The Portland daily press., 1878-05-01
WEDNESDAY MORNING, MAY 1.
Those Northern Claims.


These are the remarks made in the House
Friday by Mr.. Phillips of Kansas, iu answer to
the speech of Mr. Money of Mississippi:
1 rise to question of personal explanation
for the first time in my life; not that L deem it
q matter of very great importance. l find in
the Record of this morning a speech printed
purportlng to have been delivered by the hon.
orable gentleman from Mississippi (Mr Money!
on Wednesday, the Oath instant. AS was
it was either delivered at the night session of
that day, or as understand leave was given to
print it. In that speech it is charged that bills
have been introduced by northern men for the
benefit of northern people, in which are asked
81, ,569 122, ,035.13. But that is not the worst of
it. According to that gentleman, myself in
troduced q bill II. R No. 3239) which asks an
appropriation of $1,300,000,O00; nearly the
whole pabulum on which this indictment
against northern Representatives is fou nded
! wish to show that 1 did not introduce any
such bill and in order that my bill may be cor
rectly understood | here give copy of it:
bill to provide for survey of and estimates for
ship canal with stone sides and bottom, from deep
tide water near the mouth Of the Mississippi River,
to Saint Louis Missouri with brances to Pittsburg,
Chicago, Saint Paul and Omaha
Be At enacted by the Senate and House of Repre-
senatiUes Of the United States Of America IN Con-
qress assembled: That there shall be appointed by
the President two commissioners who shall be prac-
tical engineers to act with officer of the Engineer
Corps of the Army, and the three shal constltut e
commission to make survey OF, toge.h with
plans and estimates for, ship-canal to be con-
structed from deep tide-water at the most practical
BILE points near the mouths or outlets OF the Mssiss
ippi River thence up the valley of said river on the
best location; said plans and specifications shall be
for a canal, with stone sides and bottom, large
enough for two large ocean steamers to pass each
other; and they shall survey and make a pan and
estimates for two basins, at Memphis and at
Saint Louis, sufficient in their capacity to harbor
fifty sea-gong vessels and the said commission shall
make their report at the earliest practicable moment
which report plan of survey, and estimates shall be
submitted TO Congress.
SEC 2. Having completed and submitted such
plan and estimates for said canal. the commits ion
shall without. delay proceed to survey
with at suitable points, to Pittsburgh. by the
valley of the Ohio River; to Chicago, by the most
suitable route connecting with deep water at the
lakes to Saint Paul. by the Valley of the Missouri
River; and to Omaha by the valley Of the Missouri
River and shall reiort each of these branches
they are respectively completed, under direction Of
SEQ 3. The said commission shall in their plans and
estimates provide for the feeding Of said canal from
clearwater rivers and streams.
SEC. 4. The sum of $4,000 so mucch thereof as
may be necessary, is thereby appropriated, out OF
any money not otherwise appropriated in the Treas
By reference to the last section of the bill it
will be seen that it only approDriates the sum
of $50, 600 or so much thereof as may be neces-
sary.
They can do some remarkable things in Mis-
s1ppl, especially IN the arithmetic OF elections
but raising $50 600 to ST. 300 900 900 is rema ka
BILE feat even for Mississippi. Ipresume the gen.
tleman's figures for the other little bagatele of
$269, 1000, 900 are equally accurate. What makes
the matter little harsh to me is that the
10000 asked for by the bill INTRODUCED was, il
obtained, not to be expended in the Northern
States, as he charges but between Saint Louis
and the mouth of the Mississippi River-all in
the South, and no inconsiderable portion ia the
State of Mississippi.
against me personally as having introduced a
bill proposing to appropriate 81 300, 100000. II
the gentleman will persist in bringing bill oi
indictment against me or against the Repubi
can party 1 would remind him that there is one
item which he appears to have overlooked
S5,000,0 ,000,000 for suppressing the rebellion and
preserving the Union, all of which was takeI
from the Treasury or funded in debt by tn,
uo.ss ndS 81 % paS sa0 @acn eo was cnieny
appropriated, in the Southern States