IMPROVEMENT OF THE WABASH RIVER.
Mr. CAUTHORN introduced a joint resolution instructing our Senators and requesting, our Representative in Congress, to endeavor to obtain an appropriation for the improvement of the navigation of the Wabash river. He said he was not much in favor of internal improvements by the General Government. But as they have overruled us at Washington, and as there is no reason, if the money is to be appropriated, that we should not have a part of it, he had offered this resolution. He stated the former existence of a company organized for the improvement of the Wabash, but their work had been ineffectual. And he stated further, that the object of this joint resolution has been, perhaps, unanimously prayed for in all the sections interested.
The joint resolution was adopted on the part of the House of Representatives, by yeas 69, nays 28.
