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

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any Stale or States whatever So that there remain but
few appropriations which extend 10 Missouri few
between the years 1925 and ls38-and these few made
under the pledges OF the compact of 1890 the act of
1920, and the of lS25-to carry the road to the State
line, and thence 10 the capital of The State and which
pledges the senator from Kentucky now rePudiaes. al
though party 10 the making OF them.
The senator from Kentucky ann the State of
Missouri with some of his objections He says in
part OF his speech H..
Bn again the most thai Missouri has right to demand
is even supposng am wrong in all The views have yet
presented, that government Should make graded road
from vaadaa to ST Louis, What would that cost sup
pose the expense might be about $500 per mile The dis
lance is about one hundred miles. The whole expense,
therefore, would be abont $50 900"
In another part he says:
There is road actually in exslance from Vandalia
the banks Of he Mississippi opposite to 81 Louis and
other from santata TO Alton. opposite to Missouri She
road r. 1870 t,.,'rs'.', M Z.
In another part he afiirms that: saa .t,#tH
Government not bound make a macadamized
road any dirt road would answer the pact"
And in another part he thinks
'Tnat the general government not bound 10 make
any particular specific kind OF road secondly.
not limited to the time when road should be
vested in it by the pact Missouri and the gen
eral goysrnmenb the general government expended not
amount, admitting Missouri be chageabe for
anything expended the road prior its reaching Hi
nos' $3.50
And in another part he exclaims;
"The Senate will also observe that no specific kind OF
road is provided Tor is not provided that shall be
Of road il was 10 be road The money was to be espend
ed under the direction and Congress be
the Judge OF the species Of road and of the expenditure
money for It,"
And STILL in another part
81 contend that the literal Interpretation, which would
require Of to the road to the line of the
State of Missouri the and JUST Interpretation
the act"
And again:
. The general government had discretion sub
set hsx had right to begin the road where they though,
And again;
"Norime is fixed in the compcc a where the road
shall be The road is be carried pari passu with the
increase oil the fund The fund will 60 increasing until
the whole ct the public lands in Missouri shall have be-
sold and it is possible, il be s9uandered and wasted
away aa it may hereafter be sufficient complete the
road"
And again:
"The Mississippi river ineryenes, tba, could only
be carried the bank of the ssssipp river within
word to- is receive It's literal Specification, it,
eordng to H. we Were boand to make road 10 the very
line OF Missouri
And again
until there is accumulation from the sales the land in
Missouri 10 make another road they may have another
have already"
| merely quote these passages from the senator's
speech, not 10 confue but to exhibit them wish them
to be in Missouri wish them to stand for exeu,-
pcaiions of the temper in which the from Ken
lucky now opposes what he once considered the just
demand OF Missouri To they to be more than
taunts TO the Stae-so totally void OF foundation Justice
consistency or decent respect for the intelligence of the
State to amount to floats, which she will know
how TO appreciate.
proceed another objection of the senator and one
which concerns me personally. He says that | have
been here thirty years, while these pledges Of the Mis-
souri, per centum have been going on from wear 10
year, and no word OF Temonsrance from His words
are:
That this appoaon OF the two per fund.- arising
from the sales Of the public lands in Missouri, has been
made from year for about thirty years. during which
the honorable senator Mr. BEsrosl has had this
floor All those provisions pledgng the Two fund
of Missouri for the reimbursement of the general
have been made while the honorable been
one word Of com pan, been heard on the part OF Mis-
souri, on the part OF her either floor OF
Congress"
First as TO the error of this statement in poin, of fact
These pledges OF Missouri have been going on from
year year for thirty years They began in 1926 and
ceased in 1885 which happens to be about The
third OF thirty years
With respect 10 no remopstrance, that is true Ii
never entered into my head TO remonstrate while be.
lieved in the good faith OF Congress comply with the
compact and The laws. But that Reputation ad-
vocated-whle Congress TO violate the compact on her
part and hold Missouri 10 IL on hers-I do demonstrate,
and am strongly OF opinion that the State will
srate also. The money to be lost is conside erabe-|
$3.50 900 in hand and the double OF tha, upon future
saes-and purchased upon such exorbant terms Civ
ing up the right OF ANNUAL taxation on forty millions Of
while the loss OF money is great, the outrage is far
greater To lose the money, and be taunted with the
loss, is a double aggravation
But, after all 1t seems that the senator from Kentucky
has another rcason entirely different from all the rest
refusing to pay this money to Missouri. He is afraid
that he will commit himsef-airad that Congress will
commit tseliin favor OF the road from Missouri San
Francisco. He says:
+" shall be extremely happy fit shall that Of all
the various proposed the one which conem plated
10 begin at ST Louis is the best but cannot, upon
Information which now Ipssess, satisfy miud the
point and do notwish pledge myself any
| n ,vh
proposed make with the State OF Missouri has
object the extension of railroad from st Louis
limit of that State, being section of that Ioad
the construction OF which the senator rom Missouri has
much at heaft'
And therefore he votes against this bill He under
make with Missouri pledges Congress TO the central route
10 the Pacific ocean and he is not willing give that
pledge and must, therefore, vote against the bill, even
presume, If all his other objections overcome. This
is being cautious overmuch In the first place. there
never in my bill any route of road any road AT
ALL 10 the Pacific ocean IL was State road only-one
across the State from ST Louis 10 the western limit OF
of the Sta,e-that named that, and the from ST
Joseph, on the Missouri to Hannibal, on the Mississippi
struck OF the BILL upon the amendment proposed by
the Committee on the Public Lands, about ten days be-
fore the made bis speech The bill now stands
without n pledge OF the money to any specific object
leaving open be expended such objects OF inter-
nal improvement the general assembly OF Missouri
may deem fit that The fear Of the senator, cautious
overmnch IN the beginning entirely groandless and
visionary now The railroad proposed from ST. LOUIS 10
the frontier of the State may become link the chain
of communication across the continent Like the roads
making Ohio, and the nearly complete in Pennsyl-
vania all east and west, and central to the continent,