Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1856-05-17

Northwestern States has received large appropri.
atoms Of a similar character. do not object to
il hui refer To the fact that they receive these
/ CONCENTRATIONS when weaker States, not aa-ocia
Ted with interests which. by combination in the
lInnse may b. able to to carry them through,
/ fail
Mr. pfTGU In former times. Mr. President
/ wbrn We have passed general bills they have met
/ with one Executive veto after another, and the
excuse rendered has been that. although most If
the appropriations, or many OF them were meri.
/ to,ioas they we're connected with others which
were not meriioriou.. We have been told
every occasion to bring in our bills for these i'm
/ proyement. separately and allow every case 10
stand on its own merits Now, when we have Ia
/ ken the advice, when The hills prodn ed sep
nrntely. we ara told TO go back so a general
hill. The Senate will see the consequence.
Now. | wish 10 PROFOUND question to my lear
ned friend from South Cardinal Can the Gov
ernmeni of the United States set up lighthouses
at Marquette. on Lake Superior They have
set up lighthouses mt Gharleston.and the Senator
from Alabama (Mr Clny.1 who addressed a
few dnys since discosss the fact that in the year
1917 tho appropriations for every mile Of north.
orn Atlantic shore amounted To- S6O,l0 for light.
house proposes alone. aud half that sum for the
Southern States; and my friend from Virginia sits
hear To vote year after year for appropriations To
/ provide lighthouses
Mr.. BUTLER That is done ia the exercise
of the commercial power
Mr.. PUGH. Commercial power! / grant it.
Bot If the Congress of the United States can EN-
poy man to stand on Il reef Of rock and can
build him house to stand in, and 10 hold light
! To keep n vessel from running on the rock. hold
that they can take the rock out OF the way OF the
vessel | can see nothing in the distinction
The moment youIadmit the power to obvaie those
difficulties which lie in the path of commerce tho
momcn. you can set up lights and buoys, that
moment you can remove the obstruction.
| Mr. BROWN. Mr.. President, it seems to mo
! that we Of the Democratic faith have gone sadly
a-trny on the subject Of internal Improvements.
| We have either passed resolutions which do
not understand, or. having passed them, we de-
| liberately irampe them under foot. 1t is high
! time think. that we strike those resolutions
| from the book of our principles or else resolve
| to adhere to them. In 1Si5, when our venerable
| friend from Michigan made the standard
| bearer ofthe Democratic party, we resolved "a
| ganst general system ofinernal improvements
| The Wings in my part of tho country charged
| precisely what we have before US in the Senate
| to-day. They snd. lyon mean to have no gen
| cral system of improvement, but you mean to
| have it in detail" When was appealed 10 |
| said with that lrnnkness which trust has always
| been aud always will be part of my character
| I'VE contemplate no such thing We are iucapa
| BILE of declaring against general system which
|
Of the country aud which shall dispense its bles
sings all pnrts of the country, and then 90 for
| u special system II legislation which shall benefit
! ono section at the expense of another
| | believed then that my party ~as sincere on
| this question. and that in declaring against II
general system il declared against the sy stem IN
| the aggregate and in detail 1t seems. however,
| that am 10 learn from tho Senate now differ
| ont lesson.
| Sir. this must stop. You must either cease to
! pass these bills strike opposition to internal
| improvements from the platform of your party.
! This kind of cheatery aud humhuggerv on the
country cannot toe long tolerated. When You
say that you cannot improve rivers and
hnrbors, that il is az in-t the principles If the
| party To do So and then take up harbor IN this
| State and river some wher" else and go on scat
terng your improvements all over the Union,
taking one mans constituents for the benefit of
another's you cannot expect the people to believe
that you acting fairly. Such an idea may
pass current here. but when you get out before
the straight forward. the honest hea rted, the
wool hated, aud hume spun hreeched farmers of
! the country, they will not understand 1t. They
| will say TINT there Is an attempt among the poli
! tcians 10 cheat them on this question.
Sir have got to upon this su'Jert We
have broken our ruddpr, have lost our com
! pass; the pilot IL overheard and the ship Is at
the morcv of the winds and the wave.
bio and If we, rs party. d. not mean to stand
up against internal improvements by the money
of the Federal Government, let us say so like
men. am opposed to these appropriations, and
| have been from the beginning aud as an indi-
vdnal | expect to remain so; but desire To
| know where | ain 10 stand IA party man. do
not wnnt to Ga home and be humbugging my
constituents with tho idea that my party is oppos
ed 10 intennl improvements when it is not.
Mr.. WELLER. Mr.. President, if this were
new question, | might be disposed to go back t.
the policy adopted ut the beginning of the Gov
eminent.
never learned until to day that the Demo
cratic party # the United States stool commit
ted against the exercise of the power to improve
harbors' This is thu first tne IN nay life that
have received the information that the )emoera
CIV IN this country were committed against the
Improvement of harbors on the ocean or the
lakes, when necessary either for military on com
mcrcial purposes.
You have on the Atlantic ocean on the Carb.
he an sea and ON the Cult of Mexico a feet thai
cost you an immense sum of money;aud still it is
snid you have not the power under the constitu
ton To appropriate a single dollar TO shelter it
Is that the constltuiion!ls that the position of
the Democratic party of the Unitod Statesl Are
they to put ON this Mississippi Straight jacket
Are we 10 make this Government an Impractical
bic machine as the doctrine of my friend from
Virginia would make it.
/, MIR. SruARr-rhe Senator from Mississippi
says that he stands on principle, aud goes a
i,an>i all these measures. Sir. it occurred to
my mind, when the Senator rade that remark
that |. with others, fought him fora whole day IL
keep Pascagona out of IL general river aud bar
Tor appropriation bill, aud he beat us aud got it
in.
Mr.. BROWN. My friend will do me the JUS
, iice to say that announced distinctly -and that
was the only Issue IN the controversy-"put il in