The Arkansas advocate., 1832-04-25

uH litAt5 Dut sfAs''NAI eat@ fttoAi1ss 0t the request of
 MT. WckllAe, who moved to amend Mir. Haut' amendment t t inserting the word s:two,n so as to allow the settler to enter two quarter-quarter sections of 40 acres each. Mr. W. then spoke in favor of granting pre-emp.ion rights to those who had gone on the public land and snbdued tine wilderness.
 Mir. SEWER warmly advocated the bill, and as warmly opposed the amend nent offered by AMr. AMr. H'tist. To obYi yiate an objection which had been urged by that gentleman, in reference to 1 the expense of the land books, he offer ed to defray that out of his own pocket. IEe also defended the squatters, and hoped the bill would not be postponed, test sstope deferred" should make the ssheart sick"
 Mir. HmH renewed his motion to post pone, which was negatlycd-Ayes 52, Noes Fl.
 b Mir. Huaf's amendment was now far ther opposed by Messrs. yNardis, Dun ed',, JHeCaty, Lcaois, ashley, and Clqy, and advocated by Messrs. Hant, and JhcCoy, of Virginia, when the question being taken, the amendment was re- jectcd.
 Mr. Luin now proposed slight mo- dilication of the bill, which was agreed to.
 Mr. Hinton went at considerable length into an argument to show that the bill would not apply i'll practice to refuse land which had long been in mar ket, and would not sell, but as 1t now stood, would apply to land never exam ined, but by spectators, who would be at liberty the very day after an auction had taken place, to secure to them selves water privileges and choice spots, and thus retard, rather than advance, the settlement of the public domain.- With a view to prevent this eonsc- quence, he moved a proviso going to coniine tho operation of the bill to land which had been ten years in market.
 Mr. Wickh6c strenuously opposed this amendment, the effect of which would be equivalent to eon6ning the operation ofthe bill to the state of Ohio, and some parts of Indiana. He insist ed that the bill was so guarded that none of the effects could follow which were so much dreaded by Mr. Y.
 Mr. MeCdwty warmly protested a. gainst the amendment, as giving an un- just preference to the rich over the poor.
 MT. Kinfon replied with some warmth to the remarks of Mir. Hsekhfe in re ference to Ohio. The bill instead of only to that State, would em- brace 5o,000,000 acres, to which his amendment would apply, while of those lands Ohio contained but 4,G0G,G0..
 Mir. Leteier, hoping to bring the dis eussion to close, gave notice that he would move an amendment, in sub stance as follows: 'sThat the benefit of this law shall not be enjoyed by pur- chaser, unless the tract he enters is en- tered for cultivation, or is an addition to his improvement
 The question being put, Mir. Tntoa's amendment was rejected.
 Mr. Letcher then moved his-it was opposed by Messrs. Clay and Thomas, as bearing hardly upon poor men, and imposing on them conditions such as were not required from richer settlers.
 MT. Letcher, after some humorous re- marks, as to the great zeal, professed in all public assemblies, for the poor, ar- gued to show that his amendment would operate expressly for the benefit of the poor settler, and concluded an amusing speech by observing that when poor mems tights were spoken of he was al- ways in danger of saying too much.
 Mr. Letcher's amendment was agreed to, and the question being put on con- curing w;tls. tthc amendment proposed by the committee on public lands in the Senate's Bill, it was carried, and the Bill ordered to be read third time to- morrow.
 .Narch 22.-Mr. Plummer, from the committee on the public lands, reported a bill to enable the heirs of Elisha Win ter and Son to institute proceedings to try the validity of their claims to cer- tain lands lying in the Territory of Ar kansas, which was read twice, and committed.
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