The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1848-02-02
IN CONGRESS OF THE U. STATES.
TUESDAY. FEBRUARY /. ls.s.
SENATE.

nryos he Confirmation of their titles to certain lands in
that State which was referred to the Committee on Pr
vate Land CLAIMS
posr ROUTE IN ARKANSAS.
Mr. ASHLEY submitted the following resolution,
which was considered by unanimous consent and agreed
TO:
Resolved That the Committee on the Post Office and Post
Roads be instructed to inquire into the e1pediency OF e
tabshing post from Powhau in Lawrence coun-
y. Arkansas via walcou Willis, in Greene county in
said State.
CLAIMS IN CALIFORNIA.
Mr.. BENTON submitted the following resolution,
which was considered by unanimous consent and agreed
Resolved, That the Military Committee, which has
been referred the petition of John Charles Fremont IN rea
States be authorized and directed take testimony writ
and ora In regard said claims and for that
ton administer oahs said Witnesses and take the
testimony in writings and that the committee nave leave 10
employ a clerk.
PUBLIC LANDS IN ILLINOIS.
Mr. BREESE submitted the following resolution,
which considered by unanimous consent and agreed
to:
RESOLVED That the Committee on Public Lands be
struG.ed inquire what legislation any for
the disposal Of the lands lying upon the Illinois Iver IN the
port by bill or otherwise
MILITARY LANDS IN ILLINOIS
Mr.. BREESE submitted the following resolution,
which considered by unanimous consent and agreed
Resolved, That Secretary of the Treasury be directed
lying in the State Of Illinois has granted for military
the LIST day of January, 1919, the price
and also the quantity renqnshed TO the United States.
under the operation Of the act OF April Gath. 1880
NEW GARDEN SOCIETY FRIENDS
On motion by Mr. MANGUM, it was
Ordered That the Committee on Foreign Relations be
discharged from the further consideration Of the memorial
ana s Ii on the sS
PRE- EMPTIoN RIGHTS.
Mr.. BREESE, from the Committee on Public Lands to
whom the subject referred reported bill repeal
fOF Tho oil An tn
ceeds Of the sales of the public lands. and grant pre-
empton rights" which was read, and passed to the
second reading.
EXPORTED TO MEXICO
The Senate proceeded TO consider the following resou-
ton submitted the 2sh Of January by Mr.. MILLER,
and it was agreed to:
Resolved That the President of the United States be re-
quested inform the Senate whether he has
laid and collected taxes duties, impost upon goods
s,ates exported by said from United States
Mexico; and what Is the rate Of such duties and
thority the same have been Mid and collected
BOUNTY LAND CLAIMS.
On motion by Mr. RUSK, the prior orders were post
poned to consider, as in committee of the whole, the bill
to allow further time for satisfying claims for bounty
lands for military services in the late with Great
Britain, and for other purposes
Mr. R. moved to amend the bill by striking out in the
9Th line of the LIST section, the words sin the Of the
MI UNDERWOOD said. that having introduced the
BILL he would make single remark in reference the
amendment He did not know that there any
lutonary soldiers whose claims for military bounty land
were unsettled In draughting the BILL however he had
inserted provision for their benefit in case there should
be any left There were some nine hundred soldiers
OF the last war who had claims to bounty lands which
had information from the proper department the sub
lec and might be that these all the claims which
were yet to Be adjusted He believed that the amend
snen had been submitted in order to the appre
tensions of some friends the way lest the bill might
otherwise open the door to the unsatsfed Virginia mill
tay land warrants The bill had nothing do with that
auh not al all IN hat
subject would come up for consideration when he should
report bill of the introduction of which he had given
amendment would be withdrawn. lest there might be
single revolutionary soldier left who was entitled to
military bounty land who could receive it only because
his claims manifest by the records Of the depart
ment and who would be entitled only to hundred
Of land he should successfully establish his claim
1t seemed him, therefore, to be better TO allow the
clause in the bill to remain II inserted in former
laws the subject and he did not any necessity
strike out in the bill now before the Senate He added,
that he deemed proper to make this explanation without
having any very decided feeling way the other
MI. RUSK said that the only object he had in view
an offering the amendment was 70 obviate the objections
raised the other day against the BILL that it might open
the dosr to the claims of revolutionary soldiers He did
not know whether there any such claims in exist
pred in july last However he u presumed that there
would be difficulty after the explanation of the gen
,eman who had reported the BILL and therefore he would
not press the amendment.
Mr. PHELPS had designed to offer the same amend
ment which had been submitted by the senator from
Texas, and he hoped that it would not be withdrawn II
there were revolutionary claims, had been stated
he did the necessity for retaining the clause in the
bill which the amendment proposed to strike 1t
useless and therefore, the very suppositon that there
was no be provided for, the clause was clearly
unnecessary But the BILL he understood it, admitted
of a construction which would allow vast amount OF
those claims for land bounes hitherto the subject of 80
much discussion in both branches of Congress- His OBJ.
lection to the bill was, that II admitted of construction
which would again open the door for all the Virginia
claims. To avoid that construction, which seemed was
not contemplated by the gentleman who reported it, he
would desire to see the amendment made
Mr.. UNDERWOOD hoped that the bill would be
amended desired; bat he assured the senator from
Vermont that if the bill were susceptible of the consruc
ton which he had described, former bills were liable to
the objection Each renewal of the law had been
open to the same objection The senator mistaken
the subject The bill il stood only related to the
bountes which proposed TO give to the officers and SOL
diers OF the revolutionary army upon the continental
tabshment, and had nothing whatever to do with the
promise of bountes made by the legislature of Virginia
the clause to which obecQSf made, he hoped that
the amendment would Be agreed to- 40 that the bill might
AT once pass and these hundred soldiers of the late
war receive the bountes TO which they were entitled
= Inc question then taken the amendment, and
II was agreed to-
Inc Dill was then reported to the Senate the amend
passed ''"'~ -"N
- AFFILIATE JURISDICTION.
The Senate proceeded to consider the bill supplement
" 'ne ao' enuued An act to regulate the exercise of
me apPeate jurisdiction OF the Supreme Court in certain
cases ana Tor otheT purposes which had been returned