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snns,.o. ~. n.ss, ~ 'ns 1o'io"n8 1tens:
shsboyFan Ha1bor. ...... 81 81
MicniRsn C...:..'. Cjty.. ..--.-------.--. 81
t0rf aa Maah1ngton % nartor..---.-- -...--.... I5t
Buffalo Masbor. ~ ~
pa1ne Indaon R,71a Ha5eor- 9oG
Boston Hashof. ~ e.
EnoS EEoaneSaG9t HSeF, 9o,o
Maskeeon Harbor.... ... ............... -ieo 1e'o
Manis1ee Hs-s A4Inof- 10
Black Like HaIbor. AZ o
Ghisaeo nsEfo1 ao
Burlington @ Harbor. vt..-....- ............ 1so
Hyarnea Ma@ III M.:hor 1872
faymonta. GLASS, HazboE- 1o,o
aaaaon to these there are sc, 600 az
pfops1ated 10 prevent the Falls Of St A,
'non5 "asnine away, and for building
canai around them this, Of course, is on]
.ae beginning OF an expenditure Of two {
ee m'nlons OF dollars. There is the il
aoie s2'o'o ooo tot tho Louisville canal
WHICH canal no person. will accer
rs hee gift. 1t gives Sill, 90
!of rivers and harbors IN Maine
Dur1ng The last SIX yests Congress
nas been Young money to build Custom
houses 81 inaccessible towns and village.
in Maine, and now this bill proposes tx
Commence the annual expenditure o.
S110,0 600 to dig out rivers 70 enable
schooners to 1each the ports Of entrv anf
take on cargoes of potatoes. Ona hnndra;
and seventy-6ve thousand dollars !.
divided among the districts Of Afaasachr
betts Rhode Island gets 5000: Con
necticut $4,000; Delaware e15, 900 New
York gets $500, 600, and thero is suu
given to each district in Michigan. Wis
consin, Minnesota, and Iowa, besides an
preparations for rivers IN Tennessee md A.
kansas and the Mississippi and Ohio Rivera
Looking over the bill to sea if If vera ,neei
BILE that the rotez of the Philad.1n1,;a -,,ar,
be1s could be expected without a hr;hs
we End an APPROXIMATION for iron-o,iro ~
Schuylkiu hiver ir ON Gibson,s Point to The
bridge at Chestnut street. being that nv,
of the river running thronoh tbe c;tr ~
Philadelphia! The bill does not provide
for building bridges over the
stream at each street crossing, hut that viii
probably be done next year. Last yoar
~-F~~-">t ~t1, WV 4Qf Clf9fIQr tina
channel OF the harbor ct this city, End
raised the money by taxation but Phila.
I;la has four votes IN Congress for any pah-
lie sWindle, and, Of course, is entitled to
heEe her river dug ont and kept clear at the
national expense.
This city has hafbor to which is invited
tie commerce of the Northwest. It re-
guires constant dredging to keep it open,
hut this city has, for many years, paid for
that necessary work, without taxing the
country. We have a right to demand that
Chicago shall not be taxed to open New
Haven harbor, nor improve the ssgut" at
Bath, IN Maine, nor to pay for improving
the susquehanna River. The city of New
York can adord to spend ten OF fifteen mil
Lions OF dollars year as extra allowances
to its osdeials, and the work Of improving
That harbor and keeping the Hudson River
nav1sable might be safely left to thnt city.
toston, which Is mourning her lost foreign
Trade, and which is soaking to restore it,
can certainly afford to clean out her own
barbo1. 1t il confession OF weakness
and of general decline when any
city claiming to be commercial port
p< rznits its harbor to become choked up, and
Iraysthe egove1nnentto to dig it out Members
OF Congress have no more legitimate
authority to ta1 the people of the United
States to dig out the Chicago, Milwaukee,
Kew Haven, Bath, Providence, Boston, or
Buffalo harboEs, than they have to tax the
people to weed the gardens, or TO cut the
TIMBER and grub the stumps Of every piece |
OF land wanted for cultivation. What
authof7sy has Congress to discriminate for |
or against any place claiming to have har-
oors why appropriate money for a harbor
al henosha. and moi at Waukegan Why !
~ superior Cns' ana NOT ct Dniuth Why
~ any u Tue ."en'y plaees IN A1chlgan,
ano noe NJ me tmfSf other places not
mentioned IN the blu2 What authority
las congress to build harbor anywhere,
except for some nntiona purpose? By
what authority does Congress propose to
interfere with the Chicago harbor, md
Dn''d an outer harbor IN front OF the city2
Ihere are twenty millions OF property now
aeid asonG the hffeen miles OF river wharf
age IN lineage and Who hns asked Con
g.ess, OF Inc war department. TO interfere
VAN Inc t'aoe ana commerce OF this city
~ oon'u I'll ou'el oatoor lhe f7gnt OF
properly :" lnae outer -nafoor has yet
20 oe oe1e1nnnea oy 3"i a1d We 90 not
nov me war department OBJ
laheo autaorey 70 oecade tnat the chicago
ls1Tef ana 'fs branches were no longer tit
.or q na1pof' anu enefe1ore congress, at
ne naaonal expense, must bu'ld harbor
'uts1de the CITY, IN the lake, Tor the benefit
i some private corporation, or other par
oLs who may possess themselves OF it.
We object to this kind OF Legislation, T,
Se object to the National Government in !
erfe1ing to build mp cities or towns at the I
NATIONAL expense, and thereby discrimi-
late against other towns. It will require :
., 900, coo year to build all tho hasbots s
II the lakes which want to be buil:, and c
ach OF which has the same claim upon the i
ational bounty. Why select few and
egiect the others: II the city of Portland I
as not energy and spirit enough to keep a
s haroor open Tor the admission Of ves- 4
els. let the harbor close up. The appeal l.
Congress to clear the harbor is au ap- +
hcation in .5ormd pauperia. Congress :,
esse'os' 'ne Eao4e oil Is founded on an n
TO i-oneoas @ p,1nc'ple. There are i've nun I
Ecu c4ltb claiming TO nave hafb0fS &QQ 1.