The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1860-02-21

favor and against it. This is no question.
After it has been agitated for ten years, gentlemen
should not ask to have time for considering its
provisions. Do not smother it. Ii you Kill 1t, let
it die in fair fight.
Mr. BRIsCoE asked to have the bill referred, from
sense of duty. The bill involved great questions.
The ComptrOeris is authorized to spend great sums,
and the Committee WAYS and Means should re-
port on it. The only argument in favor of the bill
is the plighted faith of the State for its PASSAGE
but should the bill, in justice to the State not go
before the Committee on Ways and Means? The
Committee on Corporations is formed principally
of gentlemen from the Eastern Shore.
MIR. LANDING denied that the bill had always
been defeated in the House former occasions
1t was passed four years ago in the HOuse-defeat
ed by the Senate-and passed by the Senate two
years ago and defeated by this House. ''There is
stand off, and you can say no more" Laughter.
Mr. Landing thought the best way to get rid of
the State debt to have a new Constitution.
Mr.. FREANER disclaimed any intention of delay
ing the bill by referring it to Committee on Ways
and Means.
Mr.. JACOBS hoped no delay would be occasiOned
in the passage of this hill. Time is short act it
now. The Eastern Shore has been taxed for over
81 900, 900 for improvements in the West. Weask
an acknowledge of the indebtedness of the
State to the Eastern Shore. Let the bill come up
upon its merits. If it is killed, be it Do not
let the Eastern Shore be forever paying taxes to
improve the West. If it is so, a spirit of hatred
and will be engendered, which, to say the
least, would be unpleasant.
Mr.. DENNIS would like to know if the action of
the House on Saturday, to make the discussion Of
the bill the special order of to-day, did not bind
the gentlemen to take action upon it now.
Mr.. BRIsCoE stated that he did not then know
that the bill not acted upon by the Committee
on Ways and Means. He was not, therefore, pre-
pared to discuss the matter. He acknow ledged the
plighted faith of the State to pay the appropria
ton, but he wanted the Committee on Wavs and
Means to tell US how and when, and in what man
ner the appropriations should be made. we pass
| . l. - Al.
would be retarded for years. If an appropriation
! of surplus revenue asked the gentlemen from
the Eastern Shore would vote against it and claim
all the surplus as their own.
| Mr.. DENNIS asked, would the gentleman vote for
the bill reported By the Committee on Ways and
Means?
Mr.. BRIsCoE-I would not bind myself to do so
| Mr.. DENNIS-Then the gentleman does not ask
to have it referred for any other reason than to
cause delay.
| Mr.. FoRD understood, on adournng on Saturday,
| that the bill would be considered to-day. The bill
was acted upon informally by the Committee on
Ways and Means. They thought the honor CT the
| State pledged to pay the appropriation. He
was one here to say that he was in favor of direct
taxation to pay the claim of the Eastern Shore.
| Mr.. GoLDsBoRoUGH, as Chairman of Committee on
| Corporations, necessarily brought into the
discussion. He denied that the Committee is COM
| posed entirely of Eastern Shoremen. He did not
think that the gentleman of the opposition had anv
| intention of throwing odium the action of the
Committee on Corporations, else he would take 1t
as personal. The members ofthe Committee were
! bound bv their oahs as well as others.
| We claim the bill upon moral and constitutional
grounds We claim it not in law, but on the NOR
ality of the thing. In moral sense the invest
ment had been made by the State. On these
grounds he asked to have fair fight, and if it is
killed let it be done. Besides, the bill came from
the Committee Ways and Means to the Com
mittee Corporations, in the same way it now is.
| He called for the question.
! The question to recOmmit was put and lost by
the following vote:
Yeas-Messrs, Kbourn Speaker; Welch Bris-
coe, Parran, Compton, Burgess, Denison, of Balti-
more county; Quinlan, Bryan, Wootton, Jones, of
Prince Georges; Kessler, johnson, Eakle, Brining,
| Freaner, Griffith, Gorsuch and Brown-l7.
! Nays-Messrs. Rasin, Medders, Ford, Jones, of
Talbot; Chaplain. Dennis, of Somerset; Long, Law
son, Linthicum, keene. Holland, Maxwell, Miller,
Legg, Jacobs, Landing, Dennis, of Worcester;
! Wilson, of Hartord Mccoy, Straughn, Colds
borough, Kraft Booze, Seth, Berry, McAllister,
Smith, Denison, of Baltimore city, Stake, Gordon,
| Barnard and Beall-34
The House then resolved itself into n Committee
Of the Whole upon the consideration of the bill.
Without acting, the Committee rose and the
Chairman reported that they had the bill under
! consideration.
The cars then left.