Speech of Hon. Milton S. Latham, on the Pacific Rail Road: Delivered in the Senate of the United States, on the 12th Day of June, 1862. Also, Debate in the Senate, on the Steam Ship Line from California to China, and Passage of the Bill, on the 25th Day of April, 1862J. Murphy & Company, 1862 - 31 páginas |
Términos y frases comunes
allel amendment amount annual ascents and descents Atlantic bay of Panama Bengal Presidency British Cape Horn Cassimeres China commerce Congress Corvette cost Cotton Cumberland road distant empire England equal establish a Line estimate exports favor feet FESSENDEN finances foreign Fort Smith forty-ninth parallels Fulton to San Government guns honorable Senator interests Islands and Japan Lancaster land grants LATHAM Line of Steam McDOUGALL measure millions of dollars motion to reconsider nation Navy northern object ocean overland Pacific coast Pacific ocean pass ports postal present PRESIDENT pro tempore protection question railroad railway Republic resumed the consideration San Francisco Sandwich Islands Senate proceed Senator from California Senator from Michigan Shanghae shores special order square miles Steam Mail Ships Steam sloop steamers sums of ascents territory thirty thirty-ninth thousand acres thousand miles tion tonnage trade Treasury treaty Union United United States Navy vote yeas and nays
Pasajes populares
Página 3 - The motion was agreed to ; and the Senate, as in Committee of the Whole, resumed the consideration of the bill, the pending question being on the amendment of Mr.
Página 17 - The motion was agreed to; and the Senate, as in Committee of the Whole, resumed the consideration of the bill (HR 18542) making appropriations for the legislative, executive, and judicial expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1918, and for other purposes.
Página 9 - The interest upon the credit loan of $65,000,000 of bonds will be annually $3 ,900,000, leaving a net excess of $3,400,000 over the present cost; appealing with great force to the economy of the measure, and showing beyond cavil or controversy that in fact the Government will not have a dime to pay on account of its credit, nor risk a dollar by the act authorizing the construction of this great work. The United States, if there is force in figures, facts, and reason, will secure with a land grant...
Página 30 - I ask for the yeas and nays on the passage of the bill. The VICE-PRESIDENT (Mr.
Página 9 - ... liquidation of the principal. Official reports and other authoritative data show that the average annual cost, even in times of peace, in transportation of troops, with munitions of war, subsistence, and quartermaster's supplies, may be set down in round numbers at $7,300,000. The interest upon the credit loan of $65,000,000 of bonds will be annually $3 ,900,000, leaving a net excess of $3,400,000 over the present cost...
Página 18 - River, the sum of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars by, and the same is hereby appropriated, to be paid out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated. "SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, that the...
Página 5 - ... canals. Such a power has been exercised to a certain extent. It has been the constant practice to allow to the new states a certain proportion of the proceeds arising from the sale of public lands, to be laid out in the construction of roads and canals within those states, or leading thereto. In 1806, congress authorized a road to be opened from Nashville, in Tennessee, to Natchez; and in 1809, they authorized the canal of Carondelet, leading from lake Ponchartraine, to be extended to the river...
Página 17 - California to strike out all of the original bill, after the enacting clause, and to insert a substitute.
Página 18 - The question is on the amendment offered by the Senator from Oregon to the amendment of the committee.
Página 17 - Ibid. (Emphasis added.) Consideration of the bill was then postponed. The next reference to the bill was on March 4, 1870. It states: "MR. STEWART. I move that the Senate proceed to the consideration of Senate bill No. 365, to secure to all persons the equal protection of the laws.