The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1856-05-17
YaE pEnooRATIc SENATOR FROM IOWA.

We see from the abstracts Of the debates that Senator
Jones' Of Iowa has achieved great triumph In tho pas
sage Of tho bin making grants Of land for the construction
OF railroads in hs State but not Of the
credit that really due him until read the official
report and the nature OF the influences and combine
tons that were brought to bear against him The firm
ness perseverance and manly ability with which Mr.
Jones and defeated every effort 70 delay prevent
the passage Of the bill in the Senate ente him TO the
gratitude of every citizen of Iowa. for though per-
sonal interests may have been interered with by the BILL
yet there be doubt that its effect the State
large will be emnenty beneficial Nor do we think that
any individuals have good TO complain. The
ures encouraged substantially those in which the peo
pie of Iowa interested and which the legislature of
Iowa has recommended by repeated enactments.
1t very unusual 10 upon any in the Senate
without reference TO committee II was demanded by
Mr. Foot of Vermont member of the Committee Pub
lie Lands that the Iowa bill should take the usual
This movement met by an earnest resistance by Mr.
Jones and was defeated The bill passed without refer
ence On the meeting of the Senate Mr. Crttenden
who had voted for the reference but had also voted for
the bil moved reconsideration of the its pass
age TO admit Mr. Schenck (of Oho) to appear before the
committee to show why the bill should not pass
Line to participate in its advantages Mr. Foot then at
tackled the bill in elaborate speech that occupied por
ton of two days in which he undertook to show that the
bill departure from previous bills and from the calls
of the legislature of Iowa To this speech Mr. Jones
piled length he followed by Mr. Wade, of Ohio,
in favor of the motion of Mr. CritendeI to reconsider
Mr. Jones' of Tennessee supported his friend the senator
from Iowa. aud made speech in which he showed great
1F.l.. NJ.
Meanwhile several of the friends of the bill called upon
Mr. JONES' and begged him to consent to its reference to
committee Mr. Jones told them that he nad been early
taught that delays dangerous that the bill had been
defeated in past years by nsdous and unterhand conr
vances and he did not wish to expose to the peril
again that every day ofimportanee that the citizens
of Iowa had been struggling for this boon for many years.
that the present their last chance that he could
and would not consent the senator from that State
to any of compromise to any call for postpone.
ment He wanted immediae action and he called upon
the friends of Iowa. and the friends Of railroad communi
cation and of progress and civilization to unite with him
in his attempt to dispose of the question at once and with
out any reference to a committee.
The zeal and energy with which Mr.. Jones urged the
excited in high degree the sympathy and inter-
of his friends in the Senate and insured his
Its Importance to bis State cannot be oyer-esmaed 1t
will probably double her population in the next five years
1t raises the value of every farm within her limits from
twenty fifty per cent 1t gives ample fund for the
prosecution and completion within reasonable time, Of
four great roads, raversng the whole extent Of the State
For this the people of Iowa indebted TO The untiring
diligence vigilance promptness and perseverance, of Sena
tor Jones' and doubt not that they will understand and
appreciate his important and most mertorous services
Nor viii they forget that though the bill received the
and the cooperation of Mr. Harlan, the republican
from Iowa. all his political friends abandoned him
in the of trial. and that the bill carried by
democratic votes. The following the vote the
ton TO reconsider: ~....
YEAS-Messrs Bigler, Bright, Clayton, Colaner, Crit
tenden Fish, Foot Foster, Mason, Pugh, Reid, Sumner
Thompson Of Kentucky, Wade, and Wison-i5-
NAYS-Messrs. Adams, Benjamin, Brown, Cas-, Dodge
Douglas Durkee, Fitzpatrick, Harlan, Johnson Jones
Iowa. Jones Of Tennessee, Mallory, Pratt, Slide Stuart
Toucey Weller, and Yuee--l9.