Du Buque visitor. [volume] (Dubuque, Lead Mines, Wisconsin Territory) 1836-1837, 1836-07-06
1 PRE-EMPTION Law

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s hn the Senate, on the 5th, the bill
to extend the time for receiving the
proof Of certain pre- emption claims un-S
der the act Of 10th June, 1884, intro
duced on leave by MI, Nalker, was
considered as in COMMITTED Of the whole.
A-debate followed, in which it was ar
gued on one side that numerous and ex-
|tensive frauds are committed under'co-
yer Of the redemption laws, and de-
moralizing influence exerted on that
class Of the community who induced
to become sauatters on the public lands;'
and on the other side, that wrong and
injury are inflicted on honest and actu-
al settlers. On motion Of Mr.. Critten-
den, the bill was amended, SO as to re-
quire actual and continued residence on,
and cultivation Of, the land claimed, to.
be testified from the personal observa-
ton Of two witnesses. On motion Of
Mfr. King. Of Geo., the bill was limited
to lands Of which the Indian title was
extinguished prior to January, 1882.
On motion Of Mr.. Ewing, of.Ohio, all
assignments Of landunderthe Bill. were
made void. On motion Of Mr.. Porter,
the bill was made to provide that no
witness should testify to more than one
claim, and thatmutual testimony should
not be allowed. Mr.. Ewing remarked
that he regarded the bill as entirely in
sufficient to prevent the frauds against
which it nominally provided, and he
therefore called for the yeas and nays,
which were ordered, and the bill was
ordered to be engrossed by the follow
ingvote: Yeas Messrs. Benton, Black
Buchanan, EwingofIll., Grundy, Hen
bricks, King Of Ala, Linn, Mexican,
Moore, Nicholas, Niles, Porter. Rob-
inson, Ruggles, Shepley, Tallmadge,
Upton, Walker, White Wright 81.
Nays. Messrs. Calhoun, Clay, Crit
tenden, Davis, Ewing Of Ohio, Colds
borough, Kent, King Of Geo, Knight,
Leigh, MsKean, Naudain, Prentiss,
&Duthard, Swift, Tomlinson, Wall, Web
ster-l8.
|SS[ This bill was read third time next
day, and passed..
In the House Of Representatives, on
Tuesday the 18th, Mr.. Mercer, from the
Committee on Roads and Canals, repor-
ted the Senate bill for the purchase of
the private stock in the Louisville and
Portland Canal Company, with an a.
mendment, which were committed.
Mr.. Mann, Of New York, moved
the suspension Of the rules, for the pnr-
pose of taking up, for consideration, a
joint resolution of the Senate, fixing a
day for the termination of the present
session. Decided in the negative yeas
\ 1913, nays II; nottwo thirds.
| The bill from the Senate providing
for the distribution amongst the sever
al States, for d limited time, ofthe pro-
cceds Of the sale of public lands, and
the motions pending on the reference Of
the same, were taken up. The ques-
ton was first taken on the motion Of
Mr.. Williams, of Kentucky, to COM
nit the bill to the Committee Of the
Whole on the state Of the Union, when
there appeared yeas 81, naya!9G. The
Speaker said that, under thu ID rule
lof the House, he was entitled rs vote
in this case, and he accordingly voted
lin the negative. So the motion was
lost. The question being next on the
motion Of Mr.. Carr to refer the bill to
the Committee on Public Lands, de-
bate arose, in which Messrs. Mercer,
Lane, Vinton, Toucey, Denny, and
Bouldin, took part. Mr.. Bouldin's re-
marks were arrested by the arrival Of
one o'clock, when the special order
was announced.
The Treaty s0iththe Cherokees for
| the purchase Of their entire territory
least Of the Mississippi, has been ratifi-
ed by bare constitutional majority of
the Senate: Yeas 81, nays l5--two-
thirds being required to ratify treaty.
The Cherokees are to receive Of our go-
lvernment the very liberal sum Of FIVE
millions Of dollars for their lands. The
opposition, we understand, was based
mainly on the assumption that the ma
jority of the tribe had not concurred in
framing this treaty, and were averse
to many of its provisions that the chiefs
who did agree to the treaty are not the
true head men Of the nation. We pre-
sumo, however, that no serious oppose
ton will be made to the contemplated
removal. lVesc Yorker. " DE-
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