Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1858-03-10

Discussion on the general subject Of Internal
LnPrOrements--.Hr. Bar6oar-.Nr. Raymond
and his tSpeeeh-A Taking Sketch Of the
Member from Harrison County.
RrCuMoND March 9th, 1858
The Orange Alexandria Railroad apPrOpri-
alton bill was defeated on yesterday. This pro
position, which has occupied the time and the
attention of the House for weeks past, has in
volvcd even more discussion than did the never
to he forgotten Lieutenant Governors bill. The
discussion was not confined TO question of
proPriety or eXpcdienCy in making the asked
for appropriation to the Orange Company alone,
but taking wider range, and more enlarged
basis, it embraced the entire subject of internal
improvement. With such vast field for them
TO trace and rctrace, Il lengthy debate was to
have been anticipated, and members from all
sections of the State embraced this opportunity
as the most favorable which would present it.
self, for making known their views upon sub
ject, so especially important at this time to the
State.
Mr. Barbour of Culpepcr, was IT,. patron
of the bill. and assumed and conducted. The lead
erShip of its other supporters, if not Successful
iy, very ably and croditably. He has LOT only
well sustained, but enhanced his reput ition as
an orator, and an aStute lugican; and to him the
partial and almost complete success Of the bill
may be accredited, as Juveval saws, "tantuna ar
titicis rGlst hubitns 0ris.
During the discussion of this BILL the ablest
speech which was made against it was made by
Mr.. Alpheus Raymond, of Marion county. This
speech discovered labcrious study, aSsduous
Investigation, thorough and extensive knowl.
edge of the condition and value of the various
internal improvement ways and the different
State interests. and showed Mr. H. to be a man
of unusual ability and remarkable clearneSs of
mind. The bill proposed TO make a loan of
100000 to the Company above named. Mr..
d. opened his remarks by saying, substantially,
that there was no money in the Treasury To
make a loan; that the State was indebted to the
working men of the commonwealth for work
done by them by virtue of laws passed author
iZing appropriations for that purpose and that
the State had no right to make loans from the
treasury OF to loan the bonds of the State until
the hIreling had received the wages of his labor:
that the question was: whether the man who
has labored, and who the commonwealth owed,
should be paid, or that the State might make
whatever loans she chose, to their exclusion,
and loans made for the beuetit of the city of
Baltimore to the injury of Virginia improve
inents and the destruction of the James River
and Ohio Canal, in which the State had invested
over eight millions of capital, and also the Cen
trail and South Side Railroad; that he was OPP
posed to the increase of taxes; that the Banks
and individuals seemed 10 be in 4 state of sus-
pension and oppression, and this was not the
proper time to make appropriationsrequi an
Increase of taxation now or hereafter; that the
bill proposed only loan at the end of this fiscal
year, there would be a efficiency in the treasu-
ry, and that they could not make n loan
without increasing the taxes, under the pro-
visions of the Constitution that if there
was any surplus money it was in the peck
cts Of the people, and that they knew better
how to probably invest their money, than the
Legislature did for them, that the proposition