The Arkansas banner., 1848-05-16
Fom fhe National intel'igeaeer. SOLDIERS BOUNTY LIMOS.
.afis, of lir. Johnson q .Is6ansqs:

Remafies of .Nr. Johnson ef -ishaHsGs:
 Oo motion of MT Vinton. the House resolved it, self into Comiaittee of the Whole, MT. AsHauN in the citair and proceeded 10 consider the sseefd. bills auiendaory of the 'act 10 raise for limited tiHle an additional mit " force and for other put poses, approved February lSt7 VIZ. bills num- bered 5, l26, POT and 372.
 Mir. JOHN SON, of Arkansas observed that there had been loar several bills reported to the House on this uhect; one f,om the committee of Ways and Means enc from Mil ary Committee one from the gentleman from Mary and, Mir. EVANS and one from ihe Committee on the Judiciary. MT. J. had gone carefully through an examination of all these b,ls, and he found that they went extensively iaio detail, embracing variety oi provisions not directly connected with what he understood and believL.4 10 be the object, and tie only object, of the House in this Irat'er, which was 10 extend to our volunteers who served in ths present var that benefit of which they had De deprved owing to the conStruc ion put upoa the orEinal act by the off ol the Pens.on Office viS: that tnon-comtnssi0ned officers, musicians, and priyates who might have received promotion for gaot behavior and mertori- services should continue 10 be entitled to their land bouGty just as they had been while Ser, ing n the ranks Believing Ibis to be tie objrct generally desired on all siies O. the House, and with yiew 10 simplicity pt l~gis alton, Mir J. had prenai ed substitute, which was cottined 10 thls object alone. r proposed to give these voluntecfs just what # was supposed had been secured to them in the original bill, and nothing more. Mir. J. had submitted the bill he had prepared to number of geatlemsD oi the House. aud they all fully approved of it. There Vas 10 division O. opinion, he believed, in the House 10 the propIiety of providing some relief. He had placed them, in the proposed sub situte, precisely the ground of other private sol die rs who had remained ln the ranks it gave them ncihc; Eurc nor less. He bad, however, embraced the restriction originally contarned in the amend ment offered by the gentleman from Mississippi, (Mr lRlcHARDsoN, land confined the effect of the re- lief Co those only who had been promoted after reaching tho seat of war and he had done because be considered that provision as just and right He excluded those who might have been promoted be- fore they had served as noa-commissoned officers or prIyates, or had served but few days lie Was in favor of giving bounty land to such only went out in good faith and elevated, after getting the ground, for their merorious behavior
 Ills did Lot include officers in this substitute, be- cause they received different sort of rewaId fer their seTyices-the high reward of military distinc tIon. This was whst officers of the army in all countries desired and pfzed abov. every thing else in he wori. It Was a reward iaf above money, and let them get their pay in wSat they most es- teemeh. But as 10 prigateS. wherever they had gone forth, bona ide, with the purpose 0. serving out their tune according to contract, and before that term had expired bad been promoted and cosnmis- stoned, let them not on that account lose the land they would otherwise have received.
 Such was the charaetg of the substitute he had Grawn up, and which he now offered to the aIop- ton of the committee He dii no. think it could Ae liable to a sagle objection. Al all events, 1t Lad the merit of extreme simplicity.
 Mir. Evans, ol Maryland, obiected to the subs- tutes being now received a inc original bill had mol been read. Ttis mus be done before any thing as subsliiut- for t could be in order.
 Here there WAS some quesion al to whch of the fvar bills cane first n oder The bili No 5. iTom the Hillary Committee, was read cnitied to precedence.
 MT Evans insisted that the bii No. 907 which he had introduced ,hoaid be rrad in order.
 After some Cesul;ory coHyeEsalon as 10 the order Of the bills, tbe bill No 2y7 vas taken up and rad