The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1846-07-06

would report that The bill would raise twehty-eSh'
| millions Of revenue, his opinions would be changed
| He had voted for the members OF that committee
| because he had confidence in their judgment.
Mr., BAGBY Would their report change your
| voter
MIR. SIMMONS. Oh! then should like to go
| into the details.
Mr. ALLEN again addressed the Senate. He
| regretted 10 have heard the observations of his
friend from Connecticut, Mr., NILES Ii seemed
| To him (Mr. A } that the only question was,
whether the proposed law was better than that now
in existence? Nothing could be more monstrous-
| ly unjust than the bill of lS42 II superseded by
the bill now before them, a great public benefit
would be conferred, and the new law would be
subject TO revision-if revision were required In
dependent of the manifest injustice of the act Of
| 1912, there was one consideration which alone
would induce him TO vote for its repeal. That act
violated the fundamental principles upon which the
revolution turned, and upon which the financial part
| Of the federal constitution based. In the pas
sage of that act taxation and representation did not
go together. That act passed under an ex
| plred cen sus which gave undue preponderance
TO the old States. The census would have
given against the bill FIVE times as great a majority
as that by which 1t made law in the House
of Representatives.
! Here there were general cries of Question,
question" and the yeas and nays having been Ia
ken, resutedas follows
YEAs-Messrs. Archer. Barrow, Culey, Thomas Clay
Huntington Jsrnsgin Johnson Of Mary land Johnson Of
LOuisianR Mangum, Morehead Niles, Pesrce Phelps
simmons, Sturgeon, l'Phsm, and woodbrdgs-22.
NAYs-NlessTs Allen Ashley Atchison, Bsgby, Ben
ton, BTeese, Bright. Calhoun, CSss Chalmers, COquu
Dickinson FAIRFIELD Hannegan, Houston Lewis McDuhe
Penny backer Rusk, semplr, Sewer Turney, westcOn
| and Yuee ~
[Mr GREENE though present did not vote,
having agreed TO pair off with Mr.. ArHERToE, who
necessarily absent
The question recurring upon the motion by
Mr.. SEWER, that the bill under consideration
be made the special order for Monday next, and
every day thereafter until disposed Of il was decided
IN the affirmative.
BENT, ST. VRAM q CO.
Mr.. ATCHISON moved to reconsider the vote,
by which the further consideration of the bill for the
relief of Bent, ST. Vrain Co. had been postponed
until tomorrow; which motion was agreed to.
The bill was then ordered TO be ergrossed for a
thlrd reading, and by unanimous consent, was read
third time and passed.
PUBLIC LANDS.
Mr. BREESE moved that the Senate proceed to
the consideration Of the special order-the bill for
the graduation and reduction Of the price ofthe pub
lie lands.
THE TARIFF AGAIN.
Mr.. LEWIS moved that three hundred additional
copies of the House "bill to reduce the duties on
imports and for other purposes" printed for the
use oithe Senate; which motion was agreed to.
GENERAL TAYLOR.
Mr.. J. M CLAYTON inquired OF the chairman
or any other gentleman Of the Military Committee
when it proposed to consider the resolution
rendering the thanks Of Congress to General Taylor
his officers and men, introduced several weeks since
| and referred TO said committee. He Mr. c. did
suppose there would be the least objection to the
passage Of the resolution.
Mr.. HOUSTON replied that he had promptly re-
ported the resolution back from the committee, and
had only waited for proper time to call the atten-
ton Of the Senate thereto. With the assent of that
body he would move that the resolution be then
taken up and considered.
RErRocEssIoE OF ALEXANDRIA.
The PRESIDENT signed the bill retroceding the
| county of Alexandria, in the District Of Columbia,
TO the State of Virgnia-sad bill having been re-
ported back from the House of Representatives,
with the signature of the Speaker affixed.
GRADUATION AND REDUCTION OF THE PRICE OF THE
PUBLIC LANDS.
| Mr.. BREESE pressing his motion to proceed
to the consideration Of the special order the ques-
| ton taken and decided in the affirmative
So the Senate resumed, in Committee of the
Whole, the consideration of the bill to reduce and
graduate the price Of the public lands.
Mr.. CALHOUN submitted the following amend
ment, Of which he heretofore gave notice.
Strike out all of the original bill after the enacting
| clause, and insert the following.
the bill Is l to reduce and graduate the price the pub
lie lands and for other purposes viz: Strike out all AFTER
the enacting clause and insert the following:
That all public lands which shall offered for
sale years the first day of March, eighteen
dollar per until the first day of March
sand eight hundred and fifty all then remaining unsod shall
be subject to entry at seventy per until the
first day OF March thousand eight hundred and fifty
three and all then remaining unsod shall be subject to
try at fifty cents per until the first day Of March
thousand eight hundred and fysix when they shall
subject to entry twenty five per until
day oil March thousand eight hundred and fifty nine
when all that then remain unsold shall ceded
States within which they respectively lie
which after the first day of March, thousand eight hun
bred and forty seven shall have offered for sale ten
hundred and fifty shall then he subject to graduation entry
and cession in like manner and at like periods of three
ed for sale years the succeeding period
any subsequent one, shall he subject in like
they consecutvely Porided That no one per
SON under the provisions of this act shall be authorized to
more than one section at the two lowest rates OF
fifty and twenty-five cents per
SIC find be further enacted That upon every reduc
ton in the prices of said lands which shall take place by the
graduating process of this the occupants settlers up
any of the said lands shall have the right of presumption
tend to period of six months from ad after the
which the respective graduaons shall take place any
within period shall be liable entered or
by any other person until the next graduation reduction
purchased be again subject to the right prescription for
six months, as before and from time to time said
act contained shall be construed to interfere with right
which has accrued may ny virtue of any act
granting prescriptions to actual settlers upon the public
lands
find be further enacfed That all sots and parts OF
acts as provide for an exemption from the imposition Of
upon land sold by the United for five wears
from and after the day of sale be- and the hereby
repealed.
Mr.. j. M. CLAYTON moved to amend the
amendment by striking out the latter clause Of the
first section of said Notwithstanding for the
cession' of the public lands at a certain period to
the States in which they lie He submitted this
amendment for the purpose of testing the of the
Senate upon the principle of cedng the public lands
to the States in which they lie, and asked the yeas
and nays upon said amendment.
The yeas and nays were ordered.
A message in writing was received from the |
President of the United State Il
Mr.. CALHOUN defended hs amendment; and |
after conversational debate between the gentleman
from South Carolina and Senator's J. M CLAY. |
TON, BENTON, and CRlTTENDEN,