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,,17.-The House ot Representa-

 'uq2 sg;:aa under consideration the bill v9s s;,n n appropriations for certain har- s0fs, 1, WHIrE, of Louisiana, moved to ~ ..a5 ,li' inc clause making an appropriation PT ,5 5'os sa;d that the biii, as reported by toe ll~ oitfse. contained clause of thirty s0,',,, so,d dollars for improving the nayiga- r '1opsJa ar Red river. The amendment I have ion @ 1, .o inc Chair, said Mir. ". proposes to F~ ,ose ' inc sum to fifty thousand. With any any disposition to occupy time, at this ao viii beg leave to state few of the s5 a5ons which induce me to offer t.

 ! S1Tg ST1,o improvement contemplated by the |,sa ;s inc removal of the great Raft of Red % .r As to the importance of the work, 'o1I va not enlarge 1t this time of day, con

 a,;og as do, that matter as aseertained ,,o fact of the Government having here r.o undertaken t, and voted sums of mo- I for its execution. If, however, were N [@' soeaIt Of that subject, could say, with X 8ay fear as to the precision of the re- 1,,r. tEI,at. ia point of interest and Falee, in "A roneral national respects, the enterprise 2 secondary to none of similar nature to Escb the United States ever have, or pro- E,sy ever will have, occasion to lend their EsE9tenanee E and support. GiNile GiNile Red river E dpep and beautiful stream, intersecting 4Hs territory of the United States for some or eiobt hundred miles. About midway ,ts conrse, its channel IS blocked Up by @ass of accumulated timber near one .nlred and fifty miles in extent. This HT 3FTiid,bble obstruction was, for long time s@aed insunerable. + was reserved to &s energy and skill of Captain siH6Ve to bor what could De accomplished by indus snd iudieious application of the pow E o money. During the last season, he Eaeeated the raft above seventy niles EW rqport is before us. He estimates the Enbsble cost of completion at one hun N.a thousand dollars, the merest nothing sl compared to the incaleulahle impor- X &me of the achievement. His views have ksn carefully revised and sanctioned at the Enrment. They have the concurrence Ehe Engineer General, as Is apparent

 Ed he regular commitment ton of the &c., Eshry of War, made at this session; and

 but of tenderness for the purse, the off,

 estmate for this item, WAS the. poor pit &Mq of twenty five thousand dollars.

 sr said Mir. ". the impolicy of going I@t il H this way, is apparent. The ob- Eas 10 be effected at the cost of one kD5rel thousand dollars, but 1t is one hun "A E thousand dollars effectively applied, EBinseason. II you dole t out in drib-

 aad instalments, the result cannot be N Esame. He operative materials, the

 I'd and the apparatus, are to be collected

 arecrited in the upper States. Labor =4sF5af 4F5a ttaae ttaae service are not to he had on the

 Before such an armament is brouoht Fea,ton at the Raf, a sensible breach

 3 De made ID the fund, fer stipend and 8@iaon. have in my hand care

 u8parea estimate of the cost of such

 A'speiition. asayt from tbs tine taev are

 s5HY emBloyed in the work; and, sU, it

 afds hrciao til048and douaYS The hun-

 el thousand dollars is the pr5ximate val Ebn for the doing of the york, whence t $gident that if we give it in annual parcels

 6M or five years, twelve thousand doi-

 Knust be withdrawn for each years pre-

 HRhOn, 50 that the eventual disbursement

 Ebe at least fifty per cent. more. What ll M be promptly effected for one hundred a pFaad dollars, will require one hundred a Rtffy tbousand, or more, when prosecu- N hp on the dilatory and miscalled econo- p rI system.

 Ihe incidental expenses of each cam gn, nave shown to be twelve thousand r hE now, suppose you proceed to ap- S prate the hundred thousand dollars in mal modieums of twelve thousand dol sltnot apparent that the whole amount 4 Qd be wasted in prehminaries, while, in 'ol act, the grand object would remain V oOcheat In this way, you might go on + y0a had expended one hundred thou- '' or million, without disturbing the

 Nu0a ot a single one of the trees ilnbed-

 m the raft. Therefore, l say, Mr.

 0lmsn, that putting for the moment, all ? GotlVes out of view, the sole motive ! FeolOrny, the mere calculation of saving ? pa lmpel us to increase the sum insert ] N he committee. But there are many and far more forcible considerations. @ese, the most ostens;bIe IS the gain on c0re of public land. It has not esca-

 R aenteness of gentlemen. The gen.

 HM rom Ohio, Mir. VlNToN,l observed

 7g, while discoursiug on auoiher pro-

 'a, thatif the Raf} of Red river were

 'ed' the cost of the work would im-

 sely be three times refunded by the

 the public domain. The gentle

 was no doubt right, as Gar as he went,

 ne might have gone much farther.--

 's lnes Why, sir. l consider it no

 sdventurous in me to say, that you

 Vut 10 anprnpri q fo tho bnnd droj 4ho,5