The Democratic sentinel and Harrison County farmer. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1851-1852, 1852-08-18

commends. Especially is this true of Wes'
tern Improvements. 1t was thought thai
the amounts appropriated are sufficient fol
exigencies, and that other appropriations
could be made as they were required, oil
when these contained in the bill were ex,
hausted. When the bill was first reported
the great body of the Democrats took hold
of it in good earnest in order to get it thro
at an early season. 1t went to the commit.
tee of the whole and you are aware that any
bill can be kept in the committee while thelC
are ary amendments to be offered to it. II
soon became apparent that the wings Were
determined to fasten odious amendments up
on it of such Il character as to render it OBJ
{jectionable to the Democrats and thus com.
pei them to vote against it, and defeat the
bill, and then with trumpet tongues they
could go to the people in the coming canvass
and proclaim that the Democrats had defea-
ted the River and Harbor Bill. This game
became perfectly apparent and the great bo-
dy of the whig wire pullers of the House
worked at it with pertinacily worthy of a
better cause. In committee you cannot call
the yeas and nays and of course the eyll ma
ichinations of these men could not be brought
to light. You could not make them show
their hands. Day after day they persisted
in offering all sorts of amendments, eking
speeches and taking votes. One Of THEN
number, Ward of Ky, offered some II upon
which he made speeches and called for votes.
So Of many other Western Wings. Yester-
day, when they began to sec that they could
not attain their ends by hitching on ali in
Vulnerable quantity of amendm,nts, they
were determined to keep it in committee,
and defeat it there, and then go the people
with lie in their right hand, that Demo
cratic Congress had refused to pass River
and Harbor Bill. As good luck would have
it there were certain Democrats of the right
stamp who saw through their Infamous de-
signs. tlds, of Ohio, was in the chair, and
yesterday, after the majority had been wor-
ried until a late hour ofnight, when it was
seen that such wings as Campbell, Bell, Bar
rere, and Stanto" of Ohio, Marshall, Ward,
Stanley, Ewing, Yates, Davis, andnumerous
others, wele determined to defeat the bill
by an outrageous factous opposition, (not
even emitting from the list of foul conspira-
tors the sef-conceted Parson Fowler then
it was that Garter of Ohio, Watching his op-
portunity, spranS to The floor, and in q voice
that fairly made the old hall tremble, moved
that the committee rise and report the bill
to the House, The chairman put the ques-
ton instanter, and before the words were
hardly out Of Carriers lips. Il dcafening
"yea" was the response. The chair declar-
ed the motion carried, and then. came aroar
from the facious minority, More amend
ments! we have more amendments, Mr..
Chairman" "You are too late, " said the
chairman. The fact is, that some of this
minority had taken one horn too much--they
were too slow of speech, and seemed tongue
tied ... ....,.... .,
1t was reported to the House, and Mr..
Seymour, the chairman asked the previous
question Orr, of S. G. moved to lay the
bill on the table, Venable moved call of
the House, and Stanton of Ohio moved that
the House adjourn. On all these questions
they asked the yeas and nays. 1t was
getting quite late, and to vote upon all would
over an hours time, and the re-
suit would be that the House would be lett
without quorum. They would then have
to adjourn, and the bill would thereby go
upon the Speakers table and take its regu
lar turn with the mast of bills on the list,
which would have the precedence 1t would
require in such a case a vote of two-thirds to
take it up, and motion to take it up could
only be made on Monday. In this position
of affairs when it was known with a certainty
that the bill would 50 upon the Speakers
table if the House adjourned with those mo-
tons pending a majority of thu wings left
and the House was left without quo
rum in order to compel an adjournpent, and
thus in feet defeat the bill in the manner in
dicated. Some few Wings who would not
join the base conspiraIorS, looked down cast
and sad. Said Dun an, a whis member, of
Mass, in my hearing, "our friends act bad
ly." Others thought that their party would
be damaged greatly by such attempts to de-
feat appropriations that their own whig ad
had recommended. In this
strange dilemma Messrs. Venable and Urr.
who were opposed to all such improvement
of his character on the solicitations of many
Democrats, consented to withdraw their mo-
tions, and. Mr.. Seymour withdrew his and
moved to recommit the bill to the committee
on commerce, pending which the House ad
journed. t.t--
This acute generalship left the bill in such
a state as to keep it before the House and
require action upon Mr.. Seymour's last mo-
ton the first thing this morning. The mo-
ton to reconsider was voted down this NOR
ming as desired and anticipated, and the pre-
vions question on the passage of the bill.
The tactious wings had but one chance left
to defeat the bill coyertly or without showing
hands, and that was to vote against ordering
the previous question. This they did, but
they were overpowered by the Democrats;
the previous question was sustained, the
main question ordered, and apon the passage
of the bill when these fellows who had been
fighting so long behind the bush to defeat it
were brought up to face the music and put
their votes upon the record, they voted for it.
Was ever such system of political viii
lainy practiced to deceive the people. Let it
no longer bcsaid that the wings Of Congress
are the friends of Harbor and River improve
ments. They are, ifparty can thereby be
subserved. Here was bill which their own
administration had recommended, and these
whig members did their best to defeat it, but
thanks to the Democrats, their miserable
knavery was seen and the bill was saved.
| have given but brief history of this