Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1851-06-24

80 $780, ~ the North Carolina line runs Win the
s-c,ntion Of few miles on the edge OF uhsiaole en-
VI ID water counties, and should therefore
Hey tniouS ,ba account against the second dlvl-
oe uou ~ perfectly obvious yet your auditor oy
SION Anls 800 these roads works lying exclusively
| =: p;Int hi. motive seems quite lncomprenensioe'
or A. onlv is this classification IN tne lace OF aets 20
ol uk o" hut of his own report, made on the S0h OF
Tue in answer to precisely similnr call
SeP'eil1 ouse of Delegates. You Will ind that the
on, a,itor was then we'll acquainted with the four
secouu divisions of our State for these very
conSt hch he now seems to fancy are IN the second
woiAs he then very properly placed in the first Is it
;n that the auditor could not have made the pres
10. he must have entrusted its pre-
Gu. .atpn to other handsR Otherwise he would have
oved his own report of ls45 and the State constitu'
oio" .honld like to know who is the author Of this
ion .,a who supplied it TO the second audi
r, By what right public Offices used to man
in defiance of facts, documents which serve no
but to aid gentlemen in unfair sectional argu'
II was the duty of the auditor to prepare this
Iea;scoton himself least of oil should he-who was
soro the prescription of winter before last and
nnin,ousv reelected by eastern as well as western
uo.e.east of all should he have permitted this un-
Known sassi6er to garble the facts for party purposes
An attempt has been made on this floor to awaken petty
onimostes between the Tdewater and the Piedmont
~ nonse miserable jealousy, and array the former
section against the latter on this basis question can
gne no rule or principle which could have dictated
this classification of internal improvements unless 1t
were to mid in this attempt
Our resolution called for the amounts appropriated
and eypepded for works of internal improvement III each
Of the grand divisions Of the State referred to these
divisions as well known demarcatonsi terms used ever
lay in our debates. made the basis OF classification 10
all our official reports, and defined by the constitution
itself to consist each Of counl ne
resolution very properly calls for facts not susceptible
of dispute it would leave every one to draw his OWE
conclusions from those facts As to which section Is re-
spousbe for any public work, or has received Its oee
it. The second auditors report wholly dsreSarus tls
resolution and proceeds upon principles when none Du
himself or his assistants tell Gentlemen undertake
to prove to us Of the tdewaer that our present repre-
entation does not protect US from the fiedno' "hc
has received the lions share of the ana
they infer by strange logic that II "ouo therefore oc
better for to have a smaller rep escutaon
ertake to compare the taxes and OF eac
r.nd division with the amounts received lot ihlerhai
mnroyements in each and yet when tney estimate 'he
taxos and representatives they procees by the DIVISIONS
known in the Constitution out When they come 10 the
lnnropratio,s they without notice. change the neau
nr of the term and resort to this new arrangement by
the second auditor Can any argument be more entirely
uufIrf
But sir if neither the Constitution nor geography are
20 fix the division to which Theses works belong there
other considerations which may assist US anu ~cn
are equally fatal to the purpose that gentlemen mani
test of fixing the whole responsibility upon Piedmont.
rh.r ia the Petersburg and Roanoke railroad for which
1929 500 appropriated and OF this sum more than
tyo thirds ere spent in Underwater Counties. How was
The vote upon the subscription to tins road-Aarch 5th
1917 1t was carried chiefly By tidewaer votes, for
while the Piedmont delegates voted % for it, and 20
against 1.-THE Underwater vote was IL ayes to only
aces and amongst these ayes were delegates from such
Counties as Accomac Nansemond Caroline, Spottsyva-
ala Stafford King Geo. ge and OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
mite out of the ocat, Of the road and whose opinions
are usually adverse to these improvements. So too
with the Richmond and Fredericksburg railroad, which
has received S2I5o00 from the State every mile OF
which lies in tidewater counties and which the auditor
Notwithstanding has classed among the works contain
ID within the second division" Piedmont. The ap.
