Weekly national intelligencer., 1851-02-15


under the direction Of Missouri the railroads hereto
fore charted BY the General Assembly of that Ssehe Pa
ci6c and Mississippi Railroad and the railroad from Hannibal
81. Josephs in that State. What right have make
any such compact
The honorable Senator from Missouri mr. BEyros il
KNOWN has very much at heart great national project
is worthy of his highest consideration and Of bis Vest efforts.
II the making of railroad from st. Louis TO he Pacific
ocean. hope il may turn out that st. Louisis proper
point of terminus for such road But until explorations
and surveys and estimates made of all the proposed
routes-for there proposed north OF 3d. Los and
least south Of i'll think would be very incsous and
improper the part Of Congress commit itself any
particular route Let ascertain which il will b the
advantageous to adopts let know the expenses the OBJ
structons the difficulties be surmounted in the
of the various routes before do any thing shall be
extremely happy if shall turn out that of all the various
routes proposed the one which is contemplated to begin
st. Louis is the best but cannot, upon the Information
which possess satisfy my mind on the point and there
fore do wish to pledge myself to particular
understand this new compact which proposed to make
with the State of Missouri has for its object the extern
sion of railroad from ST. Louis the limit Of lha.
State being part section Of that road the construction
which the Senator from Missouri has much at heart.
In conclusion, allow to say that this appropriation
Of the per cent fund, arising from the sales Of the pub
lie lands in Missouri, has been made from year year
for about thirty years. during which the honorable Sen.
ator (Mr BEsros) has had seat on this floor All
those provisions Plsdging the two per cent. fund Of
Missouri to the reimbursement Of the General Govern
been member of this body Not word of remopsrance,
word Of complaint has been heard the pad of Mis-
souri, the part Of her representatives ehe floor OF
Congress On the contrary we find them scqueng, and
consening, and agreeing to the pledges And now after all
the money has been expended by the General GorDment
for the benefit Of that State and Of other Sates asked
to give the Stale of Missouri $4,000 think tire is
foundation whatever in justice for the demand.
Mr. BENTON. would ask the Secretary torssd the
| amendment made to this bill.
The amendment read.
Mr. BENTON. have merely called for the reading of
that amendment answer in itself full and complete 10
all the last part Of the Sensor's speech.
Mr. President the Segator from Kentucky (Mr. CLAT)
dates the origin of this rad from March, 1906 believe
about year the Senator into the Senate
He dates its origin from March, 1906 if caught the date
Alright and he says at that time to 60 to the Ohio
river. caused great struggle afterwards, about the year
1890 to carry it across the Ohio This is the Senator's his
tory of the origin Of the road Now, it happens that the
acts for this commenced in April 1902 four years be-
fore the time which the Senator supposes and that SO tar
from stopping the Ohio river the very first act and the
compact with Ohio upon the subject provided for carrying
through the States which they reached The very rst
act and the compact the State Of Ohio made upon hepro
positions submitted by Congress- commenced the 3Oth April
1902; ard by that proposition the five per centum was be-
long absolutely to the Sae and the road not only to be
carried to the State but through i-.hr ougb, though
it. This is Of time in the Senator from Ken
lucky, but Of substance in its application to tbs
gument. In 1902 we had no Mssourino louisiana and
Louisiana then part of the dominion Of the Frenh
public acquired by the First Consul in his treaty with pan
in the year 1900 The Senator, then, think, Is in great
in point of chronology in giving bs date Of ls6
the birth Of this road and thereby making laws applicable
Missouri before she belonged He equally nrror
to his date for making the Cumberland road the
that provided for in sO2-eghteen years before time
that the Senator supposes The very first proposio the
road to carry to- and through, the State OF Qbio-to
carry from the navgable waters emptng into the Atlantic
the State, and through and one-twe eth Of
the proceeds Of the land sales within the State ere
served for making the road The navgabe waeI of the
Atlantic the starting point and it is in consequence of
this initial point fixed in the law at that time hS the old
Fort Cumberland Of Gen. Braddock, the city Cum
beand, became the point of commencement for he road
These the facts of the will read the thh propo
son submitted 10 the State Of Ohio by the Congrs Of the
United States, which will prove what say to be in te book
Act Of april 80, 1902.
"Third. That one-weneth of the nett proceek of the
lands lying within the said State sold by Congress rom and
after the threth Of June next after deducng fxpenses
incident the same shall be applied the laying and
making public roads leading from The naugoble wsers empty
into the Hantc to the Ohio, to the said State, ind through
the same said roads to be laid out under the pthory Of
Congress- with the Of the several States ugh which
the road shall pass Poded Arrays That the three fore
going propositions herein offered the condon that the
rrevocabe without the of the United State every
and each Of land sold by Congress from d after the
hrtieh day of June next shall be and remain empt from
laid by order under authority of the Sae whether
tor State county, townships other pupos whatever
for the term Of five years from and after the day ofale
This is the original propostion-its date the pth April
1902 Immediately accepted by Ohio, with the other
articles Of the compact This fixes the origin Of the road
before our acquisition Of Louisiana and also the
fact that the road TO the Ohio river and through
the S,ae-to go to its limit, instead of beig temi-
mated, the Senator from Kentucky supposes
limit This was the origin Of the road, and the surrender Of
the sovereign right of taxing the public lands washe high
price which the young State paid for it. In the yer lS03
this article OF the compact slightly modified to d.
vide the reserved fund into two parts-threehs be ap
piled in making the road to the State, and twoha within
and through it. The object remained the heamount
OF money remained the the character of the pas
mained the the mode Of applying the money only
altered.
quote from report of the committee of the House Of
Representatives Of 1885, which shows these facts a
cially the point that the road was to go "b" and
"Mrough" the State
"By the Of Sd March, 1S03 the above proposition was
SO modhed as to commit to the State three hs of the
ng two-nhs or two Mt the sales be aplroPriat
ed sgreeably to the terms of the act leading and
through the States"
lay stress upon these words ssto" and through" and
repeat them many times ove because the Senator om Ken
ucky caught his words right seemed have -ery inde-
mite deas-very vague and this important
point He seemed to Think and to express himself tina,
the two per cenum was to be applied outside ofthe State,
and also that sufficient If the roads made in
direction toDards the State" IF miss his WORDS hope
to be set right Now, these words Of the Senator ne
ther the words Of the law their equivalents They
different words with different meanings and lead different
conclusions. Outside" implies con,iguity-no con-
tac-t may be any distance off $50" definite and pre-
clse-and requires " In the
drecfi0n focard is equivalent to " TO and through
1t may be any wherein the even-povided one end
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