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Carroll, signed a memorial, January, 1828, to the United States Congress asking for a national subscription. "The Senate committee to which the memorial was referred reported a bill authorizing a subscription of $1,000,000. The committee of the House of Representatives also made a favorable report, but it being late in the session when the committee reported, it would submit no bill. The company therefore renewed its petition at the next session of Congress in 1829, but, although the committees of both houses of Congress recommended a qualified subscription to the company, the measure failed. It was said at the time^[1] that the reason the company was unsuccessful in this application was because of the opposition of the president of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company, who was at this time chairman of the committee on roads and canals in the House of Representatives.^[2]

1. Smith's History and Description of the Baltimore and Ohio Rail Road, p. 22.
2. Reizenstein's, "The Economic History of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad," Johns Hopkins University Studies, fifteenth series, vii–viii, p. 23; Congressional Debates, vol. vi (1829–30), pp. 453–455, 1136–1137.