The daily union., 1852-04-11

stroy our appropriations they should chance To be re-
ported. But will not detain the Senate, | know the
bill will pass by overwhelming majority, bat not by
Mr.. BoRLAND Mr.. President
Mr. hosk hope the senator will allow to say
word L Is evident We cannot get vote on this qaes-
Mr. MINGuM Yes. we can 5l{)
MI HUSh | think il is evident we cannot / came
here this morning to ask the attention OF the Senate TO
private bi, thai would not occupy hye minutes pass
or Ielectt u Is in favor OF widow lady upwards OF
eighty years OF age, who is now blind heir OF revo-
ulonary soldier whose pension was suspended for
era years because he went out OF the United States
Canada The daughter OF that lady is here without any
means OF support and subjected 70 incur considerable
pense and unable TO employ any one as an agent in her
behalf II this debate goes the result will be that
the close Of The day there will not be quorum left here
TO act upon any private BILL and shall not be able 10
pass The bill for the relief of this lady to-day
Mr., BORLAND. know that senators who desire to
pass this bill are impatient OF delay and have desire
have objections to the bill and though feel very sure
that cannot defeat its passage. yet it is my privilege
and believe il TO be my Duty to make known the mo-
tves which acuae me, and place upon record the rea-
sons which control my course
The senator from Iowa Mr., DoDGEl has very properly
called the attention OF the Senate to the circumstances
connected with our legislation for improvements on our
western waters We know very well the difficulties we
had TO encounter here the kind Of opposition met last
year. and the by which appropriations for those
objects defeated We found senators then influenced
by constitutional scrupes and all other kinds OF scrpes
that could raise up or suggest opposition to an apopra
portion toowas destined TO The great valley OF the West
We found all sorts OF opposition made all sorts OF expe
dents resored to- which legislative tactics could suggest
or tolerate, to defeat what we not only believed but tt,
TO be proper and necessary appropriations Appeals On be-
half OF the mutudes OF our people who are annually
destroyed for want OF those facilities and that protection
10 western navigation which have been refused 10
the eastern section OF our connryappeals were made,
but made in vain, TO the sensbies and TO the OF
Justice Of senators. few hundred thousand dollars
less, sir, than the amount OF this bllconld not be ap
propraed because of senator's scrpes! Where their
scupes now The treasury is be opened to IFS core,
and millions to be taken oHt for what regard
unnecessary and improper obect-a useless nay,
worse than useless expenditure OF money; and, TO at
tain that object, this wedge of 5OOOoO to be driven in.
until all the fastenngs OF our national Golfers shall be
rent asunder. and the treasures they contain coined out
ot The sweat OF people, laid open TO the grasp OF ire
sponsbe agents, whose only 10 be the exPend
lture OF the largest sums in the shortest time
Let not senators complain, therefore, at few obs,a-
cles thrown in the way--at little time taken for exam
naon of this pet scheme OF theirs, by those who regard
the expenditure OF millions TO which it will lead
much taken from our urgent and legitimate wants for
fancy works here at this seat OF federal power, and
in violation too. as we think, OF all propriey, OF all
those principles which should govern and all those rules
which shoald be observed in Dispensing The public
ures
No, sir; il is no factious opposition we make We
only wish 10 be heard Our claims have been postponed
long enough-aas too long already yfo year rolls by
without leaving thousands of our people dead upon
the waters, and millions Of our property swallowed up,
because OF your refusal to extend that OF relief
and that measure OF protection which think ami feel
you owe We cannot stand idle and silent, and
moved, when we see you squandering millions upon un-
necessary works. and know that TO suffer in
sequence OF posponement OF our reasonable and Just
demands, by being coolly told that the treasury
hausied
Mr. President il is enough TO raise in our hearts the
strongest feelings OF indignation when remembering the
injustice we have been made 10 bear, millions, at
the mere executive bidding, freely poured out not with
the avowed even acknowledged purpose but certainly
with the effect, all must to fill the pockets OF
tain Spectators who hover about this city. vultnres
about carcass, 10 feed and faen npon the government
filling the citys pueus and the congressional galleries
and sometimes IFS lobbies, and making up that outside
pressure which is annually filling the treasury 10 reple
lion from the peoples hard earned money. but that 1t
may be squandered in the hopeless task OF filling the
moseess daughters OF the horse leech, whose cry, still
and unceasng, is, Give give"
the galleries do not aude to The iaborers who have
heen employed ia this work upon the Capitol No, sir
they. however humble they may be- however unorunats
they may 10 be, have my respect and my hearts
strongest sympaihes But, SIR allude to that hearess
set-or whose hearts, il they have any, as hard and
cold The blue stone and as worthless as The mortar
in those walls of which we have spoken-of that set
who, wrapped III the hypocrllical garb OF sympathy for
the aborer, but to cover their own scshness, have i'm
posed upon these poor men, and would now use them as
instruments TO extend their own obscene grasp still deeper
into the public purse who speculate alike, as occasion
may permit. upon the necessities OF the aborng man,
and the sympalhes of members of Congress- and who,
through the medium OF hireng press not all tho press,
thank Heaven y denounce members OF Congress whom
they do not find plant 10 their purposes and seek 10 hold
tnem up 10 the WOrlN As HaTu-ncaftcu anu unIetins
wish put upon the record this expression OF the opn.
ions and feelings entertain this subject so that,
however much may be misvepresen,ed and magned ~
this latitude Tor doing my duty By those whose foul
pockets refuse to li OF the public Treasury shall,
least, 10 my plain and unpreiendng, but Just
minded and honest-heared constituents at home some
idea OF the state OF things here, and of the motives
which govern me, and OF The reasons which determine
my votes
Mr.. DODGE ask for the yeas and nays,
The yeas and nays were accordingly ordered.
Mr. UNDERWOOD. / have few remarks only to
make. sympathize with the honorable senator from
Arkansas and from Iowa, in great deal that they have
said have asked the Senate twice TO take up
measure in reference to our Western waters and have
been able TO succeed but this has come up
without any difficulty. Notwithstanding my sympathy
with Them, see the day Is coming and near al hand,
when the valley which they mud represent in common
Congress- and when objects which have at heart will,
perhaps, have voices, and hope able heads 10
support them any we have now
Bat, notw outstanding all that sympathy, shall vote
differently from my friends this occasion, and think
due 10 ms self reluctant 10 consume the time of
tue Senate, 10 state why shall dler from them. do
Il because this is not original question, OPP
posed 10 the plan OF extending the Capitol in the begin.
ming but you have commenced the work, and you have
appropriated money, and expended hundred thou
sand dollars IN s prosecution, Now, for as
signed by the senator from Michigan, MIR Clss1 for the
stability o legislation, Tor the prevention OF osca
ton. which would place in ridiculous attitude before
the public, am willing TO execute The plan which has
been adopted
suppose you begin the construction Of custom house
lay its foundations. and spend hundred thousand dol
rne hospital and expend hundred thousand dollars,
and then the In