The Council Bluffs nonpareil. [volume] (Council Bluffs [Iowa]) 1857-1867, 1859-01-01

WAsnlxoroN, Dec. IA, 1858.

-, wAsnlxcroS, Dec. IA, 1858.
At2 O'Clock tho Pacific Railroad billca
up according to agreement st the adjourn
mcnt Of the debate yesterday. The amend
meuts, made last session wero read, VIZ,
MI. Davis's, Mr.. Doolittle's and Mr.. Folks.
Thereafter Nj. Wilson moved new
amendment that the road should follow the
Add parallel of latitude.
MIR. Stuart lAlich.) asked Mr.. Wilson to
make his motion for the 49th parallel, which
he protested himself unable to do, inasmucf
as it would thereby lose its central charac'
ter.
On the suggestion of Mr.. Broderick, Mr.
Wilson assented to make it from the 35th to
the AID parallel. -.
MIR. Mason (ya.), thinking it unlikely that
, the bill could pass both Houses this session
moved that the bill be laid on the table
which the Senate refused to do by Nays 81
Yeas %, rs follows:
YEAs-Messrs. Allen, Bates, Bayard, Ben
iamin, Brown, Cameron, Clay, Clinsman
Crittender, Fitzpatrick, Hamlin, Hammond
Houston, Hunter, lvcrson, johnson Tenn.
Mason, Pcarce, Reid, Sebastian, Slidell
Thompson On. J.), Toombs.
NAYs-Messrs. Bell, Bigler, Bright, Brod
erick, Chandler, Clark, Collamcr, Davis
Dixon, Doolittle, Durkee, Fessenden, Fitch
Foot, Foster, Green, GwiD, Harlan, Jones
Kennedy, King, Polk, Rice, Seward
Shields, Simmons, Stuart, Trumbull, Wade
Ward, Wilson, Wright.
ABsENr-Messrs. Douglas, Hale, johnson
(Ark.) Mallory, Pugh, Sumner, Thompson
(Ky.) Yulee. 49,.
Mr. Davis (Miss.) spoke on his amend
ment, maintaining that the road should bt
located not on political, but on commercial
and Governmental considerations. lie re-
garded the road us necessary, and was in ia
vor of leaving its location to the contractors,
in asmuch as their instincts will naturally III
I duce them to select the best route.
| Other Senators then made remarks Incl
dental TO the various amendments.
| Mr.. Shields (MiDn,), was in favor OF
route from the great lakes to Puget's
Sound.
Mr.. Doolittle (Wis.) was in favor of the
route being located anywhere between
! Breckenridge, Mimi, and Fort Smith, Ar
kansas.
Mr.. Iverson (Ga.) protested against thu
omisson of latitude 80 deg.
Mr.. Brown (Miss.) would like to see thu
eastern terminus left open clear to tn,
mouth of the Mississippi, but did not like
the Government to interneddlc in it, as Gov
ernment influence was blighting, not foster
ing.
Mr.. Foot (Vt.) personally was in favor
/ OF road through the South Pass, and neal
the 42d parallel, as a fair compromise be
tween the extreme north and and south, bu
would assent to have a western terminus a
San Francisco, and the eastern on the Mis-
sissippi, leaving it to the contractors to To-
cate tho road.
Mr.. Green (Mo.) considered that thcr,
was no constitutional right to transfer to in
tcrestel cap tnlsts the duty Of locating the
route. One trunk with branches at either enc
is all that can be built; and Us it is for Gov.
eminent use, Government ought to have thu
privilege of locating it.
Mr.. Polk (Mo.) offered an amendment
that the Southern terminus should be Mt the
mouth of the Mississippi, when
Mr.. Davis suggested the southern bound
airy Of the United States.
Mr.. Gwin (Cal. moved as an amendment
that no terminus should be named, but that
they should merely vote for the road.
Mr.. Doolttle here introduced il bill as a
substitute, which was not read but ordered
to be printed.
Mr.. Wilson moved that the debate be post.
p)ned until Monday, for the purpose of un-
Outstanding the subject with its conplica.
tions.
Mr.. Mason considered that it was no use
to postpone, as the subject was not suscep-
tlble of being understood.
After some farther remarks from Mr.. Gwin
against the postponement, the Senate at s.
2j, T. NJ, adjourned.