The Hawk-eye and Iowa patriot. (Burlington, Iowa) 1839-1843, 1839-11-28

We uHuelStdn0 mat the lion. John j.
Stuart of Illinois will take his seat in Con
gress without any question in regard to
the validity Of his certificate, as S. A.
Douglass, Esq. has declined contesting it
i The Hon. W. W. Chapman, our dele.
gate to Congress left this city Tor Wash.
ington last week.
The Mississippi election has result
led in favor Of the Administration.
/ Remarks of Mr.. Hastings, in Commit
tee of the whole house, on the Minority
Report of the Committee on Territorial
Affairs, on the subject of the admission o
Iowa into the Union.
! Mr. CHAIRMAN The report of the mi.
norlty is couched in very peculiar Ian
|guage-words calculated to catch the ears
lot those who are too excessively devoted
to popular suffrages. 1t proposes, sir,
that the Legislative Assembly of Iowa
shall forward a Memorial to Congress,
asking that body to make an appropria-
ton to defray the expenses of a Conven-
ton OF Delegates, 10 be assemblies, togeth-
Ter; for what? not to frame Conslitu
ton, but Tor the purpose of ascertainng
whether the people of this Territory are
prepared TO enter the union as one OF the
independent States. A demand of this
kind. sir. would call down the dersion
and contempt of Congress, and indeed it
would be puerile and ridiculous to ask the
government TO make an appropriation for
the purpose of permitting the people Of
iowa to amuse themselves in the shape
of a Convention, on an experimental dis
cussion of question Of the Kind prppos-
ed in the report. A question Of this
kind, sir, should be so well settled in the
public mind, that there would be but one
) unanimous voice from the people, and
THAT voice should be demand for imme.
, diate admission into the confederacy.
Then Congress will hearken unto us.
and ioyfully receive US as one of the sis.
, terhood
The only reason have heard for taking
the steps recommended in this report, is
(" the five per cent. fund - and from the
commencement through this whole dis
cussion, the cry has been, 9 the five PEI
t cent. fund.-" the great and glorious g five
per cent. fund.-" Mr. Chairman, it may
be proper for the gentlemen, amidst thei
anticipated imaginary feasts on this grea
5 and glorious tive per cent fund, to enquire
and learn the features and peculiarties o
this fund. 1t appears that the govern
? ment has been accustomed to grant to tn
= States, on their admission into the union
five per cen,um on all moneys received OF
the sales of the public ands within thei
e boundaries, after their admission. Tha
! the proportionate costs of the survey
h selling and purchase money, paid for tn
lands by the government. besides othe
expenses, are to be deducted from thi
:. funi. That the balance is wholly to b
J. expended for the purposes specified b
Congress which are generally the i'm
' provement of roads, and not to be apprc
Q priated for the purpose of defraying tn
9 Expenses Of a new state government. :
t. Such, sir, was the five per cent. fund wit
Arkansas and believe with most of tn
~ new States. would ask, sir, what sue
t. fund, under such conditions and restric
y tons would amount to? How much {
~ the expenses of a new state governmer
would the balance of this fund pay?-
~ here is another uncomfortable al
ii pendage generally attending this five pc
st cent fund, Mr.. Chairman, which if the
are inseparably connected, renders tn
fund burthrn rather than benefit.
have reference to the reservation of taXt
10 on all lands sold in the new states, ft
OF the space of five years after their sale
in thus suspending near y all the resources
e. defraying the expenses of new state b
taxation, during that period: period to-
). when a new state, emerging into SON
importance, most severely feels the wa
ne of these resources!
90 Then, sir, take this five per cent. fur
're with its restrictions and conditions,
;, gelher with the suppression of taxati'
0s' on lands sold, for five years after the sa
to- thereof. and you bur,hen the people
M this territory, with a mass of difficult
,rs that years of struggling and pecunia
:, distress will not relieve them from.
" tits said that the continuance of o
m Territorial government will retard en-
tn grafton and the settlement of the countl
ra- and as proof of this, we are referred
. the happy growth and prosperity of
:, the new states, Immediately after tn
state organi alton. ] repel the com?ar
ons and references to other Territories
States. Iowa stands on different footir
las While MICHIGAN and some other Terri
,m ries, were ruled by the dictation of Gt
~ ernor and their Supreme Judges, who
~ DEGREES and whose ord nances were
In laws of the land, and in whom all legls
up, tive and judicial authority were vested
ali while the unhappy people OF these e.
tor ,es we're subject to the msmanagem
les and misrule of those strangers to IN
G." rights, who were not rulers of their o
ING choice, but instruments furnished by
general Government, Iowa posses
nearly all the privileges of state so
an. reignty; her legislators are persons OF
!. r own choice; she has council and no
II of representatives, p ssessng all lhesPe
this ers and prerogatives of any Legislative