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The Daily Dispatch: March 9, 1861., [Electronic resource], Arrival of Ex-President Buchanan at home (search)
victs in the Penitentiary, at a sum exceeding $17,000, and which sum would be an entire loss to the Treasury should the bill under consideration be rejected, as the work on the road being necessarily suspended, the convicts would be returned to the institution, and could not be employed there; for, in truth, at this time half the convicts in the penitentiary were idle, for the want of materials which could not be procured in sufficient quantities to give them employment. Mr. Phelps, of Ritchie, said that he was a friend of the road, and had voted for the appropriation at the last session; but that he did not think the state of the Treasury authorized the issuing the Treasury notes as provided in the bill. If it was right to appropriate the sum of $300,000, it was equally so to apappropriate the larger sum. He had no idea that gentlemen could change the votes given on a former occasion, and as enough talk had been indulged in as to the merits of the bill, he felt constrained to m