preparation was carried against the Piedmont vote
which 81 Is ayes, By western vote Of 35
70 lS while Underwater WAS equally divided. But
amongst her affirmative votes were not ouly the counties
on the line-Statford Spottsylvana, Caroline Hanover
and Heurico-but also King William, Matthews and
,lidilesex aui the whole northern neck down to the
1av shore cannot tiud the vote the appropriation
nd loan Of s3s5o00 to the Richmond and Petersburg
railroad but the work entirely i'll Chesterfield,
he tidewa counties. The auditor reports that
s27o 900 appropriated Tor the Alexandria canal
md that it ia within the second division. On the
trarv it is not only in tidewater county, but actually
below the head of tide You must also deduct from hi.
table some smaller appropriations for turnpkes which
ie in Fairfax the Middle turnpike, the Falls-bridge
nd the Fairfax turnpikes amounting to about 100000
Again $4,000 have been appropriated to the Orange
md Alexandria railroad and Of this about Sl4uOUn hay,
.en expended Not more than s25 900 of ths expend
IRE wns in Piedmont and nearly $250,000 of the ap
ropr,ntion will be required for that portion Of the
which il in .he tidewater counties OF Alexandria, Fair
ink, and Prince William Yet the auditor reports tina,
n. whole is in Piedmont Rrt in this connection 20,
hould notice that this Orange and Alexandria railroad
: in fact Il branch OF the Central railroad and O.
he great conduts of western commerce to Tide
cavyation. II YOU look to its character it is a.
auch for the benefit OF the of any eastern div
.ou and the proves it, On the passage OF the bill
March II, lS4s) Piedmont actually gave majority
he. in the negative, and was carried b. west
ern vote of IL TO 1,
NAV make similar remark Of MANI Of the Piedmont
nrnpkes in statement they originally intended
be what railroads are, the channels Of western
;rade. Commencing ut points Underwater they run
# necessity through the Piedmont, and witt
western improvements.
One Of tn. few works in statement B. which does no,
lead to the west the Richmond and Danvle raiIroac
AN improvement perhaps more exclusively for Pied
mont benefit than am other in the list. Yet she show
ed none of the scsess which has been charged against
Ter in regard even this work for her (March C
1910 on the passage of the bill, stood l3 ayes TO II
noes--a majority against it.
So much for the works which the auditor reports M
being exclusively in of the four grand divisions
Ia regard to those which lie partly in more Of
these divisions, embraced in his statements f and F.
.hey are all lines running east and west and submit TO
western gentlemen whether is fair to make Piedmont
responsible for them Of what avail would your i'm
provemens west of the mountains be to you if their
commerce could not find its way along these outlets
hrough Piedmont the broad rivers of the east They
ire absolutely necessary, parts Of your works
if they perfectly useless to Piedmont, and
If YOU want the white basis it is to increase your
power to carry them Your votes prove that such
was your view OF the true character of these works
Let examine them
And first, the Central railroad The original ap-
preparation of $4,000 in 1887, carried b. ma
urty of the in both the divisions but no.
where the vote nearly unanimous in the west
where it So ayes to only noes The vote on the
next appropriation. also Of se00oo in 1895 is not re.
corded But the third appropriation of coo in SAT-
for the extension of this road to the foot OF the Blue
Ridge, was carried by the VOTE sc to & while
ority of the Piedmont delegates ell rs of the
Tde-water. voted against it, The appropriation the
Central railroad Of 100000 in 1850 was also passed By
western vote of 10 to 10, while tde-water voted
ayes to "a noes, and Piedmont ayes to - noes The
year before there was appropriation of $4,000 con
tanned in the bill approprating 100000 to make the
tunnel called the Blue Ridge railroad State account
The auditor has charged part of this tunnel to the
Piedmont. But it, as we must suppose he classes the
various works amongst the divisions according to the
benefit which he fances each is to receive should like
to know what advantage he imagined this tunnel could