The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1882-08-11
THE RIVERS.
The South Getting "a Fair
showing.

This is the 6rst river aud bar Dor bill
ever passed giving the south even re
spectacle showing. In old times the OPP
position of southern men, in Congress to
app ropriations by the General Gofern- :
nent for internal improvements was part
r--.l.-t- ...-faI5---tBe cause-
While millions upon millions of money
have been obtained from the Government
by he persistent and untiring work Of
eastern members of Congress for their
section, cleaning out every river and i'm.
proving every harbor, the great, inland
sea- has been totally neglected. There
has never been the day, since the great
northwest was settled up, that the PEG
pie interested, by uniting, could not have
had their proper share of the appropria-
,ious for the Mississippi and it's tributar-
les
Our members of Congress seem at Inst
10 have come 10 realize that the right to
appropriate money for UGH purposes is
settled question, whatever the south may
have thought about it in old times; and
the question being settled, and the money
in the Treasury being used by hundreds
of million 5, there ID no reason why the
south shall not have her proportion, and
especially when nature has given TO
her this vast inland waterway, whose
tonnage, with a reasonable expenditure Of
money in clearing obstructions, will ex-
coed that of all The railroads in the Uni
ted States ten times over aud this is one
Of the reasons why New York is fighting
this bill Make the Mississippi aud its
tributaries what Nature intended, and
the vast grain fields of the west and cot
ton fields Of the south will not empty
their treasures into Newly ork. over tkvi
great trunk lines.
= The Mississippi river gets fer it's share
Of this appropriation IS 3S8,oO0, besides
what the Missouri asd-Ohie igavit.
The former Of these two gets S9ge,e00,
and the latter SS66,0 making in. a.,
S6,67s,000
Theu for other improvements in the
southern States, the appropria tons arc
as follows: Virginia. S228. GOO: West Fir;
ginia, $235, 000; North Caroline, 1920 400
South Carolina, S3Tl 900; Georgia, S4S0,-
600; Florida, $685. 600; Alabama, $40. 00o;
Mississippi S6G 600; Louisiana, $4,000;
Kentucky, S256, 500; Missouri, SIS, 600;
Arkansas. $3.50, coo; Tennessee, S274,5o0;
Texas, 1882, 500, making all the -aFpro
priations for the south, including what is
given 10 the Mississippi below Cairo. 50,
6l7 300 This - more than as eYes.done
for the south ~ the General Govern ment
Our men bers of Congress. who made
this fght for the south, win be sustained
by the people The northwest stood with
the south in this struggle. Indeed, it is
common cause, and the great northwest
fully realizes how closely the two Sec
lions united.
Among the strong men in Congress
from the south, Tennessee: has had her
full proportion. Indeed il is doubtful If
any members from any part ofIhe south
or west have had more infl1ence in shap-
ing the policy than some of Tennessee
members. 1t is a matter of the greatest
interest now that tie south shall put her
very best men in Congress.
The striking feature about this bill is
that New England gets so little Maine
gets $3.50, 600; New Hampshire, S55.O00:
Vermont, SIS, 500; Massachusetts,. $50 :
600; Rhode Island, $4,000; Connecticut,
S232. 900; in all, 1856 800
This was done by a bold and manly and
just declaration by Congress-espe cially
by he members from the south aud west,
saying to New England: Yoa have had
your share and you must wait until the
sections heretofore having nothing are in
some measure compensated for their vast
contributions to your Treasury.
The New England people as people of
enterprise are without q parallel, hut
their vast wealth comes in great meas
ure from Federal Legislation.