Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1858-07-01

the District Of C0luubia, We have power 70 aP-
propriate The money Of the people Of the United
States for educational purposes in ihis District; ane
where is your authority for the passage Of this bill
The first section Of this BILL Think, is very liberal
because Il proposes to appropriate, for the benefit
Of the schools in this city ali the money collected
by the Government from fines and forfeilures here
In my opinion, that is going far enough and they
should not in addition 70 that ask Congress give
them SO. 600 annually, 70 sustain common schools
here. We already pay the expenses Of their judges
and jurors we build their ails erect their peniten
iiaries, and feed their conviets. What more shall
We dol The States tax their citizens for these pur
poses, and do not call upon the Treasury Of the
United States 10 puy these expenses. This e0mmu-
bity is much bound ia justice, under the Consti
tution, 10 pay all expenses Of this character
the respective communities in the several States.
Il is not right decent, and just TO impose al he
expenses OF this community uP1H the people Of the
United States.
There is another bill to which may alude IA this
connection, proposing 10 appropriate money for the
benefit Of an asylum here for the deaf ard dumb.
There is no one who has more sympathy for that un
fortunate class CT fellow citizens than myself
but where do derive the power TO appropriate for
. theml think the appropriation contained in the
bill 70 which have alluded amounts 10 some two
hundred or three hundred dollars Der scholar for the
deaf and dumb. This community, after asking
appropriation Of that amount TO take care Of the
deaf and dumb here, now want appropriation for
the education Of the thousands of children who are
placed in the world with eli their faealtes-heariDg
SMELL sight, taste, and touch They come 20 Con
gress for an appropriation Of sEO or three hundred
dollars head 10 take care Of those who unable
TO speak, those whose faculties are impaired while
at the time there hundreds Of ehildred born
with all their faculties whom they permitting
become deaf anddumb eirsympsthiesarskeenly
alive TO restore those who have lost their faculties
aud who ever can be restored Il is a strange kind
ofr II NATHAN of ha -ffvr
is 10 be lost throWE away, think we had better
throw away that portion who cam OF be restored and
try to save those who placed in the world with
al their faculties
do not make these remarks out OF any unkind
feeling toward the District Of Columbia for vii 20
far TO promote their interests, proper prin0i
ples any one esn 20; but I am not willing to
my constituents, the people Of the several States
do here those things which the peOpein the States
are taxed 10 do for themselves. Let his community
educate its children let t take care Of its owe
deaf and dumb; lei Il punish its own offenders build
its own prisons, pay its own jurors and judges, as
all other communities in this COnfederaey 0. Sir
the Congress Of the United States has Seen exceed
iDgy partial, TO use no stronger term, toward this
District from the beginning Of the Government,
Since this District has been under tie charge Of the
General Government, Up TO 1857, have paid it,
for purposes not conneet-d with any Federal expen-
dtuFes So 1905 O00 and this does net include ell the
items-OVer five million dollars fOE the lcealimprove
ments, and promote the individual interests Of the
people Of the District Of Columbia. OF this sum ST.
l5O 900 vas paid under an act forte relief Of the
several cities in the District. We have assumed
debts thai they created, aud ought 70 have paid
Of their own funds. Have there been no other bene
dts conferred on the District Of Columbia by the
Cove -amenJ being located hereg As l have stated
We have expended for their individual benefit, and
tor the promotion Of heir local imprOvements and
the payment Of their debts, S. 12O OO0; and while
we have been doing this, have also gathered from
the different States Of the COnfedeTacy the taxes Of
the people, and poured cut SI2, ,748 900 like a fer
tizng stream on this particular locality, for the
erection Of public buildings, and Improvements Of
variOu kinds. / have obtained from the Treasury
Department q statement sho wing the amount expeH-
ded by the United States fer improvements IN the
District Of Columbis up to June 80, 1851: