Arkansas true Democrat., 1858-06-22

..,,riety of striking out and inserting, or
 p.opriety of the proposition l have sub
 ltUf On the broad question of the impor-
 If this railway, connecting the shores of
 ,Jantic and Pacific, it is not competent for
 erter upon it at this time when l have
 ,:Gc nroposition submitted to the consider
 af the Senate l had almost waited too
 The bill has been taken out of the com
 f the whole. and is now before the Son.
 .roner: but when proposition was made
 ,apd the tenth section, desired to go back
 .mend the first, and take up the bill in re-
 oder had hoped therefore, this
 1r,ont would be considered and not the
 eral subject.
 rh;s hill as it is LOW proposed gives discre-
 .o the President and to the contracting par
 noyntiating with the President. The east
 4,.7oinns of this road is to be between the
 .h of the Kansas river and the mouth of the
 c;ony. distance of two hundred and eigh-
 ,;es Now, sir, the Senator tram Iowa says,
 a specific location, and the bill IS defeat
 qa says. locate the eastern terminus at the
 ,h of the Kansas river, and this bill is de-
 .d If so. then the bill ought to be de-
 JONES. beg the Senator's pardon.
 ootsay the bill would be defeated. l sad
 roaId in my opinion, endanger the passage
 he biH IL would be manifest injustice to
 constituents. aud should not be very much
 osed to favor it then.
 ,r. GREEN. l understand. We must Ee a margin to play upon, and to hold out pcaments never to be realized, in order to
 ceptlemen to vote for this bill. I prefer sr fo come to specific points, and to know csev what am voting for. If the eastern minus is to be the mouth of the Big Sioux, ay so. and will be prepared to give my If it k to be the mouth of the Kansas
 so More than that, if there is discretion led in the Executive at all, with regard to loration of the eastern terminus of this road, do you bring up two points, and say it st be between those two points? Why not
 from the Gulf of Mexico up to tine forty. tb parallel of latitude? Why not leave
 this wide discretion? The very argument which yon are justified in crcumscribog
 to two hundred and eighty miles will jusi
 roa in bringing him to the specific point; for
 is to be left to his unlimited discretion, n wide the portals; leave him unrestrained; Emit him to go down to the Gulf of Mexico as high as our boundary with the British Sessions If we have right to limit and umscrlbe him at al, if it be good policy to so at al it is still hetter policy 10 leave mo- Ey to be cheated to leave nobody to be de- ked, to cave nobody to be mised; for if the T could not pass with the location at the kuth of the Kansas, it would be fraud on bgress. If the blil could not pass if the tern terminus should be ihe mouth of lh, ! Sioux, and yet should pass with this dis 5ton left in the hands of the Executive, and location should be made at the mouth ot Big Sioux, 1t would be fraud on the other tnches of the government.
 Ghere is but one fair systematic. consistent De in which we can proceed; and that s to e the subject for ourselves. When the Sen
 from New York says that this Is the only Re Of passing the bill. it is admitting that Ae5oly is to be cheated under the bill Il t nobody cheatei; 1 want the Congress to E the power with which they are invested #the constitution, and ex ercisc If; and, if they Ee right to say, i've will make !. road at T say where that road is be located
 II take 1t to be fixed fact, susceptible of the
 rest demonstration, that the through bus- Il from the Pacific to the Atlantic, over the 7k Zen plains west of the Missouri, will never 4 fy but one road, if oue There is not a ke railroad five hundred miles long. in the Kted States, upon which the through bnai- Ss will pay is regular runnins expenses. It |the way business, together with the through 6uess that supports and sustains the only ni that are supported and sustained. If this &o in the United States, where we have roads &adv male, and if we nut run across the fhs for more than five hundred and seven Rdred miles, where there can be no way bu kss, if you make two or three roads. and
 np the through business, they must all kk down, and fall to naught. O6lv one can <naie; it is questionable whether one can be; the political public wants of the Govern. ht are strong enough to induce me i'd 20 for
 will % for no more than one. Only one
 to be made. The transit can be made in same tune on one that it could on three.
 len it reaches the settlements upon the east
 III connect with radiation of railroads, Zen will throw the benefits of that olr road, & sections of the Union; and vou do not & more than one. Accumuiatihg the whole &he through business on one road may, per 7ps keep 1t up, together wi n jhe whole prl- T of carving the mails, aid doing whatever [ter transportation may be required by the
 lie wants of the government.
 |A hen taking it as a conceded point that you
 only have one roal-and | think hat Is
 euble of mathematical d1mon>tratIoti--
 rs ou sht that one to be? Ought it to be
 a in the barren sand, oi the aauth, from Ei &p to Gdayam Is? Oagh 1t to be up .n the Een reGouS ot the norta, to he "bSJructed by 0Ns for more than six months III the year. @easule south and north. would 1t be just to 3 rest of the Uniun 10 contribute to the con Mcton of such road ont oi the general fund Bngiue to the whole Union, the immediate keit of which should be pouled into the lap Ebne section only? say not SIT; ani when bropose the m0u,n of the Kansas do 1t un Q idea that it does accomm ,aate the south as M as the uor.h, and accommodate the north |h ell as the south. IL Is true 1t does inure a Ae more to tie benefit of Missouri than any 5er State; but in any country there must be entre, and 1t So happens that Missouri Is the Rt centre on the western border Ot the United 4pes, at least so far as the Atlantic States are tcerned And because it does mure a little 4re to her heueft, shall we therefore do in- Ece to Missouri in order to do still greater psIce to other portions of the Union? 1 kt not. To avoid Missouri, 10 Shun her, and Prevent the accruing benefits resulting, and ECh must necessarily result. we are ro do In- Zee eithf to the north or the south. Such #aigument as that hope will not prevail;
 hope will not be charged AS proposi.
 resulting alone from seitishness on the
 of the Missouri representatives. It is not.
 true that has had itS due weight and con- erauol; but l ask any Senator to look al
 subject and say, if we can have but one
 where ought It's eastern terminus to be?- as to deal justly with both sections of the Bon, where ought it to be? As near the cen zof the weat line of Missouri as you eau Re 1t, according to my understanding of the 3Eraphy of the country; and when it reaches fe, the present facilities of communication 4 take that trade to St. Louis, to Chicago, to Hrleston, to Baltimore, to Philadelphia, to H~ lork--everv where according to the in eements which may be held out for 1t.
 lt will not do for the Senator from New York kpeak of the city of New York as being en- |ed to any more than her just proportion.- Den the road strikes the centre on the wcs- F borders of the Atlantic States she has her 6al opportunities to participate in the rich |de which IS to flow from the Pacific ocean; Ii she cannot sustain herself with equal hartutjflpS | home f., eao No,f,I, r,a-i,.,>,