The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1847-01-21
CITY OF WASHINGTON THURSDAY NIGHT JANUARY o. 1917

ders and volunteers have rights of conscience holy
course proposed would lead to dissatisfaction and dsor.
der and do more harm than good He asked senators to
reflect well before they meddled with this subject as
the mode OF eectng what they desired For his part
the chapans to be selected proposed he should
vote against the whole concern.
After further debate in regard to the amount of
compensation to be allowed the chapains and to the
number contemplated by the bill
Mr.. ATCHlSON moved to amend the proposal so that
should read there shall be appointed by the Presi
chaplain to each OF the regiments at salary to ex-
Mr.. HANNEGAN accepted the amendment; and pend
ing the discussion which followed, motion made
On this question, Mr.. SPEIGHT asked the ayes and
noes They were ordered. with the following result
ayes "a, noes 90.
So the Senate then adjourned.
The following version of the remarks made by Mr.
WEsTcoTT Monday, inserted the request OF thar
gentleman
Mr.. WESTCOTT said, all the difficulty with regard to
ms colleagues amendment appeared TO him to originate
IN the fact that his friends the from Ohio and
henlucky. dd not seem to exactly understand what
FLORIDA pine barrens' washe supposed because all
the lands IN those States were of good quality Now
the General Land Office here would have no trouble in
deciding as to what lands were intended to be in
GUIDED There were, he believed, many as fifty or
sixty townships of land in West Florida Alone of which
the exterior or township lines had been surveyed but
the United States surveyors had reported that the ands
the interior sectional lines, and consequently they had
never been finished, and never would be- The survey
ors interest was adverse to such reports, such lands
were more profitable to be surveyed than hammocks or
lands ft Tor cultivation, the reports could be de-
pended upon. The United States would never sell one
acre out of thousand of these lands for any price
Now and then there were patches of fifteen twenty
acres sometimes in the midst of those pine deserts
which small spots OF comparatively good land but
the cost of surveying them, and the trouble would not
meet the receipts of the sales He (Mr w had at the
instance OF persons who desired to get such small
spots Tor settlement, asked the General Land Office
few months ago, to survey Them and offer them
for SALE but they stated him the obstacles in the way
and he was satisfied the refusal correct Why do
the United States desire TO keep these ands Put these
lands in the position that his colleagues amendment pro-
posed and the settlers in cases, they could then
afford TO DO so at the reduced prices would pay for the
surveys of small tracts themselves Do the United States
intend to keep these lands alwaysi There were several
hundred thousand in West Florida alone that he
would not take gift of which, however, if this
amendment passed. some hundreds of acresperhaps two
or three thousand small tractscoud be sold 10 cti-
zens OF Florida who raise stock using the surrounding
pine barrens as range pasturage, while they settled
the small spots that could be cultivated He hoped
the amendment would be adopted.