The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1852-06-08

passed, and the bill to repair the Cumberland
dam was discussed. Upwards of two hours
were subsequently, consumed in Executive SEES
sion.
In the House Of Representatives several bills
relating to the Territories were passed, and
also resolution proposing, with the concur
renee of the Senate, an adjournment of the
two Houses of Congress on the sixteenth OF
August next, at twelve o'clock, meridian.
MIR. Pierce on Harbor and River Improve
! ments.
We had occasion yesterday, in noticing the
nomination Of Mr.. PIERCE, to remark that his
political career has been distinguished by little
beyond undertaking hostility to every plan Of
internal improvement. We showed that in his
course upon questions of that nature he has
been uniformly hostile to the requirements of
the young and growing sections of the coun-
try; that by his resistance to grants essential
to the carrying out of great public improve
ments, he has done all he could do TO impede
the progress of the Middle and Western
States; and that even the East has good
grounds of complaint against him for the extent
to which his antl-improvement predictions
impelled him. The mention Of 'internal i'm
provements' seems always to have suil ced 10
arouse within him feelings even ore partisan
than those of numbers Of his party then in
Congress. ANDREW JACKSON was upon this
question less pharIsaical in his Democracy than
/ FRANKLIN PnRcE.
| That we may not be accused of dealing IN
baseless charges against the gentleman who is
10 prove tower of strength to the Democratic
party, we intend from time TO time to refresh
the memory Of his friends and ours with refer
ences TO the official record of his conduct while
4 member of Congress. We are mistaken if
before the contest now began be ended. the
leaders who happen TO be. responsible for Mr.
PIERcE's nomination will not discover either
that their memories were singularly treacher
Gus when his claims to the Presidential chair
came up for consideration, or that they com
mitted an egregious blunder when they assum-
ed that the country generally never knew, or
had forgotten, the facts that figure most promi
nently in connexion with Mr.. PIERcE's Con
gressional career. We start to-day with the
report furnished by the Congressional Globe Of
proceedings on an additional Harbor Bill'
which was brought up for the third reading in
the House of Representatives on the 2Sth of
June, 1886. The Globe reports as follows:
A bill making additional appropriation for the
Delaware breakwater, and for certain harbors, and
removing distractions in, and at the mouths of Ger
tain rivers, and for other purposes, for the year
1876
The bill had been reported to the House, from the
Committee Of the w hole, with sundry amendments
the details of which given at length, when the
bill was under consideration in committee.
The first amendment of the committee con-
CURED in without amendment.
The second amendment Of tho Committee OF the
Whole was to strike out the clause "ior continuing
the improvement Of the navigation Of the Ohio and
Mississippi rivers, from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
to New Orleans, Louisiana, and from the mouth Of
the Ohio to the mouth of the Missouri river, one
hundred and ten thousand dollars;'' and insert
| 'for the improvement OF the Ohio and Mississippi,
! from Louisville to New Orleans. seventy thousand
| dollars; for the improvement OF the Mississippi
river, above the mouth VI the Ohio and the Missouri
river, to Independence, $50 900, in such manner,
and for the removal OF such obstructions, the
| Secretary Of War shall direct"
Mr.. SMITH moved TO strike out $4,000" and
! insert s 80 ,0O0;' lost.
Mr. HAwps opposed the whole appropriation,
on the ground that its effect would be to increase
the number OF officers of the Government
Mr.. BooS said that he wished to cay a very few
words before the question was taken. Mr. b. said
that nc had been honored with in the House
of Representatives during period of nine years,
and had uniformly voted for appropriations Of mo-
ney for the common defence and general welfare
| Of the United States" whether the money 10
be expended on the Atlantic senboard or in the
South, and he would now vote against the motion OF
the gentleman from Kentucky. Bot, said Mr.. b
will take this occasion to advise gentlemen, that
unless more liberal policy should hereafter be
tended towards the new States of the West, he
would If his life should be sparcd him, return, at
the commencement OF the next scssion OF Congress,
! prepared to organize western influence, that
would be felt against all appropriations OF money
east Of the mountains, until justice should be done
i 70 the people of the new States in the West. Sir,
said Mr.. b., will not longer consent TO have the
people of the States taxed in the purchase oil
the public lands, for the be neit OF other portions Of
the country.
| Mr.. b. said that pledges had been given him, for
some two three months past, that direct vote
should be had the bill reduce the price Of the
public lands before the adjournment of the present
session Of Congress Yet this promise bad not been
! fulfilled, wns there any reasonable prospect
| that it would be. Mr.. b. concluded by sayng that
he had become tired Of living upon ironi,es alone
and called upon gentlemen from the Western States
| to prepare to go with him in future in opposing
appropriations for the scaboard until something
should be done direct for the people Of the West.
| Mr. REysoLDs, Of Illinois, said that he was cory
to dctoin the. House at this late period Of the ses
sion; but the subject interesting to the people
he represented in Illinois, which is HE cYcuse for
Addressing single word to the House.
| The gentleman from kentucky said he was op.
posed 10 the amendment, as it created moro officers