The Council Bluffs nonpareil. [volume] (Council Bluffs [Iowa]) 1857-1867, 1864-03-19

/ kspseeh or Hon. a. 5. Eel.

Il The. House being Id Committee of th
4 Whole on the billof MF. Halls, and a.
4 substitute offered BY constnitses Oh i. 4
i TO resuns 1ahss granted 10 certain raif
| roads, Mr.. Bell Of PottaWattauie. spok,
substantially ~ follows: $3.50 81 I. f.fffi
I AS Representative s0f the people tfy;u,
Eon the line Of the DC. E Dc. B. k.. and al
rect representative on this Hoos OF thu
people and thas CITY which has the homo
Of being the halfway statiSsl on tn.
great national highway between the At
lantic and Pacific oceans, would be re.
creant to nay duty and obligations d
those citizens of lows; who so generousls
supported me in the last election it die
mot speak out the syiews and sentinaesats
of that portion of the Slater not by spe:
Iciaf pleading, but from the higheg stend
point of a representative of q great pen.
pie. Neither our people nor their rep.
resentatiye are the enemies of railroads
but the reverse. and while we are sin0th-
/ ering In our fat--wheat 45 cents per
bushel in our city--is sufficient proof ot
that assertion. s.. ...,,... "a. IT.. '.s
| + had the honor OF being one oi
/ the special committee on railroads,
and was with the al majority
who reported back the bill of the
gentleman from Mills, and recommended
It's passage, hence have been regarded
as an active resufnptionist, and all who
thus acted have beeua regarded as the en-
ennieg of railroads. @ ,s...:,s -. s..rr
| said on this floor on q former ocea-
sion, that the sooner we took action on
| the railroad matters the better bath rsfor
/ the settlers aud the State, and II have
had no occasion to change the opinion
then expressed. desired TO get this
question 'before the Rouse do the easliest
possible moment, kno~ingl its simporg
tanoe, and feeling, that debate weuls
bring out all the questions involved. I
never did admire the resufn ption jhili Of
the Senator from Pottawattanaio, or fOa
the gentlaman froul Mills. II fully, be
lieved however that il, ,mightSe amended
so as to answer the object we ar fseefned
to have in view, via: the Sure Lroth hctionl
iofthe settlers on the oddthuraberea seo-
tions aaeng the lines of those railroads,
but not designing to destroy the RAILROAD
interest of the State. .. ~ :; ~ Ht@j'*iq'
| I have steadily manifested d direct 1Iosr
| tility to the moral reform society efethel
gentleman from Dnbuqner called by some
| Bes Moines Navigation Co, and since
that was an institution purely democrat
| ic, I am willing 10 alloEa Ett 10 pass into
history alongside the parent, aud let
them both live in history and occupy the
same prominent position among the
things that are past. And since every
able speech IN favor Of resumption seems
to have this society" to be cared for a.
of primary importance. and the settlers
secondary, I propose TO try and steer be-
tween these extremes, and afford protcn-
tion to the settlers. and let! the Dss
Moines Navigation Co. 20 with its parent
,-lhadern Demaocracy--to its own native
home, and when the settler Is fully pro-
t5cted then give full and earnest sun,
port to the great railroad enterprise Of
Iowa. i. ................- ..,.. .....-.,..
ana unwilling to transport all our
goods by OK teams for many years to
come, Just IN order to benefit !" Mioau-
Der, ,"who duly sits in our lobby waiting
for something to turn up and few
friends who may be associated with him,
and urge every member on the line of
this great thorough hfare of the M. & H. Il.
R., to examine carefully, whether there
is not q pretty big Niger in uncondi-
tional resumption, and ifCufy Is conceal
ed in this bin. let us quietly 10y It aside
and so amend thecondition resumption
bill as to meet the views of the true
friends of the settler on the frontier,
without crippling our railroads or giving
out to the world that we appear to be
unfriendiy TO our railroad enterprises. ii
Now the swamp land question has sew
eral sides certainly as many as q grain
of buckwheat-and / blush TO be com
PEELED to believe from actual observation,
that . great sffaad was praeticed in
conducting the swamp, land business
throughout the western and north
western portions of the State, ,eand am
not here as an apoloaiss for thnse trans
actions, bat Bhereefsa class of persons who
have purchased those lands in good faith,
and deserve and fully believe will receive
full protection as far az this Legislature
san give Those persons are those: who
have purchased from the counties and
improved the land, and to-day they look
to US inploringais to stand between them
| and these sooffass ser71orations,a and our
action will either send q thrill of joy OF
woe to many o household on our western
| frontier joy IL we protect by iegislations
sorrow ana sadness I'LL ws-fall to giac sueaI
iast and fair prasapEiah. ysrts bsa rz,sI
To this measure hanest railroad men
cannot object aasinslaiy. and the soofiesa
eexFpFation does not demand at our
hands very naush mpathy They nsus
ally lcan cake care of themselves. and If
we have for once obtained q little advatl!
tage and usA it--not to thsif injury. but
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