The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1869-08-14

kEMUyAL or THE NATIONAL CAP
iTAL.-For some time past Eastern jour-
uals have been urging the necessity of
removal of the national Capital to more
central location, and by general consent
st. Louis MOI seems to be nominated
rs the place for establishing the future
Capital of this great country. In speak
ing of the chances and urging the neees-
sity eff the removal, the st. Louis Demo-
crat figures in this way The States now
represented in Congress which, by loca-
tion or natural alliance with the Missis-
sippi valley, may be expected to favor
removal of the Capital, number fourteen,
giving twcnty-eight Senators and one
hundred aud thirteen Representatives.
The New England States, New York,
Pennsylvania, New Jersey. Mary land,
Delaware, North Carolina, South Caro-
lima and Florida, may be expected to
favor the present location, aud they are
represented by twenty Senators
and one hundred and seven members.
Georgia, whose condition is in dispute,
and will be until its Legislature ceases
to defy the Constitution, is an Atlantic
State, but a considerable part of it is
more closely allied in business and in
teIest with the interior of the South
West Virginia is on this side of the
mountains, and strictly belongs to the
great valley, but its comparative prox-
unity to Washington may turn its vote
the other way. With Georgia and West
Virginia, the Atlantic vote would be
thirty two Senators and one hundred and
seventeen members. Now it is not ex-
pected that the votes of all members will
be governed by considerations of locality
only. Some of those who come from
States allied 10 the valley may oppose q
change at this time, while some others
from the Atlantic States may with rea-
son believe that, as the change is inevit-
able, it had better come before more
money has been expended at Washing
ton. The fact that the mileage of
Eastern members would be increased by
removal ought not to be considered at
all. But the intolerable annoyances and
uncomfortable swindles of Washington
the hotel charges, the boarding house
charges, the rents, the cost of living, the
expense of maintaining that public
nuisance called the District of Columbia,
the bother of passing laws for it, and
the perpetual torment of having to take
a days journey whenever member
wishes to serve a constituent at any of
the departments II these considerations
are justly of weight with Eastern men
as well as with Western. Very few
people realize how heartily Washington
city is hated by the unlucky people who
have been forced TO submit to all its
frauds and impositions. We reason, then,
that the number of members from the
Atlantic States who would favor a change
will be greater than those of the valley
States who viii oppose it-enough greater
to turn the scale even in the present
Congress, if the West should unite aud
present the matter seriously, and with
energy and tact As to the transfer
itself, that could Re effected in one year
as we'll as ia twenty. It only needs more
men, more ships and more energy. The
nation which has learned to build ten
miles of railroad in day, can surely
move half dozen stone buildings-or as
much of them as may be worth moving
and put them up in decent shape,
without great delay.