Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Wayne County, Ind.) 1831-1837, 1836-10-29

e piled to the improvement Of harbors, river
e roads, creeks, &c. For armories, arsenal
$. and Notifications, the sum of two million
n nine hundred and seventy-two thousand do
It lars was appropriated. The further Sum ,
q was allowed for the pay and mileage Of til
n members Of Congress, for the public printin.
S for building offices, and for other expenses {
u the civil and diplomatic list; making the SUI
Of S24.872.O00, equal to seven hundred an
t ffty-four wagon loads, if in specie, at $500
q per load.
:, After making all these liberal appropria
| tons, with others not named, to CRAFTY thos
: who contended for them, there would still re
main on hand a very large amount for which
the COVE eminent had no use. AS that larg'
balance was not needed for any purposes o
the government it was contended that it be
ilonged to the people, ard those who wished t.
take it out Of the State Banks where it wa:
doing no good. and pay it over to the states
with any surplus that might hereafter not be
wanted each year, proposed to do 50 by divi
ding the money received for public lands three
years back, with that which might be received
each year afterwards. For that purpose Mr..
Ewing Of Ohio, from the committee on pub
lie lands, reported bill giving each state
, where the land is sold an extra allowance of
ten dollars on each hundred, and granting to
each 100000 acres Of land. dedGct,ng past
donations. In addition 20 this, each new state
was to receive her equal share of all the land
sold in all the states according to her popula-
ton. According to that bill our share Of the
money received for public lands up to the 1st
Of last January would have amounted to be-
tween nine and ten hundred thousand dollars.
1t also gave us one hundred and fifteen thou
sand acres Of land which would be worth to
us, the way we sold our canal lands, not less
than five hundred thousand dollars. The
sales Of lands at the six land Offices in this
state, for the first six months Of this year, ex-
ceeded two millions FIVE hundred thousand
dollars, and will no, be less than two millions
the last six months of the year, making four
millions five hundred thousand. The ten dol
ars out of each hundred on this sum would
give us four hundred and fifty thousand dol
ars more. In addition to this we would have
been entitled to our full share Of all tho lands !
sold in the United States, according to our /
federal population, which would have given
Is. in ali. on TIE first day of January next,
not less than thirty hundred thousand dollars.
With this sum we could get through will, our
,lan If inrern1l improvement. without taxing
he people any higher than our present rate.
After passing the Seuat- with a handsome
majority. supported by men of both parties,
he BIZ was sent to the lower house; but
here the friends Of Err. Van Buren,. having
arge majority. raised the party question, and
he passage 0: tie bill was prevented. For
many years back, when the elections were OF
land, the same set Of men have told you fine
tories about reducing tie price Of land and
living every poor man home Of quarter {
ecton. In this you have been tricked and {
deceived long enough. 1t does not take six
n seven years to pass such a law, and last J
ear Congress had q session Of seven months,
crmna:ing with majority in favor of Mr..
an Buren, in both houses, and it would have
cen as easy to pass law of the kind in a
ew days as it was to pass the law paying G
themselves in the same time.
Vixen the members Of the Senate saw this +,
ill was to be defeated by the House Of Rep
they passed and sent to the! .
over House bill regulating the deposites Of d
he pubic money in the state banks, and :
roviding for the distribution Of the surplus Il
honey among the states. on the plan recon- g
PENDED bv General Jackson. This was at t
acked by the same party and SO altered as Y
o require each state, before she should re- '
Give her portion to pass law pledging her 4
elf TO refund the money when called for, as t
gu will see by reading the following section
f tina; law, referred to by MIR. Woodbury.
his letter to the governor at the head Of
us circular. q
sSzc. 81. And he it further enacted, That a
lie money which shall be in the Treasury of
re United States on the 1st of January, 1887, I
,serying the sum of So 900 900, shall re de- Il
osited with such Of the several states, in
to their respective representation
the Senate and House of Representatives c
the United States, and shall. by law, author n
&C their Treasurers or the competent author e
les, to receive the same, on the terms, here n
latter specified; and the Secretary of the 81
reasuary shall deliver the same to SUCH
treasurer or other competent authorities, on b
.ceiving certificates ofdepos;t therefor sign 81
by such competent authorities, in such form el
may be prescribed by the Secretary afore-I 81
i'd: which certificates shall express the usu- ii
and legal obligations. and pledge Of the bs
it'll of the State, for the safe keeping and pa
payment thereof, ane shall pledge the faith nc
the States receiving the same, to pay the RI