulation of the fund Let
Missouri wait until the fund accumulates from the sales
OF the public lands This is the senator's language
Was il the language IN 1925 when ne plead for the pas.
sage of the act which induced the Missouri delegation
pledge the two per cenum OF their State Was il Ian
guage sed by him when during twenty two yeas-from
1906 to ls2s-he pleading for the almost six millions
which were expended the road in Maryland, Pennsyl
vania Virginia Ohio Indiana, and Illinois Did he tell
those States that the fund exhausted and bid them
wait for its accumulation No. sir He used no
such language them and in point OF fact contradced all
such language by the whole tenor OF his conduct There
was no lnnd-next 10 none-when these great appropra-
tons were going forward II hardly began to grow. Ii
only amounted about 81 $50 900 in the isI9, and
nothing in 1905, when the heavy road appropriations
began.
Exhaustion of the fund s then, argument, Just
discovered by the from Kentucky, thought
OF by him when II much more applicable, and now
only pressed into the service among manyas any
thing tba, would the turn OF defeating the Missouri
road.
Indebtedness of Missouri Tha, Missouri is indebted
10 the United States account of the road IS further
reason with the from Kentucky for not extending
the road to her He Missouri is largely in debt 10
the United States account of this road and establishes
the sccoun, thus:
"Tbe deficit of reimbursement for the construction Of
the whole road from Cumberland 10 Vandala Is about four
millions and half aud II Missouri Is liable Tor het portion
Of that four millions and halt, would be perhaps twenty
or thirty times the amount OF S23OoS
This is the account against Missouri as drawn up by
the senator from Kentucky The whole amount expended
on the Cumberland road is six millions OF dollars
the whole amount accrung from the two per cent fund
is about 81 1896, ,o00-dehc four and half millions
and The Missouri portion Of that, either twenty or thirty
times the $3.50 which has been received from her two
per centum fund. The senator from Kentucky does not
say whether twenty times thirty times the amount,
but that it is the other OF the two, Very well
Let us try the mathematics and how II will come out
Twenty times S230o0O is 81 600 900, which happens To
he slo0 900 more than the whole which the four
States owe That to say The fourth of Si,50o0 900
lis 81 100000 Tba, is rather too much That wont do
so lei try the other. Let try thirty times Thus;