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ny why 1t should, pass this House at thit

 session. It was rejected. 1t was re jected because there had been no sur

 yey and estimates. To-day my frient from Missouri proposed to amend thi.

 blll by providing for the improvement of the navigation of the Missouri and

 Upper Mississippi. His amendment Va: adopted. WAS glad it was adop. ted. fought to have been adopted.-

 But will the gentlemen of this Commit. tee allow me to ask. if there was SIT. vey ofthose rivers? We're there estimates of the cost of those works? No; there were neither surveys or estimates.-- He asked for tue adoption his amend ment, and you swallowed it down with out q count or division. Why was this amendment adopted and mine rejected Why were surveys and estimates dis pcnscd within his case and required in mine? Why is Missouri provided for, and Arkansas left to her fate? Why is new measure now preferred to an old one? Ny friend has but to ask and he ereceiyes-rot soswith me. Before can get an appropriation of Sl5,0G0 to improve the navigation of the Ar kahsas, It seems that must first have it surveyed by battalion of cadets stnplings who have scarcely age and strength enough to wag under the weight of their eoekades and tinery.-- Yes, sir, those modern Solomons, 1t seems, must ascend the Arkansas in Il steamboat, at the rate of about eight knots an hour, for the purpose of count ing snags and calculating their dimen- sions. A fine employment for cur beard- less heroesl They would be well em- P'oyed, by way of variation or pastime, to amuse themselves by counting the sands upon the shore, or the leaves up- on our forest trees. Such heroes as these, 4po1e seteh an errand, would bring down upon themselves and their em- ployers, the contempt and derison of the very boys and milkmaids of our canc.brakcs. To suppose that any good would result from survey of that riy- CT, is worse than folly--nonsense and madness. 1t is a useless expenditure of the public money. So it would be to re-suryey work, every time you wish ed to repair it. Give money enough; that is all you have to do. The Mem phis road has been surveyed. Itis un- necessary tosuryey il again. In regard to the otherroad, l have only to say the Engineer who superintendcd the struc- ture of it, has written a letter to me, which is in the possession of the Chair. man of the Committee of Internal Inn provement, stating that it will require g, g ,000 in addition to the unexpended balance 10 finish the road at the two OK. tremes. It is about twenty-five miles on the one extreme, and about thirty on the other. Look at the bill. You find thousands of dollars appropriated for roads in Michigan, and not one dollar for Arkansas. The gentleman from Kentucky will vote for those, but he is unwilling that there should be one dol lar appropriated for roads in Arkansas. Ihave said more than l had intended to say. l hope the Committee will dis pose of the amendment.

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