Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1846-07-18
THE PUBLIC LANDS.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
MONDAY, July l3, lS46.


the House on Saturday last and postponed make way
for private bills, as per the rules of the House, again
came up for consideration.
And the question REQUIRED the amendment or substitute
moved by Mr.. CoBB Saturday, which he now modified
call Of the House ordered motion of Mr. JACOB
THOMPSON.
And the roll being called, 7s members answered to their
names.
Further proceedings the call then dispensed with
Mr.. CoBBs amendment substitute read, and is as
follows:
BE enacedby the Senate and House Of Representatives. Of
the United States of .4meica Congress assembled That
all OF the lands OF the United States which shall have been in
market for ten than ten years prior to the pas
sage Of this act and still remaining unsod shall be subject to
sale at the price OF one dollar per And all oil said lands
which shall have been may hereafter be in market for f
teen than fifteen years aforesaid, aud still remain
ing unsod shall be subject sale the price OF seventy five
cents And all of said lands which shall have been
may hereafter be in market for twenty than twenty
years. aforesaid and still remaining unsod shall be subject
10 sale al the price fifty cents And all OF said lands
which shall have been hereafter be in market for twenty
ve or more man years. as aforesaid and still re-
manning unsod shall be subject TO sale at The price OF twenty
live cents per
Sec md belt further enacted That every person apply
ing to enter any Of the aforesaid lands of the United States
under the provisions OF this shall be required first make
affidavit before the register orecevor Of the proper land Office
that he she his or her own use the
purposes Of actual settlement cultivation by and for him or
herself for the adjacent plantation owned
and occupied by him or herself and that together With said
entry, he she has acquired from the United States
der the provisions of this than three hundred and
twenty land, according the public surveys thereof
falsely the premises he she shall be all the pains
and penalties OF perjury Prouea That nothing
tanned shall be construed prevent person entering
purchasing the lands of the United States the price of one
dollar and twenty-five per acre. authorized and
land which the President the United shall hereafter
proclaim and offer for sale any year shall not exceed
three millions of acres This act shall take effect six months
from and after its passage.
Sec. Ind be further enacted That all acts or parts of
acts that for an exemption from the imposition of taxes
upon lands sold by the United States for five years
alter the OF SALE be the hereby
Mr.. MCKAY moved the following as substitute for the
amendment moved by Mr. CoBB
That all public lands which shall have offered for sale
twenty the LIST day of December 1896 shall
thereafter be subject 10 entry dollar per the
term OF five years all the before described lands then
ing unsod shall be subject to entry per
acre Tor another term of and all such unsod
end OF the last mentioned term be entered fifty
per acre.
Sec. find be further enacted That the quantity of land
which the President of the United States shall hereafter pro-
claim and offer for sale in any year shall three
millions OF acres.
Sec. 4d be farther enacted That upon every reduc-
ton in the prices Of said lands which shall take place by the
graduating Of this act the occupants settlers upon
any OF the said lands shall have the right at such
graduated reduced prices which right shall pc
riod of six months dates which the
tive graduaons shall take place any entered by
the respective occupants settlers within that period shall be
liable to be entered purchased by other person until the
next graduation reduction in price shall take place.
SHALL not previously purchased be again subject the right
of prescription for six months BEFORE from time
time said reduction shall place Provided That no.
right which has accrued by virtue
granting prescriptions to actual settlers upon the public lands
Mr. MCKAY said was known to all the House that he
had been the uniform and consistent friend of the existing
land system of revenue in general The public lands
nch inheritance, and not lightly TO be parted with yet he
had been uniformly the friend of the principle Of gradua
ton was founded in principle of natural justice. The
lands owned by the Government of various qualities
and should not all be held the price and he thought
the best practical rule Of discrimination of time He
ready to pass graduation bill properly framed But the
present bill in his Judgment far The discnmna-
ton in price too rapid If this done all it should
be done in very gradual But he should not en-
large it was wide field for remark, but he would forbear
The amendment he had proposed was gradual in its
character He wished to the trial made how the system
would work. after which il susceptible of further modi
cation, according experience should suggest After briefly
explaining his amendment Mr. Mex. renewed the demand
for the previous question.
