The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1842-06-15

WI. LINN remarked that the Senator was not pre-
SENT and at his suggestion the resolution passed
The bill providing for armed occupation of Flo.
| rlda was taken up for consideration; when
Mr.. MchOBERTS submitted amendment, to
come IN after the provision giving arms to young
men, viz:
Provided That the arms hereby allowed shall only
be given to young under the age of twenty -one
years, and shall not be sold disposed of by them
during the term of five years. subject to be taken
in execution; and, if lost or destroyed shall be
placed Immediately by the settler at his own expense
On the question being taken, the amendment was
| agreed to.
| Mr.. SMITH, of Indiana, proposed an amendment,
to come in Immediately after the 9th line, as fol-
| lows
"And where two or more persons have settled on
the same quarter section before the lands shall have
| been surveyed the same shall be divided between
them and the deficiency made up to each out OF con-
tguous vacant land, but wilfu intruder upon the
known claim of another shall be entitled to any bene-
fit under this act and in all of settlement on
surveyed lands the first settler shall be entitled to
preference in the entry. And should any part OF
section sixteen which is reserved from the opera
ton OF this act selected by any settler it shall be
lawful for him, so soon the same may be ascer-
tanned by the survey to locate like quantity of any
other vacant land lying south of said township in lieu
thereof And in all cases of claims for bounty lands
under the provisions of this act it shall be the duty Of
the expiration of the year allowed for settlement
OF the lands shall have been surveyed, If not within
six months next after they shall have been surveyed
to file with the register Of the proper land Office
written statement specifying the particular land claim
ed by such settler.
Mr.. McROBERTS moved to amend the amend
ment by striking out all relating to the sixteenth Sec
| tion and inserting
And where settlement by the erection Of dwell
ing or the cultivation of any portion thereof shall be
made pom the sixteenth section before the same shall
be surveyed then and in that case other lands shall
be selected by the United States in lieu of said Sec
ton sixteen, or such part thereof may be claimed
under this act"
After some remarks by Messrs SMITH, Of Indi-
ana, LINN, WALKER, KING, BENTON and
BERRlEN, the yeas and nays were taken on the
amendment to the amendment, and the question was
decided in the afirmative-Yeas 81 nays 10, as fol-
lows:
YEAS.-Messrs. Allen, Archer, Bagby, Barrow,
Benton, Berrien, Buchanan, Conrad Crafts, Cuth-
bert, Fulton, Graham, Henderson, King, Linn,
McRoberts, Mangum, Porter, Preston Sewer, Smith
Of Connecticut, Sturgeon, Tallmadge, Tappan,
Walker, White, Wilcox, Williams, Woodbury.,
Wright Young-31.
NAYS.-Messrs Bates Clayton, Evans, Hunting
ton, Miller, Morehead, Phelps Simmons, Smith Of
Indiana, Woodbridge
The amendment amended, was then agreed to-
and rejected when the bill was reported to the Sen
ate and the amendments agreed to in committee con-
turred in and the bill was ordered to be engrossed
for third reading
A message. received from the President of the
United States, stating that he the l4th instant
signed the bill auhorzng the issuing of register to
the brig Gulnare the bill providing fol settlement
with the State of Maine, for the services Of her mill
tia; and the bill to incorporate the Washington Man
ua Labor School and Male Orphan Asylum of
the District Of Columbia.
message was also received from the House Of
Representatives. informing the Senate that they had
non-concurred in the Senaes amendments to the APP
portonment bill.
The bill for the adjustment of the claims of Sas
| Deane was read third time and passed.
The bill making appropriations for the naval service
| for year 1912 was taken up for consideration.
The first amendment to the BILL proposed by the
section, (Which approprates So 1886 900 for the pay of
commission, warrant, and petty officers and seamen)
the following provso, viz
| Prorided, That until otherwise ordered by Con-
gress no part Of this any future existing appro-
priaton, shall be applied to the payment Of any Off
GERS the Navy appointed after this date beyond the
number in each grade the first day Of January
lS4l and that the excess now in the service beyond
that number shall be reduced fast as deaths resg.
nations and promotions will permit
! Mr.. EVANS remarked, with reference to the
amendment proposed by the Committee on Finance
that it was recommended by gentlemen who had
given to the subject full elaboration and besides
the committee had deemed the proviso to be nappro-
PIRATE in an appropriation bill If it were desirable
to reduce the Navy let the proposition emanate from
the appropriate committees of Congress. The pro-
viso proposed to be stricken out enacted that part
OF this appropriation shall be applied, from this date,
to the payment of officers and seamen beyond the
number in service in 1S41. 1t assumed, therefore,
that the standard of lS4l was the true limit, and
that all excess beyond that should be reduced as ra-
pidly as Deaths designations, and promotions would
| admit. But where was the evidence that the
| number in service in 1S41 was the true limit
| Who had examined who had recommended it? Ger
tainy not any committee of Congress not the Exc
| cutve not the Secretary of the Navy; in fact, no.
body had made the recommendation. And it must
be perceived at once, that such provision would be
disastrous in the extreme to the interests of the Ma
Wy and the hopes of the young and gallant officers who
had some right to look for promotions If promo
tons should be too rapid there could always be found
the proper check in the Senate.
Mr.. WILLIAMS addressed the Senate agains
striking out the provso
MI. BAYARDS remarks took opposite direc-
ton
Mr. WILLIAMS moved to amend the proviso by
striking out lS4l and inserting 1872
Mr.. EVANS said hat this would make the proviso
much less exceptionable than it was and that he in
tended to vote against it if it should be amended
put ne would suggest to his colleague TO make it little
more acceptable by striking out all after the word
grade" to the end Of the proviso and inserting the
words "now in service"
On the question being taken, the amendment was
agreed to.
Mr. CONRAD moved to still further amend the
proviso by striking the words, cor any future or
existing appropriations but the motion did not prevail
ayes 49, noes 49,
And without taking the question on striking out
the proviso, as amended, the Senate adjourned
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