Edwardsville spectator. [volume] (Edwardsville, Ill.) 1819-1826, 1820-04-25
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,.
SATURDAY, MARCH 25.

Mr.. Cook, from the committee on
public lands, reported bill to authorize
the Governor of Illinois to obtain certain
abstracts of lands from certain public
Offices which bill was twice read and
committed.
On motion of Mr.. Cook, the commit
tee on public lands were instructed to
inquire into the expediency of prescrib-
ing the manner in which the state
OF Illinois shall take possession OF
the salt springs in that state, which
are guaranteed by the second pro-
position in the sixth section the act au-
thorizing the people of Illinois to form a
constitution, sc. and of designating the
quantity of land to be reserved for the
use of the same.
| MONDAY, MARCH 81.
The Speaker presented the Memorial :,
Remonstrance, and Protest ofthe Senate
and House of Representative of the state
of Georgia, detailing several violations
of the territorial rights of that state in
treaties concluded between the United
States and the Creek and Cherokee In
dians, as also violations of the articles of
agreement and cession of 1902, and re-
monstrating and protesting against an ar
| ticle in the treaty concluded in 1877, be-
tween the Cherokee nation and the
United States, which invests a fee simhle
right to lands in certain Indians of that
nation, and soliciting that commissioners
| may be appointed to treat with the Creek
| and'C Cherokee nations of Indians for fur
Their cessions of territory for the use OF
Georgia, which memorial, remonstrance
and protest, was ordered to lie on the
! table.
Mr.. Williams Of North Carolina, from
the committee of claims, who were, on
the 28th ult instructed to inquire into
the expediency of providing for the COM
pensation of losses occasioned by the
impressment and application Of private
property to the military service of the
United States in the late Seminole war,
made report, concluding with the fol-
lowing resolution;
"Resolved, That it is inexpedient to pass
any general law on the subject, and that the
committee be discharged from its further con.
| sideration"
Mr.. Cob6moved to strike out the word
inerhedient and insert the word erne-
| dent
After short debate, Mr.. Co55's mo.
ton was negatived; and the report Of the
committee was concurred in.
The bill to establish an uniform sys-
tenn of Bankruptcy, has been rejected in
the Senate of the United States. This
important measure has not failed for
the want of full consideration it has
been maturely considered. Nor has i,
failed, we believe, because majority oil
the Senate deem Bankrupt law mex.
pedient. Some of the friends of the
bill thought it best to unite what is called
the insotvent system with what is tech
nically termed the bankrupt system
that is, to apply the latter to merchants
and traders only, and to extend the former
to all other debtors of certain amount,
with their own consent: these gentlemen,
uniting to them those who disapprove
all legislation on the subject, succeeded
in ENGRAVING this feature in the bill. The
union ofthe two principles, being deem
ed an insuperable objection with several
Of those who favor a strict and simple
bankrupt act, they were converted into
enemies to the bill, and formed, with the
opponents of both principles, nsaiority