The previous question here seconded, and the main
question ordered 10 be now put which would be- first
on Mr. McKAr's amendment to Mr.. CoBs's amendment
and then the BILL
Mr. ROCKWELL, of Connecticut, moved that the bill
be laid on the table. Lost by a tie vote
And the question REQUIRED Mr. McKArs amendment; it
was taken by yeas and nays, and decided follows.
YEAS-Nessrs. Stephen Adams, Atkinson, BayIy Bed
niger, Benton Bggs, Jas Black, Bown, Boyd, Brock
enbrough, VIM. q Brown Burt, Chase, Chapman, Clarke
Cobb, Collin, Cummins, Cunningham, Daniel, Dillingham;
Dobbln Dromgoole Dunlap, Ellsworth, Faran Fckn, Fos
ter, Fries Garvia Goodyear Hsmn, HARRISON, Henley
Hubbard, Hunter J. H. Johnson Joseph johnson, George
W. Jones, Kaufman Preston King Leake, La Scre, Lgon
McCelland, McClernand, Mcconnell McCrute Joseph j.
Mcdowell, Mckay, John p. Martin Barclay Martin Morris
Morse Mouton, Norris Owen, Payne, Perr Phelps Pills
bury, Reid, Relic, Rhe Roberts, Sawtelle, Sawyer Scam
mon, Seldom, Leonard ii. Sims, Thomas Smith, X. Smith
Stanton Strong James Thompson Jacob Thompson Thur
man. Tibbatts, Tredway, Vance, Wentworth Wick, Will
liams, Woodward-8S.
NAYS-Messrs Abbott, John Quincy Adams Arnold Ash
mum Barrnger, Bell Blanchard, Brodhead, Milton Brown
cart, John G. Chapman, Reuben Chapman, Cooke, Coamer
Cranson Crozier Cuom, Culver, Garrett Davis DE Mott
Dixon, Dockery, Douglass, Edsall Erdman, John H. Ewing
Edwin III. Ewing Foot, Giddngs, Giles, Gordon Graham
Grider, Grinnell Hampton, Harper, Elias b. Holiness John
W. Houston, Samuel Hubbard, Hudson, Washington Hunt
Chas j. Ingersoll, j. r. Ingcrso jenkins, A. Johnson d.
p. King T. b. King, Lcib, Lewis Long, Macay, Mexican
Miller Mosely, Nyen Parish, Pendeton Rathbun, julius
Rockwell, John A. Rockwell Root, Schenck Seaman Seve
rance, Simpson, Truman Smith, Albert Smith, Caleb b.
Smith, Starkweather, Stephens, Stewart Sohm Sykes Th
bodeaux, Tilden, Trumbo, yinton Wheaton, White, Will
mot, Winthrop, Woodruff, Wright, Young, Yost-93
So Mr. McKAr's amendment disagreed to
The question then put by yeas and nays Mr. COINS
substitute, and they follows
YEAS--Messrs. Stephen Adams Atkinson, Bayly, Bed
niger Benton Bggs James A. Black, Bown Boyd, Brock
enbrough William G.. Brown, Burt Cahcart, Reuben Chap
man, Chase Chapman, Clarke, Cobb CulIom, Cummins,
Cunningham, Daniel Dargan Dobbin Douglass Dromgoole,
Dunlap, Farau, Fckin Foster Fries Giles namlin Haral
Henley Hogc, Isaac Holiness Hopkins Hough George
Houston, Edmund W. HUBBARD, Hunter, Joseph johnson,
George w. jones' Kaufman Lcake, La Sore, Lyon, Macay,
McClcrnand, Mcconnell, Joseph j. Mcdowell, James Me-
Morse, Moulton, Norris, Owen, Parish, Payne, Perri,
Phelps Pilsbuy, Reid Ree Rhe Roberts, Sawtelle, Saw
YER Scammon, Seldom Leonard H. Sims Simpson, Thomas
smith, Robert Smith, StantoD Stark weather. Jacob Ihomp-