The mountain sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1844-1853, 1851-04-10
The Appreprialion Bill,

The Appropriation Bill.
This bill has met with most excellent
success in the House of Representatives,
and the wants of the people seem to have
been duly appreciated by the present Le'
gislature. They have acted upon it with
dispatch, and at the same time keeping In
view and not neglecting the true interests
Of the Commonwealth. 1t passed the
House finally on Monday last, and ere
this is in the hands of a special committee
of the Senate.
The sum OF $25l 900 has been appro-
priated to the completion of the North
Branch Canal.
The sum of $4,000 was appropriated
to the completion Of western reservoir, the
work to be let TO the original contractors.
The bill appropriating S250,000 for the
purpose of avoiding the inclined planes
on the Portage Rail Road was passed in
the following shape, as amended by the
chairman of the committee of Ways and
Means, by vote of SO to 27.
That the Canal Commissioners be and
they are hereby authorized and required
to locate and put under contract so much
of railroad on the eastern or western
slope of the Allegheny mountain, or boih,
as will avoid so many of the inclined
planes on the Allegheny Portage Railroad
as they deem most practicable and expe-
dent within the limits of the appropriation
of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars,
as hereafter provided for, the maximum
grade of said railroad not to exceed sew
enty-five feet 10 the mile.
We apprehend that this bill has for its
object the grand principle of wealth and
prosperity to the State at large prn-
ciple that should be, and no doubt is, par
amount to every other doctrine inculcated
in the sober minds and correct judgment
Of the people of the keystone State; and
when we look forward to the immense
benefit that must necessarily accrue 10
our State from the passage of this bill,
we can with propriety say that the march
of the Commonwealth Of Pennsy lvania
is onward and upward, and the day and
the ::hour is fast approaching when she
will, as she justly should, be the centre
of commerce, the channel through which
the trade of the manufacturing east and
the productive west must flow to seek a
market, and the greatest and mightiest
empire of our confederacy. We congrat-
ulate the people upon the success of this
measure which when completed will be
the avenue that can cope. and that too
successfully, with the Central Rail Road
in the conveyance Of freight. To the
Legislature we award the praise and
honor so we'll deserved.
The section authorising 4 loan of the
above amount was adopted by vote of
so to "a, with the amendment of Mr..
Penniman, that said loan of S25O,OOO
should be exempt from all taxation, and
making it bear an interest of per cent
per annum.
The following bill making provision
for part payment of the loan was adopted
by vote of 50 to 25.
Mr.. Penniman offered a new section
providing that upon all passengers and
freight passing over the Pennsylvania
railroad to or from Philadelphia by rail-
road and not by the Philadelphia and
Columbia railroad, the Pennsylvania rail-
road shall pay fifty cents per passenger,
and six mills per ton per mile, the reve-
nue. derivable fIom this source for the
next three years to be applied to the re-
demption of the loan.