Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1884-10-16
How Burr Jones Votes.

written letter from the pen of a farmer
shows Burr w Jones up in his true
light Shows how he votes in Congress
at the dictation of his Southern masters
to whom he gave himself wholly up
when he first took his seat, and not in
! the interests of the farmers of this
section, who are interested in the con
struction of the Hennepin Canal at the
earliest practicable day The question
will suggest itself to many, did VIM. F.
Villas, the great political mogul of
Wisconsin, in whose Office Burr w.
Jones studied law before he went to
Congress, and who is the greatest and
best paid Railroad attorney in the State,
have anything TO say as to how Burr
Jones should vote on the Honrepin
Canal Bill?
PATCH GROVE, Wis, Oct 8, 1854.
AS Mr.. Jones is again before the
people. asking them tor their support,
it would be well for the voters to ask,
what did Mr. Jones do for the industrial
interests Of the County that he should
be returned TO Congress? Nothing.
He advocated free-trade, which would
ruin the industrial interests of the coun-
try. He worked and voted for the
interests of the greatest monopolists in
this country.
The people of the West want the
Hennepin Canal constructed, but the
Railroads oppose it. All Of the Com
mttee on Rivers and HarborS signed
the bill, except Oscar Turner, of Ken
lucky. The bill appropriated $1,000
to begin work on the canal. and when
it reached tho House, Burr w. Jones,
of Wisconsin, led The opposition. He
raised the point of order that the Com
/ jurisdiction over the subject. The
opposition maintained that it was with
in the jurisdiction of the Committee
on Railways, and when the Chair
decided against them they appealed
from the decision of the chair, but the
decision was sustained 103 TO CD.
They then moved to strike out the lien
nepin canal clause, and il was finally
carried, by nearly all the Southern mem
bers voting for it. 1t was defeated by
the solid ID mocratic votes of the South
and their Northern followers
Burr w. Jones knows that he worked
and voted against the interests of the
people, and III his speech at Blooming
ton, he excused himself by saying,
There was better route, laying right
along the side Of the proposed route,
and when they adopted it, he would
vote for it. We hope no voters will
take such tan'y from one who has be-
trayed their interests We think if the
voters of the district were properly in
formed of Burr w. Jones course while
in Congress, they would relegate him
10 stay at home by 4 large majority.
A few words in relation to the bene-
fits of u ship canal. Upon general
principles, whatever benefits any con-
siderable portion of the people, benefits
the whole, A ship-canal from Chicago
TO The Mississippi would greatly benefit
the people in half dozen states 1t
would be direct route to Europe for 4
very great number Of shippers; and
merchandise could be imported into the
West, to the benefit of every body, at
greatly reduced rates.
Commissioner Fink, OF New York,
shows that railroad freightS rose and
fen regularly IS the Erie Canal was
closed and opened; and the Hennepin
canal would affect freight rates in the
West in like manner. Every one OF
the Northwestern states would receive
benefits in the reduction of the cost OF
transportation Of grain to the East, and
manufactured articles, iron, coal. oil,
aud salt to the W est La the matter OF
anthracite coal alone, it would reduce
transportation from Chicago to the
Mississippi S150 per ton, and save to
consumers at least S3,000,o00 annually.
The construction Of the canal is neceS-
sary to complete the waterway from
New York to the Mississippi, and all
should recognize the Importance of the
project in facilitating commercial rela-
lions between the East and the West.
j. 4. c.