Glasgow weekly times. (Glasgow, Mo.) 1848-1861, 1853-07-07

not broadly asserted and exercised until
1926"
Mr.. Polk here takes the high ground that
appropriations for Internal Improvements
are unconstitutional. Yet the democratic
party come here and assert in this Court
House, that they are fast friends of Internal
Improvements; that they are and always
have been in their favor, both through the
State and Federal Governments!
The course Of the Missouri representa-
tiyes towards Internal Improvements in
other quarters, will explain why until this
session Congress- has failed to grant us any,
appropriations, though called upon again
and again to do so. The following re,olu-
ton was introduced into the House during
the debate on the Veto Message;
"Resolved, That the constitution Of the
United States vests in Congress the power
TO appropriate money TO open and improve
harboTs, and remove distractions from ma
vigabe rivers, in all cases where such i'm
provements are necessary to the protection
and facility Of commerce with foreign ma
tIons or the commerce among the States, -
Adopted, yeas 100, nays So.
Bowlin voted in favor Of, and Jamison,
Green, Phelps and Hall, against the resolu-
tion-four out of five Of our Democratic
Representatives against the resolution.
Accompanying this resolution was the
following;
"Resolrcd, That the interests of our ma
tional commerce, the common defence, and
general welfare of the United States, re-
quire judcious exercise of the foregoing
powers" Adopted, yeas ll2, nays 90.
Bowln voted in the affirmative of this
resolution, Green, Hall and Phelps in the
negatire-Jamison among the missing
Thus, while Missouri was appealing again
and again for appropriations, her own mem
bers were denying to Congress the consti-
tutional power to grant them!
The third of the series Of resolutions
read:
eReso rel, That the reasons assigned by
the President in bis Veto Message Of De-
cember Is, lS47. for his refusal to approve
and sign the bill passed March g. lS47,
making appropriations for the Improvement
Of certain harbors and rivers, are deemed
insufficient and unsatisfactory"
Against this resolution Bowlin voted, with
the other four Missouri Representatives.
You will perceive that the course Of the
Missouri democracy in every convention
and in Congress has been against internal
mproyements-yet, now, when internal i'm
provements have become popular, they say
Stand back.-out of the way Of the 'Si-
mon Pures." Why is it before this Con
gress never appropriated one acre of land
for Missouri, although the democracy of this
State had full delegation all the time? Be
cause our representatives refused TO vote for
appropriations for other States. This is the
reason why we have been calling again ant
again in vain. But no sooner do we SEND
three Wings 10 the House and one to The
Scnate-mcn prepared TO say "we believe
Congress has power to make appropriation:
for internal improvements; we are willing
to vote for them for other Statcs"--no soon
er are these Wings placed in that position
than Congress grants us 100000 acres o
land for our railroads. Yet the election o
wings was declared by the democracy 10 b'
the greatest curse ever inflicted on an!
State, Yet, Democrats, you are The Inter
nal Improvement men Of the day.-yor
now claim this after so long and so earnest,
denouncing them as unconstitutional. We'll
all can say is, your faces are pretty tolero
bly, hard! You have opposed them in thi
State because they might create debt, ye
The State debt was larger last session of til
Legislature than any session previous
What have you done for Missouri? | wi
tell YOU what you have done. You hav
created a State debt Of 100000, wit
. nothing 10 show for it-not a foot Of railroa
nor foot Of canal-nothing TO show, al
still we are saddled with debt of a mllio
) of dollars. Another important considers
ton is that our taxes are heavy and increas
ing every year. No State in the Unio
pays higher and heavier taxes thafMissou
, ri. In other States, where the yalue Of pro
duce has been enhanced, where there ar
: railroads and canals, and farmers have som
facilities for reaching market, the taxes ar
not higher than in Missouri, where ther
is nothing of the kind. Now, Democrats
come and go with us, and we will do 20
good-we can't do worse; it may be the
we shall do better. Try our policy, and
we can't show that we can do something fc
: the State, we will give it up. But whe
/, you see that the Wings have been far-seein
!; enough to advocate good measures whe
they were unpopular, don't, when they be
= come popular, grab at the honor of original
ing and fostering them, and try to run o