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home, and Washington territory loses all
charms ofadopting him. Create the induce
ment by good roads for him TO visit here
connect the Sound with the Columbia river
by trunk road from here to Vancouver
and it will prove the greatest benefit CON
tinue yOur trunk along the Columbia TO the
/ Dalles and YOU must receive a very large
increase of population The Hon. gentle
man was not consulting his direct personal
interests advocating this policy, but he was
here to advance the Territory, and not his
private feelings. He alluded to the five
miles portage al the cascades-ihe passage
over his road-by railroad of two miles Of
all the travel. Said he, | occupy the gate
! through which all must come, who reach
Washington and Oregon by way of Colum-
bia river. Ny direct personal interest is
against this contemplated system, whilst
things remain MS they are it is TO my great
profit and advantage, but for one | am will
| ling to be taxed heavily to build the CON
tinuance of the road. Let my personal in
terest now be sacrificed, the portage over
my road now to my advantage suspended,
the emigrant passing by without beneiitting
me, but more comfortable on a road built
for his travel, and | will cheerfully accept
in exchange, my expectation of benefit and
profit in the growth of the territory its
wealth aud advancement l care not par
ticularly for this bill il does me no good
personally, but wish to see and tiuat ui
Ghee, a great trunk road between the Col
lumbia river and Puget Sound.
Mr.. Miles of ewis, alluded TO the great
Importance Of this measure alluded to by the
Senator from Clarke-the great feature of
the session. esaid, my colleague, the senior
senator from Lewis says he opposes this bill
on principle. 1t seemed to him that If an
objection on the score Of principle should
prevail, this ends all hope of getting ter
ritorial road through this session. My col
league thinks this bill violation of the
rights of humanity. Could think So | too
would oppose it, for am always ready to
act as the champion of humanity-thc de-
fender Of invaded rights Those are dear
to me and l would be recreant to duty if l
did not attempt TO protect the injured class.
He says it will pass through districts for a
long distance unpopulated, 'subjecting the
inhabitants of more populated portions TO a
great increase of taxation, and fearing that
it might be suspected that the people Of
Lewis county were Of the sentiment ex-
pressed by the Hon. Senator. i would
like to express my views why l support this
bill. ...' ...
The. people Of Lewis county go for the
road have seen many Of them-they de-
sire it built-they are willing to be taxed
aye, they have already heavily taxed them
selves, and now only ask that you may le-
gally establish road, that they may know
what they are to do. They are not afraid
of any tax-they only desire to feel safe in
working it. They have already opened
transient roads, making them good in some
places. Private enterprise has already
done much, but these roads and trails nee
essarily pass over lands which, now unoccu-
pied, may soon be claimed under the provi-
siOns of the donation law, and the fear ex-
lists that these trails may be blocked up
right of way terminated Pass this law
therefore and give your sanction, and they
are ready to build roads and TO be taxed
for their support Let not the gentleman's
principle prevail or we must abandon the
whole idea of roads till we cease to be a
territory.
Mr.. Miles continued at some length ad.
yocating a main trunk road from the point
where the weary emigrant strikes our ter
ritory, and extended through our whole do
main. If gentlemen on this floor, by their
constituents demand road, he was ready
to vote for every one proposed. ..
Mr.. Tappan moved to lay the bill on the
table till Tuesday March IA, l854-carried
House bill No. l3, entitled an act TO 10
cate territorial road from Seattle to Bel
lingham Bay, read q second time and laid
on table till March a., 1854. a..
Council proceeded to consideration o.
(C. B. No. ], an act relating to elections
and the mode Of supplying vacancies The
question was on striking out the "2d sec
ton" amendment proposed by Mr.. Miles
who withdrew his amendment and the
Council considered the amendment of Mr.
Catlin to strike out the words, unless they
were residents of the territory at the time
of their enlistment"
Mr.. Miles resisted the amendment ant
hoped that citizens Of this territory muster
ed into the United States service. woulC
7 not be disfrahchised because they were rea
dy to serve their country-amendmenr
carried.
Mr.. Miles moved to strike out whole sec
tion, and supported the amendment in {
speech of some length advocating the right
of the officer and soldier, their meritoriou
J service as emitting them to our regard, ant
without concluding his remarks gave wa!
J for an adjournment till 2P.M.
} AFTERNOON SESSION.
The vote was taken on Mr.. Miles
: amepd1ient to strike out 2nd section Q
!, bill which restricts non eompOteS, convict
Of treason, felony, bribery, etc, from ', 70