Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1859-03-11
81. clair FIats NOthing--Chicago $4,000


sThe annual commerce Of the Lakes exceeds
$500, ,OOO, 900, employing fleet Of l,6OO vessels
with tonnage of 40O, 900, and manned by 49,
600 seamen. One would suppose that an in
land trade which exceeds our foreign, and
which is of sufficient importance to require rev.
enue districts along the entire chain of Lakes,
with costly eustom houses, collectors, deputies,
and hcst Of inspectors, is of sufficient consc-
auence to be somewhat fostered by the Execu-
tive of the United States, and at least allowed
the small pittanee of $4,000 to complete the
most needed improvement between Superior
and Ontario. So thought majority of the
Senate, so thought majority of the House, but
the Democratic James Buchanan put the bill in
his pocket as coolIy as he does the S25,0O0paid
him for keeping bachelors hall in the White
8 House. The Northwest is again ignored and
irsulted by Execuiv neglect, but not pap
sucking Journal on the Lakes dare wag IFS
t oncue louder in rebuke than to express ire
pret.s Such is Democratic policy and party
subservencY. >-
We are surprised as well as pleased to learn
by the Chicago Tribune that an appropriation
of $4,000 was made near the close of the last
session of Congress siOr repairing and improv-
ing the piers and other works for the purpose Of
securing the Light House at Chicago" in spite
of the south and the Presidential veto The
appropriation is due TO the indefatigable efforts
and prudent management of Mr.. Farnsworth,
. the Chicagamember of the House. The Tribune
thus tells how it was done:
Watching his opportunity, he seized upon the
favorable movement when the miscellaneous
knDrouriation Rill was under consideration in
Committe of the Whole and when Mr. BoeOck,
Chairman was temporarily out of his seat, to Of
fer an amendment to the Light House section,
appropriating the sum named above. Objections
were made that the amendment was not IN or
der; but Mr. Hopkins, who was then In the
chair decided otherwise, and Alr. Farnsworth S
motion prevailed Subsequently, the bill as
thus amended, was passed and IN view OF the
other appropriations which 1t contained, 1t re
ceiyed The signature Of the President. Had the
approximation been asked for in separate bill
had it been incorporated into any bill less
dear to Mr. Buchanan than the one in question,
it undoubtedly would have shared the fate OF
the bill appropriating S55, 900 for the improve
ment of The St. Clair Flats. Had the amend
ment been offered when Bocock was in the
chair, it would have been ruled out OF order
that sturdy representative of pro-sayery De-
mocracy having shortly afterwards so decided IN
the case Of similar amendment to the same
{ biIl for the benefit OF the Osweg5 hafbOr, and
declaring at the same time that he would have
so ruled had he been in the chair when Mr.
Fafnsworth's amendment was offered Mr.
Farnsworth's admirable generalship was all that
saved the amendment, and to him, and to those
who voted with him for it, is the credit due for
securing to Western commerce the advantages
which will result from the appropriation. The
administration and its baekers,- both an the
North and the South, would have defeated it If
they could.