New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1857-08-12
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Hon. MILES Taylor and his Votes In Congress


Hon. Miles Taylor and his Votes In Congress
70 de People Of The parish Of IAfourchs
You are called on by the Democratic party o.
Louisiana to vote for the Hon. Miles Taylor for Con
gress! Before having complied with that demand il
would he well for you to know that Mr.. Taylor was
one among many who voted in the last Congress
against resolution under which the bill to remove
ohstructions ia the Bayou Lafourche, Louisiana, =
might have passed the House Of Representatives and
become law for It had already passed the Senate.
Let ID examine the record
We Ill know ittobe acardinal doctrine Of the Demo
cratic party tooppose appropriations Of public money
at Washington to improve our rivers and harbors.
But an individual Democrat may sometimes be found
who votes for such appropriations ,citn his Dis
srict, while he is bitterly opposed to all out Of it.
This struggle between political principle and personal
interest may have prevailed somewhat with Mr..
Taylor in the case before us. But his very decided
opposition to river and harbor appropriations else
where, in other States than ours under this Demo-
cratic dogma, enabled Mr. Taylor successfully to kill
!" the bill making appropriations for the improvement
Of Cape Fear river in North Carolina" (page SID
which success, unfortunately for the people of La
fourche, extended itself also to the bill to improve
that Bayou, in bis own District as the sequel here
will prove to you.
BY reference to the journal Of the House for the
last session, you will find at page l26 that nearly
hundred bills which had passed the Senate were on
the Speakers table awaiting the action Of the House.
Among them, as you will see enumerated, the largest
number were river and harbor bills for different Sec
tons ofour country and for Louisiana they embraced
the survey Of Atchalaya Bay and its approaches
another the survey Of the Falls of Red river, near
Alexandria II another to provide for continuing the
Improvement of the Mississippi river and another to
remove Instructions in the Bayou Lafourche Louisi-
ana" together with the bill already mentioned for
the improvement Of Cape Fear river in North Caro-
lima. The appropriation for Lafourche was $31 900.
Now, in order to reach this mass OF demands for
harbor and river appropriations the chairman of the
Committee on Commerce CIR. washburn) wisely
proposed the following resolution See page 572.
Resoiyed, That the Committee Of the Whole House
on the State Of the Union be discharged from the
further consideration Of the bill Of the House, Oh r.
1861 TO continue the improvement Of the Cape Fear
river North Carolina, and that the House proceed to
its consideration; and that when SO under considers
ton, II shall be in order to submit an amendment
thereto, embracing similar provisions for Uarious
other yiUers and kdrbors
Had this resolution been adopted, the chairman
was prepared to move an amendment, embracing
all similar provisions for various other rivers and
harbors" already indicated, and among them the bill
to improve Bayou Lafourche isS
The first motion 10 order was to dispense with the
rules, 50 as to enable Mr.. Washburn to submit his
resolution. Twothirds necessary to decide. The
vote stood-ye 1874, nays IS. So the motion was
carried and the rules dispensed with notwithstanding
Mr. Taylor voted against it, and SO did Thomas Green
Davidson! isa% S
Thereupon, Mr. Washburn submitted his resolution
and the question came up, will the House agree to
the resolution ~ Twothrds necessary to decide The
vote stood-yeas log, nays 66. This motion was lost
because twothirds did not vote for It, Mr. Taylor
voted against 1t Of course
Mr. Knowlton then moved reconsideration, which
was carried, the vote being yeas 1O6 nays So. But
Mr.. Taylor here again voted against it, and so did
Thomas Green Davidson. 3tA @
The resolution of Mr.. Washburn now being up
secondtime and in order for second trial. the vote
on its adoption was TAKEN and the resolution second
time was lost. The vote being-yeas l13, nays CO.
Twothirds not voting for it, Mr. Taylor is found
again voting against it as before, who, with Thomas
Green Davidson and few Others succeeded this time
in killing it as dead as julius Caesar! See page SIG
and 577.
On the same day Mr.. Winslow moved to consider
the bill making appropriation for the improvement
of Cape Fear river N. c. WITHOUT the condition in
the other resolution Of taking up other similar bills
as amendments. Mr.. Taylor's vote is found in the
negative! See page 5T.
Men Of Lafourche! this is your Representative.
You elected him to protect your dearest interests at
Washington. You want the distractions in your
Bayou removed, but Democracy will not permit Mr..
Taylor to vote, as principle for appropriations for
harbors and rivers because it is against the creed of
the Democratic party! He might favor such to some
extent within his own District upon direct vote ;
but how can his constituents on Lafourche ever ex
pect to get through him what he positively refuses to
othersand he must refuse to others or he cannot be
a good Democrat!
Bayou Lafourche must therefore go without this
aid of the General Government You can never gel
it until you have Representative Of the Old Line
Whig school who advocates the old Wing doctrine of
free appropriations Of the public money to improve
our harbors and rivers and thereby to improve our
commerce and our agriculture!
Had Mr.. Taylor's politics allowed him to advocate
this good old doctrine of the Wings, your Bayou
would now be navigable from one end to the other
and your lands would not be oyerowed in high water
AMERICus.
A New MEDIoME.--A curious affair occurred re
Gently in Mahoning Ohio, which is thus related in
paper published in that place: fsl.
A few days since German applied at one of ou
stores Tor quarter OF pound of s'peter salt ,
meaning epson, or bitter salts The clerk supposine
him to mean saltpeter, did up the required amount